UK Decca SXL 6906 Shostakovich 15 Haitink LPO Mint NewOS 1G3G Audiophile AS List
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Played once by me mint record in a near mint or mint sleeve. Quality checked before sealing by the shop owner back then, opened because I wanted to confirm the quality and hear it. Playback is full range spectacular sonics audiophile, hence it is on Arthur Salvatore's list of best sounding lp's. Bernard Haitink conducting the London Philharmonic Orchestra in the Symphony No.15 of Shostakovich. This is as thrilling an LP as the Mravinsky 7th for me. Even the Dutch ones go for £25, but a proper English first pressing is far more scarce, especially in this condition. Note the 1G3G Ted Burkett stampers as well, signify a best possible mastering. What a way for Decca to end the 1970s!. This would have been around the time that Haitink was their at least principal guest conductor, if not main. A friend who played in the 1st Violin section back then told me that he then had a quality to him that was exceptional in his generation, the tawdry and over used term star quality does not do it justice, a form of aura in his view, from the music making they had together, and that all of the orchestra shared a similar serene glow from the pleasure of what they performed with him in rehearsal and on stage. The incomplete cycle he made of this composers Symphonies on Decca are similarly rather special. About 20 years ago I bought the complete backroom vinyl stock of a Hi Fi shop that was closing down. These were mainly well reviewed classical lps in their full priced versions, many first pressings from the 70s to the 1990s. I am now listing some of the sealed examples for the first time. These were quality control checked in the shop and then sealed in house for eventual sale, and those I have had for myself are all pristine and unmarked, flat and not off centre, playing perfectly, so were not the demonstration stock. They are mainly the late vinyl Decca's, plus some Phillips and EMI, so I have saved the best until last. All of these late 70s to 80s Decca lps are made for high end cartridges, best suited to an Elliptical or better tip. There's no point in trying to play these with a cheap old conical, it might struggle. Our ethos is to offer you best sounding analogue only pressings of vintage records. Here is another beauty of that type. We offer massive postage subsidies to overseas buyers on multiple purchases. i.e £1 extra per lp to a maximum of £15, then no extra charge. We pack carefully in custom made hard card boxes. If the appearance or playgrade suggests it requires it, our records are cleaned on a wash and vac machine, using art du son fluid in distilled water. This is already in a new heavy poly outer with antistatic inners added with outer sleeve and records all layered behind each other to prevent splits.
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