On Thursday, November 10, 2011 at 11:02:40 AM UTC-10, Precious Roy wrote:
> Listening to Dobrowen's 1952 Scheherazade with the Philharmonia
> recently (and it's my favorite)...

It's on Youtube:

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Issay+Dobrowen+scheherazade

On Monday, April 25, 2022 at 9:04:07 AM UTC+1, gggg gggg wrote:
> On Thursday, November 10, 2011 at 11:02:40 AM UTC-10, Precious Roy wrote:
> > Listening to Dobrowen's 1952 Scheherazade with the Philharmonia
> > recently (and it's my favorite)...
>
> It's on Youtube:
>
> https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Issay+Dobrowen+scheherazade

Stokowski's 1951 Philharmonia "Scheherazade" was issued on a 'Testament' CD some years ago, coupled with his RCA 1950 New York "his Symphony" recording of Stravinsky's "Petrushka" ...

https://testament.co.uk/product/leopold-stokowski-2/

I haven't checked to see if it's already been mentioned in here but Stewart Brown of 'Testament' died a few weeks ago after a long illness.

The Stoki / Philharmonia LP of "Scheherazade" was given short shrift in the 'Gramophone' when it first came out and truth to tell it wasn't the best of his five commercial recordings of the work. Anyway, something called 'Past Classics' has uploaded the four movements separately onto YouTube, so here's the first as a 'taster,' with Manoug Parikian on solo violin ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vp6-B77LsxU

On Monday, April 25, 2022 at 1:04:07 AM UTC-7, gggg gggg wrote:
> On Thursday, November 10, 2011 at 11:02:40 AM UTC-10, Precious Roy wrote:
> > Listening to Dobrowen's 1952 Scheherazade with the Philharmonia
> > recently (and it's my favorite)...
>
> It's on Youtube:
>
> https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Issay+Dobrowen+scheherazade

According to this:

- A telling comparison is found in a 1953 recording by Issay Dobrowen, a compatriot and nearly an exact contemporary of Golovanov, but who left Russian permanently in 1922 to base his career in Scandinavia. In lieu of the raw excitement of the Bolshoi Orchestra, his disc with the English Philharmonia Orchestra reflects the trademark smooth sound of that ensemble. The score provides ample opportunity to highlight the Philharmonia's fine crop of soloists, who produce lovely flights of exquisite tone quality that the recording mix enables to stand out from the overall body of sound, yet even they generally lack much character (including the unidentified violin soloist, possibly Manoug Parikian, the Philharmonia's concertmaster at the time). Dobrowen generates a fair degree of excitement with bold tempo variation between major segments and some prominent string accents, but overall his conception is far more "Westernized" and mellow when compared to that of Golovanov.

http://www.classicalnotes.net/classics2/rimsky.html

On Monday, April 25, 2022 at 1:54:07 AM UTC-7, Kerrison wrote:
> On Monday, April 25, 2022 at 9:04:07 AM UTC+1, gggg gggg wrote:
> > On Thursday, November 10, 2011 at 11:02:40 AM UTC-10, Precious Roy wrote:
> > > Listening to Dobrowen's 1952 Scheherazade with the Philharmonia
> > > recently (and it's my favorite)...
> >
> > It's on Youtube:
> >
> > https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Issay+Dobrowen+scheherazade
> Stokowski's 1951 Philharmonia "Scheherazade" was issued on a 'Testament' CD some years ago, coupled with his RCA 1950 New York "his Symphony" recording of Stravinsky's "Petrushka" ...
>
> https://testament.co.uk/product/leopold-stokowski-2/
>
> I haven't checked to see if it's already been mentioned in here but Stewart Brown of 'Testament' died a few weeks ago after a long illness.
>
> The Stoki / Philharmonia LP of "Scheherazade" was given short shrift in the 'Gramophone' when it first came out and truth to tell it wasn't the best of his five commercial recordings of the work. Anyway, something called 'Past Classics' has uploaded the four movements separately onto YouTube, so here's the first as a 'taster,' with Manoug Parikian on solo violin ...
>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vp6-B77LsxU

According to this:

- The prior year gave us the first of Leopold Stokowski's five recordings of the complete score. The most widely available is his 1964 Phase Four taping with the London Symphony, the first of the many LPs he would cut for that label. Although it was touted as a sonic marvel, even recent CD transfers can't disguise the heavy overload distortion of the climaxes. Yet, while the vibrancy of that reading and his 1975 Royal Philharmonic recording for RCA belie his age (82 and 93!), they are trumped by the greater impulse and ardent emotion of his 1927 Philadelphia Orchestra set of 78s, which reflects his relative youth with far faster pacing (39 minutes overall, compared to the later versions' 46). All the Stokowski recordings boast beautifully shaped phrasing, rich sonority, strong tempo changes, full-blooded climaxes, free-wheeling solos, and – alas – tampering with Rimsky's sacrosanct orchestration, as when he trots out a xylophone to reinforce unison wind figurations (12 bars after N of the second movement – 7:20 in the 1927 recording; 8:10 in the 1964). But despite the quirks, both welcome and dubious, Stokowski ushered in an era of unabashed personality that would inform many of the readings to come.

http://www.classicalnotes.net/classics2/rimsky.html