Tchaikovsky: Nutcracker - A Dramatic Symphony Baltic Sea Philharmonic & Kristjan Järvi

• Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840 - 1893): Welcome to Wonderland (After The Magical Palace of Confiturenburg from The Nutcracker, Op. 71/TH14):
• 1 Tchaikovsky: Welcome to Wonderland (After The Magical Palace of Confiturenburg from The Nutcracker, Op. 71/TH14) 01:35
• The Nutcracker, Op. 71/TH14:
• 2 Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker, Op. 71/TH14: Overture 01:22
• 3 Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker, Op. 71/TH14: Act I: Decoration and Lighting of the Christmas Tree 02:40
• 4 Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker, Op. 71/TH14: Act I: Dazzling Party 02:13
• 5 Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker, Op. 71/TH14: Act I: Children's Gallop and Entry of the Parents 00:53
• 6 Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker, Op. 71/TH14: Act I: Enchantment 04:33
• 7 Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker, Op. 71/TH14: Act I: Grandfather's Dance 03:14
• 8 Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker, Op. 71/TH14: Act I: The Departure 04:11
• 9 Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker, Op. 71/TH14: Act I: The Battle 02:17
• 10 Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker, Op. 71/TH14: Act I: Evergreen Forest in Winter 03:31
• 11 Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker, Op. 71/TH14: Act I: Waltz of the Snowflakes 04:50
• 12 Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker, Op. 71/TH14: Act II: The Magical Palace of Confiturenburg 03:08
• 13 Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker, Op. 71/TH14: Act II: Arrival of the Nutcracker and Clara 02:38
• 14 Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker, Op. 71/TH14: Act II: Chocolate: Spanish Dance 01:06
• 15 Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker, Op. 71/TH14: Act II: Coffee: Arabian Dance 03:41
• 16 Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker, Op. 71/TH14: Act II: Tea: Chinese Dance 00:57
• 17 Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker, Op. 71/TH14: Act II: Trepak: Russian Dance 01:01
• 18 Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker, Op. 71/TH14: Act II: Dance of the Reed Flutes 02:12
• 19 Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker, Op. 71/TH14: Act II: Mother Gigogne and the Clowns 01:22
• 20 Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker, Op. 71/TH14: Act II: Waltz of the Flowers 04:15
• 21 Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker, Op. 71/TH14: Act II: The Sugar-Plum Fairy and the Prince 02:22
• 22 Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker, Op. 71/TH14: Act II: Tarantella 00:39
• 23 Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker, Op. 71/TH14: Act II: Dance of the Sugar-Plum Fairy 02:04
• 24 Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker, Op. 71/TH14: Act II: Coda 01:15
• 25 Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker, Op. 71/TH14: Act II: Magical Farewell 01:36
• 26 Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker, Op. 71/TH14: Act II: Purification 02:17
• Total Runtime 01:01:52

Info for Tchaikovsky: Nutcracker - A Dramatic Symphony

Christmas comes early with a newly transformed Nutcracker: Tchaikovsky’s beloved ballet The Nutcracker is a seasonal favourite, and the Baltic Sea Philharmonic will wrap up this musical Christmas treasure in the imaginative shape of a Dramatic Symphony, arranged by Kristjan Järvi. With this reworking, Järvi completes his transformations of Tchaikovsky’s three ballets, after his previous arrangements of Swan Lake and The Sleeping Beauty. As with those reworkings, this Dramatic Symphony showcases all the quintessential colour and drama of Tchaikovsky’s theatre music. The new Nutcracker will have its debut on the Baltic Sea Philharmonic’s ‘Meresillad’ tour of Germany and Estonia in September, before the orchestra presents it as a seasonal spectacular in Hamburg, Zurich, Geneva and Bern.

The Baltic Sea Philharmonic is excited to be joined for the first time by pianist Olga Scheps in Grieg’s Piano Concerto, a enduringly popular work that was written by the Norwegian composer when he was just 25 years old. Scheps is an ECHO Klassik award-winning soloist, with her debut album Chopin garnering her the Newcomer of the Year award in 2010 at the age of 24. Since 2009 she has been an exclusive Sony Classical artist, and has recorded nine albums for the label.

The Baltic Sea Philharmonic and Kristjan Järvi will take the seasonal concert to a new dimension on their ‘Nutcracker Reimagined’ tour of Germany and Switzerland in December 2022. Performing four concerts in four days, the orchestra travels to Hamburg, Zurich, Geneva and Bern with a new programme that has as its spectacular climax Järvi’s own arrangement of Tchaikovsky’s final ballet and Christmas favourite The Nutcracker. Russian-German pianist Olga Scheps joins the Baltic Sea Philharmonic to perform Grieg’s Piano Concerto. The orchestra will play the entire programme in signature Baltic Sea Philharmonic style – completely from memory, with no music stands on stage and with most of the musicians standing up and free to move and interact with each other. There will be no intermission and the music will flow from one work to the next with smooth transitions.

Baltic Sea Philharmonic
Kristjan Järvi, conductor

Kristjan Järvi
lives and breathes music, using its power to create spaces in which anything is possible. Kristjan Järvi pursues his pioneering ideas as a conductor, producer, composer and arranger. Embracing everything with creative entrepreneurship. he runs his own production company Sunbeam Productions.

‘Kristjan Järvi has earned a reputation as one of the canniest, and most innovative, programmers on the classical scene’ (Reuters). As a conductor, he is at home on the big international stages, directing great classics from Wagner to Tchaikovsky and from Steve Reich to Radiohead as well as his original productions without any genre boundaries.

Kristjan Järvi developed his own unique sound with his New York based, classical-hip-hop-jazz group Absolute Ensemble, Baltic Sea Philharmonic, and Sunbeam´s in-house Band ‘Nordic Pulse’. Kristjan shapes his artistic life and takes expression to the next level with his team of ’Sunbeam Productions´’, with whom he creates a new paradigm for multi-sensory performance Xperiences. At the end of 2020 Kristjan founded a new record label: “nEscapes”. Besides online music distribution it offers its own unique “nEscapes Lounges” to artists as a new listening format.

Besides his own productions, Kristjan Järvi collaborates internationally with outstanding artists like director Tom Tykwer (for the soundtrack of Babylon Berlin) and recording artists like MUM, Bryce Dessner (The National), Hauschka, Robot Koch and Max Richter and is staring in the “Bastille Re-Orchestrated” Documentary on Amazon Prime at the moment.

Kristjan is exclusively signed as a composer and producer with BMG Music under its label “Modern recordings”. His latest album is called: Nordic Escapes.

Born in Estonia, Kristjan Järvi emigrated to the United States as a child and grew up in New York City. Kristjan comes from a family of great conductors. His father Neeme and his elder brother Paavo both conduct the greatest orchestras in the world. In 2015, Kristjan relocated his center of life from the USA back to the capital of Estonia, Tallinn.

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