1001 NIGHTS

Breezes From The Orient

 

CD 1

Louis Etienne Ernst REYER: The Greeting Oriental symphony in five pictures

Karol SZYMANOWSKY: Songs of the lovesick muezzin Op. 42 for soprano and orchestra

 

CD 2

Peter CORNELIUS: The Barber of Bagdad

GLUCK: The Pilgrims to Mecca; The Cheated Cadi

Johann Adolf HASSE: Solimano: Marcia alla turca

MOZART: The Abduction from the Seraglio

WEBER: Oberon Overture

SAINT-SAËNS: Samson et Dalila Danse Bacchanale

Richard STRAUSS: Salome Dance of the Seven Veils

 

CD 3

Nicolai RIMSKY-KORSAKOV: Scheherazade Op. 35 Symphonic suite after “1001 Nights”

RAVEL: Shéhérazade Three poems for voice and orchestra

 

Gertrud Ottenthal (soprano), Gisella Pasino (mezzo-soprano), Bruno Lazaretti (tenor), Roberto Servile (baritone), Wolfgang Glashof (baritone), Chor Der St. Hedwigs-Kathedrale Berlin, Rias Kammerchor, Radio-Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Hanns-Martin Schneidt, Guido Maria Guida

 

This new Phoenix title features some of the most exotic and evocative music ever written about the Orient, including the  mysterious ‘Dance of the Seven Veils’ from Salome and two versions of Scheherazade.

 

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