Rimsky-Korsakov : Sheherazade (One Thousand and One Nights - Le mille e una notte)

Director: Silvano Frontalini
Symphonic Rai Tv Vilnius Orchestra
Gediminas Dalinkevičius (Vl.)

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I. The Sea and Sinbad's Ship (Largo e maestoso - Lento - Allegro non troppo - Tranquillo)
II. The Kalendar Prince (Lento - Andantino - Allegro molto - Vivace scherzando - Moderato assai - Allegro molto ed animato) 10:00
III. The Young Prince and the Young Princess (Andantino quasi allegretto - Pochissimo più mosso - Come prima - Pochissimo più animato) 22:22
IV. Festival at Baghdad. The Sea. The Ship Breaks against a Cliff Surmounted by a Bronze Horseman. (Allegro molto - Lento - Vivo - Allegro non troppo e maestoso - Tempo come I) 32:38

The symphonic suite "Sheherazade" is among the most famous works by Russian composer Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844-1908). It is based on various stories in the One Thousand and One Nights (Arabian Nights), a collection of Middle Eastern folk tales dating from the Islamic Golden Age. The work is framed as a set of stories within a story, since they are related by the queen Sheherazade to Sultan Shahryar in order to stave off her execution.