The Nutcracker - Tchaikovsky (Essential Music for Christmas)

The Nutcracker Op. 71, is an 1892 two-act classical ballet conceived as a ballet-féerie by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, set on Christmas Eve at the foot of a Christmas tree in a child's imagination. The plot is an adaptation of Alexandre Dumas' 1844 short story The Nutcracker, itself a retelling 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 initially as successful as the 20-minute Nutcracker Suite that Tchaikovsky had premiered nine months earlier, it became popular in later years.

Since the late 1960s, The Nutcracker has been danced by many ballet companies, especially in North America.[1] Major American ballet companies generate around 40% of their annual ticket revenues from performances of the ballet.[2][3] Its score has been used in several film adaptations of Hoffmann's story.

Tchaikovsky's score has become one of his most famous compositions. Among other things, the score is noted for its use of the celesta, an instrument the composer had already employed in his much lesser known symphonic ballad The Voyevoda (1891).

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00:00:00 The Nutcracker, Op. 71: Miniature Overture Part: Miniature Overture
00:03:20 The Nutcracker, Op. 71, Act I, Scene 1: No. 1 Scene: The Christmas Tree
00:07:29 The Nutcracker, Op. 71, Act I, Scene 1: No. 2 March Part: No. 2 March
00:10:07 The Nutcracker, Op. 71, Act I, Scene 1: No. 3 Children's Gallop and Entrance of the Parents
00:12:51 The Nutcracker, Op. 71, Act I, Scene 1: No. 4 Dance Scene: Arrival of Drosselmeyer
00:18:43 The Nutcracker, Op. 71, Act I, Scene 1: No. 5 Scene and Grandfather Waltz
00:26:22 The Nutcracker, Op. 71, Act I, Scene 1: No. 6 Scene: Clara and the Nutcracker
00:34:50 The Nutcracker, Op. 71, Act I, Scene 1: No. 7 Scene: The Battle
00:38:29 The Nutcracker, Op. 71, Act I, Scene 1: No. 8 Scene: A Pine Forest in Winter
00:42:46 The Nutcracker, Op. 71, Act I, Scene 2: No. 9 Waltz of the Snowflakes
00:49:31 The Nutcracker, Op. 71, Act II, Scene 3: No. 10 Scene: The Magic Castle in the Land of Sweets
00:53:23 The Nutcracker, Op. 71, Act II, Scene 3: No. 11 Scene: Clara and the Nutcracker Prince
00:58:23 The Nutcracker, Op. 71, Act II, Scene 3: No. 12 Divertissement, Chocolate (Spanish Dance)
00:59:41 The Nutcracker, Op. 71, Act II, Scene 3: No. 12 Divertissement, Coffee (Arabian Dance)
01:04:07 The Nutcracker, Op. 71, Act II, Scene 3: No. 12 Divertissement, Tea (Chinese Dance)
01:05:18 The Nutcracker, Op. 71, Act II, Scene 3: No. 12 Divertissement, Trepak (Russian Dance)
01:06:30 The Nutcracker, Op. 71, Act II, Scene 3: No. 12 Divertissement, Dance of the Shepherd Boys
01:09:43 The Nutcracker, Op. 71, Act II, Scene 3: No. 13 Waltz of the Flowers
01:17:07 The Nutcracker, Op. 71, Act II, Scene 3: No. 14 Pas de Deux (The Prince and the Sugar-Plum Fairy)
01:23:01 The Nutcracker, Op. 71, Act II, Scene 3: No. 14 Pas de Deux (The Prince and the Sugar-Plum Fairy), Variation 1 (Tarantella)
01:23:51 The Nutcracker, Op. 71, Act II, Scene 3: No. 14 Pas de Deux (The Prince and the Sugar-Plum Fairy), Variation 2 (Dance of the Sugar-Plum Fairy)
01:26:28 The Nutcracker, Op. 71, Act II, Scene 3: No. 14 Pas de Deux (The Prince and the Sugar-Plum Fairy), Coda
01:27:57 The Nutcracker, Op. 71, Act II, Scene 3: No. 15 Final Waltz and Apotheosis

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