Tchaikovsky: Nutcracker - A Dramatic Symphony

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premiera polska: 2022-12-02
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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.

Hamburg return and Swiss debuts
The Baltic Sea Philharmonic opens its ‘Nutcracker Reimagined’ tour at the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg on 11 December. The performance will be the orchestra’s fourth at this already iconic concert venue. The ensemble and Kristjan Järvi featured in the Elbphilharmonie’s first season in 2017 with their groundbreaking ‘Waterworks’ concert experience, and next performed there in June 2019. A critic of the Hamburger Abendblatt praised the orchestra then as a ‘completely different league’. The Baltic Sea Philharmonic then joined British rock band Bastille for a charity concert in January 2020. The orchestra was scheduled to return to the Elbphilharmonie in September 2020 and March 2021 but both concerts had to be cancelled because of the pandemic.

The Baltic Sea Philharmonic follows up its Elbphilharmonie concert on 11 December with a debut tour of Switzerland, travelling first to Zurich for a performance at the Tonhalle Zurich (12 December), and then performing at Victoria Hall in Geneva (13 December) and finally at Casino Bern in the Swiss capital (14 December).

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.

muzycy:
Baltic Sea Philharmonic
Kristjan Järvi: conductor

utwory:
1. Tchaikovsky: Welcome to Wonderland (After The Magical Palace of Confiturenburg from The Nutcracker, Op. 71/TH14) 01:35
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

wydano: 17th Feb 2023
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