Monthly Archives: June 2014

I did not realize until I started posting these on this blog that Columbia was the worst single label for putting a pretty woman on the cover of Scheherazade. As I said before, it is reasonable to interpret the entire … Continue reading →

Not spectacularly nice, but Steinweiss nevertheless.

Continuing with the Scheherazade collection, here are some on Columbia and related labels. Some others on Columbia have been posted already, for their Steinweiss covers. Here are a few that are pop music albums that do one theme from Scheherazade, … Continue reading →

I am trying, or at least wishing I was trying, to get rid of my Steinweiss collection. Nevertheless, I cannot resist obtaining a new Steinweiss, once in a while. I pass up a few that are mediocre, but I buy … Continue reading →

Continuing with a repost of Scheherazade covers I have shown before, here are the covers of it done by Curt John Witt.

These two posts together repeat everything I have from Steinweiss that is related to Scheherazade. I have posted these before.

I am now going to reload a bunch of covers I have posted before. This one I mentioned a minute ago, the one with the sultan floating on a disk. The original 78 rpm set is the grey one, the … Continue reading →

The only Scheherazade cover that I know of to illustrate one of the four tales in a science fiction style. The artist is Steve Garst, the year 1979. One of my favorite covers of this collection.

These are all the lps I have that are related to Scheherazade, on Capitol. As on other labels, most are Rimsky-Korsakov’s Scheherazade, and others have excerpts from it. When I first decided to collect a particular piece of music, I … Continue reading →