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The Nutcracker Suite (Arr. for Cello and Orchestra)
HAUSER, London Symphony Orchestra & Robert Ziegler
Swan Lake (Tchaikovsky)
HAUSER, London Symphony Orchestra & Robert Ziegler
White Swan, Black Swan (An Excerpt from Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake Ballet)
London Philharmonic Orchestra
The Sleeping Beauty: "The Rose Adagio" (Extract)
The Kirov Ballet & Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Swan Lake (Swan Theme) [Arr. for Cello and Orchestra]
HAUSER, London Symphony Orchestra & Robert Ziegler
Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker (Suite), Op. 71a, TH. 35: Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy (Arr. for Piano Duet by Langer)
Konya Kanneh-Mason & Jeneba Kanneh-Mason
Swan Lake: Cygnet Dance (Extract)
The Kirov Ballet
The Nutcracker: Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy (Extract)
Royal Ballet, Covent Garden
The Nutcracker, Act II Scene 3: Russian Dance
Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Barry Wordsworth & The Royal Ballet
Nutcracker (Arr. for Cello, harp and Orchestra)
HAUSER & London Symphony Orchestra
About Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Artist Biography
Tchaikovsky was a passionate poet of the heart, yet was also a master of his craft, creating masterpieces in the realms of symphony, concerto, opera and ballet. Born in 1840 to a nonmusical family, he enrolled against their will at what is now the Saint Petersburg Conservatory, becoming one of its first composition graduates. Under the guidance of the leader of the nationalist Mighty Handful, Balakirev, Tchaikovsky wrote, then rewrote, his first great masterpiece, the tone poem Romeo and Juliet (first published 1870, completed to his satisfaction in 1880). His innovative Piano Concerto No. 1, though scorned by its intended dedicatee, helped establish Tchaikovsky’s international celebrity with its successful 1875 world premiere in Boston. Just as groundbreaking was his opera Eugene Onegin (1878, revised 1885) with its remarkable Letter Scene. In his ballets Swan Lake (1876), The Sleeping Beauty (1889) and The Nutcracker (1892), he raised what had been a frivolous and mediocre genre to rarely matched heights, each ballet a model of symphonic coherence with beguiling melodies and inventive orchestration. Tchaikovsky also composed such works as the Rococo Variations (1876) and the opera The Queen of Spades (1890), celebrating an idealised 18th century in homage to both his beloved Mozart and to Saint Petersburg’s stately architecture. In 1893, at the height of his fame, Tchaikovsky fell ill and died unexpectedly, only days after he had conducted the premiere of his tragic Symphony No. 6, “Pathétique”.
Hometown
Votkinsk, Russia
Genre
Classical
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