Tchaikovsky: Sleeping Beauty; Symphony No. 4

The Tchaikovsky ballet score recordings by the Ukrainian-born conductor Anatole Fistoulari are prized 'as being among the finest ever made' (Gramophone). As a companion issue to the abridged 'Swan Lake' and extended excerpts from 'The Nutcracker' on Eloquence (4825225), this newly remastered set offers another pair of complete Decca albums, both appearing for the first time on Decca CD: the abridged (mono) 'Sleeping Beauty' made in Paris in 1952 and the Fourth Symphony from 1971, recorded in Phase 4 stereo.