omposer: Pyotr Il’yich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)
Artist: Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Neeme Jrvi
Title: Tchaikovsky – The Nutcracker – Ballet ferique in Two Acts
Genre: Classical
Label: Chandos Records
Release Date: 2014
Quality: High-Fidelity FLAC Stereo 96kHz/24bit
Source: theCLASSICAL|shop
Duration: 01:24:32
Recorded: Grieghallen, Bergen, Norway, 9-12 December 2013
This is the concluding recording in Neeme Jrvi’s series with the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra devoted to Tchaikovsky’s three great ballets. This complete, uncut version of The Nutcracker follows The Sleeping Beauty (CHSA 5113(2)) and Swan Lake (CHSA 5124 (2)), both of which have been much awarded.
The Nutcracker draws its influences from both Hoffmann’s and Dumas’s tales of the same name, and makes delightful use of ‘le joli’, i.e. ‘the pretty’, in music — vivacious themes decked out in ingenious orchestration — already mastered by Lo Delibes in Copplia.
The Nutcracker relates the dreams of Clara Silberhaus on Christmas Eve, aroused by the nutcracker which her mysterious godfather has given her. Then the guests’ lulling and languishing waltzes take her on a fantastic journey from a mystical snowy forest to the princely kingdom of Confiturembourg. Tchaikovsky illustrates this journey with various musical themes, such as confectionary, flowers, and Mirlitons, as well as Spanish, Arabic, Chinese, and Russian dances.
Commissioned by the director of the Imperial Theatres, Ivan Vsevolozhsky, and originally choreographed by Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov, The Nutcracker was premiered at the Mariinsky Theatre in St Petersburg in 1892. It came in a double-bill with the opera Iolanta, also commissioned by Vsevolozhsky. For this recording, Neeme Jrvi and the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra have re-explored Tchaikovsky’s masterpiece together, in order to offer a completely new experience of one of the most-performed ballets in musical history.
Tracklist:
Pyotr Il’yich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)
The Nutcracker, Op. 71
Ballet ferique in Two Acts
1 Ouverture. Allegro giusto 2:59
Act I
Tableau I
2 1 Scne. Allegro non troppo – Poco pi sostenuto – 3:33
Tempo I –
3 2 Marche. Tempo di Marcia viva 2:16
4 3 Petit galop des enfants et Entre des Parents. Presto – Andante – Allegro – 2:38
5 4 Scne dansante. Andantino – Stringendo – Allegro vivo – 5:41
6 5 Scne et Danse du Gross-Vater. Andante ( Tempo di 6:28
Valse) – Poco animando –
7 6 Scne. Allegro semplice – Moderato con moto – Allegro giusto – 6:47
8 7 Scne. Allegro vivo – Pochissimo pi mosso – La Bataille – La Second Bataille 3:23
Tableau II
9 8 Scne. Andante 3:18
10 9 Valse des Flocons de neige. Tempo di Valse, ma 6:19
con moto – Presto – Poco meno
Act II
11 10 Scne. Andante – 4:28
12 11 Scne. Andante con moto – Un poco animando – 4:45
Moderato – Allegro agitato –
Divertissement
13 a) Le Chocolat. Allegro brillante – Pi mosso 1:09
14 b) Le Caf. Commodo 3:15
15 c) Le Th. Allegro moderato 1:02
16 d) Trpak. Tempo di Trepak, molto vivace – Stringendo – Prestissimo 1:06
17 e) Les Mirlitons. Moderato assai 2:13
18 f) La Mre Gigogne et les polichinelles. Allegro giocoso – Allegro vivo – Poco pi 2:39
19 13 Valse des Fleurs. Tempo di Valse 6:44
20 14 Pas de Deux. Andante maestoso – Poco stringendo – Poco pi mosso – Incalzando – 4:31
21 Variation I (Pour le danseur). Tempo di Tarantella – 0:44
22 Variation II (Pour la danseuse). Danse de la Fe-Drage. Andante non troppo – 2:05
23 Coda. Vivace assai 1:24
24 15 Valse finale et Apothose. Tempo di vlase. Molto meo – L’Apothose 4:45
Personnel:
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra
Neeme Jrvi conductor
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