Noticed that Tower has a half-price sale($8.59)on this disc of beautiful and exciting music Khachaturian composed for a couple of Soviet-era ballets. The ballets themselves have typically dreary story lines(e.g., a collective farm struggling to meet its quota, spiced up with a bit of romance: girl loves boy, boy loves his tractor), but Khachaturian, again typically, uses this as a vehicle to display his gifts in using national dance themes to create a world of wonderful sound .

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Enjoy the music, not the equipment.