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Sheherazade
Composer: Maurice Ravel
Performer: Clara Mouriz (Mezzo)
Performer: Joseph Middleton (Piano)
Recording date: 11 July 2013
Date of broadcast: 31 July 2013
Princess Sheherazade - who must tell a new tale every night or lose her life in the morning - survives 1001 nights and becomes queen. Ravel, inspired by this fable, wrote music as clever as the princess.
Composer: Maurice Ravel
Performer: Clara Mouriz (Mezzo)
Performer: Joseph Middleton (Piano)
Recording date: 11 July 2013
Date of broadcast: 31 July 2013
