Name: BBC NOW 2017-18 Season Scheherazade
Start: 2017-09-24T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2017-09-24T00:00:00.000Z
Location: The Hafren

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BBC Welsh National Orchestra

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Michael Seal

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Sheku Kanneh-Mason

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BBC NOW 2017-18 Season Scheherazade

Newtown

United Kingdom

The Hafren

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Concert

Ruslan and Lyudmila

Cello Concerto No. 1 in E-flat Major, op. 107

Scheherazade Op. 35

Saurav Kumar

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The Russian nationalists are fantastic at telling musical fairy tales. It’s partly because they delight in lavish orchestral effects. Glinka, the ‘Father of Russian Music’, shows how it’s done with his firecracker of an overture. Rimsky Korsakov takes up the mantle with music of seduction and adventure in his version of A Thousand and One Nights.

In between these fables is a shot of reality in the form of a personal account of life under the authoritarian Soviet regime. Sheku Kanneh-Mason reprises the Shostakovich concerto which won him so much acclaim as last year’s BBC Young Musician.

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BBC NOW 2017-18 Season Scheherazade by Glinka, Shostakovich, Rimsky-Korsakov, From (2017/2017), Conductor Michael Seal, The Hafren, Newtown, United Kingdom

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