Chinese Dance (Tea)

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

For clarinet and piano

Written in C major, range G3 to C6

In The Nutcracker’s Land of Sweets, Tea dances for Clara and the Prince: quick, bright flute runs and trills skip lightly over a bassoon figure that ticks along like a clock. Tchaikovsky conducted the suite in St Petersburg in March 1892, nine months before the whole ballet premiered.

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