Tchaikovsky Nutcracker - excerpts
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Composer or Director: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Label: Royal Opera House Records
Magazine Review Date: 12/1989
Media Format: Cassette
Media Runtime: 0
Mastering:
DDD
Catalogue Number: ROHMC002

Tracks:
Composition | Artist Credit |
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(The) Nutcracker, Movement: Waltz of the Flowers |
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Composer
Halesworth Middle School Choir Mark Ermler, Conductor Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Composer Royal Opera House Orchestra, Covent Garden |
(The) Nutcracker, Movement: ~ |
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Composer
Halesworth Middle School Choir Mark Ermler, Conductor Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Composer Royal Opera House Orchestra, Covent Garden |
(The) Nutcracker, Movement: Final Waltz and Apotheosis. |
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Composer
Halesworth Middle School Choir Mark Ermler, Conductor Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Composer Royal Opera House Orchestra, Covent Garden |
(The) Nutcracker, Movement: March |
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Composer
Halesworth Middle School Choir Mark Ermler, Conductor Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Composer Royal Opera House Orchestra, Covent Garden |
(The) Nutcracker, Movement: The Battle and Transformation Scene |
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Composer
Halesworth Middle School Choir Mark Ermler, Conductor Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Composer Royal Opera House Orchestra, Covent Garden |
(The) Nutcracker, Movement: The forest of fir trees in Winter (Journey through |
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Composer
Halesworth Middle School Choir Mark Ermler, Conductor Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Composer Royal Opera House Orchestra, Covent Garden |
(The) Nutcracker, Movement: Waltz of the Snowflakes |
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Composer
Halesworth Middle School Choir Mark Ermler, Conductor Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Composer Royal Opera House Orchestra, Covent Garden |
(The) Nutcracker, Movement: Divertissement: |
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Composer
Halesworth Middle School Choir Mark Ermler, Conductor Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Composer Royal Opera House Orchestra, Covent Garden |
Composer or Director: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Label: Royal Opera House Records
Magazine Review Date: 12/1989
Media Format: Vinyl
Media Runtime: 0
Mastering:
DDD
Catalogue Number: ROHLP002

Tracks:
Composition | Artist Credit |
---|---|
(The) Nutcracker, Movement: Waltz of the Flowers |
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Composer
Halesworth Middle School Choir Mark Ermler, Conductor Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Composer Royal Opera House Orchestra, Covent Garden |
(The) Nutcracker, Movement: ~ |
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Composer
Halesworth Middle School Choir Mark Ermler, Conductor Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Composer Royal Opera House Orchestra, Covent Garden |
(The) Nutcracker, Movement: Final Waltz and Apotheosis. |
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Composer
Halesworth Middle School Choir Mark Ermler, Conductor Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Composer Royal Opera House Orchestra, Covent Garden |
(The) Nutcracker, Movement: March |
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Composer
Halesworth Middle School Choir Mark Ermler, Conductor Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Composer Royal Opera House Orchestra, Covent Garden |
(The) Nutcracker, Movement: The Battle and Transformation Scene |
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Composer
Halesworth Middle School Choir Mark Ermler, Conductor Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Composer Royal Opera House Orchestra, Covent Garden |
(The) Nutcracker, Movement: The forest of fir trees in Winter (Journey through |
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Composer
Halesworth Middle School Choir Mark Ermler, Conductor Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Composer Royal Opera House Orchestra, Covent Garden |
(The) Nutcracker, Movement: Waltz of the Snowflakes |
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Composer
Halesworth Middle School Choir Mark Ermler, Conductor Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Composer Royal Opera House Orchestra, Covent Garden |
(The) Nutcracker, Movement: Divertissement: |
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Composer
Halesworth Middle School Choir Mark Ermler, Conductor Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Composer Royal Opera House Orchestra, Covent Garden |
Composer or Director: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Label: Royal Opera House Records
Magazine Review Date: 12/1989
Media Format: CD or Download
Media Runtime: 55
Mastering:
DDD
Catalogue Number: ROH002

Tracks:
Composition | Artist Credit |
---|---|
(The) Nutcracker, Movement: Waltz of the Flowers |
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Composer
Halesworth Middle School Choir Mark Ermler, Conductor Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Composer Royal Opera House Orchestra, Covent Garden |
(The) Nutcracker, Movement: ~ |
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Composer
Halesworth Middle School Choir Mark Ermler, Conductor Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Composer Royal Opera House Orchestra, Covent Garden |
(The) Nutcracker, Movement: Final Waltz and Apotheosis. |
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Composer
Halesworth Middle School Choir Mark Ermler, Conductor Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Composer Royal Opera House Orchestra, Covent Garden |
(The) Nutcracker, Movement: March |
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Composer
Halesworth Middle School Choir Mark Ermler, Conductor Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Composer Royal Opera House Orchestra, Covent Garden |
(The) Nutcracker, Movement: The Battle and Transformation Scene |
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Composer
Halesworth Middle School Choir Mark Ermler, Conductor Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Composer Royal Opera House Orchestra, Covent Garden |
(The) Nutcracker, Movement: The forest of fir trees in Winter (Journey through |
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Composer
Halesworth Middle School Choir Mark Ermler, Conductor Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Composer Royal Opera House Orchestra, Covent Garden |
(The) Nutcracker, Movement: Waltz of the Snowflakes |
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Composer
Halesworth Middle School Choir Mark Ermler, Conductor Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Composer Royal Opera House Orchestra, Covent Garden |
(The) Nutcracker, Movement: Divertissement: |
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Composer
Halesworth Middle School Choir Mark Ermler, Conductor Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Composer Royal Opera House Orchestra, Covent Garden |
Author: Edward Greenfield
Nor does the performance have quite the same finesse as that of Swan Lake. As in that parallel issue the orchestra respond idiomatically to Tchaikovsky dance music and with obvious familiarity and love, but ensemble is not quite so crisp here and when Nutcracker competition is very strong in the CD catalogue, the shortcoming is the more noticeable. What the new set does have to distinguish it from its rivals is an unusual and attractive make-weight, a ripely enjoyable string work, the Arensky Variations on a theme of Tchaikovsky, till now not listed in the CD catalogue. There the warmly reverberant acoustic makes for sumptuous results, which rather remind me in their larger-than-life richness and resonances of the recent Virgin Classics issues from the newly reformed London Chamber Orchestra. It is music—warm and easy on the ear which blossoms from such treatment.
As to Nutcracker itself, it is largely the recording acoustic which makes Ermler's reading convey less of an intimate fairy-tale atmosphere than Lanchbery's for example. The results are on the beefy side, though the lightness of Ermler's treatment in such a number as ''Dance of the Snowflakes'' is magical, full of mystery, as is the ''Arab Dance''. Yet conversely he can unexpectedly let you down, as for example in the final ''Apotheosis'', where the reference back to the music of Act I is disappointingly slow and square, with the rhythm too evenly stressed, and with the flute solo not shaped affectionately enough. That is the exception. Generally Ermler, as in Swan Lake, has a natural feeling for springing rhythms and moulding rubato persuasively.
The selection of highlights from the set on a separate disc is well chosen, but at just under 55 minutes, none too generous compared with, say Tilson Thomas's highlights disc (CBS (CD) CD44656, 9/89) which provides over 15 minutes of music more and at mid price, though he does inexplicably omit one of the essential numbers, the stirring Pas de deux which follows the ''Waltz of the Flowers''.'
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