"Emperor" Concerto

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Album Info

Release Date: 1960

Label: Decca

This is the first UK version for this cat#

LABELS:
- Black/silver 'grooved wideband' labels
- "ORIGINAL RECORDING BY" at 11 o'clock
- "Made in England" at bottom
- "RECORDING FIRST PUBLISHED 1959"
- Decca 'Musical Notes' logo on both sides
- Matrix numbers printed upside-down

SLEEVE:
- Front laminated
- 'Half-moon' flipbacks (aka scalloped)
- Triangular "DECCA STEREOPHONIC" logo in a box on front and without a box on back
- Thin spine with no text on it
- "© The Decca Record Co. Ltd., London, 1959"
- "Cover shows the portrait of Beethoven painted in 1806 by Neugass for Prince Carl Lichnowsky"
- "Made in England"
- "Printed in England"
- "Laminated with 'Clarifoil' made by British Celanese Limited"
- Printing date on sleeve is May 1960 ("5-60")
- Unsigned sleeve notes in English on back

CATALOG NUMBERS:
- SXL 2179 on sleeve
- SXL.2179 on labels

OTHER INFORMATION:
- Recorded 27 - 28 June 1959 in the Sofiensaal, Vienna
- Labelography code: ED1
- Corresponding mono issue has cat# LXT 5553
- Tracks are not banded on vinyl

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