The Nutcracker: The Complete Ballet

Album by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky & Sir Andrew Davis & Toronto Symphony Orchestra

The Nutcracker is a full-length ballet score by Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, composed in 1892. Scored for a large Romantic orchestra, it features colourful orchestration with waltzes, polkas and other dance forms that alternate delicate solo passages and sweeping ensemble textures, and it occupies a central place in Tchaikovsky's late output and in the development of ballet music.
First released: 1979

Tracklist

  1. 1.
    The Christmas Tree
  2. 2.
    Scene - In the Magic Castle on the Sugar Mountain
  3. 3.
    March
  4. 4.
    Scene - Clara and the Prince
  5. 5.
    Divertissement: Chocolate - Spanish Dance / Coffee - Arabian Dance / Tea - Chinese Dance / Trepak - Russian Dance / Dance of the Reed Pipe / Mother Gigogne and the Clowns
  6. 6.
    Childrens Dance and Entrance of Parents
  7. 7.
    Waltz of the Flowers
  8. 8.
    Dance Scene - Drosselmeyer's Gifts
  9. 9.
    Scene and Grandfather's Dance
  10. 10.
    Pas de Deux: Variation I - Tarentella / Variation II - Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy / Coda
  11. 11.
    Waltz Finale and Apotheosis
  12. 12.
    Scene - Clara and the Nutcracker
  13. 13.
    Scene - The Nutcracker and the Mouse King
  14. 14.
    Scene - In the Pine Forest
  15. 15.
    Waltz of the Snowflakes

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