Petrushka

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Album Info

Release Date: 1958

Label: Decca

This is the first UK stereo version.

Labels:
- Black/silver 'grooved wideband' labels
- "Original recording by" at 11 o'clock
- "Made in England" at bottom
- "Recording first published 1958"
- "Hawkes" on both sides
- "B.I.E.M." in a box on both sides
- Matrix numbers printed upside-down

Sleeve:
- Laminated on front and back
- 'Halfmoon' flipbacks (aka 'scalloped')
- Blue border on back
- Triangular "Decca Stereophonic" logo on front and back
- Thin spine with no text on it
- Printing date on sleeve is September 1958 ("58.9")
- "Printed in England" on back of sleeve

Catalog number locations:
- SXL 2011 on sleeve
- SXL.2011 on labels

Other information:
- Recorded 23 October - 9 November 1957 in Victoria Hall, Geneva
- Corresponding mono issue has cat# LXT 5425
- Labelography code: ED1
- This is Ansermet's second recording of Petrushka for the Decca label

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

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