He gives the Stahlbaums’ young daughter Clara a nutcracker that she adores. Godfather Drosselmeyer, a clock and toy maker, arrives and presents dolls and gifts to all the children. The Nutcracker story takes place around a Christmas Eve celebration in the Stahlbaums’ grand house with a beautiful tree surrounded by family and friends. The different versions contain varying amounts of background material and links to online content. The Nutcracker, in which the boy band Libera makes a brief appearance in the wordless children’s chorus of The Waltz of the Snowflakes, appears in two editions: the 2-CD Standard and Experience editions containing the complete ballet score. 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. Simon Rattle and the Berliner Philharmoniker have recorded the most performed ballet of all time, Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker. “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 Among other things, the score is noted for its use of the celesta, an instrument that the composer had already employed in his much lesser known symphonic ballad The Voyevoda. Tchaikovsky's score has become one of his most famous compositions, in particular the pieces featured in the suite. Major American ballet companies generate around 40% of their annual ticket revenues from performances of The Nutcracker. However, the complete Nutcracker has enjoyed enormous popularity since the late 1960s and is now performed by countless ballet companies, primarily during the Christmas season, especially in North America. It was given its premiere at the Mariinsky Theatre in Saint Petersburg on Sunday, December 18, 1892, on a double-bill with Tchaikovsky's opera Iolanta.Īlthough the original production was not a success, the 20-minute suite that Tchaikovsky extracted from the ballet was. Hoffmann's story 'The Nutcracker and the Mouse King', by way of Alexandre Dumas' adapted story 'The Nutcracker'. The Nutcracker is a two-act ballet, originally choreographed by Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov with a score by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. Tchaikovsky made a selection of eight of the numbers from the ballet, forming T.

The Nutcracker is a two-act ballet, with a score by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. FULL, Tchaikovsky's Opus 71a Op71 complete in 1892. The full Nutcracker Suite, including the Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy.

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