Rimsky Korsakov :Scheherazade

[Barbirollians]

So heartening to see Silvestri getting so much positive attention. Though that's not quite right, Waldhorn's list reminding us that great performances involve rather more than a conductor.

I heard the BSO perform this work in the Winter Gardens under Silvestri, at a very impressionable age (probably late teens): needed to go out and walk by the sea in the dark afterwards, before going home.



(Those of us who have the Disky 10 CD box, as well as other EMI CDs, will have mostly duplications if we go for the Icon box: I had rather hoped the Berlioz Symphonie Fantastique would be issued separately, never having been on CD. I'm not sure any other 'first time' material will be there)

The blurb suggests it will be 15CDs his complete EMI recordings.

[Barbirollians]

As an aside I see that in IRR this month at the head of a review of another recent recording it is described as Sheherazade . I always thought that was the Ravel piece . I have never seen RK's Scheherazade without her " C" before.