Friday, January 22, 2016

Scheherazade - dessert for the ears

We had a recording of Rimsky-Korsakov's masterpiece, Scheherazade, in my childhood, and so I grew up listening to it over and over again. I hear it less likely today, but my son got me a CD of it recently, and I was reminded again what a great piece of music it is. Gorgeous melodies, lush harmonies, absolutely brilliant orchestration. It is a feast for the ears. If parents want to introduce their children to classical music, they could hardly do better than this work.

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