TCHAIKOVSKY: The Nutcracker - Tea (Chinese Dance), Vladimir Magalashvili & Aleksandr Volkov, organ

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Tea (Chinese Dance) from the Nutcracker Suite. 4K Video. Played by Vladimir Magalashvili & Aleksandr Volkov on the Steinmeyer organ (1925, III/71/P) in Ss. Corpus Christi, Berlin. Organ arrangement by Alexander Grudinkin. • In the Nutcracker ballet there are several dances that the courtiers perform for the main characters in the Sugar Plum Fairy palace. In each of these dances, music with characteristic intonations of a particular country is played. One of them is Chinese dance, it even has its own name - Tea. This dance is lively, funny and a little funny. His performers, like clockwork dolls, jump up all the time, and very high, spin, turn over in an amazing way. Their movements are not smooth, but sharp and often unexpected. The music of Chinese dance conveys the peculiarities of the folk music of this distant country. The composer used the instruments of the orchestra in such a way that their sound resembled the sound of Chinese folk