About This Song
About "Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker, Op. 71, Act I, Scene 1: No. 7, The Battle" by André Previn
The Battle erupts in a flurry of tin-soldier snare drums and scurrying strings, a nursery war rendered with mock-heroic glee. Previn keeps the tension taut between playroom and battlefield, the mice and gingerbread men clashing in a miniature apocalypse that feels, for a moment, utterly real.