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The earliest of the ballets featured here is Romeo and Juliet, commissioned in the mid-1930s, soon after Prokofiev returned to the USSR from self-imposed exile. Cinderella followed in the 1940s, with a score of rich and sophisticated music that rewards audiences. The Stone Flower was the last of Prokofiev's Soviet ballets (1948) and is on a folk tale from the Urals. It is perhaps the least familiar, but the score contains music of great beauty with soaring memorable tunes. Album Tracks 1. I. Introduction 2. II. Pas de Chale 3. III. Quarrel 4. IV. Fairy Godmother and Winter Fairy 5. V. Mazurka 6. VI. Cinderella Goes to the Ball 7. VII. Cinderella's Waltz 8. VIII. Midnight 9. I. Amorous Dance 10. II. Dance of the Fiancee's Girl-Friends 11. III. Maiden's Dance 12. IV. Ceremonial Dance 13. V. Wedding Dance 14. I. Montagues and Capulets 15. II. the Young Juliet 16. III. Friar Laurence 17. IV. Dance 18. V. Romeo at Juliet's Before Parting 19. VI. Dance of the Antilles Girls 20. VII. Romeo at the Grave of Juliet
