Arensky: Egyptian Nights - Complete Ballet
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ANTON ARENSKY
Arensky: Egyptian Nights - Complete Ballet
Moscow Symphony Orchestra. Dmitry Yablonsky
[ Naxos / CD ]
Release Date: Friday 27 August 2021
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A student of Rimsky-Korsakov and the teacher of Rachmaninov and Scriabin, Anton Arensky holds a distinguished place in the history of Russian music as both an academic and a composer. For his 1900 ballet Egyptian Nights, based on Pushkin, he chose an exotic theme - the dangerous love of the handsome Amoun for Queen Cleopatra - and sought authentic melodic material in scholarly texts. With his gift for orchestration and colour, Arensky fashioned a sensuous and vivid score, featuring a brilliantly conceived series of dances
