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Just as RR has produced this recording, and the recent Mahler 1 Symphony, so did this ensemble excel in an earlier era.
The late Vox/Moss Music Group arranged some great recordings with the Utah Orchestra with Maurice Abravanel in decades past. I recall reading, in this publication years ago, that Vox/MMG recordings, in that case of the Minnesota Orchestra and Ravel, were regarded among the finest of the late 1980s, 1990s.
RR deserves praise for continuing the legacy left by the Vox/MMG organization. Perhaps RR can expand its coverage of US orchestras, as it has of late, and continue a more recent tradition, now seemingly abandoned, by the Telarc label.
In any event we are fortunate that Vox/MMG, Telarc, and now RR, carry on with the venerable tradition of recording great American ensembles of the classical genre.