Andrea Chénier (Highlights)

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Album Info

Release Date: 1958-09-15

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 1958"
- "B.I.E.M" in a box on both sides
- No speed indication on labels
- Matrix numbers printed upside-down

SLEEVE:
- Fully laminated
- 'Half-moon' flipbacks (aka scalloped)
- Blue border on back
- Triangular "DECCA STEREOPHONIC" logo on front and on back
- Thin spine with no text on it
- "Printed in England" on bottom flipback
- Printing date on sleeve is August 1958 ("58.8")
- Sleeve notes in English on back

CATALOG NUMBERS:
- SXL 2014 on sleeve
- SXL.2014 on labels

OTHER INFORMATION:
- Excerpts from the complete recording which was first issued in mono with cat# LXT 5411-2
- These highlights are the first stereo issue
- The complete opera was issued in stereo in 1960 with cat# SXL 2208-10
- Recorded July - August 1957 in Rome
- Labelography code: ED1

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

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