Rêverie orientale

Composer: GLAZUNOV, Alexander
  • Rêverie orientale is a single-movement work originally written for clarinet and string quartet in 1886. Shortly after, Galzunov arranged the piece for orchestra as the second half of his 2 Pieces for Orchestra, Op. 14.1
  • The music of Rêverie orientale evokes exactly what its title suggests – conjuring dreamy images of (*the 19th-century idea of) the far East through the use of pentatonic and harmonic minor scales.

Sources

  1. “Rêverie orientale (Glazunov, Aleksandr),” IMSLP, accessed October 23, 2024, https://imslp.org/wiki/R%C3%AAverie_orientale_(Glazunov,_Aleksandr).

Cut IDs

23235