 The concerts also coaxed him out of his creative drought; he wrote "Scheherazade", "Capriccio Espagnol" and the "Russian Easter Overture" specifically for them.He noted that these three works "show a considerable falling off in the use of contrapuntal devices ... [replaced] by a strong and virtuoso development of every kind of figuration which sustains the technical interest of my compositions".Rimsky-Korsakov was asked for advice and guidance not just on the Russian Symphony Concerts, but on other projects through which Belyayev aided Russian composers.