Boris BLACHER (1903-1975)

Dance Scenes35'
Ballet for orchestra
2(II=picc).2.2.2-2.2.2.0-timp.perc-strings


Written in 1939 for the Ballets Russes de Monte Carlo (ballet to be called "La Vie") but never staged in the composer's lifetime. Score rediscovered in 1976. First choreography in 1991 by Francois Klaus at Stadttheater Bern in ballet entitled "Juans Traum". A new recording has just been released on Largo.