Tchaikovsky 1812 Nutcracker Suite (1977) by Kraft and Alexander
This is probably one of the most beautiful compositions of electronica from the 1970s. The album is very rare to find. The LP runs for 40 minutes. It is a remake of Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker Suite. Like many electronic musicians from this era, most of the music were remakes from great orchestral works. I don't have much to write about this, except that the music was based on the ARP 2000. It's one of those things you just have to give it a listen. It's a relic.
1812 Overture
The Nutcracker Suite Overture
March
Dance of the Sugar-Plum Fairy/Trepak - Russian Dance
Arabian Dance
Chinese Dance/Reed Flutes
Waltz of the Flowers
13 comments:
I thought I was the only one on the planet to have ever heard of these two characters, or have a copy of this vinyl. I'm glad to see I'm not.
I am an avid collector of ancient electronica both bad and good.
This I believe sits very happily in the 'GOOD' catagory. I have MP3s of this album having recently recorded it from vinyl. I would be happy to hear of any other music they produced if anyone has any info.
Hallo, for any one that reads this, if you love the work of Wendy Carlos and Isao Tomita this a "must have" record. For a few years now i am trying to more info on the makers. Until now with very little success. In the mean time i was able to purchase a second copy of the record and setup a scheme to restore the sound and make a CD out of it. This as cost me more or less a arm and a leg. If interested: marcdemol@scarlet.be
the links to listen don't seem to work. Has anybody got a torrent of this album posted? I used to have a copy but it perished in a flood some years ago....
Please upload again this record of kraft and alexander, is great..
tHANKS
Please... I've been looking for this album for decades. Can you please make it available once again. Thanks
Best anonymous, as i state in my previous post, i have made a CD version of the original record. The result is not perfect but very close. If interested contact me. marcdemol@sarlet.be
For those that want to hear a part of this record, i have made a small compilation of the nutcracker suite. Just to give a feeling of the music. It's freshness, energy and originality.Contact me and i send it to you.
I tried contacting you Marc, but the email bounced back
Hello Tim, no idea why the post bounced. My email address is still the same" marcdemol@scarlet.be ".
Always happy to reply on this subject. ;-)
Best regards.
Marc.
Hi Marc,
Would like to talk further on this. My email is tim_corfield@hotmail.com.
I am in Australia.
This is the first time I've heard of this album and have heard excerpts from MatrixSynth website.
Can I get a copy from you?
links no longer work !
Hi, I don't know who has opened this item in the first place, All Y know is that the links didn't work when I discovered this site.
I've posted the entire album over on my recently rebooted music blog Motorslug, along with most of the information from the sleeve. Enjoy!
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