Daniel Jaffé

How Tchaikovsky's ballet crops up here, there and everywhere in popular culture...
Andrew Manze has made a superb start to his cycle
The Planets (arr. Sykes); St Paul’s Suite (arr. Johnson)
Ann Crumb, Randall Scarlata, Rachel Rudich, Marcantonio Barone and the Orchestra 2001 conducted by James Freeman perform Voices from the Morning of the Earth, An Idyll for the Misbegotten and the The Sleeper.
Daniel Jaffé presents a brief guide to the Celesta - star of Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker ballet