Mussorgsky 'Night on Bald Mountain' - Sir Adrian Boult conducts

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! ... Incidentally the orchestra was listed as the New Symphony Orchestra but that may have been a contractual pseudonym for one of the main London orchestras. (Chesky CD 53.) Note that this is a reissue of a video originally uploaded 14 years ago but with the audio level increased!