![](/web/20170202144310im_/http://www.45worlds.com/classical/image/001/thumb/jacqueline-du-pre-schumann-cello-concerto-saintsaens-cello-concerto-no1-cm-t.jpg) | If I may stoop to a more unworthy subject than this music should allow for a moment, and speak about value....
...It's worth saying that whereas with other classical titles are a bit like trying to win the lottery, in that you have to have every single ball matching all... |
![](/web/20170202144310im_/http://www.45worlds.com/assets/wpx/cm-blank-t.gif) | Given the date of 1970 (and what with the label design change to "poatage stamp" logo occuring around 1968-9), I believe my copy to be the first variety of label for this title, with the colourised postage stamp logos...
...my matrices (plate numbers) for Sdies 1 and 2... |
![](/web/20170202144310im_/http://www.45worlds.com/classical/image/001/thumb/youri-egorov-bunte-blatter-arabeske-cm-t.jpg) | Youri Egorov's live performance of the Bunte Blätter:
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![](/web/20170202144310im_/http://www.45worlds.com/classical/image/001/thumb/berlin-philharmonic-orchestra-herbert-von-karajan-konzert-fur-violone-und-orchester-dmoll-op-47-finlandia-op-26-cm-t.jpg) | [url=http:/<wbr>/<wbr>www.45worlds.com/<wbr>classical/<wbr>music/<wbr>138961slpm]Stereo[/<wbr>url] record[/url] |
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![](/web/20170202144310im_/http://www.45worlds.com/classical/image/001/thumb/jo-vincent-largo-ombra-mai-fu-ave-maria-cm-t.jpg) | Here you can hear her beautiful voice:
[url=https:/<wbr>/<wbr>commons.wikimedia.org/<wbr>wiki/<wbr>Category:Jo_Vincent?uselang=nl#mw-subcategories]Jo Vincent[/<wbr>url][/url] |
![](/web/20170202144310im_/http://www.45worlds.com/classical/image/001/thumb/the-choir-of-kings-college-cambridge-requiem-op-48-cm-t.jpg) | Added music (without track 2-04 Pavane):
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![](/web/20170202144310im_/http://www.45worlds.com/classical/image/001/thumb/zubin-mehta-the-los-angeles-philharmonic-orchestra-holst-the-planets-cm-t.jpg) | Indeed I will (sod's law I won't find a single one now!)...
I even see the tell-tale: "ZAL" matrix prefix over the catalogue number on the label now.
Along with "XAL", and "ARL", which announce a record's Decca-ness. I found this very helpful when I found those pink label... |
![](/web/20170202144310im_/http://www.45worlds.com/classical/image/001/thumb/zubin-mehta-the-los-angeles-philharmonic-orchestra-holst-the-planets-cm-t.jpg) | I think you should, MM - there's a site around somewhere (I forget it's name) that has compared the UK Decca and US London pressings, and IIRC they were all made from the same plates at Decca's Southampton factory. |
![](/web/20170202144310im_/http://www.45worlds.com/classical/image/001/thumb/zubin-mehta-the-los-angeles-philharmonic-orchestra-holst-the-planets-cm-t.jpg) | Seeing this made me think: "Do I have a Holst: Planets in my collection?"
...and it seems I don't yet :(
However having poked my nose about a bit, I realise now these U.S London issues with CS cat# are the U.S pressings of U.K Decca SXLs.
(This particular one being the... |
![](/web/20170202144310im_/http://www.45worlds.com/classical/image/001/thumb/ursula-van-diemen-margherita-perras-laudate-dominum-ave-maria-cm-t.jpg) | Ursula van Diemen (1897 - 1988) sings "Laudate Dominum" from Vesperae solennes de confessore, KV 339 (W.A. Mozart), played on an acoustical gramophone:
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![](/web/20170202144310im_/http://www.45worlds.com/classical/image/001/thumb/richard-crooks-the-holy-city-the-star-of-bethlehem-2-cm-t.jpg) | Composed in 1892, with music by Michael Maybrick writing under the alias Stephen Adams, lyrics by Frederic Weatherly. (from Wikipedia)
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