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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky | The Nutcracker - Full Length (1892)

The Nutcracker is an 1892 two-act "fairy ballet" set on Christmas Eve at the foot of a Christmas tree in a child's imagination.

The music is by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, his Opus 71. The plot is an adaptation of E. T. A. Hoffmann's 1816 short story The Nutcracker and the Mouse King.


The ballet's first choreographer was Marius Petipa, with whom Tchaikovsky had worked three years earlier on The Sleeping Beauty, assisted by Lev Ivanov.


Although the complete and staged The Nutcracker ballet was not as successful as had been the 20-minute Nutcracker Suite that Tchaikovsky had premiered nine months earlier, The Nutcracker soon became popular.


PERFORMANCE

Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Ernest Ansermet


00:00:00 | Intro

00:00:27 | Miniature Overture


00:03:36 | Tableau I -----

00:03:37 | The Christmas Tree

00:07:17 | March of the Toy Soldiers

00:09:59 | Children's Gallop and Dance of the Parents

00:12:19 | Arrival of Drosselmeyer

00:17:26 | Scene and Grandfather Waltz

00:27:03 | Clara and the Nutcracker

00:36:49 | The Battle


00:40:21 | Tableau II -----

00:40:22 | A Pine Forest in Winter

00:43:58 | Waltz of the Snowflakes


00:50:52 | Tableau III -----

00:50:53 | The Magic Castle in the Land of Sweets

00:54:40 | Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy

00:57:08 | Clara and Nutcracker Prince

01:01:50 | Chocolate: Spanish Dance

01:03:12 | Coffee: Arabian Dance

01:06:24 | Tea: Chinese Dance

01:07:31 | Trepak: Russian Dance

01:08:53 | Dance of the Reed Flutes

01:11:31 | Mother Ginger and the Polichinelles

01:14:18 | Waltz of the Flowers


01:20:51 | Pas de Deux -----

01:20:52 | Sugar Plum Fairy and Her Cavalier

Variation I: Tarantella

Variation II: Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy

01:26:49 | Coda

01:28:34 | Final Waltz and Apotheosis


Tchaikovsky
1840 - 1893