The two and a half minute opening Andantino section, marked by a soft female chorus led by strings and winds and paced by the rhythmic clang of a triangle, is later repeated in a subsequent Moderato Alla Breve passage and was the basis of the Broadway song, "Stranger in Paradise."
The two and a half minute opening Andantino section, marked by a soft female chorus led by strings and winds and paced by the rhythmic clang of a triangle, is later repeated in a subsequent Moderato Alla Breve passage and was the basis of the Broadway song, "Stranger in Paradise." A bouncy Allegro Vivo section simulates the festivities of the Lezghin people and segues into its famous middle section, where hammering timpani and bass drums repeatedly build up a rising full chorus melody that suddenly peaks and falls each time with a rapid, dramatic string descent. In the opera it was written for, this set of works is performed at Konchak's camp by male and female slaves to entertain his prisoners. Orchestrated by Glazunov and Rimsky-Korsakov, this is, FTP, what set of barbaric tribal dances from Alexander Borodin's Prince Igor?
The two and a half minute opening Andantino section, marked by a soft female chorus led by strings and winds and paced by the rhythmic clang of a triangle, is later repeated in a subsequent Moderato Alla Breve passage and was the basis of the Broadway song, "Stranger in Paradise."
{Polovtsian Dances}