Originally recorded at the Cass Technical High School Auditorium in Detroit, this exceptional mixture of French composition was recorded using a three-microphone rig to 35mm magnetic film. Using a film medium was an extremely expensive procedure but the technical advantages, including no hiss, truer transient response, no flutter plus extremely accurate delineation of the timbre of the instruments was worth it.

Paul Paray premiered Ibert's Escales and has a remarkably clear-eyed view of it. He was 75 when he made this, his second, recording of it with the Detroit Symphony.

Track Listing:
Side 1
Ravel
Rapsodie Espagnole
Alborada del Gracioso
Pavane pour une Infante Defunte

Side 2
Ravel
La Valse
Ibert
Escales