Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky -- The Nutcracker (Full Ballet) -- Score

There’s a certain irony in how the two pieces by Tchaikovsky that are the most popular nowadays are pieces that he wrote strictly on commission, and didn’t think too highly of himself. The first, the 1812 Overture, was featured earlier on this channel, in a recording complete with genuine muzzle-loading cannons. The second is his score for the ballet The Nutcracker. Commissioned by Ivan Vsevolozhsky, director of the Imperial Theatres, as a follow-up to The Sleeping Beauty, Tchaikovsky again collaborated with Marius Petipa, who adapted “The Story of a Nutcracker“ by Alexandre Dumas, itself an adaptation of “The Nutcracker and the Mouse King“ by . Hoffmann. Tchaikovsky essentially wrote music to a framework supplied by Petipa. The original production was not a success, mostly due to issues with the dance performance and story, rather than Tchaikovsky’s music. Although constrained by the demands that his music follow the form of the dancing, Tchaikovsky nevertheless introduced two innovations into his music: The celesta (which he had previously used in The Voyevoda) and flutter-tonguing (complete with instructions in the score on just how to perform the technique). The piece had a very long period before it attained the popularity it enjoys today. The first complete production outside Russia was in England in 1934, and the first in the USA in 1944. However, after the concert suite was featured in the 1940 film Fantasia, it gained popularity until by the late 1960s it became a standard feature of the ballet repertoire. We here at Sylderon Machine Works wish you and yours the happiest of holidays and our hope for a prosperous and fruitful year to come. If you have any piece which you would like to see through our SynchroScore Process, all you need to do is ask and, if the necessary components can be located, it will be added to the top spot in the production queue. Score sourced through the International Music Score Library Project / Petrucci Music Library: :ImagefromIndex/440279/hfga Music source: This video is produced for educational purposes, for the benefit of amateurs, enthusiasts, and professional musicians alike. No claim of ownership is made over the component parts of this video. 0:00:00 Overture 0:03:26 Act I: Christmas Tree Decoration and Lighting 0:07:25 March of the Toy Soldiers 0:09:51 Children’s Gallop and Dance of the Parents 0:12:19 Dance Scene (Arrival of Drosselmeyer) 0:18:05 Scene and Grandfather Waltz 0:24:27 Scene (Guests Depart) 0:26:32 Scene (Night) 0:31:26 Scene (The Battle) 0:34:54 Scene (A Pine Forest In Winter) 0:39:06 Waltz of the Snowflakes 0:45:51 Act II: Scene (The Magic Castle in the Land of Sweets) 0:50:06 Scene (Arrival of Clara and the Nutcracker) 0:54:57 Divertissement a. Chocolate (Spanish Dance) 0:56:11 b. Coffee (Arabian Dance) 0:59:59 c. Tea (Chinese Dance) 1:00:59 d. Trepak (Russian Dance) 1:02:07 e. Dance of the Reed Flutes 1:04:33 f. Mother Ginger and the Polichinelles 1:07:16 Waltz of the Flowers 1:13:58 Pas de Deux (The Sugar Plum Fairy and her Cavalier) 1:19:26 Variation 1: Tarantella 1:20:05 Variation 2: Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy 1:22:32 Coda 1:23:53 Final Waltz 1:27:24 Apotheosis