Mercury Records Collection: SR-90156: VERDI Overtures

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SR-90156: VERDI Overtures / London Symphony, Dorati

Label Type :	maroon Mercury Stereo Living Presence High Fidelity
Matrix Number :	SIDE-A	SR_90156_A FR2 A2 I
	SIDE-B	SR_90156_A FR2 B1 I

Comments

Equivalent release: Mercury MG-50156 (mono).

with original Mercury inner sleeve.

Personal Impression (and brief notes)

Spine-chilling great sound full of transiency - sounds as if this is a recent CD issue.

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

5 out of 10

Track Listing

SIDE-A
A-1	VERDI: La Forza del Destino	6:50
A-2	VERDI: Nabucco	7:48
SIDE-B
B-1	VERDI: I Vespri Siciliani	8:37
B-2	VERDI: La Travista: Prelude to Act I	8:37
B-3	VERDI: La Travista: Prelude to Act III	8:37

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 9, 1957.

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