Mercury Records Collection: SR-90203: Bouquet de Paray

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SR-90203: Bouquet de Paray / Detroit Symphony, Paray

Label Type :	maroon Mercury type ?
Matrix Number :	SIDE-A	SR 90203A FR2 P17 B3 I
	SIDE-B	SR 90203B FR3 P17 B2 I

Comments

Equivalent release: Mercury MG-50203 (mono).

FR pressing: this early pressing with FR2/FR3 stampers sounds nice.

Personal Impression (and brief notes)

All four tracks are very famous popular titles. Paul Paray and DSO plays so refreshing performances of these tunes. A-1 is a too famous track everybody knows. A-2 is very interesting track with cute melodies, which I like much.

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

7 out of 10

Track Listing

SIDE-A
A-1	ROSSINI: William Tell Overture	11:12
A-2	SAINT-SAËNS: Danse Macabre	6:55
SIDE-B
B-1	WEBER: Invitation to the Dance	9:09
B-2	LISZT: Mephisto Waltz	10:44

Personnel

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

Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Paul Paray (cond).
Recorded at Ford Auditorium, Detoit, MI on January 16, 1959.

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

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Front	Back

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Side A	Side B

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