Beethoven Nine Symphonies

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Release Date: 1965

Label: Angel Records

Auto-coupled release, but track numbers are listed sequentially

BOX:
- Black box containing 8 LPs, leaflet and booklet
- Catalog Number: H-3619 (on spine)

LABELS:
Labelography Code: US-LB-S-2: US | Light Blue | Stereo | Iteration 2
- Release Dates: February 1965 - December 1969
- Notes:
-- Small Recording Angel logo at top
-- Silver decoration around label circumference
-- "Mfd. in U.S.A." or "Manufactured in U.S.A." above
-- STEREO in serif font


LEAFLET:
- 1 Page (Titles):
--- "BEETHOVEN NINE SYMPHONIES"
--- "COMPLETE ON EIGHT DISCS"
--- "THE PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA conducted by OTTO KLEMPERER"
--- Artist details / Corresponding Angel Records catalog numbers
--- Catalog Number: 3619 H (35954-61) on booklet

BOOKLET:
- 28 pages (12" x 12")
- Page 1 (Titles):
--- "BEETHOVEN NINE SYMPHONIES"
--- "THE PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA conducted by OTTO KLEMPERER"
--- Portrait of Beethoven
--- Catalog Number: 3619 H (35954-61)
- Pages 2 to 3 - LP contents / Artist details / Copyright dates (℗ 1961 Capitol Records, Inc.)
- Pages 4 to 6 - "A Foreward By The Conductor" (Otto Klemperer, translated by Walter Legge)
- Pages 7 to 8 - "A Note By Lotte Klemperer"
- Pages 9 to 10 - "On Listening To Beethoven's Symphonies" (Ernest Newman)
- Pages 10 to 23 - Musical notes on the 9 Symphonies (Ernest Newman)
- Pages 24 to 25: Schiller's Ode "To Joy" ("An Die Freude"), German with literal translation by William Mann
- Page 26: Portrait of Klemperer
- Page 27: Discography - "Dr. Otto Klemperer Conducting the Philharmonia Orchestra on Angel"
- Page 28: Catalog Number - 3619 H (35954-61)

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