’Tis the season to roast your Nutcrackers by the fire. A year on from my mammoth survey of available recordings (12/17), new recordings of Tchaikovsky’s seasonal confection are ready to tumble in, the first of which comes from Gustavo Dudamel and the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra. Actually, it’s taken an ice age to arrive: this recording was made way back in 2013 in the Walt Disney Concert Hall, so why is it only being released now? The cynic in me suspects it’s to tie in with the release of Disney’s new film The Nutcracker and the Four Realms, for which Dudamel – with the Philharmonia this time – has recorded the (original) soundtrack.

Enigma love sensuality devotion the greatest hits rar. * Tchaikovsky: Suite from the ballet The Nutcracker - Tchaikovsky made a selection of eight of the numbers from the ballet before the ballet's December 1892 premiere, forming The Nutcracker Suite, Op. Kv usilitelj moschnosti na lampe gu 81m. 71a, intended for concert performance.