"An excellent transfer of Stokowski's extraordinary 1953 recording of his own revision of Night on Bare Mountain... The couplings are equally spectacular." Gramophone
"Immaculately transferred from pristine LP originals, the sound is surprisingly wide range and effective. Thanks Cala!" Classical CD Reviews
"[...the Mussorgsky piece]...proves so effective that it sets a watermark of orchestral execution for this virtuoso tone-poem" Audiophile Audition
Stokowski's championship of Slavic repertoire was well-known, and this disc features a number of his own arrangements of it, including his spectacular version of Night on Bare Mountain which featured in Walt Disney's Fantasia.
| 1 | Mussorgsky (arr. Stokowski) | A Night on Bare Mountain | 9:47 |
| | Mussorgsky (arr. Rimsky-Korsakov) | Khovantchina Suite | 17:13 |
| 2 | | | | Prelude— Dawn over Moscow |
| 6:21 |
| 3 | | | | Dance of the Persian Maidens |
| 6:03 |
| | (arr. Stokowski) | | | Entr'acte—Prince Galitsin's Journey |
| 4:49 |
| 5 | Rimsky-Korsakov | Russian Easter Festival Overture Nicola Moscona bass | 13:40 |
| 6 | Glière | Russian Sailor's Dance from The Red Poppy | 3:22 |
| 7 | Tchaikovsky | Polonaise from Eugene Onegin | 4:14 |
| 8 | Borodin | In the Steppes of Central Asia | 9:03 |
| 9 | Borodin (arr. Stokowski) | Dances of the Polovetzki Maidens from Prince Igor | 14:47 |
TT: 74:28 |