Albert Wolff.

Albert Wolff was one of the great conductors of French repertoire and had a hugely popular reputation throughout Europe, not only as a conductor of Orchestral work but also of Opera, which he was closely associated with the legendary Opera Comique in the early 1920's and several other opera companies later on (including the Metropolitan Opera in New York after World War 1). He was responsible for many premiers of important works all throughout his career and his later stereo recordings (he died in 1970 so he was well into the LP period) are benchmarks of technique as well as stellar examples of the recording art.

But today we're going to play a work by a composer he was very much associated with early on. Claude Debussy and the 1928 recording of Nuages and Fetes from Nocturnes. Albert Wolff conducts the Lamoureux Orchestra. Wolff made a vast quantity of recordings for Polydor and not all of them have been reissued on CD. I'm not sure if this one has, but you get to hear it now nonetheless.

Perfect Sunday music.