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Genre:Classical Style:Classical
General notes about this release (please note: our version may differ a little. see the comments above):
LABELS:
- Cream label (1st variant), i.e.:
--- brown swirl design across upper half of label
--- red Classics For Pleasure logo
- "MADE IN GREAT BRITAIN" at 12 o'clock
- "℗ 1965" at 6 o'clock
SLEEVE:
- Front laminated
- No flipbacks
- "PHOTOGRAPH: ERICH LESSING (Shows the piano at which Beethoven played and composed in his brother's house at Gneixendorf, by the banks of the Danube. Beethoven spent his last summer here)"
- "Printed in England by Robert Stace"
- "This STEREO record can also be played with a suitable MONO pick-up"
- "MUSIC FOR PLEASURE LTD, 80 BLYTH ROAD, HAYES, MIDDLESEX"
OTHER INFORMATION:
- Mono version first issued in the UK in 1958 as His Master's Voice ALP 1576 with "Egmont" Overture coupling.
- Stereo version originally released in France as La Voix De Son Maître ASDF 173 with "Egmont" Overture coupling.
- UK Classics for Pleasure release omitted this coupling, hence the side 2 matrix differences.
- This Classics for Pleasure release is therefore not a "Reissue" as it "does not appear in its original form". See RSG §6.17.1.
- Recording first issued on Classics for Pleasure in 1973.
- The company address on the sleeve back of this submission suggests that this variant dates from 1974 or later. See [l89085.
