Uma das melhores gravações do catálogo Living Stereo apresenta Kiril Kondrashin a conduzir a RCA Victor Symphony Orchestra na performance brilhante da The Masquerade Suite de Aram Khachaturian e The Comedians de Dmitri Kabalevsky. Produzido por Richard Mohr e gravado por Lewis Layton, música gloriosa com incrível qualidade de som.

• Edição Limitada
• Vinil 200 Gramas Audiófilo 33rpm
• Corte a partir das Master Tapes Originais Analógicas
• Prensagem na Quality Record Pressings QRP USA
• Acetatos processados por Gary Salstrom
• Masterizado por Ryan K. Smith na Sterling Sound
• Capa "tip-on" Deluxe

RCA's "golden age" was more like a "golden minute" - in a scant period, roughly from 1958 to 1963, the beginning of the stereo era - pure vacuum tube amplification helped produce recordings demonstrating unparalleled fidelity and warmth, lifelike presence and midband illumination.

"In 1938, Dmitri Kabalevsky provided incidental music for a play produced by the Central Children's Theater in Moscow, titled 'Inventor and Comedian.' The score is light and witty and its expressive language quite direct, as was expected in Stalin's Soviet Union at that time. But here Kabalevsky was aiming at young audiences and had good reason to write tuneful, rather simple music. The play's plot deals with a traveling group of entertainers who are more clowns than comedians. Two years later Kabalevsky extracted 10 numbers from the score for his suite The Comedians, which would become his most popular work, with only the overture to his opera Colas Breugnon even remotely rivaling it. His effort was quite successful in distilling the work's best moments into a 15-minute suite, which he scored for small orchestra." - All MusicGuide

"...I'd have to say that the usual stumbling blocks have been sidestepped. Great care has been taken to do the right things, starting with the way the decision to remaster these RCAs was made." - Jonathan Valin, The Absolute Sound

"These records are definitive." - Michael Fremer, AnalogPlanet

Músicos:

RCA Victor Symphony Orchestra
Kiril Kondrashin, conductor

Lista de Faixas:

Aram Khachaturian (1903-1978)
Masquerade Suite

Dmitri Kabalevsky (1904-1987)
The Comedians