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Rimsky-Korsakov and Ravel's Sh茅h茅razade with Fatma Said

Fatma Said sings Ravel's Sh茅h茅razade and the Radio France Philharmonic plays Rimsky-Korsakov's Scheherazade Suite and, to start, Andr茅 Caplet's Conte fantastique.

Tales of the Arabian Nights: Fatma Said sings Ravel's Sh茅h茅razade and the Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra plays Rimsky-Korsakov's Scheherazade Suite.

The Egyptian soprano, a former Radio 3 New Generation Artist and Gramophone Award winner, brings a special affinity to Ravel's settings of three poems inspired by the Tales of the Arabian Nights. After hearing these poems by Tristan Klingsor Ravel wrote: 鈥淚 yielded to the profound attraction that the East has always held for me since my childhood.鈥� After the interval the orchestra plays a work that Ravel admired hugely, Rimsky-Korsakov's Scheherazade Suite, four movements unified by the haunting sound of the violin solos played by the leader of the orchestra which depict Scheherazade herself as she tells her wondrous tales to the stern Sultan.
And the concert opens with Conte fantastique, a dark chamber work by Andr茅 Caplet inspired by Edgar Allan Poe's short story The Masque of the Red Death.

Presented by Fiona Talkington.

Andr茅 Caplet: Conte fantastique
Ravel: Sh茅h茅razade, song cycle
Mohammed Abdul Wahab: La mosh ana-l-abki
Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade, op. 35, symphonic suite

Fatma Said (soprano)
Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra
Pietari Inkinen (conductor)

1 hour, 58 minutes

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Mon 18 Dec 2023 19:30
91热爆 Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Andr茅 Caplet

    Conte fantastique, chamber work

    Performer: Nicolas Tulliez. Performer: Floriane Bonanni. Performer: Cyril Baleton. Performer: Sophie Groseil. Performer: Jeremie Maillard.

  • Maurice Ravel

    Sheherazade, song cycle

    Performer: Nathan Mierdl. Singer: Fatma Said. Orchestra: Orchestre philharmonique de Radio France. Conductor: Pietari Inkinen.

  • Mohammed Abdel Wahab

    La mosh ana-l-abki (No, it's not me who's crying)

    Music Arranger: James Whitbourn. Singer: Fatma Said. Orchestra: Orchestre philharmonique de Radio France. Conductor: Pietari Inkinen.

  • Andr茅 Caplet

    Deux petites pieces, for flute and piano: I. Reverie

    Performer: Seiya Ueno. Performer: Kana Okada.
    • Seiya Ueno, Kana Okada - French Composers / Flute and Piano.
    • Laplace Records.
    • 4.

  • Andr茅 Caplet

    Deux petites pieces, for flute and piano: II. Petite valse

    Performer: Seiya Ueno. Performer: Kana Okada.
    • Seiya Ueno, Kana Okada - French Composers / Flute and Piano.
    • Laplace Records.
    • 5.

  • Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

    Scheherazade, Op. 35, symphonic suite

    Performer: Nathan Mierdl. Orchestra: Orchestre philharmonique de Radio France. Conductor: Pietari Inkinen.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Keyboard Suite No 8 in F Minor, HWV 433

    Performer: Seong-Jin Cho.
    • The Handel Project: Handel-Suites & Brahms-Variations.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).

Broadcast

  • Mon 18 Dec 2023 19:30
    91热爆 Radio 3