Mussorgsky/Rimsky-Korsakov's "Night on Bare Mountain" Part 2 - Paul Paray Colonne Symphony Orchestra

Опубликовано: 07 Июнь 2026
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This looks like a rarer find! The only other label images I managed to find were European or British Columbia pressings, and it was apparently recorded on May 25, 1934 - https://www.oocities.org/b_wehrung/p-...
This American pressing has all sorts of interesting characteristics - the label is the CBS style, but blue [ostensibly for Masterworks], but with the 1920s [!] Columbia label font for the title and credits. The original master had a standard runout to locked groove, but this had an eccentric groove traced in later. The matrix corresponds to the European sequences as well.

He was a master in his own league, and he conducted into his 90s! Paul Paray may not be as well known as Stokowski, but his conducting holds its own, especially given the limitations of recording longer orchestral/classical works to 78rpm. I wasn't able to blend the two recordings on my old laptop, but I might be able to re-edit on another computer...