Rattle, Berlin PO - Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker (2010)
Rattle, Berlin PO - Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker (2010)
EAC Rip | Flac (Image + cue + log) | 2 CDs | Full Scans | 365 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: Emi Classics | Catalog Number: 31621
EAC Rip | Flac (Image + cue + log) | 2 CDs | Full Scans | 365 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: Emi Classics | Catalog Number: 31621
Tchaikovsky’s most famous work, The Nutcracker, is presented in this stunning new recording by the world’s greatest orchestra, the Berliner Philharmoniker, under the baton of their celebrated conductor Sir Simon Rattle. This musical fairytale follows Clara and her unusual prince and protector, The Nutcracker, through adventures and exotic delights in the magical Kingdom of Sweets.
The Nutcracker is the most popular ballet, and its annual holiday performances have become a treasured tradition the world over. This release features the live recording of Act II from December 2009’s Silvesterkonzert, Germany’s New Year’s celebrations. Act I was recorded in the studio during the same period.
Reviews: Physically this is a beautiful production, the discs tucked between decorative hard covers with a 60-page booklet full of early production photographs and costume designs that immediately demand to be pored over. Every purchaser gets a unique passcode to access additional online content – live concert footage, interviews and more.
Musically, too, on most counts this is a highly competitive version. Rattle shapes each movement with a firm hand and is concerned to maximize its individual character, while the playing of the Berliners is always beautiful and full of verve, with real passion and even grandeur in the great Pas de deux. Act I is bright and dramatic; the famous characteristic dances in the Act II Divertissement are done with elegance and gusto; and there’s a real sense, in the final Apotheosis, of bringing an utterly unified work to a satisfying end.
What I miss in it isn’t easily definable, but in the last analysis I think it’s the sense of fantasy, the lightness of touch that informs the ballet’s underlying idea. There’s so much to admire and yet there’s a certain literalness in the interpretation, an occasional beefiness in the sound, that keeps the actual magic in short supply.
For that magic you have to go to Ashkenazy and the RPO on Decca, or Mackerras with the LSO on Telarc. Valery Gergiev, too, with the Kirov Orchestra (Philips) brings a Slavonic ardour that Rattle cannot quite match. But in a quite crowded field, this is certainly at the top of the next-best contenders – and will look good in any Christmas stocking.
Tracklisting:
CD 1
1. Miniature Overture
2. The Decoration of the Christmas Tree
3. March
4. Children's Galop and Entry of the Parents
5. Arrival of Drosselmeyer
6. Grandfather's Dance
7. Scene-Clara and the Nutcracker
8. Scene-The Battle
9. Scene-In the Pine Forest
10. Waltz of the Snowflakes
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CD 2
1. Scene-The Kingdom of Sweets
2. Scene-Clara and the Prince
3. Chocolate -Spanish Dance
4. Coffee-Arabian Dance
5. Tea-Chinese Dance
6. Trepak-Russian Dance
7. Dance of the Reed Pipes
8. Mother Gigogne
9. Waltz of the Flowers
10. Pas de deux
11. Variation I- Tarantella
12. Variation II- Dance of the Sugar-Plum Fairy
13. Coda
14. Final Waltz and Apotheosis
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