Tim Hu wrote: >On track 13 of a Pro Arte 'Multiplay' CD is the "Cossack Dance" by >Tchaikovsky, with Sergiu Comissiona conducting the Houston Symphony. I >believe this is an excerpt from a larger work. Can anyone let me know >what composition this is? You are correct. It's a piece from his 1883 opera 'Mazeppa' (after Pushkin). Tchaikovsky wrote no fewer than ten operas, IIRC, but like he did with so many others of his works, he considered 'Mazeppa' a failure, so you don't get to hear it very often. The opera is still in existence, though, because I saw a performance on TV once and remember that I quite liked it. Daniel Christlein