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Best Recording of Scheherazade

What recording of Rimsky-Korsakov's Scheherazade do you find the most enjoyable? I've listened to four different recordings in the last 24 hours. London Symph under Svetlanov, Philharmonic Orchestra of Monte Carlo under Lawrence Foster, Berliner Philharmoniker under Karajan, and New York Phil under Masur. Out of these, I'd rank them as such:
1)Karajan
2)Masur
Distant 3) Foster
4) Svetlanov

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tostadosunidos
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Tubegroover,

is that the one with Anshel Brushilow playing the solo violin part?
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Brushilow turned out to be quite the conductor himself (he could play, obviously!) but never had the career he deserved.
Dallas politics are to blame for that.
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It's my understanding (just "the rumor," I guess) that he didn't fit the mold of what they were looking for off the podium as it were. I heard the last straw was when he stood up for the players who refused to take their best instruments out for a performance in inclement weather.

All I know is that he had quite an ear and musical mind. I thought his performance of "Pictures at an Exhibition" with a student group (North Texas State U.) beat the pants off of the DSO with Eduardo Mata which I had heard some weeks prior.
I think it's a shame he never caught on with one of the big US orchestras. It's their loss IMO.

Back on track, he plays a nice Scheherazade as concert master on the Ormandy recording.
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