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In Reply to: Stokowski arrangement or performance? posted by jdaniel on February 10, 2007 at 10:00:03:
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. . .
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