La Ronde

Prima ballerina Karen Kain leads an outstanding cast in this studio recording of Glen Tetley's probing dance drama, based on Schnitzler's play La Ronde, which scandalised the public when it was premiered in 1903. It shows a linked series of sexual encounters exposing the decaying morals of Vienna at the turn of the nineteenth century. Set to Erich Korngold's Sinfonietta, Tetley's translates La Ronde into a stunning series of pas de deux, danced by ten characters, ranging from a prostitute to a count.