FULL Shéhérazade (Ravel) St.Petersburg 2025 Ekaterina Semenchuk

Information on the Performance

• Work Title: Shéhérazade   
• Composer: Ravel Maurice  
• Libretto: various  
• Venue & Opera Company: St, Petersburg Philharmonic  
• Recorded: March 31, 2025
• Type: Concert Live
• Singers: Ekaterina Semenchuk
• Conductor: Alexander Sladkovsky  
• Orchestra: Tatarstan Symphony Orchestra  
• Stage Director:   
• Costume Designer:   

Information about the Recording

• Published by: Shostakovich Philharmonic  
• Date Published: 2025  
• Format: Streaming
• Quality Video: 4 Audio:4
• Subtitles: nosubs  

• ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE

  PROGRAMME:
  Ravel – “La Valse” choreographic poem Ravel –
  “Shéhérazade”, vocal cycle based on poems by T. Klingsor
  Rimsky-Korsakov – “Scheherazade”, symphonic suite

  Shéhérazade song cycle
  The exoticism of the Arabian Nights continued to interest Ravel. In the early years of the 20th century he met the poet Tristan Klingsor, who had recently published a collection of free-verse poems under the title Shéhérazade, inspired by Rimsky-Korsakov’s symphonic suite of the same name, a work that Ravel also much admired. Ravel and Klingsor were fellow members of a group of young creative artists calling themselves “Les Apaches” (the Hooligans); the poet read some of his new verses to the group, and Ravel was immediately taken with the idea of setting three of them. He asked Klingsor to make some minor changes before he set to work on the music.

  Ravel’s song cycle Shéhérazade, was composed for soprano solo and orchestra, setting the words of Klingsor’s “Asie”, “La flûte enchantée”, and “L’indifférent”. It was first performed on 17 May 1904 at a Société Nationale concert at the Salle Nouveau Théâtre, Paris, with the soprano Jeanne Hatto and an orchestra conducted by Alfred Cortot. The three songs of the cycle are individually dedicated by the composer to Hatto (“Asie”), Madame René de Saint-Marceaux (“La flûte enchantée”) and Emma Bardac (“L’indifférent”).

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