Ansermet The Mono Era Classics 45 lps and one very nice bonus

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Ernest Ansermet-The Mono London/Decca recordings (Close to being complete)

Last month I sold a package just like this one. Since then I found two boxes filled with my other Ansermet LPS that I forgot about. I have assembled a package just as attractive and sold that. This is what is left. I am afraid this is the last of them as I don't except to find other boxes.

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This MY personal collection. It is the fruits of a wonderful disease called "Ansermetnia" which I caught in the late 70s. From the very first recording I heard, I knew I had to have every recording the Great Swiss Maestro made. I went to every record store, thrift shop, book store, etc, in Manhattan. I got every mail order catalogue listing in the classifieds on the magazines.. But now it is time to pass on these classics to someone else. I have transferred them to digital and stored them on DVD-rs. I need the space and the money. . I am only keeping the few duplicates and offering the top condition lp of the ones I have duplicates of in this package. As Time-Life says, you will spend years (As I have) finding a copy of each one of these lps. Be the beneficiary of my very hard work in collecting these classic recordings

Most of these recordings I do not have duplicates of as the are very hard to find. In addition, I do not think Maestro Ansermet would be happy with the equalization given to those that have made it to cd. The boosted bass and midrange given to the cds tend to blur and cover the detail he worked so hard to get.

None of the lps have any major flaws. I paid very high for most of them. If there are no scratches or scuffs I listed it as excellent. For a collection some 50 years old the condition is quite nice. The jackets all have very good to excellent artwork. However cardboard tends to deteriorate in 50 to 60 years and some are split. I listed them as such and will provide an lp bag to keep the jacket and lps safe.

Recommendation- Vinyl is vinyl, and even new lps need to be declicked. I user Magix Audio Cleaning Lab 15. It works wonders and is very cheap. Version 16 took away features such as the external editor. They may be up to version 17 or 18 now. You may be able to get version 15 very very cheap on Ebay.

Bonus

In the early 80s I wrote to the Suisse Romande for a detailed discography. Which recording of The 4 La Valses is which etc. They were so embarrassed that they did not know that they contacted Decca in England and had them send me the official File Cards for Ansermet's recordings. An example is below. I have scanned them and made two pdf files. One of 58 pages listing the dates and matrices and one of 78 pages with the catalogue numbers of the lps release and deletion dates. I sold a few of the PDF fiile sets CDr-Roms on Ebay for 50 dollars. It is included in this auction

Please email me with any questions

Will ship worlldwide

Shipping is not so bad for the USA as media mail is available. Outside the USA ignore the ebay calculator and email me.

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With the Suisse Romande unless noted

London L Series If you have seen any of these recordings in stereo it is a newer and different recording

1) LL 6

Rimsky Korsakoff-Sheherazade

Paris Conservatory

A LP Transfer of the 1948 78 Set

An extremely rare record

It was redone in Stereo in 1954 with the PCO with the SAME artwork

LP Very Good

Jacket-Artwork excellent top and bottom split-will supply lp bag

2) LL 130

Stravinsky Petrushka

The 1949 tape remake of the LPO 1946 earth shattering 78 set with Ansermet’s Own orchestra. One of the finest Musical performances ever set down on to vinyl

