The Nutcracker Suite

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The Nutcracker Suite
Studio album by Tim Sparks
Released	1993
Recorded	1992
Label	Acoustic Music Records
Producer(s)	Tim Sparks
Tim Sparks chronology
	The Nutcracker Suite	Guitar Bazaar

The Nutcracker Suite consists of both an adaptation for acoustic guitar of Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker and the Balkan Dreams Suite, a suite of songs based on melodies and ideas of Bela Bartok. Sparks won the 1993 National Fingerstyle Guitar Championship playing his solo guitar arrangement of Tchaikovsky's "Nutcracker Suite".

Track listing

(P.I. Tchaikovsky/arr. Tim Sparks)


1. "Overture" – 2:10
2. "March of the Toy Soldiers" – 2:12
3. "Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairies" – 1:57
4. "Cossack Dance" – 1:22
5. "Arabian Dance" – 2:41
6. "Chinese Dance" – 1:15
7. "Dance of the Reed Pipes" – 2:50
8. "Waltz of the Flowers" – 6:11

Balkan Dreams Suite (trad. arr. Tim Sparks)



1. "Oniro/Dimineatsa Dupa Nunta" – 3:09
2. "Samiotisa – 2:33
3. "Tatavliano Hasapiko" – 2:35
4. "Melek N'ty Ubana" – 4:06
5. "The Blues on Bartok Street" (Tim Sparks) – 3:25

Personnel

• Tim Sparks - acoustic guitar, requinto

Production notes

• Produced by Tim Sparks
• Engineered, mixed and mastered by Jay M. Fleming

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