Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker, Op. 71, TH 14 (Live at Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles / 2013)

Los Angeles Philharmonic, Gustavo Dudamel

Released on 16/11/2018 by Deutsche Grammophon (DG)
Main artists: Los Angeles Philharmonic Gustavo Dudamel
Genre: Classical

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This new version of Tchaikovsky's famous ballet has been released hot on the heels of Disney's Nutcracker and the Four Realms, whose original music by James Newton Howard reprises and updates some of the themes from the Russian's score. Recorded by Gustavo Dudamel with Lang Lang at the piano and Andrea Bocelli singing the titles, this film's soundtrack is made to measure for these three global stars.

This recording of the original material was carried out at the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles in December 2013 during a Christmas celebration. The concert marked ten years of fruitful collaboration between Gustavo Dudamel and the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra. The Venezuelan maestro brings us a hedonistic vision of this German fairytale by ETA Hoffman, re-imagined by Alexandre Dumas and so wonderfully turned in to music by Tchaikovsky. It was one of the Russian's last masterpieces, coming just before the "Pathétique" Symphony which would be his musical testament. But here, all is hardly fairytale and sugar thanks to an extraordinary melodic inspiration which is brought out by a light orchestration with unique timbres, like in the Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy which popularised the Celesta, an odd instrument invented in 1886 (an improbable lovechild of the glockenspiel and the piano that Tchaikovsky encountered in Paris).

Dudamel is playing with dreams here. We are treated to a supple, refined conducting style that looks towards Vienna more than it does to St Petersburg, but it never loses sight of a childlike spirit that's sure to delight. © François Hudry/Qobuz

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Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker, Op. 71, TH 14 (Live at Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles / 2013)

Gustavo Dudamel

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The Nutcracker, Op. 71, TH 14 (Pyotr Illitch Tchaïkovski)

Overture (Live at Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles / 2013)

Los Angeles Philharmonic

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Friedemann Engelbrecht, Producer - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Composer - Los Angeles Philharmonic, Orchestra, MainArtist - Gustavo Dudamel, Conductor, MainArtist - Jesse Lewis, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Wolfgang Schiefermair, Mixer, Editor, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Sergey Parfenov, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel