The Nutcracker – Dance of the Sugar-Plum Fairy

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Choreographer Marius Petipa wanted the Sugar Plum Fairy's music to sound like "drops of water shooting from a fountain". Tchaikovsky found the ideal instrument to do this job in Paris in 1891 : the recently invented celesta. Can you now reach its heavenly sound with your instrument? That is the challenge!