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cost to ship these six record is:

Shipping via REGISTERED AIR MAIL : 

Italia: 8,00 UK Pounds (10 euro - 14 USD)

Europe: 17,00 UK Pounds (19 euro - 27 dollars) 

Rest of the world: 25,00 UK Pounds (29 euro - 41

Oceania: 30 UK Pounds (34 euro - 47 dollars)

Hans Knappertsbusch

conducts the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra,

Soloists and Chorus

in a performance of

Wagner’s ‘Die Meistersinger von Nurenberg’

on Six Decca Orange and Gold label Mono (No Stereo Issue) LPs, LXT 2659/64

FIRST PRESSING 1956

Hans Knappertsbusch’s legendary reading of Wagner’s Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg – recorded 2-9 September 1950 (Act II) and 11 – 22 September 1951 (Acts I & III) in the Grosser Saal of Vienna’s Musikverein.

The incomparable cast boasted Paul Schoeffler as Hans Sachs, Otto Edelmann as Veit Pogner, Hugo Meyer-Welfing as Kunz Vogelgesang, Wilhelm Felden, Karl Dönch as Sixtus Beckmesser, Alfred Poell as Fritz Kothner, Erich Majkut as Balthasar Zorn, William Wergnick as Ulrich Eisslinger, Hermann Gallos as Augustin Moser, Harald Pröglhöf as Hermann Ortel and the Night Watchman, Franz Bierbach as Hans Schwarz, Ljubomir Pantscheff as Hans Foltz, Günther Treptow as Walthar von Stolzing, Anton Dermota as David, Hilde Gueden as Eva, Else Schürhoff as Magdalene, the Staatsopernchor, and the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra on resplendent form.

 Knappertsbusch is not always admitted to the pantheon of ‘greatest’ conductors, denied entry for an alleged waywardness, if not unevenness of achievement. But this is true of any conductor, and if in certain repertoire (Tchaikovsky’s Nutrcracker?) he was found wanting, elsewhere – and particularly in Wagner – his mastery was impregnable. It was in the opera pit that his re-creative powers burned most intensely, his long partnership with the VPO making for incandescent performances, nowhere more so than in this unforgettable account of Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg. Added to that is a cast seldom equaled and never surpassed, a fabled catalog of great Wagnerian singers. Decca’s engineers were well up to the task, faithfully capturing the glowing acoustics of the Musikverein with no loss of presence or theater to stagecraft.

GRADING

records has a "deep groove" (an indent in the label about 1/2-inch from the edge of the label, which on SOME labels is associated with very early or first pressings).

RECORD Visual grade:

 Label's gold 1 ed

·         LXT 2659 The vinyl needs a clean, appears to have a number of visible hairline surface marks: VG plus side one/Very good side two (n.12)

·         LXT 2660 The vinyl needs a clean, appears to have a number of visible hairline surface marks, none that I can feel with my finger-nail:VG plus both side

·         LXT 2661 The vinyl needs a clean, appears to have a number of visible hairline surface marks, none that I can feel with my finger-nail :VG plus both side

·         LXT 2662 The vinyl needs a clean, appears to have a number of visible hairline surface marks, none that I can feel with my finger-nail:VG plus both side 

        LXT 2663 The vinyl needs a clean, appears to have a number of visible hairline surface marks, none that I can feel with my finger-nail:VG plus both side

·         LXT 2664 The vinyl needs a clean, appears to have a number of visible hairline surface marks, none that I can feel with my finger-nail:VG plus both side

         Please be aware that the records have not be tested, all have been visually inspected only, the LPs did not previously belong to me, please refer to my feedback

 COVERS:  all six cover EX plus (no splits) 

 LABELS: Nm/NO SPINDLE HOLE

STRICT GRADING !

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Shipping via REGISTERED AIR MAIL : (1 kg. or less - 1 to  3 LPs UNBOXED)

Italia: 7,80 UK Pounds (9 euro - 12 USD)

Europe: 12,00 UK Pounds (13 euro - 18 dollars) 

Rest of the world: 16,00 UK Pounds (18 euro - 27 dollars ) 

Oceania: 21 UK Pounds (24 euro - 34 dollars)

Shipping via REGISTERED AIR MAIL : (up 1 kg. 3-6 to  LPs)

Italia: 8,00 UK Pounds (10 euro - 14 USD)

Europe: 17,00 UK Pounds (19 euro - 27 dollars) 

Rest of the world: 25,00 UK Pounds (29 euro - 41

Oceania: 30 UK Pounds (34 euro - 47 dollars)

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