La Boheme Highlights

Media Condition:  Very Good Plus (VG+)
Sleeve Condition: Near Mint (NM or M-)
Country:    UK  
Released:  1963
Genre:       Classical, Stage & Screen
Style:         Romantic, Opera

Comments:
EXCELLENT COVER
 

Notes:

Repress from 1963.
The original version has a sleeve with scalloped (aka 'half-moon') flipbacks, see [r7620542.
This version has straight flipbacks to top and bottom snd labels with "RECORDING FIRST PUBLISHED 1960" under the Catalogue Number, unlike [r2490137.
The original version was released in 1960.

LABELS:
- Black/silver 'grooved wideband' labels
- "ORIGINAL RECORDING BY" at 11 o'clock
- "Made in England" at bottom
- "RECORDING FIRST PUBLISHED 1960"
- "N" above cat#
- "B.I.E.M." in a box on both sides
- Tax code "M/T"
- Matrix numbers printed upside-down

SLEEVE:
- Front laminated
- Straight two-way flipbacks
- Boxed Decca logos on front and back
- Large "STEREO" on front
- Thin spine with no text on it
- "© The Decca Record Co. Ltd. London, 1960."
- "Printed in England. St. James Press, London, S.E.1."
- "Laminated with 'Clarifoil' made by British Celanese Limited"
- Unsigned sleeve notes in English on back

CATALOG NUMBERS:
- SXL 2248 on sleeve
- SXL.2248 on labels

OTHER INFORMATION:
- Highlights from the complete recording on SXL 2170/1
- Recorded 1 - 9 August 1959 in Rome
- Labelography code: ED1
- Corresponding mono issue has cat# LXT 5608
- Sub tracks are not banded on vinyl
- Track listing taken from labels. Track title spelling is slightly inconsistent between labels and back sleeve

 

. Act 1
A1.a. Non Sono In Vena
A1.b. Che Gelida Manina
A1.c. Si, Mi Chiamano Mimi
A1.d. Momus, Momus!
A1.e. O, Soave Fanciulla
. Act 2
A2.a. Finale: La Commedia È Stupenda!
A2.b. Quando Me'n Vo
. Act 3
B1.a. Finale: Addio! Che Vai?
B1.b. Donde Lieta Uscì
B1.c. Addio, Dolce Svegliare
. Act 4
B2.a. In Un Coupè?
B2.b. O Mimi, Tu Più Non Torni
B3. Vecchia Zimarra: Finale
B4. Sono Andati?

 

Barcode and Other Identifiers:

Matrix / Runout ZAL-4907-2G C 2 B
Matrix / Runout ZAL-4908-3G K MT 1
Matrix / Runout ZAL.4907
Matrix / Runout ZAL.4908
Rights Society B.I.E.M.
Other M/T
Other N

 

Mastered At Decca Studios
Printed By St. James Press
Copyright (c) The Decca Record Company Limited

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