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Reddit mentions of Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker - Complete Ballet
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Reddit mentions: 3
We found 3 Reddit mentions of Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker - Complete Ballet. Here are the top ones.
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- GERGIEV VALERY / KIROV O.
- MUSICA CLASICA
- INTERNATIONAL
- MUSIC
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Specs:
Height | 0.35 Inches |
Length | 5.51 Inches |
Number of items | 1 |
Release date | October 1998 |
Weight | 0.180625 Pounds |
Width | 4.96 Inches |
Peer Gynt Suite | Edvard Grieg | 1 - Morning Mood, 4 - In the Hall of the Mountain King
The Nutcracker | Tchaikovsky | 3 - March, 19 - Waltz of the Flowers, 22 - Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy
Carmen / L'Arlésienne Suites | Georges Bizet | 1 - Les Toréadors, 2-3 - Prelude / Aragonaise, Habanera
Also Sprach Zarathustria, bonus: The Planets | Richard Stauss, bonus: Holst | 1 - Einleitung or Sonnenaufgang (prelude or sunrise), 10 - Mars, the Bringer of War, 12 - Mercury, the Winged Messenger
Carmina Burana | Carl Orff | 1 & 25 - O Fortuna, 6 - Tanz, 15 - Amor Volat Undique
Pictures at an Exhibition / Night on Bald Mountain | Modest Moussorgsky | 12 - The Great Gate of Kiev, 16 - Night on Bald Mountain (Fantasia version)
Rimsky-Korsakov: Greatest Hits | Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov | 1 - Flight of the Bumblebee, 10 - Procession of the Nobles, 6 - Fandago Asturiano
I might suggest, if you want a stirring performance with clarity in the orchestral texture, the complete ballet, Valery Gergiev conducting the Kirov Orchestra. Gergiev is always topnotch when it comes to interpreting Tchaikovsky...
Depends on the music and whether you originally ripped to MP3 or AAC. A couple of years ago, I ran a test on my $10k home system where I ripped a couple of well-recorded songs to MP3, AAC, and Apple Lossless Encoder (ALE); burned them back to a CD; and took a listen.
The 128 kbps MP3 sounded obviously compromised. Cymbals sounded like bursts of white noise and the soundstage collapsed. 128 kbps AAC sounded surprisingly good, with some loss of dynamics and congestion during complex passages. I don't think that I could reliably tell the difference between 256 kbps AAC and ALE. Maybe on tracks from albums recorded with the quality of this one.
If you're listening to highly processed rock recordings, then 128 kbps AAC is just fine. For audiophile-quality classical albums, you likely want to bump up to 256 kbps AAC or better.
Make a test CD and listen for yourself. The V6s are very detailed headphones and should let you hear the difference. You'll learn more from an hour or two of your own experiments than in a day of talking to people.