Best Recording of Scheherazade

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.

Depending, of course, where you happened to be seated. I remember the old Acoustic Research catalogs from the 1970's, where they would show pictures of some recital hall with AR speakers (usually 12 or so speakers) providing the sound for the venue.  

Rich 

JVC has remastered the Fritz Reiner - Chicago Symphony version in to XRCD format.  It is the best I have heard.