Peer Gynt (Incidental Music To Ibsen's Play)

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Album Info

Release Date: 1958-09-15

Label: Decca

This is the first UK version for this cat#

Labels:
- Black/silver 'grooved wideband' labels
- "Original recording by" at 11 o'clock
- "Made in England" at bottom
- "Recording first published 1958"
- Decca 'Musical Notes' logo on both sides
- Matrix numbers printed upside-down

Sleeve:
- Fully laminated
- 'Half-moon' flipbacks (aka scalloped)
- Blue border on back
- Triangular "Decca Stereophonic" logo on front and back
- Thin spine with no text on it
- "Printed in England" on bottom flipback
- "Cover illustration by Arthur Rackham from Ibsen's Peer Gynt reproduced by kind permission of the publishers, G. G. Harrap and Co. Ltd." on back
- Printing date on sleeve is August 1958 ("58.8")
- Liner notes in English on back

Catalog number locations:
- SXL 2012 on sleeve
- SXL.2012 on labels

Other information:
- Recorded 17 - 19 February 1958 in Kingsway Hall, London
- Labelography code: ED1
- Corresponding mono issue has cat# LXT 5441
- Sub tracks in tracks A3 and B3 are not banded on vinyl.

Advertised as a new release in "Decca Stereo LPs for Issue 15th September", Gramophone magazine, September 1958.

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