This is the Hollywood Bowl! (with Rabin) - Capitol SABO 8496 (2LP set)

Jacket VG / LPs EX

This beautiful and rare 2 LP-Book gatefold set – a superb collector's copy – from Capitol (SABO 8496, US pressing, rainbow label / stereo logo at 9 o’clock) entitled "This is the Hollywood Bowl!" features a remarkable issue limited-edition deluxe issue that combines an in-bound 15-page, lavishly illustrated booklet with 2 LP’s of great performances made by the stalwarts of the Hollywood Bowl, and with several cameo appearances by the likes of violinist Michael Rabin, pianist Leonard Pennario, et al.

The exact contents of the 2 LPs are as follows (all performances with the Hollywood Bowl SO):

Side 1

Tchaikovsky: 1812 Overture – Felix Slatkin, conductor

Rimsky-Korsakov (arr. Heifetz): Flight of the Bumblebee – with Michael Rabin, violinist and Felix Slatkin, conductor

Debussy (arr. Dragon): Reverie – Carmen Dragon, conductor 

Side 2

Addinsell: “Warsaw” Concerto – Leonard Pennario, pianist and Carmen Dragon, conductor

Puccini: Musetta’s Waltz, from La Boheme – Alfred Newman, conductor

Strauss II: The Blue Danube Waltz – Felix Slatkin, conductor 

Prokofiev: March, from The Love for Three Oranges – Alfred Newman, conductor

Brahms: Hungarian Dance No. 6 – Carmen Dragon, conductor

Side 3

Planquette: Le Regiment de Sambre et Meuse – Alfred Newman, conductor

Rozsa: “Spellbound” Concerto – Leonard Pennario, pianist and Miklos Rozsa, conductor

Khachaturian: Sabre Dance, from Gayane – Alfred Newman, conductor

Chopin (arr. Dragon): Polonaise Militaire – Carmen Dragon, conductor

Benjamin: Jamaican Rhumba – Carmen Dragon, conductor

Side 4

Bizet: Chorus, from Carmen – Roger Wagner Chorale, and Roger Wagner, conductor

Strauss: Waltz Sequence, from Der Rosenkavalier – Felix Slatkin, conductor 

Rimsky-Korsakov: Dance of the Buffoons, from The Snow Maiden – Carmen Dragon, conductor

Tchaikovsky: Waltz of the Flowers, from The Nutcracker – Felix Slatkin, conductor