Record is in great shape the sleeve has small wear on corners and edge. Shipped the next business day! We own a small family book store and sell our extra books and media that have been on our shelves for too long. We sell them for a quarter of the price at our store so we can move our inventory! Additional Details ------------------------------ Product description: Composers: Rimsky-Korsakov Selections: RimskyKorsakov-Scheherazade Artists: Anshel Brusilow Orchestras:Philadelphia Orchestra, Philadelphia Orchestra Conductors: Eugene Ormandy Recording: Stereo Scheherazade, Op. 35, is a symphonic suite composed by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov in 1888. Based on The Book of One Thousand and One Nights, this orchestral work combines two features common to Russian music, and of Rimsky-Korsakov in particular: dazzling, colorful orchestration and an interest in the East, which figured greatly in the history of Imperial Russia. The suite is divided into four movements. The composer was persuaded to give them programmatic titles as follows, but later removed them in favor of mere tempo markings and discouraged attempts to read literal storytelling into the music. I. The Sea and Sinbad's Ship (Largo e maestoso ? Allegro non troppo) II. The Kalendar Prince (Lento ? Andantino ? Allegro molto ? Con moto) III. The Young Prince and The Young Princess (Andantino quasi allegretto ? Pochissimo più mosso ? Come prima ? Pochissimo più animato) IV. Festival At Baghdad. The Sea. The Ship Breaks against a Cliff Surmounted by a Bronze Horseman. (Allegro molto ? Vivo ? Allegro non troppo maestoso) The musical theme which opens the first movement is supposed to represent the domineering Sultan; this theme is built on four notes of the descending whole tone scale. But soon (after a few chords in the woodwinds reminiscent of the opening of Mendelssohn's Midsummer Night's Dream overture), we hear the one theme that appears in every movement; this represents the character of the storyteller herself, Scheherezade, his wife, who eventually succeeds at appeasing him with her stories. This is a haunting, sensuously winding melody for violin solo, accompanied by harp.