Dragon/Hollywood BSO: "Russkaya!" (Glinka, Tchaikovsky, etc): Capitol P 8384, NM

Jacket NM / LP NM

This beautiful LP – a superb collector's copy – from Capitol (P 8384, US pressing, rainbow label, mono) entitled "Russkaya!" features conductor Carmen Dragon and the Hollywood Bowl Symphony Orchestra in a captivating all-Russian music program, sumptuously recorded at Stage 7, Goldwyn Studios, Hollywood, California, in 1957.

The exact track list is as follows:

Mikhail Glinka: Overture to Russlan and Ludmilla

Traditional (orch. Carmen Dragon): The Volga Boatman

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov: Dance of the Buffoons, from The Snow Maiden

Anton Rubinstein (orch. Carmen Dragon): Kamennoi-Ostrow (Rêve Angélique)

Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky (orch. Carmen Dragon): Melodie, Op. 42 No. 3

Traditional (orch. Carmen Dragon): Meadowland

There are engaging liner notes (uncredited) on the reverse side of the jacket, printed in English only. The lovely cover art is similarly uncredited.