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Music
NORTHERN BALLET THEATRE
ORCHESTRA
Northern
Ballet Theatre is committed to live music at as many of its
performances as possible and has its own regular orchestra.
The Orchestra perform a number of concerts outside of its
work with the company. This includes the highly acclaimed
outdoor concert, ‘Classical Fantasia’ at Kirkstall
Abbey every September
The orchestra is involved in education
and outreach activities in the region
Northern Ballet Theatre Orchestra has
recorded six extremely successful CDs: 20th Century English
Ballets and Dracula (Naxos), The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Black
Box), Great Expectations (NPC Records), A Streetcar Named
Desire (Doyen) and Stephen Warbeck’s Peter Pan (Quartz).
A new recording of Sir Malcolm Arnold’s stirring music
for The Three Musketeers has just been released. You can buy
both Peter Pan and The Three Musketeers
here.
Great Expectations, featuring the music
of Edward Elgar, was awarded Critic’s Choice record
of the year 2000 in Gramophone magazine.
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