Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker Suite. All tracks are electronic representations of the instruments that I imagined he would have used had he had an impressive recording studio. 

This is the complete orchestral work with all instruments and all of their notes represented. I used the score from D. Rahter's reprint of the original P. Jurgenson 1892 printing. I obtained this score from IMSLP.  

Any mistakes are my own.

The Nutcracker Is Oh So Suite!

Tchaikovsky's Dance of the sugar plum fairy from the Nutcracker Suite. All instruments synthesized. 17 Tracks mastered with the mid side technique..

II. b) Danse de la Fée Dragée - (Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy)

This is the Arabian Dance, or Coffee, from Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker Suite.  It consists of 20 tracks and is a preliminary mixdown of my version of the composition. I used several different synths to achieve the feel I want for the piece and I used the mid side mastering technique to render this.

Coffee (Arabian Dance)

II. d) Danse arabe - Coffee - (Arabian Dance)

Valse des fleurs or Waltz of the Flowers is from Act II no 13 of the Nutcracker Ballet. This is an 18 track recording of my version with all synthesized instruments and mastered using the Mid Side technique. I consider it complete and mastered, but if you notice a glaring error please feel free to let me know!

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III. Valse des fleurs - (Waltz Of The Flowers)

This is 16 tracks of my interpretation of the Dance of the Reed Flutes. It is mastered using the Mid Side technique.

II. f) Danse des mirlitons - (Dance of the Reed Flutes)

This is 20 tracks of synthesized Russian Dance from the Nutcracker Suite, each note lovingly entered from the . It is mastered using the Mid Side technique.

It is tempo di Trepak, molto vivace and I interpret that as 155 BPM in the beginning and then at measure 73, marked stringendo, starting to increase the tempo to an ending at 176 BPM.

II. c) Trepak, danse russe - (Russian Dance)

14 tracks of Nutcracker inspired Tea or the Chinese Dance.  Mastered using the Mid Side technique.  All instruments are synthesized.

II. e) Danse chinoise - Tea - (Chinese Dance)

This is 13 tracks of my interpretation of the Ouverture Miniature from Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker Suite. It is mastered using the Mid Side technique. The tempo is Allegro Gusto which is about 105 beats per minute. 

An overture is meant to whet the appetite of the audience for the performance and relay pieces of the performance to the audience to help them anticipate the performance to come. Unfortunately, this Overture does not whet the appetite, it dims it because, in my opinion, it is just not that great a piece of music. I did what I could, these are all the original notes included, there was just nothing I could do dress it up any more than I did. I am happy with the work, just not thrilled.

I. Ouverture Miniature

13 tracks of interpolation and rumination on the March. This is an all electronic interpretation of the Marche from Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker Suite.

II. a) Marche

This is my interpretation of the Pas De Deux from the Nutcracker Ballet. I included this piece because I felt my album, "The Nutcracker is oh so Suite" was not quite long enough. Though this piece is not in the suite, I have always found it to be a wonderful piece of music so I hope that you enjoy my take. I used 16 tracks of instrumentation to achieve this and mastered the track using the Mid Side technique.

Pas De Deux

I create electronic music in the spirit of Tomita and Wendy Carlos. I also like to rock and am into Pink Floyd. I have been a user of Cakewalk since version 1.0 and currently use Reason, Cakewalk and Audacity along with a studio full of electronic instruments and effects. I play with local musicians and I work at composing electronic renditions of classical music.

The Nutcracker Is Oh So Suite!

Howard F. Arner, Jr.