Taken all in all, it’s undoubtedly a long overdue pleaasure to have a professional recording of this piece, so all credit to the enterprising Chineke! Orchestra for adding it to the catalogue.

Find the Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy just a little too sweet? Then savour Sugar Rum Cherry, from Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn’s 1960s jazz reworking of Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker Suite (1892)...It’s the latest life-enhancing recording from Chineke! Orchestra (Chineke!/Decca) and guaranteed to put a smile on your face.