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Tchaikovsky: Nutcracker - Highlights / Ondrej Lenárd
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Tchaikovsky: Nutcracker - Highlights / Ondrej Lenárd

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Composer
TCHAIKOVSKY
Artist
Ondrej, Lenárd
Format
CD
Label
Naxos
Released
Nov 20, 1991
Catalog #
8550515
UPC
730099551526

About

Tchaikovsky's ballet The Nutcracker was first performed in St. Petersburg in 1890, damned with the faintest of praise by the Tsar, who remarked that it was "very nice". The composer himself expressed dissatisfaction with his music for The Nutcracker, a subject proposed by Marius Petipa and the Imperial Theatre Directorate in 1891 and first performed at the Maryinsky in December, 1892, again to a cool reception. The music itself, however, had already proved popular enough in a suite arranged by Tchaikovsky for a concert earlier in the year. The story of the ballet is drawn from E.T.A. Hoffmann's tale, Der Nussknacker und der Mäuserkönig. Set in the eighteenth century, initially in the house of the President of one of the German states of the period, the ballet opens with a children's Christmas party, at which Drosselmeyer, a slightly sinister adult, brings presents, a doll for Clara, the daughter of the house, and a toy soldier for Franz, her brother. When the children are told not to open their presents, Drosselmeyer quietens them by giving the two a pair of nutcrackers, promptly broken by Franz who tries to crack the biggest nut he can find. The Czecho-Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra (Bratislava), the oldest symphonic ensemble in Slovakia, was founded in 1929. The orchestra's first conductor was František Dyk and over the past sixty years it has worked under the direction of several prominent Czech and Slovak conductors. The orchestra has made many recordings for the Naxas label ranging from the ballet music of Tchaikovsky to more modern works by composers such as Copland, Britten and Prokofiev. For Marco Polo the orchestra has recorded works by Glazunov, Glière, Rubinstein and other late romantic composers and film music of Honegger, Bliss, Ibert and Khachaturian. Ondrej Lenard was born in 1942 and had his early training in Bratislava, where, at the age of 17, he entered the Academy of Music and Drama, to study under Ludovit Rajter. His graduation concert in 1964 was given with the Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra and during his two years of military service he conducted the Army Orchestral Ensemble, later renewing an earlier connection with the Slovak National Opera, where he has continued to direct performances.

Tracklist 12 tracks

  1. 1 Act I: Overture 02:50
    Track
    1
    Title
    Act I: Overture
    Duration
    02:50
    Composer
    Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
    Ensemble
    Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra
    Conductor
    Ondrej Lenárd
  2. 2 Act I: Scene: Decorating the Christmas Tree 04:06
    Track
    2
    Title
    Act I: Scene: Decorating the Christmas Tree
    Duration
    04:06
    Composer
    Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
    Ensemble
    Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra
    Conductor
    Ondrej Lenárd
  3. 3 Act I: March 02:29
    Track
    3
    Title
    Act I: March
    Duration
    02:29
    Composer
    Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
    Ensemble
    Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra
    Conductor
    Ondrej Lenárd
  4. 4 Act I: Scene: Galop for the Children 02:23
    Track
    4
    Title
    Act I: Scene: Galop for the Children
    Duration
    02:23
    Composer
    Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
    Ensemble
    Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra
    Conductor
    Ondrej Lenárd
  5. 5 Act I: Scene dansante 05:51
    Track
    5
    Title
    Act I: Scene dansante
    Duration
    05:51
    Composer
    Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
    Ensemble
    Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra
    Conductor
    Ondrej Lenárd
  6. 6 Act I: Scene and Grandfather's Dance 06:13
    Track
    6
    Title
    Act I: Scene and Grandfather's Dance
    Duration
    06:13
    Composer
    Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
    Ensemble
    Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra
    Conductor
    Ondrej Lenárd
  7. 7 Act I: Scene 07:04
    Track
    7
    Title
    Act I: Scene
    Duration
    07:04
    Composer
    Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
    Ensemble
    Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra
    Conductor
    Ondrej Lenárd
  8. 8 Act I: Waltz of the Snowflakes 06:40
    Track
    8
    Title
    Act I: Waltz of the Snowflakes
    Duration
    06:40
    Composer
    Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
    Ensemble
    Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra
    Conductor
    Ondrej Lenárd
  9. 9 Act II: Divertissements 11:31
    Track
    9
    Title
    Act II: Divertissements
    Duration
    11:31
    Composer
    Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
    Ensemble
    Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra
    Conductor
    Ondrej Lenárd
  10. 10 Act II: Waltz of the Flowers 06:50
    Track
    10
    Title
    Act II: Waltz of the Flowers
    Duration
    06:50
    Composer
    Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
    Ensemble
    Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra
    Conductor
    Ondrej Lenárd
  11. 11 Act II: Pas de deux: The Sugar-Plum Fairy and Prince Orgead 09:24
    Track
    11
    Title
    Act II: Pas de deux: The Sugar-Plum Fairy and Prince Orgead
    Duration
    09:24
    Composer
    Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
    Ensemble
    Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra
    Conductor
    Ondrej Lenárd
  12. 12 Act II: Closing Waltz and Apotheosis 05:23
    Track
    12
    Title
    Act II: Closing Waltz and Apotheosis
    Duration
    05:23
    Composer
    Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
    Ensemble
    Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra
    Conductor
    Ondrej Lenárd