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Work: The Nutcracker, Op.71: Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy

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ComposerTchaikovsky, Pyotr Ilyich (1840-1893)
PeriodRomantic
Work typeOrchestral
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HamburgFunkelkonzert XS / Elfi-Babykonzert

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Rossini, Saint-Saëns, Monteverdi, Tchaikovsky, Korngold, Glass, Glière, Britten, Traditional, Rutter, Shostakovich, García Esquivel
Ulla Kulenkamp; Ensemble Resonanz; Gregor Dierck; David Schlage
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Thrills without chills in Aix-en-Provence

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Beatrice Rana, Mikko Franck and the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France bring a thrilling Tchaikovsky First Piano Concerto to the Festival de Pâques, even if their Shostakovich 10 is more of a beauty than a bully. 
***11
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Recalling the heyday of Imperial Russia

All except stylistic purists should add ‘Lisitsa live in a Rachmaninov Concerto’ to their musical bucket list.
*****
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Spellbinding fairytales from Vasily Petrenko and the RLPO

Prokofiev's Cinderella shall go to the ball: under Vasily Petrenko's scrupulously magic wand this ballet masterpiece dazzled in a fairy-tale programme of original stage works.
****1
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