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| 1. The Nutcracker Suite: Overture |
| 2. The Nutcracker Suite: Toot Toot Tootie Toot (Dance Of The Reed-Pipes) |
| 3. The Nutcracker Suite: Peanut Brittle Brigade (March) |
| 4. The Nutcracker Suite: Sugar Rum Cherry (Dance Of The Sugar-Plum Fairy) |
| 5. The Nutcracker Suite: Entr'acte |
| 6. The Nutcracker Suite: The Volga Vouty (Russian Dance) |
| 7. The Nutcracker Suite: Chinoiserie (Chinese Dance) |
| 8. The Nutcracker Suite: Danse Of The Floreadores (Waltz Of The Flowers) |
| 9. The Nutcracker Suite: Arabesque Cookie (Arabian Dance) |
| 10. Peer Gynt Suite Nos 1 And 2: Morning Mood |
| 11. Peer Gynt Suite Nos 1 And 2: In The Hall Of The Mountain King |
| 12. Peer Gynt Suite Nos 1 And 2: Solvejg's Song |
| 13. Peer Gynt Suite Nos 1 And 2: Ase's Death |
| 14. Peer Gynt Suite Nos 1 And 2: Anitra's Dance |
| 15. SuiteThursday: Misfit Blues |
| 16. SuiteThursday: Schwiphti |
| 17. SuiteThursday: Zweet Zurzday |
| 18. SuiteThursday: Lay-By |
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5.0 out of 5 stars
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This review is from: Three Suites (Audio CD)
If you love Jazz, if you love Classical or Christmas music, heck if you love music period, you'll love The Dukes rendition of Tchaikovsky's 'Nut Cracker Suite', Grieg's 'Peer Gynt Suite" and his own set of suites, 'Suite Thursday (written with Billy Strayhorn). Some of the tunes you will recognize immediately and others will have you checking the liner notes and saying "Oh yeah!". Slight changes and fantastic arrangements will make your toes tap and your hips sway. His wordplay on the jacket for each Tchaikovsky suite will have you smiling. His take on the "Peer Gynt Suite" is just as moody as the original with of course a Jazz twist and his own suite is Pure Duke. Big Band Jazz takes on Symphonic masterpieces.
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Ellington/Strayhorn/Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker is SWEET!,
By Will Jones (Outside Austin, TX) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Three Suites (Audio CD)
I owned this record (on vinyl) years ago. I bought it because I was/am an Ellington fan and had never heard of Ellington doing a version of Nutcracker Suite. I was blown away when I heard it! It seemed like a jewel in Ellington's repetoire: sheer genius, jumpin' jazz, and a tribute to P. I.Tchaikovsky that does his work very hot justice. Alas, an Evil Ex-Wife made off with my copy and then I had to wonder: Why was such a splendid piece of work so hard to find? I think it was on the Nonesuch label & that might explain it. But I'm Very Glad to have found this CD! Now my Christmases can Cook as in days of yore! Don't pass this up!
5.0 out of 5 stars
A genius re-imagines genius,
By A reader and a writer (Arlington, VA, USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Three Suites (Audio CD)
Brilliant, glorious music--all of it, although I agree with those who have come to feel that the Ellington/Strayhorn version of "The Nutcracker Suite," in particular, is an all-too-often-buried treasure that no Christmas season should be without (and if you can ignore it for the rest of the year, you have more willpower than I). What happens to Tchaikovsky's marvellous music--and Grieg's, too--in these hands is creative homage of the highest order: the music is re-imagined from the inside, in wholly jazz terms, in a way that simultaneously illuminates and completely reconceives the original. What Balanchine did for Tchaikovsky and Stravinsky in dance, Ellington here does for Tchaikovsky and Grieg in another realm of music, and leaves us with works that deserve to be every bit as loved and celebrated as their older and better-known prototypes. And to top it all off, you get Ellington and Strayhorn's own superb "Suite Thursday." Listen and rejoice!
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