LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN - The Nine Symphonies

Item Description

9 x Vinyl,
LP Compilation Stereo

BOX:
- Black box containing 9 LPs and booklet
- Back of box is plain black (no text or illustrations)
- Catalog Number: SLS 788/9 (on spine)

LABELS:
- HMV 3rd series ASD labels (colour Nipper logo)
- Original ASD catalog numbers (prior to BOX renumbering)
- "MADE IN GT BRITAIN" at 6 o'clock

BOOKLET:
- 24 pages (12" x 12")
- Page 1 (Titles):
--- "BEETHOVEN THE NINE SYMPHONIES"
--- Portrait of Beethoven
--- "OTTO KLEMPERER" / "THE PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA"
--- Catalog Number: SLS 788/9
- Pages 2 to 3 - LP contents / Corresponding ASD catalog numbers / Artist details / Copyright dates
- Pages 4 to 6 - "A Foreward By The Conductor" (Otto Klemperer, translated by Walter Legge)
- Pages 7 to 8 - "On Listening To Beethoven's Symphonies" (Ernest Newman)
- Pages 8 to 19 - Musical notes on the 9 Symphonies (Ernest Newman)
- Pages 20 to 21: Schiller's Ode "To Joy" ("An Die Freude"), German with literal translation by William Mann
- Pages 22 to 23: Notes on Beethoven's Music For The Theatre (© William Mann, 1970)
- Page 23:
--- "RECORD NUMBERS ASD 2560-2568 [IE 063 ◦ 00794-00802 X]"
--- "Stereo Library Series No. 788/9"
--- "E.M.I. RECORDS (The Gramophone Company Ltd.) E.M.I. HOUSE, 20 MANCHESTER SQUARE, LONDON, W.1"
--- "G.T. Phillips Ltd." / "Printed in Great Britain"
- Page 24: Sketch portrait of Beethoven

COPYRIGHT DATES (as per labels / booklet pages 2 & 3):
- ℗ 1958 (Symphonies 1, 6, 8 & 9, Egmont Incidental Music)
- ℗ 1959 (Symphony No. 2, Prometheus Overture, King Stephen Overture, Coriolan Overture)
- ℗ 1960 (Symphonies 4 & 5, Consecration of the House Overture)
- ℗ 1961 (Symphonies 3 & 7)
- ℗ 1962 (Fidelio Overture)
- ℗ 1964 (Leonora Overtures 1, 2 & 3)