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.
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Disc 1

  1. 1.
    The Christmas Tree
  2. 2.
    March
  3. 3.
    Childrens Dance and Entrance of Parents
  4. 4.
    Dance Scene - Drosselmeyer's Gifts
  5. 5.
    Scene and Grandfather's Dance
  6. 6.
    Scene - Clara and the Nutcracker
  7. 7.
    Scene - The Nutcracker and the Mouse King
  8. 8.
    Scene - In the Pine Forest
  9. 9.
    Waltz of the Snowflakes

Disc 2

  1. 2.
    Scene - In the Magic Castle on the Sugar Mountain
  2. 3.
    Scene - Clara and the Prince
  3. 4.
    Divertissement: Chocolate - Spanish Dance / Coffee - Arabian Dance / Tea - Chinese Dance / Trepak - Russian Dance / Dance of the Reed Pipe / Mother Gigogne and the Clowns
  4. 5.
    Waltz of the Flowers
  5. 6.
    Pas de Deux: Variation I - Tarentella / Variation II - Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy / Coda
  6. 7.
    Waltz Finale and Apotheosis

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