Summary: "Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake and Sleeping Beauty Suites" In 1882 Tchaikovsky considered creating a suite from the music to Swan Lake, but it was only seven years after his death that such a suite was finally published as "op. 20a", and it is unknown who made the selection of numbers. Tchaikovsky first considered the idea of creating a concert suite from The Sleeping Beauty in February 1890, shortly after the ballet's première. In the event he was unable to settle on a selection of numbers, and in 1899 a suite of five numbers from the ballet compiled by an unknown person was published as "Op. 66a". Details at our archive page @ https://archive.org/details/01SwanLakeSuiteOp.20A [First time on our podcasting channel]
