The Nine Symphonies Of Beethoven

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Release Date: 1964

Label: Longines Symphonette Society

No Catalog Number appears on the release packaging

Alternate Title: Beethoven's Nine Great Symphonies

Tracks are auto-coupled

Track A3: Release Title - Mennetto is incorrect; This error comes from transcribing the last page of the enclosed booklet
Track C1: Release Title - 3rd Movement - Scherzo is incomplete
Track C3: Release Title - Correct title is Leonore Overture No. 3 ; The work is Opus 72b
Track H3: Egmont Overture is Opus 84
Track L1/Side 12 - Tracks L1 and L2 are labelled as 'Symphony No. 7 In A Major, Op. 92' above the spindle hole and 'Symphony No. 8 In F Major, Op. 93' below the spindle hole. The 'Symphony No. 8 In F Major, Op. 93' title is repeated between tracks L2 and L3.
Track L1: Release Title - 3rd Movement - Presto; Presto Meno Assai is incorrect
Track N2: Release Title - 2nd Movement - Molto Vivace; Presto is incomplete
Track O1: Release Title - 3rd Movement - Adagio Molto E Cantabile; Andante Moderato is incomplete
Track P1: Release Title - 4th Movement - Presto; Allegro Assai. Choral Finale On Schiller's "Ode To Joy" is incomplete; The Choral Finale On Schiller's "Ode To Joy" has the following forms: Alla marcia; Allegro assai vivace; Andante maestoso; Adagio ma non troppo, ma divoto; Allegro energico, sempre ben marcato; Allegro ma non tanto; Prestissimo, Maestoso, Molto prestissimo

The 8 LPs have Longines Symphonette 'Gold Medal Recording' paper sleeves

Includes 24p Illustrated Booklet with the following frontpage information: "Notes on the Symphonies of Beethoven: A Pictorial History of the composer's life and times, with comments by Josef Krips and Excerpts from the diaries of Alexander Wheelock Tayer / prepared especially for the Beethoven Festival recordings made by the London Symphony Orchestra under Mr. Krips / Edited by Frederic V. Grunfeld / A Gold Medal Presentation of the Longines Symphonette Recording Society"

Purchase of this release directly from the Longines Symphonette Recording Society included a Free Bonus album Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Sir Eugene Goossens, London Symphony Orchestra - Scheherazade

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