Best Recording of Scheherazade

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.

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.