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Fitter Stoke
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Re: Ansermet's Sheherazade
Aug 08, 2015, 15:17
I checked and I've got the Bernstein and Monteux recordings too (tucked away in box sets that I hadn't thought to look into) - must give them a spin. And yeah, Leopold Stokowski (a.k.a. Leonard Stokes*, the music world's most foreign sounding cockney) recorded it at least three times: I've got his recordings from 1934 (Philadelphia), 1951 (Philharmonia) and 1964 (LSO) but I'm sure there were more, as it was one of his real party pieces.

Hey, when you dig a great piece of music like Sheherazade, you can never have enough versions. One thing I really enjoy about classical music is that, while there's no such thing as the perfect interpretation, it's great fun trying to find it. That's why I have over 150 recordings of Beethoven's Fifth, for example. Well that, and an obsessive personality!

(*Apocryphal, but a great myth - and he really was born in east London despite his fake east European accent.)
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