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Track Listings
| 1. Nutcracker Suite - Tchaikovsky |
| 2. Christmas Eve Suite - Rimsky-Korsakov |
| 3. Nutcracker: Dance of the Sugar-Plum Fairy - Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra |
| 4. Nutcracker: Russian Dance - Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra |
| 5. Nutcracker: Arabian Dance - Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra |
| 6. Nutcracker: Chinese Dance - Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra |
| 7. Nutcracker: Dance of the Toy Trumpets - Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra |
| 8. Nutcracker: Waltz of the Flowers - Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra |
| 9. Nutcracker: Finale - Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra |
| 10. Christmas Eve: Introduction - Igor Golovschin |
| 11. Christmas Eve: Procession of the Comet - Igor Golovschin |
| 12. Christmas Eve: Devil's Dance - Igor Golovschin |
| 13. Christmas Eve: Vakula Woos Oksana/Polonaise - Igor Golovschin |
| 14. Christmas Eve: Ovsyen and Kolyada - Igor Golovschin |
| 15. Christmas Eve: Vakula and Oksana - Igor Golovschin |
On this CD:
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The Nutcracker - Suite
Composed by Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky
Performed by Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra
Conducted by Michael Halász
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Christmas Eve
Composed by Nikolay Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov
Performed by Moscow Symphony Orchestra
Conducted by Igor Golovschin
Product Description
Amazon.co.uk Review
The actress Prunella Scales is the narrator on this Naxos release which is unashamedly aimed at the children's Christmas market. Two seasonal works fill 64 minutes--Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker Suite and Rimsky-Korsakov's Christmas Eve Suite. Scales is rather a plummy mother. Her elegant diction comes from a bygone dinner-party era. She sounds kind and warm but also somewhat distant as if she were the sort to employ a third party actually to bring the children up. One imagines her obedient junior audience demurely sitting in rows, not making a sound, restraining themselves even as the "Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy" twinkles magically from the speakers. Children may find this lap-forbidding. Nikolai Gogol wrote the story for Rimsky-Korsakov's opera Christmas Eve. A blacksmith fools the devil, obtains a pair of the Empress' slippers and wins the initially reluctant hand of the prettiest girl in town. Rimsky-Korsakov's music is more incidental to, and dependant on, the story than Tchaikovsky's, which may be performed without. Michael Halasz conducts the Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra in the Tchaikovsky, Igor Golovschin the Moscow Symphony Orchestra in the Rimsky-Korsakov. All very charming in a children-should-be-seen-and-not-heard sort of way. --Rick Jones
The actress Prunella Scales is the narrator on this Naxos release which is unashamedly aimed at the children's Christmas market. Two seasonal works fill 64 minutes--Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker Suite and Rimsky-Korsakov's Christmas Eve Suite. Scales is rather a plummy mother. Her elegant diction comes from a bygone dinner-party era. She sounds kind and warm but also somewhat distant as if she were the sort to employ a third party actually to bring the children up. One imagines her obedient junior audience demurely sitting in rows, not making a sound, restraining themselves even as the "Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy" twinkles magically from the speakers. Children may find this lap-forbidding. Nikolai Gogol wrote the story for Rimsky-Korsakov's opera Christmas Eve. A blacksmith fools the devil, obtains a pair of the Empress' slippers and wins the initially reluctant hand of the prettiest girl in town. Rimsky-Korsakov's music is more incidental to, and dependant on, the story than Tchaikovsky's, which may be performed without. Michael Halasz conducts the Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra in the Tchaikovsky, Igor Golovschin the Moscow Symphony Orchestra in the Rimsky-Korsakov. All very charming in a children-should-be-seen-and-not-heard sort of way. --Rick Jones