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As you know, I have the "Fantasia" soundtrack on both LP and CD. I should rather listen to that particular cut which is quite appropriate for the holiday season. "The Nutcracker Suite". According to the original 1957 3-LP set, Deems Taylor wrote in his liner notes:
The full length ballet "The Nutcracker" by Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky was composed for the St. Petersburg Opera House, where it was first performed in December 1892. In the "Fantasia" version, you will find no Nutcracker, the first two movements have been omitted and the original order of the movements has been altered. In devising the animated screen pictures to go with the music, Walt Disney and his staff envisioned the suite as a ballet of nature in six scenes, danced by plants and flowers.
As you know, "Fantasia" with the animation used in the "Nutcracker Suite" was different, but the whole music was associated with Christmas and holidays.
The LP version contain 4 movements from the "Fantasia" version which was heard on the first record on side 1 contains "Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy", "Chinese Dance", "Dance of the Reed Flutes" and "Arab Dance". It was on last cut on side 1. On record two, the continuation features "Russian Dance" and "Waltz of the Flowers". Those are the movements from the "Nutcracker" are still being played during the holidays.
Anybody remembers the "Fantasia" version of the "Nutcracker Suite"?
The full length ballet "The Nutcracker" by Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky was composed for the St. Petersburg Opera House, where it was first performed in December 1892. In the "Fantasia" version, you will find no Nutcracker, the first two movements have been omitted and the original order of the movements has been altered. In devising the animated screen pictures to go with the music, Walt Disney and his staff envisioned the suite as a ballet of nature in six scenes, danced by plants and flowers.
As you know, "Fantasia" with the animation used in the "Nutcracker Suite" was different, but the whole music was associated with Christmas and holidays.
The LP version contain 4 movements from the "Fantasia" version which was heard on the first record on side 1 contains "Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy", "Chinese Dance", "Dance of the Reed Flutes" and "Arab Dance". It was on last cut on side 1. On record two, the continuation features "Russian Dance" and "Waltz of the Flowers". Those are the movements from the "Nutcracker" are still being played during the holidays.
Anybody remembers the "Fantasia" version of the "Nutcracker Suite"?