Alison Bowcott ([log in to unmask]) wrote: >Could someone (hopefully Mr D Barker will know the answer to this) please I'm flattered, but I'm afraid I have no idea. (Scherezade is not one of "my" pieces and Ormandy is not one of "my" conductors). >tell me WHY the Ormandy/Philadelphia 1962 version on Sony Classics has >an extra bar added in the second movement (last 3 bars have become 4!) Is the bar a repeat of the previous, or new material? >and a great chunk missing from the 3rd movement? It's a good performance >otherwise, although I prefer Beecham. I hope someone can answer this for >me. It wouldn't be the first time that a work has been cut for recording: Rachmaninov not only sanctioned cuts to his 3rd piano concerto, I believe his own recording has them (someone will correct me if I'm wrong). And old Mr. Faithful-to-the-Text (Toscanini) notoriously large cut in the finale of Tchaikovsky's Manfred Symphony. Deryk Barker [log in to unmask]