Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky -- The Nutcracker (Full Ballet) -- Score
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- There's a certain irony in how the two pieces by Tchaikovsky that are the most popular nowadays are pieces that he wrote strictly on commission, and didn't think too highly of himself. The first, the 1812 Overture, was featured earlier on this channel, in a recording complete with genuine muzzle-loading cannons. The second is his score for the ballet The Nutcracker.
Commissioned by Ivan Vsevolozhsky, director of the Imperial Theatres, as a follow-up to The Sleeping Beauty, Tchaikovsky again collaborated with Marius Petipa, who adapted "The Story of a Nutcracker" by Alexandre Dumas, itself an adaptation of "The Nutcracker and the Mouse King" by E.T.A. Hoffmann. Tchaikovsky essentially wrote music to a framework supplied by Petipa.
The original production was not a success, mostly due to issues with the dance performance and story, rather than Tchaikovsky's music. Although constrained by the demands that his music follow the form of the dancing, Tchaikovsky nevertheless introduced two innovations into his music: The celesta (which he had previously used in The Voyevoda) and flutter-tonguing (complete with instructions in the score on just how to perform the technique).
The piece had a very long period before it attained the popularity it enjoys today. The first complete production outside Russia was in England in 1934, and the first in the USA in 1944. However, after the concert suite was featured in the 1940 film Fantasia, it gained popularity until by the late 1960s it became a standard feature of the ballet repertoire.
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0:00:00 Overture
0:03:26 Act I: Christmas Tree Decoration and Lighting
0:07:25 March of the Toy Soldiers
0:09:51 Children's Gallop and Dance of the Parents
0:12:19 Dance Scene (Arrival of Drosselmeyer)
0:18:05 Scene and Grandfather Waltz
0:24:27 Scene (Guests Depart)
0:26:32 Scene (Night)
0:31:26 Scene (The Battle)
0:34:54 Scene (A Pine Forest In Winter)
0:39:06 Waltz of the Snowflakes
0:45:51 Act II: Scene (The Magic Castle in the Land of Sweets)
0:50:06 Scene (Arrival of Clara and the Nutcracker)
0:54:57 Divertissement a. Chocolate (Spanish Dance)
0:56:11 b. Coffee (Arabian Dance)
0:59:59 c. Tea (Chinese Dance)
1:00:59 d. Trepak (Russian Dance)
1:02:07 e. Dance of the Reed Flutes
1:04:33 f. Mother Ginger and the Polichinelles
1:07:16 Waltz of the Flowers
1:13:58 Pas de Deux (The Sugar Plum Fairy and her Cavalier)
1:19:26 Variation 1: Tarantella
1:20:05 Variation 2: Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy
1:22:32 Coda
1:23:53 Final Waltz
1:27:24 Apotheosis - เพลง
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I'm really addicted to the choral melody of the waltz of the snowflakes, I've first listened now to this part but its so freaking beautiful, I'm drunk af, I dont know english, probably I'm writing everyting wrong, but I couldnt help myself to comment about that passage
Very happy you like it. Tchaikovsky had such a skill for beautiful melodies. Even in a piece like this where his heart wasn't really in it, he couldn't help but make something amazing.
28:54 The scene where the Christmas tree grows has always been one of my favorite moments from the ballet. Tchaikovsky captures the feeling of the tree growing to dizzy heights so damn well, I'm suprised it's not mentioned more often.
And it's just typical Tchaikovsky, a slow but truly orgasmic build up. The orchestration becomes more and more rich over a whole minute of music, and those signature repeated notes played by winds and horns just get your pulse racing. Absolutely amazing.
It's interesting that you mention this particular passage. As part of the channel (and perhaps more for my own amusement than anything else, given the viewership numbers) I have produced the SelectaScore videos, compilations that take a selection of each piece on the channel, in the order than they were published, and run them together with titles and other information. This piece is included on SelectaScore #3, and guess how I excerpted that? th-cam.com/video/VSzqSuuMASs/w-d-xo.html
What???? Orgasmic build up is crazy 💀💀☠️☠️
Thanks for this. I hadn't realized how much detail Tchaikovsky had put into this music. The harpist really earns their money.
Yes, and I was almost thinking I should have used a different recording, because the harp doesn't come through that clearly in this concert recording. But it really is impressive what Tchaikovsky managed to write here, considering he was doing it strictly for a paycheck, and still managed to create such memorable melodies and beautiful structure.
I think both harpists work their socks off!
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Tchaikovsky's inexhaustible supply of melody
I don't get why didn't Tchaikovsky put the Pas de Deux in the suite. It's soooo beautiful.
The music for "A Pine Forest in Winter" is some of the most gorgeous music I've ever encountered! It undoubtedly has been used as a template for many film composers. (John Williams comes to mind.) The alternation between tonic and the other chord throughout is so filmic. It also reminds me a bit of something Maurice Jarre would do.
best one in the whole ballet no question
Agreed! Truly hoping to be able to play this particular piece in my school orchestra very very soon… (Harp part! ♥)
1:14:13 Tchaikovsky literally took a g major scale and made it sound so beautiful
I had to think for a moment, and then I realized exactly which part of the piece you're referring to. He really was a genius for creating memorable melodies.
