Romeo and Juliet Overture and Capriccio Italien in Full Score Other selections include curious creatures

Other selections include curious creatures great and small from Aesop's Fables and Fabre's Book of Insects

tangled tale

child's rockers and dressers

the devoted friend

all using natural dyes

Romeo and Juliet Overture and Capriccio Italien in Full Score Other selections include curious creaturesWritten in 1869 and revised up to 1880, the Romeo and Juliet Overture was Tchaikovsky's first acknowledged masterpiece and today remains among the most popular orchestral compositions ever written. Composed when Tchaikovsky was 29, the Overture, according to Grove's Dictionary, was "carried out with such ardent conviction that the work seems to glow and throb with youthful passion and tenderness." By comparison, his brilliantly scored Capriccio