Mercury Records Collection: MG-50206: PISTON: The Incredible Flutist; MOORE: The Pageant of P. T. Barnum

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MG-50206: PISTON: The Incredible Flutist;
MOORE: The Pageant of P.T. Barnum / Eastman-Rochester, Hanson

Label Type :	maroon Mercury type ? (“Vendor”)
Matrix Number :	SIDE-A	MG50206A RFR-1 FF
	SIDE-B	MG50206B RFR-1 FF

Comments

Equivalent release: Mercury SR-90206 (stereo).

RFR pressing: Side-A with rather dull sound, but Side-B has nice fidelity.

Personal Impression (and brief notes)

Complicated, but not difficult, also thrilling and very understandable composition. I like both sides, but if I have to choose one, I prefer Piston's composition better.

Strictly Personal Rating (to what extent I could enjoy this album)

8 out of 10

Track Listing

SIDE-A
PISTON: The Incredible Flutist (Ballet Suite)		16:26 in total
A-1	Introduction (Lento)
A-2	Dance of the Vendors (Allegro moderato)
A-3	Entrance of the Customers (Allegro moderato)
A-4	Tango of the Merchant's Daughters (Moderato)
A-5	Entry of the Circus (Allegro moderato)
A-6	Circus March (Allegro moderator)
A-7	Solo of the Flutist (Lento)
A-8	Minuet (Quasi minuetto)
A-9	Spanish Waltz (Tempo di valse)
A-10	Eight O'Clock (Lento)
A-11	Siciliano (Andante)
A-12	Polka Finale (Tempo di Polka)
SIDE-B
MOORE: Pageant of P. T. Barnum		17:22 in total
B-1	Boyhood at Bethel (Allegro)
B-2	Joice Heth - 161-year-old Negress (Andante espressivo)
B-3	General and Mrs. Tom Thumb (Allegro)
B-4	Jenny Lind (Andante con mito)
B-5	Circus Parade (Tempo di marcia)

Personnel

Personnel/recorded date/master numbers confirmed with the Ruppli's discography.
(“The Mercury Labels - A Discography” by Ruppli and Novitsky, Greenwood Press, 1993)

Eastman-Rochester Orchestra, Howard Hanson (cond).
Recorded at Eastman Theatre, Rochester, New York on November 23, 1958.

Wilma Cozart, recording director.
Harold Lawrence, musical supervisor.
C.R. Fine, engineer and technical supervisor.
Tape to disc transfer by John Johnson.

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Front	Back

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Side A	Side B

MATSUBAYASHI 'Shaolin' Kohji <shaolin@rhythmaning.org>