An adaptation of the fable about the race between the persevering turtle and the boastful rabbit recreated for orchestra and narrator.

It is Christmas eve and Clara and Fritz's parents are throwing their annual holiday party. The mysterious guest, the toymaker Herr Drosselmeyer, arrives with life-size dancing dolls to entertain the family and their guests, but he saves his most special gift for his god-daughter Clara, a nutcracker doll. That night, the tree begins to grow, the toy soldiers and the Mouse King have a battle, and Clara's nutcracker turns into a handsome prince! This...

Retells the orchestral folk tale of the boy who, ignoring his grandfather's warnings, proceeds to capture a wolf with the help of a bird, a duck, and a cat.