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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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Jacques Offenbach
…his final years, Offenbach focused on completing his grand opera, Les Contes d’Hoffmann (The Tales of Hoffmann). Unfortunately, he passed away on October 5, 1880, before he could witness its…
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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:…
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Offenbach Barcarolle – Solo Piano by Anna Heller
Anna Heller plays a lovely solo piano version of Barcarolle from Jacques Offenbach’s “The Tales of Hoffmann.”…
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Offenbach – Barcarolle from Les Contes d’Hoffmann
Vienna Philharmonic performs Offenbach’s Barcarolle from The Tales of Hoffmann….
