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This is one of the best performances I've heard of this old warhorse. The MHS pressing of the 1967 Decca recording at the Geneva Opera House is satisfactory but Stokowski gives a fear inducing reading. The Tchaikovsky Slavonic March is powerful also. Any other versions worth hearing?
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I'll bet the MHS is Stokowsky's arrangement as well. The following recommendations are Rimsky Korsakov's arrangement, and, of course, they've dug up Mussy's original. I know Chandos has cycle of Stokowski arrangements including one of Russian works that includes his own Night on Bald Mountain. If you want to hear Mussorgsky's own original, you can find it on RCA with Abbado and the LSO, which include a very creepy children's choir.
If you want to hear Mussorgsky's own original, you can find it on RCA with Abbado and the LSO, which include a very creepy children's choir.The Abbado/LSO performance of "Night on Bare Mountain" was one of the first 20 or so CD's I purchased back in the mid 80's. I just re-listened to it about five minutes ago, and for the life of me, I cannot hear a children's choir in this performance. I've also heard the Lloyd-Jones and Salonen performances of the non-Rimskyfied "Night", and they don't have a children's chorus in their performances either. Is that something you can hear only on vinyl?
(Just kidding :-) - but seriously, since the Abbbado disc does include choral contributions on some of the other tracks, was that what you were thinking of?)
Speaking also of the recent Salonen performance on DG, I now feel I was WAY WAY too kind in my remarks a couple of months ago about the engineering on that disc, Sometimes it takes a truly great recording (I was recently listening to the Reiner/CSO SACD reissue of "Spain" - what a great disc!) to re-establish grounds for a proper evaluation! :-)
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Don't know which version this is however. . .
Performance of the Rimsky-Korsakov orchestration. The Mussorgsky original sound interesting, do you know the album number?
And, what format do you wish?
on vinyl, Telarc Cleveland Maazel, usually go for under $20 occasionally 1/2 that on ebay, also Rene Leibowitz The Power of the Orchestra RCA SD Red Seal. You already have good ones.
on vinyl please.
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