Scheherazade / Tsar Sultan Suite / Flight of the Bumblebee

Album by Nikolai Andreyevich Rimsky‐Korsakov & Philharmonia Orchestra & Vladimir Ashkenazy & Christopher Warren‐Green

This album is a collection of orchestral suites by Russian composer Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, composed between 1888 and 1900. The music exemplifies late-Romantic Russian orchestration, employing vivid instrumental colour, folk-influenced and orientalist melodic material and virtuosic orchestral textures to convey programme-driven narratives and marking a mature phase in the composer's career.
First released: 23rd July 1987

Tracklist

  1. 1.
    Scheherazade, Op. 35: I. The Sea and Sindbad's Ship
    10:44
  2. 2.
    Scheherazade, Op. 35: II. The Story of the Kalander Prince
    12:02
  3. 3.
    Scheherazade, Op. 35: III. The Young Prince and the Young Princess
    9:54
  4. 4.
    Scheherazade, Op. 35: IV. Festival at Baghdad - The Sea - Shipwreck
    13:22
  5. 5.
    Tsar Sultan Suite, Op. 57: I. The Tsar's Departure and Farewell
    4:35
  6. 6.
    Tsar Sultan Suite, Op. 57: II. The Tsarina in a Barrel at Sea
    6:40
  7. 7.
    Tsar Sultan Suite, Op. 57: III. The Three Wonders
    8:13
  8. 8.
    The Flight of the Bumble Bee
    1:19

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