Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Three Nutcracker Dances: 2-Part Choir: Vocal Score

Tchaikovsky is best known for his purely instrumental compositions. However we must not underestimate him as a composer of operas. Many of his operas such as ¬Pique Dame and Eugene Onegin are still performed regularly throughout the world. Eugene Onegin (also called Jevgeny Onegin) composed in 1877-1878 was not called an opera by Tchaikovsky himself but ?lyric scenes?. The work is entirely dominated by lyricism. However there are two moments that contrast sharply with this lyricism: two ball scenes for which Tchaikovsky wrote a waltz and a polonaise.After opening with a less well-known allegro dansant this arrangement features the aforementioned waltz which can beconsidered a beautiful Russian equivalent of the Faust Waltz by Charles Gounod. In the opera this waltz is actually played by a military band. The arrangement concludes with the pompous polonaise (also mentioned above) which opens the last act: the ideal music to characterize high aristocracy in the salon of a palace in St. Petersburg.

Schirmer's Library of Musical Classics Vol. 2117 For Violin and Piano-Three of the most beloved Violin concertos from the Romantic era combined into a convenient and affordable collection.These repertoire staples belong in every violinist's music library.

for Violin and Piano-Following the publication of the Valse-Scherzo we continue Henle's edition of Tchaikovsky?s complete works for violin and piano with the enchanting Sérénade mélancolique op. 26. This was Tchaikovsky?s first concertante work forviolin the beginning of a path that was to lead to his Violin Concerto three years later. He composed the Sérénade mélancolique in 1875 for violinist Leopold Auer originally for violin and orchestra but later also in a versionfor violin and piano. Since the autograph sources are lost this Henle edition is based on the Russian first editions which even in Tchaikovsky?s lifetime were issued in a number of revised versions. The editor RussianTchaikovsky scholar Alexander Komarov brings exemplary clarity to the confused state of the sources while Ingolf Turban unlocks the notation of the violin part with his accomplished fingerings and bowings.

This substantial volume contains all of the works that Tchaikovsky composed or arranged himself for Violin and Piano. The three larger Violin works opp. 26 34 and 42 which G. Henle Publishers also offers in individual practical editions are particularly well-known and popular. By contrast the three brief single movements with which Tchaikovsky presents charming adaptations of his own pieces promise to be genuine discoveries. Tchaikovsky’s Violin works have long suffered under corrupt musical editions heavily reworked later by violinists all the more important therefore that the editor responsible for this Urtextedition is Russian Tchaikovsky specialist Alexander Komarov. He consulted all of the relevant original sources in international archives thereby guaranteeing the highest reliability of this musical text. Ingolf Turban a Violin virtuoso of the first order supplied stylistically appropriate markings in the Violin part.

Tchaikovsky’s ballet The Nutcracker is a fairy-ballet in two acts three tableaux and was composed in 1891/2. It is based on The Nutcracker and the Mouse King a story by E. T. A. Hoffmann (1816). Mark Freeh has arranged this Tchaikovsky classic for big band. Brass Band Grade 4: Advanced Youth and 3rd Section Duration: 12 minutes

Tchaikovsky's Waltz of the Sugar Plum Flower for Recorder ensemble of Descant Treble and Tenor Recorders arranged by Jane Gannaway. Score and set of parts including three copies of each part.