SR-90006: PROKOFIEV: Love for Three Oranges Suite; Scythian Suite / London Symphony, Dorati

	Label Type :	maroon Mercury Stereo Living Presence High Fidelity
	Matrix Number :	SIDE-A	SR_90006_A FR5    A2    I
		SIDE-B	SR_90006_A FR2    A1    I

Comments

Equivalent release: Mercury MG-50157 (mono).

Great sound indeed, although this copy is not FR1/FR1 pressings.

Personal Impression (and brief notes)

One of the most famous Mercury Living Presence LPs sitting on the TAS list. Both sides (“Love For Three Oranges Suite” on Side-A, “Scythian Suite” on the flip side) are superb-sounding brilliant suites by a gigantic orchestra including many percussions, horns and woodwinds.

Spine-chilling orchestrations with savage orchestral climaxes - this album is so invaluable, both as a stereophonic demostration disc and as an extraordinary example of Prokofiev's enormous efforts to write dynamic compositions.

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

9 out of 10

Track Listing

Personnel

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

London Symphony Orchestra, Antal Dorati (cond).

Recorded at Watford Town Hall, London on July 4, 1957.

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