FREDDY MARTIN NUTCRACKER SUITE in Dance Tempo Children's Christmas VICTOR P-124
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Description
A series of great JAZZ Records from early Ragtime to Beb-Bop on 78 rpm Victrola Records
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One of the great War Time Christmas recordings of Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker Suite is this Swing Arrangement by Freddy Martin
Tschaikowsky's Nutcracker Suite In Dance Tempo is a studio album of phonograph records released by bandleader Freddy Martin, featuring Ray Austin arrangements of Romantic-era Classical composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's suite from the 1892 ballet The Nutcracker.
Reception
Released a month before the 1942-44 recording ban, the album reached number five on the December 29, 1945 Billboard Best-Selling Popular Record Albums chart,[1] the first of its kind. Billboard Magazine offered a half-hearted review:
Freddy Martin goes on a real Tschaikowsky bender for this classical ballet of dance characterizations... Martin's men turn in a finished performance ... In any event, the album makes for a pleasant novelty and certainly for pleasant listening for those not too deeply steeped in the classics.
Track listing
These rearranged titles were featured on a 4-disc, 78 rpm album set, Victor P-124.
Orig Issue Complete 4x 10" 78 rpm Victor records with original Album w illustrated cover
COND: EXCELLENT close to PRISTINE faint scuffs, plays very quiet faint hiss, album close to new, sleeves and binding sound, light scuffs to front cover
Disc 1: (27899)
"Overture Miniature", recorded May 15, 1942.[3]
"March", recorded May 15, 1942.
Disc 2: (27900)
"Dance Of The Sugar-Plum Fairies", recorded May 15, 1942.
"Russian Dance", recorded May 15, 1942.[3]
Disc 3: (27901)
"Arab Dance", recorded April 3, 1942.
"Chinese Dance", recorded April 3, 1942.[3]
Disc 4: (27902)
"Dance Of The Reed Flutes", recorded May 15, 1942.
"Waltz Of The Flowers", recorded May 15, 1942.[3]
Frederick Alfred Martin (December 9, 1906 – September 30, 1983)[1] was an American bandleader and tenor saxophonist.
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