New World Symphony

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Release Date: 1959

Label: Decca

Early UK pressing with blue-back sleeve and E/T purchase tax code on labels.

LABELS:
- Black/silver 'grooved wideband' labels
- "ORIGINAL RECORDING BY" at 11 o'clock
- "Made in England" at bottom
- "RECORDING FIRST PUBLISHED 1958"
- Tax code "E/T"
- 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
- Printing date on sleeve is August 1958 ("8/58")
- Liner notes in English on back

CATALOG NUMBERS:
- SXL 2005 on sleeve
- SXL.2005 on labels

OTHER INFORMATION:
- Recorded 3 - 4 October 1956 in the Sofiensaal, Vienna
- Labelography code: ED1
- Corresponding mono issue has cat# LXT 5291
- The numbering as "Symphony No. 5" still follows the old numbering convention for Dvorak's symphonies.
 Later on, this has become known as Symphony No. 9.

Advertised as a new release in "Decca Stereo LPs for Issue 27th August", Gramophone magazine, September 1958.

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