Recently oiked out a much-neglected Music For Pleasure LP of Tchaikovsky (Nutcracker suite) and Mendelssohn (Midsummer Nights Dream suite). I was surprised to find it played by the Hollywood Bowl Symphony Orchestra conducted by Felix Slatkin as that fact had never registered with me.

Doing a bit of digging I found it was from a 1957 US-only Capitol disc. The MFP disc (undated) hails from the days when it was a Paul Hamlyn company, and the pressing quality would put many modern-day releases to shame.

With sparkling performances in Capitol's "Full-dimensional sound" this was a happy find. The recording is wide rather than deep, and more like a "pit orchestra" sound than the typical concert-hall.