Cosi Fan Tutte (Highlights)

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Album Info

Release Date: 1959-06

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"
- No speed indication on labels
- Decca 'Musical Notes' logo on both sides
- Matrix numbers printed upside-down

SLEEVE:
- Laminated on front and back
- 'Half-moon' flipbacks (aka scalloped)
- Black and white back, there were no blue border sleeves
- Triangular "DECCA STEREOPHONIC" logo in a box on front and without a box on back
- Thin spine with no text on it
- "© The Decca Record Co. Ltd., London, 1959"
- "Printed in England" on bottom flipback
- Printing date on bottom flipback is April 1959 ("4-59")
- Short sleeve notes and photos of the vocalists on back

CATALOG NUMBERS:
- SXL 2058 on sleeve
- SXL.2058 on labels

OTHER INFORMATION:
- Recorded 16 - 21 May 1955 in the Redoutensaal, Vienna
- Labelography code: ED1
- Excerpts from the complete opera recording which was issued in the UK in 1955 with cat# LXT 5107-9
- Sub tracks in tracks A2 and A3 are not banded on vinyl.

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