Richard Pennycuick wrote:

>The magazine also contains the startling news that Mercury has released
>"...a stereo Scheherezade (with Rimsky-Korsakov conducting)..." made in
>1958.  I've always been in awe of Mercury's recording techniques but I had
>no idea they were this good!

Check out their reissued LPs. They include the Firebird, the PRokofiev disc
with Scythian Suite, the Chabrier/Paray disc--I forget the other three.
(Two were of silly repertoire.) These were reproduced with tube electronics
under the supervision of the original producer, Wilma Cozart. They are
simply magnificent in terms of sound.

Roger Hecht