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Release Date: 1963Label: Cambridge Records
The recording is audibly in stereo, but the labels and sleeve claim Mono.[On front cover]
A Recital of Organ and Harpsichord Pieces to commemorate the Four-hundredth Anniversary
of Sweelinck's birth, performed by Gustav Leonhardt.
The front cover contains a contempory depiction of The Oude Kerk, Amsterdam.
[Derived from sleeve notes]
Mr. Leonhardt has used a Dutch early eighteenth century organ in the Larenskerk in Alkmaar.
For these recordings, Mr. Leonhardt has used a French harpsichord of the early eighteenth
century.
The organ must be identified as the one built by van Hagerbeer, and later expanded by
Frans Caspar Schnitger.
This release depicts on front cover the monogram of Sweelinck, and a logo (C-over-disc) of
presumably Cambridge Records. In addition, the above-mentioned text about an anniversary
is printed instead of any 'performed by'. On the back cover two forthcoming releases of
Cambridge are claimed for 1963. All these features are absent in the later release
J. P. Sweelinck: Variations, Toccatas, Fantasies: A Recital of Organ and Harpsichord Pieces Performed By Gustav Leonhardt.