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Rimsky-Korsakov – Scheherazade
Scheherazade is a young bride who saves future women from execution by marrying the Sultan and telling him captivating stories. After 1,001 tales, the Sultan relents. The video of Rimsky…
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Scheherazade, Op. 35 – Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
The “Kalender Prince” is a solo guitar arrangement of the second movement from Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov’s beloved suite, Scheherazade. Inspired by an ancient book of Middle Eastern tales, Scheherazade tells the…
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Robert Schumann – Dichterliebe, Op. 48 – Part 1 of 4
…was recorded in Salzburg in 1956, featuring Fischer-Dieskau and Gerald Moore on piano. The songs beautifully capture the poet’s sensitive and nuanced responses to themes of flowers, dreams, and fairy-tales….
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Igor Stravinsky
…tales. However, his most important work from this period was “The Wedding,” a ballet-cantata that combined Russian village wedding songs with Stravinsky’s unmistakable flair for modernist orchestration. The French Period:…
