Pas de Deux (Intrada) from The Nutcracker – Piano Trio

The grand Pas de deux, for violin, cello and piano

The great Andante maestoso of the Sugar Plum Fairy and her Prince is the emotional summit of Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker: a simple descending scale that builds, over harps and full orchestra, into one of the most overwhelming climaxes in ballet. This arrangement brings the full sweep of that music to a piano trio, without cutting a single bar.

What you receive

• Score: piano part with the violin and cello lines in small notes above
• Violin part
• Cello part

Three print-ready PDF files, each supplied in both A4 and US Letter formats, all included in the same download. Every page prints on a single sheet. In the string parts, every page turn falls in a rest. The score is laid out in pairs of pages; a page turner is recommended for the pianist.

A faithful reduction

This edition follows Tchaikovsky’s full score bar by bar (Moscow, Muzyka, 1974): 74 bars, nothing omitted.

• The violin takes the first violins and the wind melodies (flutes, oboes, trumpets).
• The cello takes the cellos, the bass clarinet solo and the brass lines.
• The piano carries the two harps, the woodwind and horn harmony, the timpani and the double basses.

Tempo and metronome marks (♩ = 69, then poco più mosso ♩ = 76) and string bowings are Tchaikovsky’s own. Lines taken from wind instruments keep their original phrasing, adapted to the bow.