In 1996, some recordings of the show were discovered, including a complete recording of the last episode to air.
Alas, there is no complete recording of them available.
Mr. Gardiner will soon offer the first complete recording of "Oberon" in its original English version.
Dorothy Barnhouse's version in the complete recording had fireworks to spare but also precision.
Another Mercury activity was a complete recording of "Julius Caesar," released last May by Columbia Records.
Both new releases are part of a projected complete recording of Bernstein's music by Naxos, using several conductors and orchestras.
A complete recording of the opera, financed and conducted by Herrmann, was produced by the Pye label in 1966.
That may seem young, but Yehudi Menuhin finished the first complete recording of the six works in 1936, when he was 20.
Still, the most startling music here is the suite from the opera "The Nose," a major work that sorely needs a new complete recording.
"RCA came to us that time and said, we need the orchestra for this first complete recording of 'Follies' that we want to do.
But here, following up on his fourth album of Verdi arias, just released, is an ample opportunity for all to judge: a complete recording of Puccini's "Boheme".
