If you've ever been in one of those old theaters with a pipe organ built into the walls, you'll have a good idea what to find here, minus the physical force of a theater sized instrument. If you haven't, this won't sound like what you expect, maybe. Very odd sounding. Cheesy, authoritative and strangely intriguing.
1) Danse Macabre (Saint-Saens)
2) Mazurka From Masquerade (Khatchaturian)
3) March Fantasy (Hunter-Emig)
4) In A Persian Market
5) Theme From Scheherazade (Rimsky-Korsakov)
6) Ritual Fire Dance (Manuel de Falla)
7) Polovtsian Dances (Borodin)
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i have the stereo version of this record, it was a warhorse audiophile demo record back in the day, with exceptionally vivid sound for its time. my fave tracks were Dance Macabre, Mazurka from Masquerade, In a Persian Market and Theme from Scheherezade which is probably the most beautiful of all the tracks. Robert Hunter ["Georges Montalba"] was the organist, performing on the lorin whitney robert-morton theatrical pipe organ in the now-defunct lorin whitney studios, an organ which hollywood used for various movie soundtracks [such as "The Ghost & Mr. Chicken"]. on this 1958 recording mr. hunter [RIP 2001] was accompanied by 2 percussionists which really makes this record stand out among the sea of organ records- rhythmmic accompaniment, who'd a thunk it? what a concept! alas, the original master tape of this performance was recorded over and no longer exists, so the only reissue [by Hit Thing Records in 2001] was from a specimen monophonic original pressing. the stereo pressing beats the pants off of the mono, AFAIC.
ReplyDeletei always heard that "Georges Montalba" was rumored to be Anton lavey under an alias(?)
ReplyDeletereally? whether it's true or not, i'll run with it!
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