The composer's early life as a sailor informed his evocative music for Sinbad and other tales from the Arabian Nights. I want to tell you a story…but there’s more to this tale than words! It’s a story ...

Hear two selections from 'Scheherazade' conducted by Marin Alsop's mentor, Leonard Bernstein (leading the New York Philharmonic in 1959). For centuries, composers have tried to spin tales in music. My ...

Bedtime stories took on a new meaning for Scheherazade. Her husband, the Sultan, had the nasty habit of marrying a woman at night and killing her in the morning. So Scheherazade thought up a plan.

Rimsksy-Korsakov, whose symphonic tone poem Scheherazade is based on a tale from the One Thousand and One Nights, would have delighted in this disc. Founded in 1999 and making its Proms debut on ...

Watch as Claus-alike Leif Segerstam gives a novel interpretation of a Rimsky-Korsakov classic by shouting all over it. Amazing stuff. Finnish conductor Leif Segerstam provided his own alternative ...

Composed in 1888 by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Scheherazade is one of the most popular works in the Russian repertoire. Under the baton of Aziz Shokhakimov the Orchestre Philharmonique de Strasbourg ...

The music of Rimsky-Korsakov and eye value of brilliant color give Song of Scheherazade entertainment elements not otherwise found in the fluffy, ineptly directed and played story. Score contains 10 ...