Searching for a second cd version of Stravinsky's Scenes de Ballet - a lovely, light work that seems to have been largely ignored by conductors - I entered the title in the Classical Music search heading. Two versions did, indeed, appear along with Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake - understandable, perhaps, as is a listing of Prokofiev's Chout - a 2 cd set of Debussy's Orchestral Music (only partly-understandable due to the fact that Jeux was originally used as a ballet) and a four cd set of early Beecham recordings which includes Symphonies by Franck , Mozart, , Schubert and Haydn and completely without relevance except, perhaps, that one of the items is a Beecham arrangement of Handel "The Great Elopement".
I'm really wondering if somebody compiles these pages for Amazon or if they are the result of a computer programme that lights upon certain words - in this case "Ballet" - and picks out items which are related (or in many cases not related) to the words used in the Search facility. If the latter case, where are Sylvia, Coppelia, The Sleeping Beauty and any number of other well-known ballets ?
If I'm going to have to search through masses of irrelevant stuff in order to find the items I want, bring back the good old days, I say, when people went to the now-increasingly-scarce record stores to browse for their music.
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