Hints and tips:
...He envisions Scheherazade. 2 not as a response to the eponymous suite by Rimsky-Korsakov but as an updated take on the storyteller of One Thousand and One Nights, a woman who not just “had to use her cleverness...
...Rabaud leans heavily on Ravel, Debussy, Rimsky-Korsakov, Magnard and Wagner, but Altinoglu’s masterful conducting helps Mârouf triumph over these influences and sound like an original, coherent whole....
...Stephen Gadd’s Robert is short on vocal colour but has everything else – physical presence, quiet confidence, transparent goodness....
...The “Spiritual” movement, with its gently rolling orchestral motion suggesting waves as Africans are shipped to America, reminded me of a Rimsky-Korsakoff sea voyage....
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