Trepak
Brief Programme Notes
This piece is taken from the Nutcracker, a ballet by Tschaikowsky. The composer has since made a selection of eight of the more popular numbers from the ballet before the ballet's December 1892 premiere, forming The Nutcracker Suite. This piece is arranged for tuba quartet as well as Tschaikowsky's Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy by Peter Smalley.