Arthur Sullivan Concerto" by Julian Lloyd Webber (1986); and "The Rose of Persia" (1999); "The Golden Legend" (2001); "Ivanhoe", (2009); and "The Masque at Kenilworth" and "On Shore and Sea" (2014), conducted by, respectively, Tom Higgins, Ronald Corp, David Lloyd-Jones and Richard Bonynge. In 2017 Chandos Records released an album, "Songs", which includes "The Window" and 35 individual Sullivan songs. Mackerras's Sullivan ballet, "Pineapple Poll", has received many recordings since its first performance in 1951. Arthur Sullivan Sir Arthur Seymour Sullivan MVO (13 May 1842 – 22 November 1900) was an English composer. He is best known for 14 operatic collaborations with
Ballet (music) including the likes of Jean-Baptiste Lully and Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, were predominantly in France and Russia. Yet with the increased international notoriety seen in Tchaikovsky's lifetime, ballet music composition and ballet in general spread across the western world. Until about the second half of the 19th century, the role of music in ballet was secondary, with the main emphasis on dance, while music was simply a compilation of danceable tunes. Writing "ballet music" used to be a job for musical craftsmen, rather than for masters. For example, critics of the Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky mentioned his writing of ballet