Most newsworthy to many listeners is the headliner on this disc: Macal's presentation of The Dream of the Peasant Gritzko in its first appearance on CD. This hair-raising choral-orchestral version of Night on Bald Mountain, in which Macal and his New Jersey Symphony are joined by the Westminster Symphonic Choir, is a virtuosic tour-de-force for all concerned. In this verson the listener is face-to-face with Mussorgsky's original concept of this music as it was inserted in his unfinished opera, Fair at Sorochinsky. Demonic choral outbursts (sung by Westminster with ferocity and abandon), a bass solo for the satanic leader, strange and exotic harmonic combinations in the orchestration (played with elan and precision by the New Jersey Symphony), all display Mussorgsky's unique vision.