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Label:
   PentaTone Classics - http://www.pentatonemusic.com/
Serial:
   PTC 5186 107
Title:
   Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6, Nutcracker Suite - Ozawa
Description:
   Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6, Nutcracker Suite

Orchestre de Paris
Seiji Ozawa (conductor)
Details:
   1-4. Symphony No.6 in B minor, Op.74
5-12. Nutcracker Suite, Op.71a

Total time: 68:49
Genre:
   Classical - Orchestral
Content:
   Stereo/Multichannel
Media:
   Hybrid
Recording type:
   Analogue
Recording info:
   Recorded in Paris, Salle Wagram - February 1974
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Great 1974 Recording (review from amazon.com)
Just a brief note here: I am not able to listen to the four-channel version of this recording, but I have often listened to the stereo mix-down and found it, on the whole, very satisfying so that I agree wholeheartedly with Dan Davis' [...] review. Not everyone will love the middle section of the second movement with its weird 5/4 beat and the insistent throbbing of the drum (and/or the double basses) in the background, but the fault for this may lie with Tchaikovsky who was obviously writing something of a swan-song (he conducted the first performance only two weeks before his enforced suicide) and wanted to create an atmosphere of embittered "Weltschmerz" at this point. Even in stereo, the recording is remarkable for its realism, and when I once had the rare privilege of hearing a live performance of Tchaikovsky's sixth symphony I found myself recognizing a lot of details from the recording - only the one-off sound of the gong towards the end of the last movement being a bit too soft in the recording. The Nutcracker-Suite is just a filler here, it is that tremendous symphony that you want to have (originally recorded in Paris in 1974 by Philips Classics). Total time: 65 minutes.