The Nutcracker (excerpts)

Album by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky & Chicago Symphony Orchestra & Fritz Reiner

The Nutcracker (Excerpts) is an album of orchestral excerpts from Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's ballet, originally composed and premiered in 1892. The music exemplifies Tchaikovsky's late-Romantic style, featuring lush string melodies, vibrant woodwind and brass colour and dance rhythms that helped shape the conventions of ballet orchestration and continue to be central to the concert repertoire.

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  1. 1.
    The Nutcracker, op. 71: Overture
    3:07
  2. 2.
    The Nutcracker, op. 71: Christmas Tree Scene
    4:14
  3. 3.
    The Nutcracker, op. 71: March
    2:06
  4. 4.
    The Nutcracker, op. 71: Chocolate: Spanish Dance
    1:12
  5. 5.
    The Nutcracker, op. 71: Coffee: Arabian Dance
    3:10
  6. 6.
    The Nutcracker, op. 71: Tea: Chinese Dance
    1:01
  7. 7.
    The Nutcracker, op. 71: Trepak
    1:01
  8. 8.
    The Nutcracker, op. 71: Dance of the Flutes
    2:04
  9. 9.
    The Nutcracker, op. 71: Mother Gigogne and the Clowns
    2:41
  10. 10.
    The Nutcracker, op. 71: Waltz of the Flowers
    6:29
  11. 11.
    The Nutcracker, op. 71: Pas de deux
    4:15
  12. 12.
    The Nutcracker, op. 71: Variation I: Tarantella
    0:39
  13. 13.
    The Nutcracker, op. 71: Variation II: Dance of the Sugar‐Plum Fairy
    2:02
  14. 14.
    The Nutcracker, op. 71: Coda
    1:15
  15. 15.
    The Nutcracker, op. 71: Final Waltz
    3:30
  16. 16.
    The Nutcracker, op. 71: Apotheosis
    1:23
  17. 17.
    Marche Slave, op. 31
    10:31
  18. 18.
    1812 Overture, op. 49
    12:33

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