ROYAL BALLET - Gala Performances

Ernest ANSERMET - Royal Opera House

Stunning Copy Of A Legendary Recording  

These 200g Pressings were Tremendously Limited : 
Less than 500 were issued !

Record Conditions

This is the long out of print Classic Records audiophile reissue of the famous album titled "The Royal Ballet - Gala Performances" (RCA - LDS 6065-45).

It consists of #9 SINGLE SIDED 45 RPM RECORDS, PRESSED ON 200 GRAM Quiex SV-P (Super Vinyl Profile)

They are packaged in a beautiful black and gold heavy box, sealed with 200 Gram Sticker on the front of shrink wrapping.

The Royal Ballet has historically been the most highly sought after of the RCA Living Stereo releases. Recorded in Kingsway Hall by the legendary Kenneth Wilkinson, this title features selections from The Nutcracker Suite, Swan Lake and Sleeping Beauty among others. 

The performances are conducted by Ernest Ansermet directing the Royal Opera House Orchestra and the sonics are incomparable.

The result is a sound that is as close as you can get to the original master tapes !

Mastered by Bernie Grundman himself using the first generation 3-track UK Decca/RCA Living Stereo master tapes. 

Meticulously and loving pressed on Super Vinyl-Profile (SV-P ) virgin vinyl. 
This half-speed mastered 45rpm #9-LP deluxe box set achieved sound quality that virtually every leading audiophile critic ranked better (by far) than the Soria box .
Classic Records used the same Master Tape to make this record as RCA did , but Classic mastered it at Half-speed .

This process enables more of the frequency and spatial resolution of the musical signal to be transferred from tape to laquer, resulting in greater signal to noise ratio and wider dynamic range.

Then after meticulously and artfully executing each of the several critical steps in between, super virgin vinyl was used to produce these stunning records, achieving incomparably accurate transfer of the musical information from the stampers to the LP, and significantly reducing (Basically eliminating) surface noise.
On the other hand, even when they were new, many RCA shaded dogs suffered from high levels of surface noise, primarly because of poor or inconsistent vinyl.

Finally, only this Classic edition was made when the master tapes were still relatively free of age-related degradation and was pressed at the RTI Pressing plant. 

Track Listing:

Tchaikovsky: from the Nutcracker Suite 
1. March
2. Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy
3. Arabian Dance
4. Chinese Dance
5. Dance of the Toy Flutes
6. Waltz of the Flowers

Rossini-Respighi: from the La Boutique Fantastique 
7. Tarantella
8. Andante mosso
9. Can-Can

Delibes: from Coppelia 
10. Introduction (Allegro marcato) and Mazurka - Act I
11. Introduction (Andante) and Waltz - Act I
12. Czardas - Act I
13. Valse de la Poupee - Act II

Adam: from Giselle 
14. Introduction and Waltz - Act I
15. Pas de Deux and Variation - Act II

Tchaikovsky: from Swan Lake 
1. Scene - Act II
2. Dance of the Little Swans (Pas de Quarte) - Act II
3. Scene* - Pas de Deux - Act II
4. Waltz - Act II
*solo violin: Charles Taylor

Schumann: from Carnival 
5. Pierrot
6. Reconnaissance
7. Aveu
8. Pantalon et Columbine
*Orchestration by Glazounov, Rimsky-Korsakov, Liadov and Tcherepnin for original Diaghileff production

Tchaikovsky: from the Sleeping Beauty 
9. Introduction - The Lilac Fairy - Prologue
10. Rose Adagio - Pas d' Action - Act I
11. Waltz - Act I

Chopin: from Les Sylphides 
12. Overture: Prelude in A major, Opus 28, No. 7
13. Mazurka in C major, Opus 67, No. 3
14. Grande Valse Brillante in E flat major, Opus 18