The music of Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov is essential repertoire for any orchestral musician - and that includes student musicians studying at Interlochen Arts Camp and Arts Academy.
This program includes Rimsky-Korsakov's orchestral masterpiece "Scheherazade," with a recording of each of the four movements from different decades and featuring 75 years of Interlochen student orchestras.
The program concludes with an excerpt of another Rimsky-Korsakov orchestral showpiece, "Capriccio Espagnol."
Program details (all music composed by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov)
Scheherazade: I. The Sea and Sinbad's Ship
George C. Wilson conducting the National High School Symphony Orchestra (July 1963)
Scheherazade: II. The Story of the Kalendar Prince
Thor Johnson conducting the Interlochen Arts Academy Orchestra (November 1974)
Scheherazade: III. The Young Prince and the Young Princess
Matthew Hazelwood conducting the Interlochen Arts Academy Orchestra (January 2001)
Scheherazade: IV. Festival at Baghdad. The Sea. The Ship Breaks against a Cliff Surmounted by a Bronze Horseman
JoAnn Falletta conducting the World Youth Symphony Orchestra (July 2017)
Scheherazade: I. The Sea and Sinbad's Ship (excerpt)
Howard Hanson conducting the National High School Orchestra (summer 1942)
Capriccio Espagnol (excerpt)
Joe Maddy conducting the National High School Orchestra (July 1955)
The archival recordings heard on this program are supported in part by the Association for Recorded Sound Collections' Classical Music Preservation Grant, Interlochen Public Radio's generous listeners and the Hamer D. and Phyllis C. Shafer Foundation.
Michael Culler provided audio engineering support.
