By Nancy Malmed Pianist: Duncan Stearns

This single-length, 41-minute CD provides a complete, uninterrupted intermediate ballet class experience. Featuring 20 unrepeated solo piano melodies, the collection is free of vocal instructions or singing, allowing teachers and students to focus entirely on technique. It is an essential resource for an intermediate-level ballet class.

Song List

BARRE

1. Plies-Mendelssohn: Song Without Word-4/4

2. Battements Tendus with Plies-Bach-Stearns: Sheep May Safely Graze-4/4

3. Battements Tendus-Pescetti: Presto from Sonata IV-6/8

4. Battements Tendus Jetes-Saint-Saens & Chopin: Taranttelles-6/8

5. Ronds de Jambe par terre-Ravel: Assez lent-modere-3/4

6. Battements Fondus-Prokofiev: Waltz, Cinderella-3/4

7. Battements Frappes-Prokofiev: Gavotte, from Symphony-4/4

8. Petits Battements-Martin: Piece Jubilante

9. Adagio-Chopin, Nocturne, from Les Sylphides-3/4

10. Grandes Battements-Gershwin: Two themes from Rhapsody-4/4

CENTER

1. Adagio-Minkus: Don Quixote-4/8

2. Pirouettes, Tempes Lie, Tendus with plie-Levitsky: Arabesque Valsante-3/4

3. Ronds de Jambe en L'air, Balance, Pirouettes-Granados: Two Poetic Waltzes-3/4

4. Small Jumps, changement, temps leve-Schubert-Mussorgsky: Allegro & Hopak-2/4

5. Medium Jumps, enchappe, entrechat quatre-Debussy/Pierne: Fetes & Variation-4/4

6. Grand Allegro-Tchaikovsky: Waltz from Nutcracker-3/4

7. Grand Allegro-Schumann/Debussy/Granados: Waltzes-3/4

8. Tour en diagonale-Minkus: Don Quixote Variation II-2/4

9. Quick Jumps-Lamb: Frogs Leg Rag-2/4

10. Port de Bras and Reverence-Brahms: Theme from Intermezzo-3/4