Aleksandr Borodin - Polovetsian Dances from Prince Igor

The Polovtsian Dances (or Polovetsian Dances) are perhaps the best known selections from Alexander Borodin’s opera Prince Igor (1890). They are often played as a stand-alone concert piece. Borodin was the original composer, but the opera was left unfinished at his death and was subsequently completed by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov and Alexander Glazunov. In the opera the dances are performed with chorus, but concert performances often omit the choral parts. Conductor: Herbert von Karajan Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker