Sir Adrian Boult made only one recording of any of Mussorgsky's music: this 1960 performance of "Night on Bald Mountain" for Reader's Digest. Its producer, Charles Gerhardt, 'tarted up' the Rimsky-Korsakov score with a few ideas of his own, notably in the percussion (added side-drums, cymbal crashes and gong strokes) as well as deleting the recurring brass 'fanfare' motifs familiar in the Rimsky edition. Sir Adrian seems to have enjoyed letting his hair down, what little of it there was!. (Chesky CD 53.)
It's Modest Mussogrsky not Rimsky-Korsakov. I'm just saying.
brotherwally 2 months ago
@brotherwally ... The published score of "Night on Bald Mountain" most generally used is the one edited and arranged by Rimsky-Korsakov, who turned it into quite a different piece. It was the one used for this recording, apart from the few changes mentioned. See the Wikipedia article on this work for confirmation! If you want the original Mussorgsky score (or scores, as there were more than one, including a choral version) you should find them here somewhere.
adam28xx 2 months ago