The Nutcracker Suite

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The Nutcracker Suite
Studio album by Tim Sparks
Released 1993
Recorded 1992
Label Acoustic Music Records
Producer(s) Tim Sparks
Tim Sparks chronology
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The Nutcracker Suite consists of both an adaptation for acoustic guitar of Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker and the Balkan Dreams Suite, a suite of songs based on melodies and ideas of Bela Bartok. Sparks won the 1993 National Fingerstyle Guitar Championship playing his solo guitar arrangement of Tchaikovsky's "Nutcracker Suite".

[edit] Track listing

(P.I. Tchaikovsky/arr. Tim Sparks)


  1. "Overture" – 2:10
  2. "March of the Toy Soldiers" – 2:12
  3. "Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairies" – 1:57
  4. "Cossack Dance" – 1:22
  5. "Arabian Dance" – 2:41
  6. "Chinese Dance" – 1:15
  7. "Dance of the Reed Pipes" – 2:50
  8. "Waltz of the Flowers" – 6:11

Balkan Dreams Suite (trad. arr. Tim Sparks)



  1. "Oniro/Dimineatsa Dupa Nunta" – 3:09
  2. "Samiotisa – 2:33
  3. "Tatavliano Hasapiko" – 2:35
  4. "Melek N'ty Ubana" – 4:06
  5. "The Blues on Bartok Street" (Tim Sparks) – 3:25

[edit] Personnel

  • Tim Sparks - acoustic guitar, requinto

[edit] Production notes

  • Produced by Tim Sparks
  • Engineered, mixed and mastered by Jay M. Fleming
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