The Nutcracker Suite

Album by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

The Nutcracker Suite is a suite of orchestral excerpts from the ballet The Nutcracker by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, composed in 1892. The suite presents a sequence of dance-inspired orchestral movements in the Romantic style, characterised by vivid orchestration, distinctive instrumental colours and clear ballet rhythms, and it occupies a notable place in Tchaikovsky's late-career output and in the concert repertoire derived from ballet music.

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  1. 1.
    Nutcracker: Overture
    3:35
  2. 2.
    Nutcracker: March
    2:16
  3. 3.
    Nutcracker: Journey Through the Snow / Waltz of the Snowflakes
    9:50
  4. 4.
    Nutcracker: Chocolate (Spanish Dance)
    1:16
  5. 5.
    Nutcracker: Coffee (Arabian Dance)
    3:36
  6. 6.
    Nutcracker: Tea
    1:16
  7. 7.
    Nutcracker: Trepak (Cossack Dance)
    1:15
  8. 8.
    Nutcracker: Dance of the Mirlitons
    2:32
  9. 9.
    Nutcracker: The Old Woman Who Lives in a Shoe / The Buffoons
    2:46
  10. 10.
    Nutcracker: Waltz of the Flowers
    6:56
  11. 11.
    Nutcracker: Pas de deux
    4:29
  12. 12.
    Nutcracker: Variation I / Variation II (Dance of the Sugar-Plum Fairy) / Coda
    4:10
  13. 13.
    Nutcracker: Final Waltz and Apotheosis
    5:11

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