LP Excellent

Jacket very good

3) LL 391

1951

Schumann Sym # 1

There is no stereo remake. A well respected performance

LP Excellent

Jacket Good

4) LL 391

1951

Schumann Sym # 1

There is no stereo remake. A well respected performance

LP Excellent

Jacket Very Good

LL 695

1952

Handel Organ Concertos OP 4 # 1 & 2

Jeanne Demessiux

There are no stereo remakes

LP Excellent

Jacket very good

6) LL 797

1953

Ravel Piano Concerto in G

Ravel Piano Concerto for the Left Hand

Jacquline Blancard Piano

There afe no stereo remakes

LP Excellent

Jacket Very Good

7) LL 864

1953

Russian Music with the PCO

Prokofiev Sym # 1

Borodin in The Steppes

Mussorgsky Night on Bald Mountain

LP Excellent

Jacket Excellent artwork split on top and bottom will supply lp bag

8) LL 1232

1955

Bloch

Schlomo

Voice in the Wilderness

Zara Nelsova

There are no stereo remakes

If it was recorded in Stereo the tape was wiped

LP Excellent

Jacket Good to Very Good

9) LL 1156

1954

With the PCO

Ravel Bolero

Dukas Sorceror

Honegger Pacific 231

Ravel La Valse-Same recording as the Pictures Disc

LP Excellent

Jacket Very Good

10) MS 4

Special Anniversary record

Debussy Prelude 1953 recording

Chabrier Espana

Rimsky-Korsakoff May Night Ov

Borodin Prince Igor Ov

Prokofiev Love of 3 Oranges March

Stravinsky Circus Polka- No Stereo Remake

Saint Saens Danse Macabre

LP Excellent

Jacket Excellent artwork split will supply lp bag

10” records

11) LPS 54

1948

Haydn Sym 101

The LYS CD of this was from 78 shellacs. This was from the tape made concurrently with the 78s in 1948. The performance is sublime

LP Excellent

Jacket Excellent

12) LS 591

1952

Marcello Oboe Con

Roger Reversy Oboe

Vivaldi Bassoon Concerto n d

Henri Helaerts French Bassoon

LP Very Good

Jacket Very Good

13) LD 9031

Debussy Faun 1952

Ravel Alborada 1952

LP Excellent

Jacket Excellent

Decca Label-The British Mother Company

14) LXT 2769

4) 1952

Rimsky Korakoff

Cap Espagnol

L’ Coq Dor

There are no Stereo remakes-An Important LP

LP Excellent

Jacket None

15) ESC 515

Debussy La Mer 1951

Nocturnes 1951

Scottish March 1955

Richmond Label

These are later issues with the same sound but more modern vinvl. Some treasure them highly

20) B 19012

Rossini/Respighi La Boutique Fantastique

London Symphony

1950

From Anseremet’s ONLY recording session with the LSO

There is no stereo remake of this piece

Another classic

LP Excellent

Jacket Very Good

21) Stravinsky Sacre

The Classic 1950 recording

LP Excellent

Jacket Very Good

24) B 19100

1952

De Falla Three Cornered Hat

Suzzane Danco

NOT the 1961 stereo remake with Berganza

LP Excellent

Jacker Very Good

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25) R 23203

Rimsky Korsakoff

Antar 1954

Cap Espagnol 1951

LP excellent

Jacket Very Good

26) Very Rare 7” 45 rpm Weber Not Released in The USA

Decca CEP 594

Weber Jubel, Ov

Beethoven Corialon Ov

LP Excellent

Jacket Excellent

Records licensed by Decca/London on other labels

27) Sine Qua Non SQN 7728

Mussorgsky-Ravel Pictures 1953

Ravel; LA Valse with the PCO 1953

LP Very Good To Excellent

Jacket Very Good

28) Everest 3295

Stravinsky Firebird Suite 1950 No Stereo Remake

Sym of Psalms with the LPSO 1947

LP Sealed

Jacket sealed

29) Everest 3297

Julius Katchen Piano

Bartok PC # 3

Prokofiev Sym # 3

No stereo Remakes

LP Very Good to Excellent

Jacket acceptable

30) Everest 3285

Debussy /Ansermet 6 Ep Antiques NO Stereo Remake 1953

Debussy Jeux 1953

LP Very Good TO excellent

Jacket Acceptable

31) BONUS Record

Stravinsky Plays Piano

Seraphim 60183

Capricio

Ansermet Staram Orchstra

1930

Serenade in A

1934

Piano Rag Music

1934

Duo Concertante for Violin and Piano

1933

Samuel Dushkin Violin

LP Excellent

Jacket Excellent

Real Mono mixes

According to Mike Gray's Discogrpahy of Decca/London Records, when they started recording in stereo in May 1954, they still sent the usual mono crew and microphone setup and tape decks and electronics until 1962. After that they just recorded in stereo and folded both channels into a mono mix.

But here we have 11 lps of REAL mono mixes. Taken from the alternate crew's work. It gives a different perspective of the great work of Maestro Ansermet of the performances we are used to hearing from the work of the stereo crew

These records are very hard to find today. They are from my 30 years of collecting Ansermet.

32) London LL-1060

Rimsky Korsakoff Antar

Glazunov Stenka Razin

LP Very Good

Jacket Good

33)London LL-1392

Stravinsky

Capriccio for Piano and Orch’

Piano Concerto with Winds

Nikita Magalof Pioano

LP: Excellent