Scheherazade: The Queen of Storytelling from Arabian Nights | The Tale of 1,001 Nights #folktales

A Thousand and One Nights: The Story of Scheherazade

Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade, Mvt III #orchestra #classicalmusic #violin #music #orchestramusic

Scheherazade, also commonly Sheherazade (Russian: Шехеразада), Op. 35, is a symphonic suite composed by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov in 1888 and based on One Thousand and One Nights (also known as The Arabian Nights). This orchestral work combines two features typical of Russian music in general and of Rimsky-Korsakov in particular: dazzling, colorful orchestration and an interest in the East, which figured greatly in the history of Imperial Russia, as well as orientalism in general. The name

Scheherazade: The Queen of 1001 Nights #stories #facts #schaherazade #night

Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade (Movement 3 excerpt) with Tianyi Lu