DECCA BOXED SET OF 6-LPs: DECCA SOUND Collector's Edition - 2013 GERMANY SEALED

$

140

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Background -

Numbered, limited edition 180-gram audiophile vinyl six LP box set! Cut at Abbey Road Studios by Sean Magee; Pressed at Optimal in Germany and limited to 3,000 copies worldwide!

This beautifully produced Box Set has 6 of the most sought after and best sounding albums Decca has ever produced featuring some of the finest conductors and orchestras ever assembled! It's a must have for every collector, music and sound lover!

This unique limited edition LP set features six outstanding Decca recordings from the golden era of analogue stereo recording. Spanning a period of twenty years from 1954 and the early days of stereo through to 1974 when analogue stereo recording had achieved an unprecedented level of sonic excellence and Decca's "ffss" (Full Frequency Stereophonic Sound) was internationally acclaimed. The recordings in this set have been selected from a collection of 50 celebrated recordings in the 54-CD set Decca Sound - The Analogue Years. Newly presented in luxury 180-gram vinyl pressings the set also includes a newly written book detailing the history of the Decca Sound from this period.

In the late 1940s, the pioneering Decca recording engineers perfected a new set of microphone techniques that allowed the full range of frequencies to be fully heard by listeners for the first time, and the term 'full frequency range recording' (ffrr) was launched. It was a major revolution in sound quality, and the beginnings of high fidelity. Perfected with the birth of stereo in the mid-1950s, Decca's 'Full Frequency Stereophonic Sound' (ffss) became a worldwide hallmark of sonic excellence and a golden age of classical recorded music was born.

The Analogue Years presents six LPs on 180-gram vinyl from those celebrated international recordings that emerged from the London-based record label in that pre-digital era.

• DECCA RECORDS 6-LP BOXED SET - this item is FACTORY SEALED

• Records pressed in GERMANY

• Pressings are in STEREO

• Record Speed: 33 1/3 rpm

• Produced as an audiophile reissue, on 180-gram virgin vinyl and out of print

• Records made in 2013

• Record Catalog Number: SXL 2400

Featured on this Boxed set of LPs -

• Six (6) Classic Analogue LP Titles - see details below

LP Box Title:

• Decca Sound

Track Listing:

• LP 1 -
  
• Ravel: L'Enfant et les sortilèges
• Recorded in 1954
• First released as SXL 2212
• Ernest Ansermet conducting
• L'Orchestre de La Suisse Romande                                                 
  

• LP 2 -
  
• Rossini: Overture to La Gazza Ladra
• Rossini: Overture to La Scala di Seta
• Rossini: Overture to Il Barbiere di Siviglia
• Rossini: Overture to Semiramide
• Rossini: Overture to Guglielmo Tell
• Recorded in 1960
• First released as SXL 2266
• Pierino Gamba conducting
• London Symphony Orchestra                                        
  

• LP 3 -
  
• Bruch: Scottish Fantasy, Op.46
• Hindemith: Violin Concerto
• Recorded in 1962
• First released as SXL 6035
• Horenstein, Hindemith conducting
• London Symphony Orchestra                                              
  

• LP 4 -
  
• Sibelius: Symphony No.1 in E minor, Op.39
• Sibelius: Karelia Suite, Op.11
• Recorded 1963
• First released as SXL 6084
• Lorin Maazel conducting
• Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra                                     
  

• LP 5 -
  
• Kodaly: Hary Janos Suite
• Kodaly: Dances of Galata
• Kodaly: Orzses Song & Chicken Song from Hary János
• Recorded 1964
• First released as SXL 6136
• Istvan Kertesz conducting
• London Symphony Orchestra                                         
  

• LP 6 -
  
• Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring
• Recorded 1974
• First released as SXL 6691
• Sir Georg Solti conducting
• Chicago Symphony Orchestra
  

CONDITION Details:

The 6-LP Boxed Set is from the rare DECCA // UNIVERSAL (UMG) series of audiophile LPs.

• Catalog # SXL 2400
• LPs were issued in 2013
• LPs were made in Germany
• Limited edition and Numbered boxed set - #X of 3000 made for worldwide sales
• Already OUT OF PRINT

The LPs, OUTER BOX and INSERTS are all in MINT condition, as this item is FACTORY SEALED!!

This CD is an audiophile quality pressing (any collector of fine MFSL, half speeds, direct to discs, Japanese/UK pressings etc., can attest to the difference a quality pressing can make to an audio system).