Scheherazade: Symphonic Suite, op. 35 / Russian Easter Festival Overture, Op. 36

Album by Nikolai Andreyevich Rimsky‐Korsakov & Orchestre national de France & Igor Markevitch

Scheherazade: Symphonic Suite, Op. 35 / Russian Easter Festival Overture, Op. 36 are orchestral works by Russian composer Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, composed in 1888. They display his mature orchestral voice, with richly colourful textures, inventive instrumentation and modal, folk-influenced melodic language that reflects his interest in narrative and liturgical subjects and marks an important phase in late‑19th-century Russian orchestral repertoire.

Scheherazade: Symphonic Suite, op. 35 / Russian Easter Festival Overture, Op. 36 by Rimsky-Korsakov - album cover

First released: 1994

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Scheherazade, Op. 35: I. The Sea & Sinbad's Ship (Largo Maestoso)
10:04
2.
Scheherazade, Op. 35: II. The Kalender Prince (Lento - Andantino)
12:11
3.
Scheherazade, Op. 35: III. The Young Prince & The Young Princess (Andantino Quasi Allegretto)
10:10
4.
Scheherazade, Op. 35: IV. Festival at Baghdad - The Sea
13:12
5.
Russian Easter Festival Overture, Op. 36
16:23

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