If it's the part I'm thinking about, the use of the celli in possibly their most cantabile register only makes that simple scale really rich and luscious. (If you're referring to another passage with possibly different orchestration, then do forgive me!)
@@littlemarmoset Yes, the pas de deux near the end, with melody on the cello and harmonic chords on the harp.
@@SynchroScore Thanks very much for letting me know! It's been a long time since I've listened to/watched the ballet, but that pas de deux is so memorable.
The Pas des Deux! I never realized until just a few years ago that it was just a scale with great orchestration and appropriate rhythm.
I can not thank you enough for allowing us to listen to Tchaikovsky's beautiful music, while also seeing the score! Thank you, thank you, thank you! 🤩
I'm glad you enjoy it. I have other pieces of Tchaikovsky, both already finished and others under construction, so check out the catalog and watch this space for more in the future.
Sergei sweetheart, you're so old by now you must be decomposing.....
I HAVE JUST CAME FROM WATCHING THE ENTIRE BALLET IT'S LOVELY 🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩😍😍😍😍😍😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😘😘😘😘😘😘😘😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
Very glad to hear that.
Having adored this and all of Tchaikovsky's other ballets from childhood, I am very glad to be able to view the score along with his ingenious music.
I've been thinking about putting some of the other ballets up here in the future, and I'm always open to requests for my next projects. In the meantime, I have some other Tchaikovsky for you to enjoy, if you'd like.
@@SynchroScore Thank you! I'll definitely explore more of your content.
Hey Luddy, didn't know you were still alive!!
@@skunkygrogan6956 The grave is not very difficult to escape!
Are you a time traveler or something, Herr Beethoven?
According to me, this is heaven
For me, heaven sounds like the end of Mahler's 2nd.
1:17:59 -- conductor getting a bit excited here??!😆...amazing he still had enough energy for a yell after nearly an hour and a half of hard work!
It looks like he just couldn't resist making that sound. :) :) :)
Thank you so much for posting the full score! The recording you've chosen is first-rate! I truly appreciate that. The recording the person chooses to go along with the score isn't always this good. It's a real treat to listen to such a great performance!
I was going to put up a video of the concert suite, but figured it wouldn't be that much more difficult to put up the entire ballet. Suppose it was a bit more difficult, having the most slides of any video I've posted so far. And I do try to get good recordings, although the harps get lost in this one. Suppose that's the downside of a concert recording, the balance often isn't tweaked to bring out every little detail, but in other ways it feels more authentic.
One can scarcely envision christmas 🎄 sans this masterpiece.....
Even if it's only in the advertisements, this is how Christmas sounds for so many people.
This is my favorite rendition of The Nutcracker, and getting to follow along with the score is wonderful. Thanks for editing it!
I figured that I should just do the entire ballet, once I found it was available. Glad you enjoyed it! I've often been interested in seeing how these pieces come together, and this is a great way for me to learn, and for others to learn. Always happy to take requests, too.
The great musical piece of Tchaikovsky and humanity’s work of art!
Krása, byl to opravdu výjimečný skladatel, hudba jako radost ze života
Měl skutečný dar vytvářet nezapomenutelné melodie.
The calmness at the beginning of the "Pine Forest in Winter" reminds me a bit of the opening of Ravel's "Enchanted Garden" from Mother Goose. I realize the harmonies are very different, but the mood for me is similar.
I love how the Waltz on the Snowflakes 39:05 is the reflection of a snowstorm. Starts calmly and builds. Great imagery. It's too bad the trumpet figure at 55:02 is not reprised. It is one of the few times that instrument is highlighted - and in such a dramatic way! My two favorite parts!
Thank you very much for this useful video, I love this video as many other people and we are grateful for your work.
Its great!! Thank you!!
Adorei! Muito bem executada toda suíte. Parabéns!
Thank you! I need this for research :3
Always happy to help, and always accepting requests for future videos.
Does anyone else hear a striking similarity between the melody/rhythm in the violas/cellos/clarinet/flute at 17:31 and the melody/rhythm in Stravinsky's "Infernal Dance of King Katschei" from Firebird? I can't help but think that Stravinsky may have had this part of Nutcracker in mind when he wrote Firebird.
I always hear obvious influences on Stravinsky and often Prokofiev too in the music of Tchaikovsky -- which makes sense, of course, as certain styles and formulae are distinctively "Russian", and these great composers never lost their Russian sense. The movement involving the "polichinelles" contains passages that strike me as almost right out of Petrushka, 1:05:02 to the end of the movement.
Thanks!Great!
Always happy to help, and always open to suggestions for future videos.
@@SynchroScore Thanks
Thankyou! A very useful feature is click on the time line to get the chapters!
You're welcome. That is the main purpose of this project, to make music more accessible to people.
Merry Christmas, and a Happy holidays to everybody for this year
Amazing
So we’re just gonna NOT talk about the maestro screaming in absolute ECSTASY at the climax of the Pas de Deux….
