Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker

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Some of the tunes are so famous that you even forget that someone had to write them: what could be more perfect than the pas de deux after the Waltz of the Flowers, which is just a G major scale? We fell in love with this music, rehearsing and performing it, and we think it is magic.

Simon Rattle and the Berliner Philharmoniker have recorded the most performed ballet of all time, Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker. The release marks the conductor’s first Tchaikovsky recording and is one of several releases this season celebrating Rattle’s 30th anniversary on the EMI Classics label.

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"You can check just about everyone off your Christmas list with this recording. You'll probably have many of them asking: Why haven't I heard this before?"
Brian Newhouse, NPR Music

STANDARD EDITION (2CD)

The complete recording of Tchaikovsky's celebrated work on 2 CDs.

The Nutcracker Ballet Op.71 – Tchaikovsky

CD1
1. Miniature Overture 3’08
Act I
2. No. 1 The Decoration of the Christmas Tree 3’47
3. No. 2 March 2’25
4. No. 3 Children’s Galop and Entry of the Parents 2’16
5. No. 4 Arrival of Drosselmeyer 5’27
6. No. 5 Grandfather’s Dance 6’14
7. No. 6 Scene: Clara and the Nutcracker 6’18
8. No. 7 Scene: The Battle 3’26
9. No. 8 Scene: In the Pine Forest 3’58
10. No. 9 Waltz of the Snowflakes 6’42

CD2
Act II
1. No. 10 Scene: The Kingdom of Sweets 3’50
2. No. 11 Scene: Clara and the Prince 4’57
No.12 Divertissement
3. Chocolate : Spanish Dance 1’13
4. Coffee: Arabian Dance 3’53
5. Tea: Chinese Dance 1’12
6. Trépak: Russian Dance 1’09
7. Dance of the Reed Pipes 2’29
8. Mother Gigogne 2’32
9. No. 13 Waltz of the Flowers 6’55
10. No. 14 Pas de deux 5’06
11. Variation I : Tarantella 0’39
12. Variation II :Dance of the Sugar-Plum Fairy 2’24
13. Coda 1’21
14. No. 15 Final Waltz and Apotheosis 4’51

DISCOVERY EDITION (1CD)

The perfect introduction to this beloved work, featuring “greatest hits” from the ballet, with the voices of celebrated boys’ choir Libera on Waltz of the Snowflakes.