Tchaikovsky's "The Seasons" is a set of twelve short character pieces for solo piano. Each piece is the characteristic of a different month of the year in Russia. Each one is accompanied by 'poetic epigraphs' and "December" has the following:
Once upon a Christmas night
the girls were telling fortunes:
taking their slippers off their feet
and throwing them out of the gate.
The work is also heard in orchestral arrangements and the 'December' month uploaded here - in effect another of Tchaikovsky's many delightful waltzes - comes from the transcription of "The Seasons" arranged by composer David Matthews. It is played by the Norddeutsche Rundfunk Orchestra, conductor Carl Davis, and is taken from a 1991 radio broadcast of the complete work's first performance. However, this arrangement has yet to receive its first commercial recording.
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Watch video Tchaikovsky 'December' - 'Noël' ("The Seasons") - David Matthews, arranger; Carl Davis conducts online without registration, duration hours minute second in high quality. This video was added by user adam28xx 01 December 2022, don't forget to share it with your friends and acquaintances, it has been viewed on our site 831 once and liked it 31 people.