Conductor, B. Walton O'Donnell
Gladys Palmer (contralto)
Chaykovsky's ' Casse-noisette ' (Nutcracker). Suite contains some of the daintiest ballet music ever written. The whole work is, of course, much longer than the Suite, which contains only some of the best numbers, and lasts for a considerable time when presented on the stage.
The story of the ballet is taken from E. T. A. Hoffmann's fantastic fairy-tale ' Nutcracker and the Mouse-King '—this Hoffmann being the Hoffmann of Offenbach's opera.
The complete ballet was first produced in St. Petersburg in 1892, and is now in the repertoire of the Vic-Wells Ballet. The Suite was introduced to England by Sir Henry Wood at a Promenade Concert in 1896. GLADYS PALMER
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Waltz (Eugene Onegin )
Chaykovsky, arr. Gerrard Williams