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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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kyyuan
28 posts
 
Another worthy contender would be Serebrier/London Philharmonic Orchestra from Reference Recordings. Give it a shot.

Ken
newbee
4,093 posts
 
Megasam's list is excellent - While I can't add anything meaningful to the list, I would highly encourage you to own Beecham's. It is a thing of beauty. Reiner & Kondrashin are equally excellent and, interpretively speaking fall between Beechams and Gergiev's account which are quite dissimilar.
ehoehn
169 posts
 
Second the Reference Recording
alc777
9 posts
 
Try the Rostropovich conducting Paris Orchestra. EMI
picture:http://patachonf.free.fr/musique/rimski-korsakov/scheherazade.php?p=r
A Japanese music magazine rated it the highest in CD format. I can see why.
The recording engineer was Paul Vavasseur, caught every changing color and expressions from the orthestra. By the way, the also phenomenal Beecham - Symphonie Fantastique was recorded by him.
golden_ears
220 posts
 
....with Serebrier. I like the pace better than others and the sound is killer!
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