About Ashton Classics, with Birmingham Royal Ballet
The Company’s world-class dancers will perform highlights from favourite Ashton ballets and, alongside these, the Sinfonia will play some of the great scores that inspired his creations.
Frederick Ashton created such works as La Fille mal gardée, The Dream, Enigma Variations and A Month in the Country - the foundations of the British ballet repertory.
Concert repertory:
Paul Dukas: La Péri, Fanfare
Alexander Glazunov arr. Robert Irving: Birthday Offering, Mazurka and pas de deux
Frederick Delius: The Walk to the Paradise Garden
Peter Warlock: Capriol Suite, excerpts
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: The Sleeping Beauty, Act II pas de deux
Ferdinand Hérold arr. John Lanchbery: La Fille mal gardée, Cockerel and Chickens, Fanny Elssler pas de deux, Clog Dance
Sergei Rachmaninov: Rhapsody, male solo and pas de deux
Constant Lambert: Horoscope: Dance for the Followers of Leo
Jules Massenet: Thaïs pas de deux
Léo Delibes: Sylvia Suite
Johann Strauss: Voices of Spring pas de deux
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Images of some of Ashton's best-known works that feature in Birmingham Royal Ballet's repertory.
