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Essential Classics to get you dancing

An hour of Essential Classics guaranteed to get you moving. With rags and sambas to polkas and waltzes, and toe-tapping classics from Tchaikovsky and Bizet, enjoy this mix of dance music from around the world. MM.

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  • Amilcare Ponchielli

    Dance of the Hours (La Gioconda)

    Orchestra: Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Neeme J盲rvi.
    • Happy New Year! Joyful Classical.
    • UME - Global Clearing House.
    • 3.

  • Florence Price

    Symphony no.1 in E Minor (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: Chineke! Orchestra. Conductor: Roderick Cox.
    • Florence Price: Piano Concerto in One Movement; Symphony No. 1 in E Minor.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 6.

  • Astor Piazzolla

    Libertango

    Music Arranger: Jorge Calandrelli. Performer: Yo鈥怸o Ma. Performer: N茅stor Marconi. Performer: Antonio Agri. Performer: Horacio Malvicino. Performer: Leonardo Marconi. Singer: H茅ctor Console.
    • SONY CLASSICAL.

  • Fr茅d茅ric Chopin

    Mazurka in A minor, Op 68 No 2

    Performer: Vladimir Ashkenazy.
    • Chopin: The Solo Piano Works: Ashkenazy.
    • London.
    • 18.

  • Georges Bizet

    Carmen Suite No 2 (Habanera)

    Orchestra: The Philadelphia Orchestra. Conductor: Eugene Ormandy.
    • Bizet: Carmen Suites/Ponchielli: Cance of the Hours - PO, Ormandy.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 7.

  • Elena Kats鈥怌hernin

    Sapphire Rag

    Performer: Sarah Nicolls.
    • Kats-Chernin: Ragtime and Blue.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 1901.

  • Dmitry Shostakovich

    Waltz 1 (Jazz Suite no.2)

    Orchestra: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Conductor: Riccardo Chailly.
    • DECCA.

  • Michael Giacchino

    Married Life (Up)

    Orchestra: Skywalker Sound musicians.
    • Walt Disney Records.

  • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

    African Suite (Valse)

    Orchestra: Chineke! Orchestra. Conductor: Kevin John Edusei.
    • Chineke! Records.

  • L茅o Delibes

    Waltz (Coppelia)

    Orchestra: Les Si猫cles. Conductor: Fran莽ois鈥怷avier Roth.
    • Bru Zane.

  • Manuel de Falla

    Spanish Dance No.1 (La Vida Breve)

    Ensemble: Katia Lab猫que.
    • PHILIPS.

  • Trad.

    Sekstur from Vendsyssel; The Peat Dance

    Music Arranger: Danish String Quartet. Ensemble: Danish String Quartet.
    • DaCapo.

  • Johann Strauss II

    Annen Polka, Op 117

    Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic. Conductor: Willi Boskovsky.
    • The Blue Danube.
    • Decca.
    • 9.

  • Trad.

    The Sword Dance; New Stepney Slip Jig

    Performer: Jordi Savall. Performer: Andrew Lawrence鈥怟ing. Performer: Frank McGuire.
    • The Celtic Viol 2: Savall/Lawrence-King/McGuire.
    • Alia Vox.
    • 23.

  • Scott Joplin

    Bethena (A Concert Waltz)

    Music Arranger: Itzhak Perlman. Performer: Itzhak Perlman. Performer: Andr茅 Previn.
    • The Easy Winners & Other Rag-Time Music of Scott Joplin.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 3.

  • Darius Milhaud

    Scaramouche Op.165b (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Katia Lab猫que. Performer: Marielle Lab猫que.
    • Poulenc: Music for 2 Pianos: Katia & Marielle Labeque.
    • Philips.
    • 10.

  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    The Sleeping Beauty: Garland Waltz (Act 1)

    Orchestra: Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. Conductor: Mark Ermler.
    • royal opera house.