To open this program, the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra USA welcomes Spanish harpist Cristina Montes Mateo. She is featured in a challenging 20th-century piece, the “Concerto Capriccio” by the Catalan ...

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 Elim Chan conducts Rimsky-Korsakov’s “Scheherazade” as part of her NY Phil debut on March 7, 2024, featuring NY Phil Concertmaster Frank Huang. The work was also on the program when Chan ...

Storytellers of the Middle East have been retelling the tales of Sinbad and Aladdin. But according to legend, the first was a young bride named... Rimsky-Korsakov Lets the Symphony Tell the Story ...

Another season, another classical evening with the Mobile Symphony Orchestra. The opening concerts next weekend should be especially sweet, as co-concertmaster Enen Yu, who got married earlier this ...

Here’s a lovely programme idea: Rimsky-Korsakov’s familiar Sheherazade – ‘Suite symphonique d’après “Mille et une nuits”’ – paired with Bortkiewicz’s unknown ballet suite A Thousand and One Nights, ...

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.

On paper, the composers that Riccardo Muti and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra featured Thursday night could be considered diametric opposites. For the leanness and classical proportions of Mozart’s ...