The Nutcracker

Album by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky & Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra & Leonard Slatkin

The Nutcracker is a ballet by Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, composed and premiered in 1892. The score exemplifies late-Romantic orchestration with vivid orchestral colour, lyrical melodies and a variety of dance rhythms, and it sits among Tchaikovsky's full-length ballets as a central work in the ballet repertoire and the wider history of dance music.
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Disc 1

  1. 1.
    Overture
    3:14
  2. 2.
    No. 1 The Christmas Tree
    3:46
  3. 3.
    No. 2 March
    2:36
  4. 4.
    No. 3 Children's Galop and Arrival of the Guests
    2:27
  5. 5.
    No. 4 Dance Scene and the Arrival of Drosselmeyer
    5:31
  6. 6.
    No. 5 Scene and Grandfather Dance
    5:51
  7. 7.
    No. 6 Scene: The Magic Spell Begins
    6:13
  8. 8.
    No. 7 Scene: The Battle Between the Nutcracker and the Mouse King
    3:11
  9. 9.
    No. 8 Scene in the Pine Forrest (Journey through the Snow)
    3:29
  10. 10.
    No. 9 Waltz of the Snowflakes (feat. Women's Voices of the Saint Louis Symphony Chorus, Thomas Peck, Director)
    6:17

Disc 2

  1. 2.
    No. 10 Scene: The Magic Castle
    4:25
  2. 3.
    No. 11 Scene: Clara and the Prince / No. 12 Divertissement
    4:27
  3. 4.
    Chocolate: Spanish Dance
    1:08
  4. 5.
    Coffee: Arabian Dance
    3:06
  5. 6.
    Tea: Chinese Dance
    1:13
  6. 7.
    Trepak
    1:06
  7. 8.
    Dance of the Flutes
    2:03
  8. 9.
    Mother Gigogne and the Clowns
    2:54
  9. 10.
    No. 13 Waltz of the Flowers / No. 14 Pas de deux
    6:39
  10. 11.
    Dance of the Prince of the Sugar-Plum Fairy
    5:27
  11. 12.
    Variation I: Tarantella
    0:48
  12. 13.
    Variation II: Dance of the Sugar-Plum Fairy (feat. celesta: Barbara Liberman)
    2:15
  13. 14.
    Coda
    1:22
  14. 15.
    No. 15 Final Waltz and Apotheosis
    5:20

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