An Equal Music: Music From The Bestselling Novel

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Release Date: 2000

Label: Decca

Cat# for the set is 466 945-2.
Cat# for CD1 is 466 946-2.
Cat# for CD2 is 466 947-2.
UN 925 is on the back cover.

Over 2 1/2 hours of music featured in the bestselling novel. Includes world premiere CD recording of Beethoven's String Quartet in C minor.

This 2-CD set is filled with all the works which are at the heart of Vikram Seth's remarkable musical novel in readings specially selected by the author. Several pieces have been especially recorded and one (Beethoven's Op.104) receives its first ever recording for CD.

This compilation ℗ 2000 The Decca Record Company Limited, London. Package © 2000 The Decca Record Company Limited, London. Front cover image © 2000 The Orion Publishing Group Limited. Photo of Venice courtesy of Photonica. CD is made in Germany. Printed in Germany. Made in Germany.

DX2.
Tracks 2-6 and 2-8 DDD/ADD (Analogue to Digital Remaster). Booklet Enclosed.

Tracks 1-1 to 1-5, 1-10 ℗ 2000 The Decca Record Company Limited, London.
Tracks 1-6 to 1-9 ℗ 1994 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Hamburg.
Tracks 1-11 to 1-12 ℗ 1991 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Hamburg.
Track 1-13 ℗ 1986 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Hamburg.
Tracks 2-1 to 2-5 ℗ 1984 The Decca Record Company Limited, London.
Track 2-6 ℗ 1796 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Hamburg.
Track 2-7 ℗ 2000 The Decca Record Company Limited, London.
Track 2-8 ℗ 1972 The Decca Record Company Limited, London.
Track 2-9 ℗ 2000 The Decca Record Company Limited, London.
Vikram Seth's liner notes written in London, November 1999.
David Ylla-Somers and Christiana Frobenius translations copyright Decca 2000.
Augustin Dumay appears by kind permission of EMI France.

Mastering/Compiling by Audio Archiving Ltd. Tracks 1-1 to 1-5, 1-10, 2-7, 2-9 recording and post-production facilities by Abbey Road Studios. Recording Location: Studio 1, Abbey Road Studios, London, 31 October & 1 November 1999 (1-2 to 1-5, 1-10), 8 November 1999 (1-1, 2-7, 2-9). Publisher: Oxford University Press (2-8).

Stereo.
Total time: 159:14
CD 1: 80:29
CD 2: 78:45

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