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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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I love this magnificent work and have heard just about every recording of it; while so many are worthy, I would single out the following as being exceptional:

Beecham, RPO
Silvestri, Bournemouth
Kondrashin, Concertgebouw
Reiner, Chicago
Golovanov, Bolshoi
Ormandy, Philadelphia
Stokowski, Philadelphia, Philharmonia, London
Morton Gould, Orchestra

I like Ernest Ansermet in this music, but both of the orchestras in his two recordings are not up to the level of the aforementioned favorites; the Paris performance has an edge over the Suisse Romande.
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