P.I. Tchaikovsky - Ballet Suites: 'The Nutcracker', 'The Sleeping Beauty', 'Swan Lake Suite' (1994)
French National Orchestra, conducted by Kirill Kondrashin, recorded April 1980
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 280 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 154 Mb | Scans included
Genre: Classical | Label: Innovative Music | # ORCD 11039 | Time: 01:05:13
French National Orchestra, conducted by Kirill Kondrashin, recorded April 1980
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 280 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 154 Mb | Scans included
Genre: Classical | Label: Innovative Music | # ORCD 11039 | Time: 01:05:13
Tchaikovsky - almost alone - saw the possibilities of specially-composed music for the classical ballet, which was hugely popular in nineteenth-century Russia. His secret was to work closely with his choreographer and link music and dance routines at the outset: this proved vital to the stage action and the final success of the whole production. Swan Lake was the first, and Nutcracker the last of Tchaikovsky’s three ballet scores. Following the success of Sleeping Beauty came the request for another ballet, which eventually formed a double-bill with his opera Yolanta. Tchaikovsky agreed, unusually, that some of the Nutcracker music could be played at an orchestral concert before the ballet opened in St Petersburg. At the concert, an enthusiastic audience encored almost every number.