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Sheherazade is the heroine and narrator of One Thousand and One Nights, who inspired composer Maurice Ravel to compose the overture and song suite. The soloist in Ravel's Sheherazade song series is Emma Kajander, winner of the 2025 Lappeenranta Song Competition. Bolero is “an experiment in a very special and limited direction...a piece lasting seventeen minutes and consisting wholly of orchestral tissue without music – of one long very gradual crescendo. There are no contrasts, and there is practically no invention except in the plan, and the manner of the execution. The themes are impersonal – folk tunes of the usual Spanish-Arabian kind,” said Maurice Ravel, describing his most famous work. Born in the early 20th century, Ahmed Adnan Saygun was a Turkish ethnomusicologist and composer who felt a passion for both long and arduous journeys in Anatolia to collect folk melodies and for symphonic music. His First Symphony builds bridges between Asia and Europe.
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