Monthly Archives: July 2014

A pretty fun one, acquired on my recent trip to my home town of Gainesville, Florida.

Some Scheherazade, some excerpts from it.

The reissue on London Richmond is egregious cheesecake. The rest are pretty interesting covers, I am sorry I don’t know the designers. The really colorful photograph one COULD be Steinweiss.

These are all covers for Ansermet conducting the Paris Conservatory Orchestra playing R-K’s Scheherazade. Two on British Decca, the rest on American London, the same company. More than 20 years of keeping this recording in print. It strikes me that … Continue reading →

Some Scheherazade itself, and others various uses of it.

Labels in the D, E and F families 🙂

When I was young I learned to refer to this company as DGG – Deutsche Gramophon Gesellschaft. Nowadays I think of it as DG. I have always loved their overall cover design, with the large brass plaque at the top. … Continue reading →

I collect full recordings of Scheherazade by R-K, and Sheherazade by Ravel. I also collect albums that have any piece of Scheherazade on them. I am trying to get a picture of the time when the whole culture had a … Continue reading →