Ok – an ambitious and uncharacteristically unjazzy choice today – a little Christmas music from my man Tschaikowsky, who I first heard about after hearing Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn’s Nutcracker Suite ๐.
While there were earlier recordings of selected passages from the Nutcracker ballet, this 1926 recording spanning three 12″ discs includes about 20 minutes of the score. It is one of the first multi-record album sets of the ballet to be issued to my knowledge.
Also, it appears to have been recorded electrically – so also is a very early – perhaps the first – electrical recording of the music of the Nutcracker.
A few jazzier holiday tunes to come this week – right up until Xmas.
Recorded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on November 10, 1926.
Released as a three disc album, Victrola M-3 (individual catalog numbers 6615, 6616, and 6617).
Credits:
Conductor: Leopold Stokowski
Orchestra: Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra
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