Double LP Features Original Cover Artwork!
André Previn conducts the London Symphony Orchestra in Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker.
"Tchaikovsky's ballets form a wonderful part of his musical expression perhaps the most wonderful of all Such were my thoughts as I listened to this enchanting new recording of the Nutcracker by André Previn and the LSO. As an account of the music it seems to me a wonderfully judged combination of skill and affection [It] is certainly a performance whose strength comes from its simple eloquence and there is nothing that can make any music sound better than that There is a poised and sustained rapture about this performance from end to end that is the very definition of good conducting." - Gramophone, January 1973
Features:
Double LP
Gatefold jacket
Original cover artwork with illustrations by Dick Ellescas
English text inside
Made in the EU
Musicians:
London Symphony Orchestra
André Previn, conductor
Selections:
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)
The Nutcracker
Side One:
Overture
Act I
No. 1 The Decoration Of The Christmas Tree
No. 2 March
No. 3 Children's Galop, And Entry Of The Parents
No. 4 Arrival Of Drosselmeyer
No. 5 Grandfather Dance
Side Two:
No. 6 Scena
No. 7 Scena (Battle)
No. 8 Scena
No. 9 Waltz Of The Snowflakes (with members of the Ambrosian Singers - Chorus Master: John McCarthy)
Act II
Side Three:
No. 10 Scena - Confiturembourg (The Kingdom Of Sweets)
No. 11 Scena
No. 12 Divertissement
(a) Chocolate
(b) Coffee (Arab Dance)
(c) Tea (Chinese Dance)
(d) Trepak
(e) Flutes
(f) Mother Gigogne
Side Four:
No. 13 Waltz Of The Flowers
No. 14 Pas De Deux
Variation I - Tarantella
Variation II - Sugar-Plum Fairy And Coda
No. 15 Final Waltz And Apotheosis
Recorded: Kingsway Hall, London, V.1972
André Previn conducts the London Symphony Orchestra in Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker.
"Tchaikovsky's ballets form a wonderful part of his musical expression perhaps the most wonderful of all Such were my thoughts as I listened to this enchanting new recording of the Nutcracker by André Previn and the LSO. As an account of the music it seems to me a wonderfully judged combination of skill and affection [It] is certainly a performance whose strength comes from its simple eloquence and there is nothing that can make any music sound better than that There is a poised and sustained rapture about this performance from end to end that is the very definition of good conducting." - Gramophone, January 1973
Features:
Double LP
Gatefold jacket
Original cover artwork with illustrations by Dick Ellescas
English text inside
Made in the EU
Musicians:
London Symphony Orchestra
André Previn, conductor
Selections:
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)
The Nutcracker
Side One:
Overture
Act I
No. 1 The Decoration Of The Christmas Tree
No. 2 March
No. 3 Children's Galop, And Entry Of The Parents
No. 4 Arrival Of Drosselmeyer
No. 5 Grandfather Dance
Side Two:
No. 6 Scena
No. 7 Scena (Battle)
No. 8 Scena
No. 9 Waltz Of The Snowflakes (with members of the Ambrosian Singers - Chorus Master: John McCarthy)
Act II
Side Three:
No. 10 Scena - Confiturembourg (The Kingdom Of Sweets)
No. 11 Scena
No. 12 Divertissement
(a) Chocolate
(b) Coffee (Arab Dance)
(c) Tea (Chinese Dance)
(d) Trepak
(e) Flutes
(f) Mother Gigogne
Side Four:
No. 13 Waltz Of The Flowers
No. 14 Pas De Deux
Variation I - Tarantella
Variation II - Sugar-Plum Fairy And Coda
No. 15 Final Waltz And Apotheosis
Recorded: Kingsway Hall, London, V.1972
