[78-L] Mussorgsky's MARRIAGE (the opera, not the actual nuptials)

David Lennick dlennick at sympatico.ca
Mon Dec 13 16:36:33 PST 2010


Further thought..D 011919-22 could be correct if the set was reissued in the 
sixties. The Westminster album, on two discs, splits a couple of the acts with 
what sound like very arbitrary cutoffs, so the original was probably on 3 
Soviet LPs.

dl

On 12/13/2010 4:52 PM, David Lennick wrote:
> Comrades..does anyone have the original Soviet issue numbers for Mussorgsky's
> opera "The Marriage", issued in 1956 as Westminster OPW 1202? The CLOR opera
> discography gives it as Melodiya D 011919-22, which is impossible since those
> numbers are used around 1963. Audio quality (if you want to call it that)
> sounds like early 50s and the Westminster issue date is right on the album.
>
> dl
>
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