The Goldberg Variations

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Album Info

Release Date: 1956

Label: Columbia

Green/Silver Columbia labels.

This version is earliest Canadian issue of the ML 5060 LP and was pressed by Columbia Records in Toronto using green labels.

These versions are referred to the "Picasso" versions of the album and are very rare to find in pristine condition.

Columbia expects that fewer than 750 copies were pressed using the earlier green label as the label change to the darker blue label occurred sometime soon after the LP's release in 1956.

The original 1950s mono Goldberg Variations albums were housed in special cardboard jackets with a heavy cardboard pull out inner sleeve that contained the continuation of the liner notes on one side. Both label variations use a simple silver ink on a solid colour paper label.

The album was re-pressed from 1956 through 1960 on the darker blue labels [https://www.discogs.com/release/6960235].

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