The sixty-first classical recording: #381 Leo Delibes - Coppelia
The problem with this being a classical recordings list is that visual parts like a ballet get lost and those change your interpretation of the music. In a ballet like this, the music shifts more than when there are leitmotifs and with no vocals to go on either, the imagination can go anywhere.At least knowing the story, it's possible to match the different parts of the performance to the story, which makes it easier to get some context for them.
The music hits a lot of the "standard" ballet beats, including some dances specifically to show off performer skills. They're good, but obviously we get an incoherent section here, which when just listening to the recording feels less necessary. Still, the music of the entire suite is good, even if I miss a bit of a throughline that I feel I get in others.