The Nutcracker

Album by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky & Berliner Philharmoniker & Simon Rattle

The Nutcracker is a ballet score by Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, first performed in 1892. The music blends Romantic-era orchestration with vivid instrumental colour and a variety of dance forms, combining lyrical melodies, rhythmic dances and folkloric influences, and is one of Tchaikovsky's principal ballet works composed late in his career.
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Disc 1

  1. 1.
    Nutcracker: Miniature Overture
    3:08
  2. 2.
    Nutcracker: Act I, no. 1. The Decoration of the Christmas Tree
    3:47
  3. 3.
    Nutcracker: Act I, no. 2. March
    2:25
  4. 4.
    Nutcracker: Act I, no. 3. Children's Galop and Entry of the Parents
    2:16
  5. 5.
    Nutcracker: Act I, no. 4. Arrival of Drosselmeyer
    5:27
  6. 6.
    Nutcracker: Act I, no. 5. Grandfather's Dance
    6:14
  7. 7.
    Nutcracker: Act I, no. 6. Scene: Clara and the Nutcracker
    6:18
  8. 8.
    Nutcracker: Act I, no. 7. Scene: The Battle
    3:26
  9. 9.
    Nutcracker: Act I, no. 8. Scene: In the Pine Forest
    3:58
  10. 10.
    Nutcracker: Act I, no. 9. Waltz of the Snowflakes
    6:42

Disc 2

  1. 2.
    Nutcracker: Act II, no. 10. Scene: The Kingdom of Sweets
    3:50
  2. 3.
    Nutcracker: Act II, no. 11. Scene: Clara and the Prince
    4:57
  3. 4.
    Nutcracker: Act II, no. 12. Divertissement: Chocolate: Spanish Dance
    1:13
  4. 5.
    Nutcracker: Act II, no. 12. Divertissement: Coffee: Arabian Dance
    3:53
  5. 6.
    Nutcracker: Act II, no. 12. Divertissement: Tea: Chinese Dance
    1:12
  6. 7.
    Nutcracker: Act II, no. 12. Divertissement: Trepak: Russian Dance
    1:09
  7. 8.
    Nutcracker: Act II, no. 12. Divertissement: Dance of the Reed Pipes
    2:29
  8. 9.
    Nutcracker: Act II, no. 12. Divertissement: Mother Gigogne
    2:32
  9. 10.
    Nutcracker: Act II, no. 13. Waltz of the Flowers
    6:55
  10. 11.
    Nutcracker: Act II, no. 14. Pas De Deux
    5:06
  11. 12.
    Nutcracker: Act II, no. 14. Pas De Deux: Variation I: Tarantella
    0:39
  12. 13.
    Nutcracker: Act II, no. 14. Pas De Deux: Variation II: Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy
    2:24
  13. 14.
    Nutcracker: Act II, no. 14. Pas De Deux: Coda
    1:21
  14. 15.
    Nutcracker: Act II, no. 15. Final Waltz and Apotheosis
    4:51

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