Product Description
The Nutcracker is an 1892 two-act ballet, originally choreographed by Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov with a score by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. Although the original production was not a success, the 20-minute suite that Tchaikovsky extracted from the ballet was. 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.
A Night at the Ballet, scored here for woodwind quintet, visits Tchaikovskis famous - The Nutcracker. Included in this minisuite are: Overture, March, Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy, Trepac, Arabian Dance, Chinese Dance, Dance of the Reed Flutes and Waltz of the Flowers.
( Duration 9:06 )
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