JOHN TAVENER "The Whale" RARE '70s RING'O ISSUE Nr MINT

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JOHN TAVENER "The Whale" RARE RING'O RECORDS Nr MINT ICONOCLASTIC WORK 1st ISSUED ON THE BEATLES APPLE LABEL

JOHN TAVENER
The Whale

UK RING'O RECORDS (2320 104 SUPER) SECOND PRESSING OF JOHN TAVENER'S "The Whale" 
ORIGINALLY RELEASED ON THE BEATLES APPLE LABEL IN 1970 THIS REISSUE, ON RINGO STARR'S OWN RING'O RECORDS LABEL DATES FROM THE MID 1970s AND IS SERIOUSLY RARE (ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION)

It was the premiere of The Whale, in January 1968, which made Tavener's reputation.
The first performance was given by the newly formed London Sinfonietta under David Atherton.
The piece, a cantata for soloists, chorus, tape and 'men with loud hailers', was enthusiastically received, with Tavener being hailed as the boy wonder of British music.
Ringo Starr was given a tape of 'The Whale' and Tavener met John and Yoko for a dinner and music evening in Kensington - the next day Lennon decided to issue Tavener's music on the newly formed Apple label

THIS COPY IS IN EXCEPTIONAL CONDITION AND HAS POSSIBLY NEVER BEEN PLAYED
THE PICTURE LABELS ARE CLEAN AND BRIGHT WITH NO SPINDLE TRACES, THE VINYL DELIVERS JUST ABOUT THE FINEST, CRYSTAL CLEAR, WARM AND CLEAN AUDIO YOU ARE LIKELY TO FIND AND THE NON-GATEFOLD COVER, “Printed in England by Robert Stace” IS SHARP AND FRESH

MATRIX NUMBERS: 2320104 A//1 UT 11 4 / 2320104 B//1 UT 11 2

The Whale is a "dramatic cantata" written by the English composer John Tavener in 1966. The work is loosely based on the biblical allegory of Jonah and the Whale, although Tavener admitted that "the 'fantasy' grew and perhaps at times nearly 'swallowed' the biblical text: so the swallowing of Jonah became almost 'literal' in the biblical sense."
The libretto includes the words of an encyclopaedia entry describing certain facts about the whale, and this is contrasted with themes within the music which attempt to portray the reality of the whale itself, whose existence is greater than the sum of all the facts about it.
The Whale comprises three main sections:
Opening (Biblical Narrative)
Melodrama and Pantomime (Storm)
Prayer (In the belly of the Whale).
It was premiered at a Proms concert on 1 August 1969, with the London Sinfonietta under David Atherton with soloists Anna Reynolds, Raimund Herincx, Alvar Liddell and the composer playing pipe and hammond organs.
In July 1970, The Whale was recorded in Islington, London with the same musicians and released as an album by The Beatles' Apple Records label later that year.
The album was re-released in the mid-1970s on Ringo Starr's own, Ring'O Records label, with a different cover.

Side A: The Whale (Part 1) 18:23
Side B: The Whale (Part 2) 13:15

LABELS: CLEAN and BRIGHT with NO wear, NO writing and NO spindle traces - COMPLETELY UNPLAYED, IN MY OPINION
VINYL Visual: The vinyl surfaces are LIKE NEW and retain their original DEEP, GLOSSY sheen
VINYL Audio: SUPERB - CRYSTAL CLEAR, RICH AND WARM SOUND. On playback at a LOUD volume there are NO scratches, NO jumps/sticks, NO loud clicks/pops and only some very light, low-level surface noise apparent on some of the quieter passages (and there are many quiet sections with sparse instrumentation) - virtually unavoidable considering the vinyl medium but nothing I found AT ALL intrusive on play-grading this MASTERPIECE. This is a TREMENDOUS (if challenging) piece of work which plays to the highest standard with NO groove-wear and NO distortion and is very critically graded EXCELLENT++ for audio - but in my opinion, just about the finest sounding copy you will hear (certainly the finest I have heard as the very quiet passages are always testing for the vinyl medium)
SLEEVE: The matte cover is CLEAN, BRIGHT and FRESH with just some light surface rubbing and light corner wear otherwise, EXCELLENT+

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