I have often praised the Czech
Supraphon record label; this time round I am praising the Australian
Eloquence label from a company that remasters and reissues
important recordings from the 1950s and 60s Universal International
back-catalogue. The recordings come mainly from Decca and Philips.
This time round I was listening to Rimsky-Korsakov's Scheherazade, an
original Decca release from 1962, with the LSO conducted by Igor
Markevitch.
The sound from nearly 60 years ago is
pretty amazing, and well balanced. The LSO was in good form during
that period. Altogether, a highly welcome re-incarnation of the
original. The Eloquence CD also sees the same forces in
Rimsky-Korsakov's Capriccio espagnol.
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