Cairo Symphony Presents Rimsky-Korsakov’s Scheherazade and El-Shawan’s Piano Concerto

07 November 2026

The Cairo Symphony Orchestra, led by Maestro Nader Abbassi, presented a special concert featuring pianist Lamis Shams at 8 p.m. on Saturday, 7 November 2026 at the Main Hall . The concert program included the piano concerto by Aziz El-Shawan and the famous symphonic poem Scheherazade, one of the most renowned works by Russian composer Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, inspired by One Thousand and One Nights and composed in 1888. It is divided into four movements brought to life by the music: The Sea and Sindbad's Ship, The Legend of the Kalendar Prince, The Young Prince and The Young Princess, and The Festival at Baghdad / the Sea and Shipwreck