An image gallery with close ups of the photos contained in this video can be found here: https://picasaweb.google.com/10829862... Kenneth Schermerhorn leads the National Philharmonic Orchestra. From the double album shown above. This performance, by the American Ballet Theater, was broadcast on television in 1977, featured Mikhail Baryshnikov and Gelsey Kirkland. You can read more about this recording, which apparently has not appeared on "CD' format, here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Nutc... Overture (0:01) Act I: Christmas Tree; March (3:05) More Tchaikovsky: Tchaikovsky / Ernest Ansermet, 1958: Swan Lake (Complete) - • Tchaikovsky / Ernest Ansermet, 1958: Swan ... Violin concerto in D - historical performances Heifetz, Milstein, Grumiaux, Stern, Kogan, Ricci and Morini - • Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto - Historic Pe... Tchaikovsky / Lazar Berman, 1976: Piano Concerto No. 1 in B Flat Minor - Movement 3 - • Tchaikovsky / Lazar Berman, 1976: Piano Co... Tchaikovsky / Andre Kostelanetz, 1956: Ballet Music From Swan Lake, Op. 20a (Part 1) - • Tchaikovsky / Andre Kostelanetz, 1956: Bal... Tchaikovsky / Herbert von Karajan, VPO, 1964: Miniature Overture from The Nutcracker - • Tchaikovsky / Herbert von Karajan, VPO, 19... Tchaikovsky / ABT, 1977: Nutcracker - Waltz of the Flowers - Baryshnikov, Kirkland - • Tchaikovsky / ABT, 1977: Nutcracker - Walt... Tchaikovsky / S. Richter, 1962: Piano Concerto 1 in B flat Minor - Von Karajan - • Tchaikovsky / S. Richter, 1962: Piano Conc... Tchaikovsky / Robert Irving, NYC Ballet Orchestra, 1959: Nutcracker, Suites 1 & 2 - • Tchaikovsky / Robert Irving, 1959: Nutcrac... Tchaikovsky / Чайковский / Hans Swarowsky, 1956: Лебединое Озеро / Swan Lake - • Tchaikovsky / Hans Swarowsky, 1956: Swan L... Tchaikovsky / Hans Swarowsky, 1956: Swan Lake / Лебединое Озеро - Act 1 - Scène - • Tchaikovsky / Hans Swarowsky, 1956: Swan L... Tchaikovsky / Emil Gilels, 1955: Piano Concerto in B flat minor, Op. 23 (3) - Reiner, CSO (Vinyl LP) - • Tchaikovsky / Emil Gilels, 1955: Piano Con... Tchaikovsky / Isaac Stern, 1949: Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 35 - Finale - Columbia Recording - • Video Tchaikovsky / Roger Désormière, 1950: Suite From Swan Lake - French National Radio Orchestra - • Tchaikovsky / Roger Désormière, 1950: Suit... Tchaikovsky / Ludwig Hoffman, 1950s: Piano Concerto No. 1 in B flat minor - Gunnar Staern, LPO - • Tchaikovsky / Ludwig Hoffmann, 1950s: Pian... Tchaikovsky / Dimitri Mitropoulos, 1957: Славянский марш - Marche Slave, Op. 31 - NYPO - • Tchaikovsky / Dimitri Mitropoulos, 1957: С... Tchaikovsky / Witold Rowicki, Warsaw Philharmonic, 1960: Swan Lake, Op. 20 - Allegretto Agitato - • Tchaikovsky / Witold Rowicki, Warsaw Philh... Tchaikovsky / Witold Rowicki, Warsaw Philharmonic, 1960: Swan Lake, Op. 20 - Scene - • Tchaikovsky / Witold Rowicki, Warsaw Philh... Tchaikovsky / Robert Sharples, 1963: Щелкунчик / Nutcracker - Miniature Overture, March - • Tchaikovsky / Robert Sharples, 1963: Щелку... Tchaikovsky / Sharples, 1963: Nutcracker - Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy, Russian Dance, Chinese Dance, Arab Dance - • Tchaikovsky / Sharples, 1963: Nutcracker ... Михаи́л Бары́шников (27 января 1948, Рига) — советский и американский артист балета, балетмейстер. одился в семье офицера Советской армии в Риге. Среднее образование получил в Рижской средней школе №22. Заниматься балетом начал в Рижском хореографическом училище у педагога Юриса Капралиса в одном классе с Александром Годуновым. Продолжил обучение в Ленинградском хореографическом училище в классе Александра Пушкина (у него же ранее учился Рудольф Нуриев). В 1967—1974 годах танцевал в Ленинградском театре оперы и балета им. Кирова. В 1974 году во время гастролей в составе труппы Большого театра в Канаде становится «невозвращенцем». "David Hertzberg"