Release Date: 02 July 2021
Label: Willowhayne Records - Cd / Willowhayne Records
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 4038912672530
Genres: Classical Ballets & Dances
Composer/Series: Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Description
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov is renowned as a teller of musical tales. More than half of his 15 operas are based on fairy-tales: The Snow Maiden, Kaschey the Immortal, The Legend of Tsar Saltan and The Golden Cockerel to name but a few. Another of his most popular works is surely his symphonic suite Sheherazade, based on the tales of The Thousand and One Nights. The four movements of the work are united both by their musical and their dramatic content. Rimsky-Korsakov creates wonders in his music, like a magician weaving a spell. Each theme, in his words “appears each time in a different light, depicts each time a different picture and xpresses each time a different mood. The same motifs and themes are used at different times to represent different figures, actions and scenes.” The musical synthesis at the end combines those of the protagonists Sheherazade and her husband in gentle intimacy, which indicate that the tales have softened the Sultan’s cruel heart. This musical tale of the magical Orient ends with echoes of Sheherazade’s beautiful theme.
Tracklisting
VILNIUS MUNICIPAL CHOIR JM
Verdi
VARIOUS ARTISTS
VARIOUS ARTISTS
TSONEVA/PATRICK
TBILISI SO/DJANSUG KAKHIDZE
SERGHEI LUNCHEVICI SO
Neil Smith
