Rachmaninov’s Exotic Dance for Cello ‘Danse Orientale’ Cello Anmari van der Westhuizen Piano Nicolene Gibbons Brooklyn Theatre TV https://www.artmusic.tv/ From the shadowy salons of imperial Russia emerges this haunting gem—Danse Orientale, a rarely performed early work by a young Sergei Rachmaninov. Written in 1892, it’s steeped in the exoticism that gripped late Romantic composers: lush harmonies, sensual chromaticism, and a yearning melodic line that seems to weep through the cello. It’s Rach