The Music for Ballet Classes series is a collection of CDs designed to provide dancers and dance teachers with all the music necessary for a complete classical ballet class. The featured piano on this album is a fantastic 9ft Yamaha concert grand.
This is the 5th volume of in the series, and features a further 40 tracks of inspiring music taken from some of the greatest classical, opera, ballet and ragtime composers to have ever lived.


32 - Grand Allegro (faster) - Etude In D Minor, Op. 740 No 37 - Carl Czerny

26 - Jetes - Ballet Music To Jerusalem (Act 3, 16 No. 2 Pas De Deux) - Giuseppe Verdi

22 - Pirouettes En Diagonal - Tavern Scene From Don Quixote - Ludwig Minkus

19 - Battement Tendu (Faster) - Clow Dance From La Fille Mal Gardee - John Lanchbery

20 Famous Female Ballet Variations, Part Two of Female Variations Volume One. Beautifully recorded on a grand piano and tempo checked by a panel of ex professional ballerinas from some of the best companies in the world.

18 La Bayadere Act III - No 34 Allegro (1st Shade Variation)

Battement Jetes II from New Piano Music For Ballet Class

01. Too Soon

01 Plie 3-4

Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Riccardo Muti, conductor
John Malkovich, narrator

Copland Lincoln Portrait

Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Hannu Lintu, conductor
Pekka Kuusisto, violin

Nielsen: Violin Concerto, Op. 33 (February 2020)

Charles Mathews is an experienced ballet and contemporary accompanist, who has worked with teachers and dancers from Birmingham Royal Ballet, Elmhurst School for Dance, The Royal Academy of Dance, The Royal Ballet School, The British Ballet Organisation and DNA3D Dance Company amongst others. As well as playing for classical ballet, Charles also plays and improvises for contemporary dance classes and composes original music and arrangements for ballet and contemporary dancers. He has also written and recorded music for film trailers, computer games, mobile apps, the opening ceremonies of the European Gymnastics Championships and 2011 World Gymnaestrada in Lausanne, Switzerland.  Charles can be contacted via http://www.musicforballetclasses.com

26 - Jetes - Ballet Music To Jerusalem (Act 3, 16 No. 2 Pas De Deux) - Giuseppe Verdi

Music for Ballet Classes

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