Waltz of the flowers from the nutcracker suite for small orchestra opus 71a mvt. Stream adfree with amazon music unlimited on mobile, desktop, and tablet. Irving townsend 19201981 was a record producer and author revered for steering miles daviss 1959 masterpiece, king of blue, the best selling jazz album of all time. Miniature overture, march, dance of the sugar plum fairy, trepak russian dance. Nutcrackers steinbach nutcracker suite the nutcracker suite series this limited edition series of steinbach nutcrackers was launched in 20 with herr drosselmeyer and was complimented with a dashing prince in 2014 and clara in 2015. The nutcracker is a twoact ballet, with a score by pyotr ilyich tchaikovsky. So, first up is the original nutcracker suite, which russian composer peter tchaikovsky 18401893 extracted from his complete twoact ballet the nutcracker. The power and strength in her playing return in the final movement. He was writing an opera, iolanta, for the mariinsky theatre that was scheduled to premiere during the winter of 1892. But the mariinskys management was worried that iolanta would not sell enough tickets, and convinced tchaikovsky to create a holiday ballet that, hopefully, when paired as a double. This is an amazing version of this tremendous work. Leopold stokowski conducting the philadelphia orchestra. Jackson, don, tchaikovsky, pyotr ilyich, the royal philharmonic orchestra tchaikovsky.
Steinbach nutcracker fantasy nutcrackers nutcracker suite. Nutcracker, suite from the ballet, details allmusic. Doing so pays a lot of dividends, even if the tchaikovsky suite, played by new yorks harmonie ensemble, is extremely unorthodox. Tchaikovsky waltz of the flowers from nutcracker suite. The nutcracker ballet suite by don jackson on amazon music. Produced for generations by skilled german woodcrafters, the first authoritarian nutcracker figures were created by commoners as a. Tchaikovskys ballet nutcracker was just such a creation. The beautiful sets and costumes were designed by maurice sendak, and the orchestra always does a magnificent job with the music. Mix moscow ballets great russian nutcracker waltz of the flowers 20 youtube. Reviving the art of swinging the classics, steven richman and the harmonie ensemblenew york present two different versions of the beloved nutcracker suite, sidebyside on the same album for the first time. A former bandleader, he joined columbia records as an advertising copywriter. It is full of delectable dance and holiday magic for the entire family with a mix of.
Tchaikovsky nutcracker gergiev warner classics dvd 2564. Nutcracker was based on the alexandre dumas translation of a hoffmann tale, in which a little girl comes to the aid of her christmas gift a magical nutcracker in the. The nutcracker tells a story about a girl who befriends a nutcracker that comes to life on christmas eve and wages a battle against the evil mouse king. Steinbach nutcrackers tchaikovskys nutcracker suite series. The suite was first performed, under the composers direction, on 19 march 1892 at an assembly of the saint petersburg branch of the musical society. Heres a clever, wellexecuted album with a clever, wellexecuted plan. The storys psychological ambiguities and, indeed, its sheer weirdness offer them great scope to do that. There are dozens of recordings of tchaikovskys the nutcracker, both in its ballet entirety as well as in its suite form, both on vinyl and on cd, but this recording with efrem kurtz directing the philharmonia is my favorite. Tchaikovsky composed the nutcracker, one of the most beloved ballets of all time, begrudgingly.
Christmas eve the nutcracker opens on christmas eve at the house of town major hans stahlbaum and his wife. Stream tchaikovsky the nutcracker suite dance of the sugar plum fairy by noteperformer from desktop or your mobile device. Peter ilyich pyotr ilyich tchaikovsky may 7, 1840 november 6, 1893 was a russian composer whose works included symphonies, concertos, operas, ballets, chamber music, and a choral setting of the russian orthodox divine liturgy, some of which are among the most popular music in the classical repertoire. It is a bit startling that, as conductor steven richman observes in his booklet notes, that the ellingtonstrayhorn nutcracker has apparently never until now been paired with the tchaikovsky version on a single album. Piotr ilitch tchaikovsky pyotr ilyich tchaikovsky russian. Nutcracker suite by berliner philharmoniker and mstislav rostropovich on amazon music. The family are getting ready to host a party and the stahlbaum children, clara and fritz, decorate the tree as they wait for the guests and the gifts they hope theyre bringing to arrive. Moscow ballets great russian nutcracker waltz of the. Tchaikovsky made a selection of eight of the numbers from the ballet, forming the nutcracker suite, op. Hoffmanns 1816 tale the nutcracker and the mouse king had been adapted by alexandre dumas he of three musketeers fame in 1844, and. Arabian dance, chinese dance, dance of the flutes, waltz of the flowers. Steinbach nutcrackers tchaikovskys nutcracker suite series 19922008 series introductions steinbach nutcrackers nutcracker suite series 202014 series introduction. And again, enjoy all the nice colors and textures going on, and appreciate how imaginative and visually evocative tchaikovskys writing is. Nutcracker ballet complete royal philharmonic symphony orchestra of london artur rodzinski, conductor.
In berlin, the symphonies still seem to be beyond the. Also on this cd is a fantastic piano duet of tchaikovskys the nutcracker suite with martha argerich and nicolas economou and it is exquisitely played by both pianists. Interestingly, early audiences didnt much cotton to the ballet, but they did appreciate the twentyodd minute suite, which in turn led to todays worldwide popularity of both the complete ballet and the suite. Discover what makes tchaikovskys nutcracker sound like.
It juxtaposes two versions of tchaikovskys nutcracker suite on the same disc. After 20 years, i am very familiar with tchaikovskys nutcracker suite. The new steinbach firm added the evil mouse king in 2016 followed with the 5th nutcracker in this series, tchaikovsky in 2017. He wrote some of the most popular concert and theatrical music in the current classical repertoire, including the ballets swan lake and the nutcracker, the 1812 overture, his first. Tchaikovsky made a selection of eight of the numbers from the ballet before the ballets december 1892 premiere, forming the nutcracker suite, op.
The term suite used here refers exclusively to the score compiled by tchaikovsky and published as op. Free free pyotr ilyich tchaikovsky sheet music sheet music pieces to download from. I purchased this cd from an area thrift store this afternoon, not sure what id be getting, but knowing that i like to collect both christmas music and classical cds, and that ive long loved the sound of the mandolin, therefore feeling pretty confident that id probably be pleased with this offering. From a strictly professional point of view, tchaikovsky should have been a happy man in 1890. Recorded november 10, 1926 at the academy of music in philadelphia. Tchaikovsky the nutcracker suite dance of the sugar.
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