The Nutcracker (1995)

By Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Unfolds on Christmas Eve inside a child's imagination, where a Nutcracker doll comes to life, in a two-act ballet score from 1892 by Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (The Sleeping Beauty). The music is known for its use of the celesta, and the shorter Nutcracker Suite premiered nine months before the full staged ballet. For anyone drawn to orchestral storytelling.

Released
1995
Tracks
24

Track list

  1. The Nutcracker: Overture
  2. The Nutcracker: Scene I - the Christmas Tree
  3. The Nutcracker: Scene II - March
  4. The Nutcracker: Scene III - Children's Galop & Arrival of the Guests
  5. The Nutcracker: Scene IV - Dance Scene & Arrival of Drosselmeyer
  6. The Nutcracker: Scene V - Scene & Grandfather's Dance
  7. The Nutcracker: Scene VI - the Magic Spell Begins
  8. The Nutcracker: Scene VII - the Battle Between the Nutcracker & the Mouse King
  9. The Nutcracker: Scene VIII - Scene In the Pine Forest (Journey Through the Snow)
  10. The Nutcracker: Scene IX - Waltz of the Snowflakes
  11. The Nutcracker: Scene X - the Magic Castle
  12. The Nutcracker: Scene XI - Clara & the Prince
  13. The Nutcracker: Scene XII - Divertissement, Chocolate: Spanish Dance
  14. The Nutcracker: Scene XII - Divertissement, Coffee: Arabian Dance
  15. The Nutcracker: Scene XII - Divertissement, Tea: Chinese Dance
  16. The Nutcracker: Scene XII - Divertissement, Trepak
  17. The Nutcracker: Scene XII - Divertissement, Dance of the Mirlitons
  18. The Nutcracker: Scene XII - Divertissement, Mother Gigogne & the Clowns
  19. The Nutcracker: Scene XIII - Waltz of the Flowers
  20. The Nutcracker: Scene XIV - Pas de Deux: Dance of the Prince & the Sugar-Plum Fairy
  21. The Nutcracker: Scene XIV - Variation I: Tarantella
  22. The Nutcracker: Scene XIV - Variation II: Dance of the Sugar-Plum Fairy
  23. The Nutcracker: Scene XIV - Coda
  24. The Nutcracker: Scene XV - Final Waltz & Apotheosis