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THE BIRMINGHAM STUDIO AUGMENTED ORCHESTRA
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Conducted by JOSEPH LEWIS SAINT-SAENS' Suite Algerienne is one of the famous French composer's most picturesque and attractive compositions, embodying in musical terms his impressions of Algiers, which he visited several times. The first movement is a prelude descriptive of a view of Algiers, seen in panorama from the bridge of a ship. Sounds from the shore are hoard, amongst them the call to Allah. At the end of the movement, the ship has arrived in harbour. The second movement is a Moorish Rhapsody.
In one of the numerous Moorish cafes of the old town, the Arabs join in their national dance, by turns sensuous or savage, to the sound of flutes, rebecs, and tambourines. The third movement, probably the best known in the Suite, arranged as it has been in many different forms, is the Evening Reverie, at Blidah. Under the palm trees of an oasis, in the perfumed night, there is heard from afar off a love song with a caressing refrain from a flute.

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Joseph Lewis

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