If you don't have a recording of Scheherazade in your collection(??)then you've been missing out on the gloriously exotic and exciting music Rimsky-Korsakov composed to bring to musical life the story of Scheherazade and the Sultan from Tales of the Arabian nights. Even if you do, certainly more than just one is necessary and the thrilling performance with Reiner driving the Chicago Symphony players to extraordinary feats of orchestral execution should be added.
Stravinsky's Song of the Nightingale is also included in a performance of similar color and vigor. Excellent re-mastered sound in SACD and an essentially equally good CD layer, both being especially impressive when used with a mode such as DPLII to listen in realistic surround ambience.
Available from various Amazon sellers
here for around $10 up, shipped.
