These three descriptive pieces are arranged to employ the contemporary technique of the time of stating a section of music and then repeating it with embellishments.
The Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy comes from Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker Suite, which is itself taken from his ballet of the same name. The original story comes from Alexandre Dumas pere's version of Hof...
Morning comes from Grieg's first Peer Gynt Suite op. 46. The Norwegian playwright Ibsen wrote to Grieg asking him to compose incidental music for his play. The result was two suites which have enjoyed...