Tchaikovsky – The Nutcracker – Vinyl LP 180gr HQ

Tchaikovsky – The Nutcracker – Vinyl LP 180gr HQ
Tchaikovsky – The Nutcracker Suite From The Ballet Philharmonia Orchestra, Efrem Kurtz
• Cut at Abbey Road Studios from the Original Analogue Master Tapes
• Superior 180gr Audiophile Pressing
• Supercuts Series

A tall imposing figure, so tall, in fact, that he often dispensed with a podium, Efrem Kurtz was a distinguished Russian conductor, who had studied with Glazunov and Tcherepnin and was a pupil of Arthur Nikisch.
Kurtz had a broad symphonic and operatic repertory and conducted the premieres of works by Copland, Barber, Walton, Hindemith, Stravinsky, Shostakovich and Khachaturian. But he was most highly regarded for his interpretations of Russian music.

Tracklist:
Side One
A1. Ouverture
A2.1.  No.2 Marche
A2.2.  No.3 Petit galop Des Enfants Et Entrée Des Parents
A2.3.  No.8 Scène
A2.4.  No.9 Valse Des Flocons De Neige
A3.1.   No.12 Divertissement (a) Le Chocolat (b) Le Café
A3.2.   No.12 Divertissement (b) Le Café
Side Two
B1.1.   No.12 Divertissement (c) Le Thé
B1.2.   No.12 Divertissement (d) Trépak
B1.3.   No.12 Divertissement (e) Danse Des Mirlitons
B2.   No.13 Valse Des Fleurs
B3.   No.14 (a) Pas De Deux (La Fée Dragée Avec Le Prince Orgeat)
B4.1.   No.14 (b) Pour Le Danseur
B4.2.   No.14 (c) Pour La Danseuse
B4.3.   No.14 (d) Coda
B4.4.   No.15 Valse Finale

Philharmonia Orchestra
Efrem Kurtz
Recorded March 1958, Kingsway Hall, London.
Cut at Abbey Road Studios from the original stereo analogue master tapes with the Neumann VMS82 lathe fed an analogue pre-cut signal from a specially adapted Studer A80 tape deck with additional ‘advance’ playback head, making the cut a totally analogue process.