Best Recording of Scheherazade

How's that Tostadosunidos?

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.

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.

Hearing it " Live " must have been incredible. No one mentioned Peter Cetera's version, with backing vocals by Madonna, lol. Enjoy ! MrD.

The sound a live classical orchestra makes is indeed awesome.  No stereo system playing any recording, analog or digital,  comes even close.