The Magic Toy Shop (La Boutique fantasque, complete ballet) [Alf:36-A806501]

The music for The Magic Toy Shop, a one act ballet about a love story between two can-can dancer dolls in a toy shop, is based on piano pieces that were a part of Rossini's Pİchİs de vieillesse.  Respighi introduced Rossini's score to the impresario Sergei Diaghilev, whose Ballets Russes premiered the ballet in London on June, 5, 1919 to an eagerly awaiting audience. Instrumentation in set: 2+Picc.2+EH.2.2: 4.3.3.1: Timp.Perc(5): Cel.Hp: Str(4.4.3.3.3).