Scheherazade
Golshifteh Farahani & Kristin Winters, Ensemble K, Simone Menezes
- Label
- Alpha
- Catalogue number
- ALPHA1081
- EAN / barcode
- 3701624510810
- Release date
- 13 September 2024
- Number of CDs
- 2
- Format
- Digital
- Type
- Album
More info
This album offers a fresh approach to the character of Scheherazade, with Rimsky-Korsakov's musical masterpiece transcribed for Ensemble K and a previously unpublished text freely adapted from the Arabian Nights and ancient love poems to tell the story of Scheherazade. French-Iranian actress Golshifteh Farahani plays Scheherazade, while Kristin Winters plays her sister Dinarzad: "For me, this story is a literary and historical treasure of humanity. But our collective imagination has seen Scheherazade as a seductress or a subservient woman who told stories to survive. The greatness of this figure goes far beyond that and actually represents the ancient figure of the 'hero' or rather the heroine," says Simone Menezes, the artistic director of this project. In this second collaboration with Alpha Classics (after Amazonia, ALPHA990), she presents two versions of the program, one with music and text, the other with Rimsky-Korsakov's music alone.
Tracklist
- 01 Scheherazade, Op. 35 (Original Dialogue and Reorchestration Under the Auspices of Simone Menezes): I. The Sea and Sinbad’s Ship. Largo e maestoso 10:39
- 02 Scheherazade, Op. 35 (Original Dialogue and Reorchestration Under the Auspices of Simone Menezes): II. The Kalendar Prince. Lento 15:19
- 03 Scheherazade, Op. 35 (Original Dialogue and Reorchestration Under the Auspices of Simone Menezes): III. The Young Prince and The Young Princess. Andantino quasi allegretto 09:56
- 04 Scheherazade, Op. 35 (Original Dialogue and Reorchestration Under the Auspices of Simone Menezes): IV. Festival at Baghdad. Allegro molto 13:40
- 05 Scheherazade, Op. 35: I. The Sea and Sinbad’s Ship. Largo e maestoso 09:33
- 06 Scheherazade, Op. 35: II. The Kalendar Prince. Lento 13:09
- 07 Scheherazade, Op. 35: III. The Young Prince and The Young Princess. Andantino quasi allegretto 09:50
- 08 Scheherazade, Op. 35: IV. Festival at Baghdad. Allegro molto 12:47
Source: MusicBrainz