Love it. ❤🎼
Tchaikovsky reserved his true passion for his ballet scores, not his symphonies.
I hadn't noticed that, I shall have to take another listen, and check that against the source video. He wouldn't be the only one. It can be heard on some Toscanini recordings, Glenn Gould would hum along with his music sometimes, and Leonard Bernstein can be seen singing along with Mahler, or at least lip-synching.
As for Tchaikovsky's passion, I'm not quite as sure. I admit I'm not as familiar with his other ballets as I am with his symphonies (4 and 5 are already on the channel, and 1 and 6 are planned) but remember that he wrote _The Nutcracker_ simply because he was paid to write it. That he nonetheless created such an enduring masterpiece is thus even more impressive.
And as somebody else already pointed out here, few apart from Tchaikovsky could say "I'm going to take a descending eight-note scale and make the most beautiful thing out of it.@
@@SynchroScore His last sentence may only come from someone who isn’t aware enough about Tchaikovsky’s oeuvre. The most ingenious works of his are the symphonies and operas. The ballets are more famous for their accessibility, but I don’t find them as coherent (although they remains masterpieces of music).
@@Dylonely42 For me, Tchaikovsky is the biggest name in the romantic period of music. No one has managed to put so much passion, so much drama, so much emotion into so many different works. Only Tchaikovsky would be capable of writing a joyful ballet like this and a year later giving us a Sixth Symphony complete with sadness and affliction, as if it were (according to researchers) his own farewell.
That's why I'm not afraid to say that he is indeed the great name of the romantic period.
@@guilhermesilvadecamargo8553 I agree with you, not just for this point but also because he composed in many different genres : ballets, concertos, string quartets, operas, symphonies and few others. He had a huge inspiration to compose melodies (a true master) and his orchestration is priceless. I genuinely believe that Liszt, Verdi, Saint-Saëns, Brahms and Chopin are the only ones of their time (19th century) to come close to Tchaïkovski’s genius.
Bravo bravo bravo fantastic grandiose genial music wow super
Thank you kindly.
Plenty of very fine melodies… Tchaikovsky’s music in its splendor.
Classical music is always my first choice!!
Music that has stood the test of time, yes.
Notes for myself:
8:45 pizz
17:51 dance infernal Firebird
23:30
25:57 low strings
26:34 trama, harp
44:36
49:00
1:02:55
1:07:05
1:18:49
Playing cello, or bass?
@@SynchroScore trying to learn orchestration lol
@@legendschant1194 Well, I’ve found that making these videos shows a good bit of the structure, just how these pieces are put together. Of course, I have neither the training nor the talent to actually write music, but it is still interesting to see how it is done.
@@SynchroScore Yes it's incredibly helpful! Thank you btw. I use to buy scores but when I can't find them or they are too expensive I rely on such videos. I've also tried to compose something myself based on what I've learn: you can check the channel if you want!
This is a rather advanced score to analyze. I would be careful about how you write for harp.
is there any way you could do prokofiev’s cinderella?? specifically no. 36 pas de deux of the prince and cinderella:)
45:51 One of my favorite melodies by Tchaïkovski.
1:27:26
@@chocox2367blud has great taste
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15:20 Happy Birthday 15:45 Happy Birthday to you
I swear that at some points the piccolo is not playing 8va...
Octaves are funny like that. So are variants in published music. For instance, my recording of _Les Preludes_ by Franz Liszt has the trombones playing some notes that, in the score, are only given to the bassoons. Threw me for a loop when I was putting the video together, made me think that I'd gotten the pages out of order or something.
Is it just me, or do I hear arco strings at 1:05:03 where the score says pizz? If it's just me, then what might be causing that illusion?
That's a good question. I looked back at the source video, which is a live concert broadcast, and the violins and violas at that point seem to have their index fingers extended, but it does sound like bowed notes. Curious.
It's probably because they play double notes
@@SynchroScore I have noticed that. But the violas were playing arco, which might explain it.
随处可见天才的老柴~
I love the celesta! 1:20:05
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@@TheSantiAcademy2024 Wrong timestamp, I guess.
acutally, I changed the timestamp so, Not anymore.@@Dylonely42
Whose recording is this? Orchestra and conductor?
Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Yannick Nezet-Seguin. Are the titles not working?
@@SynchroScore whoops I missed the first few moments.... thanks :)
@@mrlopez-pz7pu You're welcome.
40:36 the solo goes hard
We need to show the bass trombone some love.
@@SynchroScore agreed!!!
35:00 😭😭😭❤️❤️❤️
I second the motion.
1:12:30 audition
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I wonder what Tsaikovski himself thought about this work.
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1:00:20 Is it normal for Violins I to be in F major out of nowhere?
I'm not sure what wouldn't be normal about it, since this section is in B-flat Major.
@@SynchroScoreSonically there's no difference at all, but visually it's strange. Is it a writing error and they forgot to add another flat there in the key?
1:13:58
43:21
1:13:58
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