By : Valery Gergiev | Format: Audio CDPrice : £6.99
Product Details
- Audio CD (16 Nov 1998)
- Number of Discs: 1
- Label: emi classics
- ASIN: B00000A1GL
- Other Editions: MP3 Download
Tchaikovsky - The Nutcracker (complete)
Costumer Critiques
Firstly the strengths ....the recorded sound is superb and the music is played with energy, brilliance and musicality. But there is no way that you could dance to this...unless you happen to be a whirling dervish...however Tchaikovsky composed/fashioned the music with that in mind. I had heard a couple of excerpts from the disc just before I went ahead and purchased it and I'd hoped the more quickly tempi wouldn't matter ...but it does... the score is whizzed-through like a shot out of a gun. I can picture all the whittling-down, second by second that must've gone on behind the scenes in the recording studio, to get the ballet squashed onto one particular disc. There's hardly a pause in the relentless progress of the music from one particular track to the subsequent from the starting to the end of the disc....and this impacts the 'integrity' of the music as a result. 'Pauses' matter.
If you happen to be new to this music haven't noticed the music danced-to, then maybe this all won't matter so considerably but if you've been touched by Tchaikovsky's magical score exactly where there was time to reflect and take pleasure in the unfolding pagaent of melody within a dance scenario, then my recommendation is to invest in a several interpretation.
I was a little apprehensive about shopping for this CD, as you can obtain a boxed set of The Nutcracker, Swan Lake and Sleeping Beauty for not a awesome deal extra. Having said that, as I currently owned the Seiji Ozawa efficiency of Swan Lake (an additional excellent CD), I decided to continue to invest in them separately.
I could not have created a much better selection.
This CD is, in a word, superb. It is the entire ballet, rather than the extracts found on quite a few other CDs. While I am not a specific conneseur of clasical music, to me this efficiency is full of power and excitement, and I could not possibly fault it. The sound high quality is exceptional - perfectly reproduced with no hissing, clicks or buzzes.
This is an crucial buy for anybody who enjoys Tchikovsky's ballets, if not each and every classical music fan.
Tchaikovsky - The Nutcracker (complete)
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