The Nutcracker

Classic

arb dance

HARP

samar

03.05.2014

Music Selection for Presentation

classical

nutcracker album

Written and arranged by Rolf Lakaemper. Performed by Chris Aschman (trumpet), Jay Davidson (sax, flute), Peter Gaffney (accordion, vocals), Ben Keim (piano), Rolf Lakaemper (drums), Sarah Larsen (violin), Andrew Morris (bass), Kaveh Saidi (violin). Copyright (c) 2010. Recorded live at Painted Bride Art Center, December 2011.

03. Christmas Party

02. Snowflakes

01. Overture

Busoni's transcription of Bach's organ (stop smirking at the back) adagio from the Toccata, Adagio & Fugue in C. Offensively crunchy & modern chords towards the end...
Heartbroken bastard.

Bach-Busoni Adagio From BWV 564

Tujh Se Naraz Nahi Zindagi...

Arguably Chopin's greatest composition. If you can offer a description using words you're much smarter than I am...

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Chopin Ballade No 4 In F Minor Op 52

A short impromptu piano piece that I recorded while it was very quiet in the house... In fact, it's so quiet, that if you listen closely [in your headphones], you can hear my bulldog breathing in the background, and his collar dropping on the wooden floor as he puts his head to sleep...

Impromptu 10.20

Ballade No. 1, Op.23 - Frédéric Chopin (1810–1849)

Pianist: Ryo Fukaura, UCL medical student, playing the piece from memory, in the Peter Samuel Hall at the Royal Free Hospital.

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Ryo Fukaura: Chopin Ballade No. 1, Op.23

Ravel's stupidly beautiful Pavane for a Dead Princess. He wrote it in 1899, this is my interpretation of it 115 years later.

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Ravel Pavane Pour Une Infante Défunte

LVB's weirdly underplayed Op.90 sonata in E minor. Here's the second movement played by me. Gentle, bi-polar, inward-looking, darker than it first appears...

Beethoven Piano Sonata OP 90, 2nd movement

1st two movements of Bach's amazing 1st Partita. Written

Bach Partita 1 II. Allemande

Bach Partita 1 I. Prelude

Oriental - Jihad Akl - The Mask Of Zorro

March (From The Nutcracker)

Arab Dance (From The Nutcracker)

Clair de Lune * - Debussy

The Prayer * - Foster

Air on a G string * - Bach

O Perfect Love (Hymn)  Barnby

This track is from the album Christmas On Copper Street and is available for purchase on CD Baby here: http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/copperstreetbrassquintet

The Nutcracker Suite: Russian Dance (Trépak)

PI Tchaikovsky's Dance of the Sugar-Plum Fairy, my favourite Christmas music piece.

Tchaikovsky - The Nutcracker, III. Dance of the Sugar-Plum Fairy

The Nutcracker Suite: A Percussion Performance is available on CDbaby (http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/gabrielstaznik), Amazon, and iTunes.  Please visit www.GabrielStaznik.com for additional information or to purchase percussion ensemble music arrangements.

Arab Dance (From The Nutcracker)

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