Argenta Cantelli Tureck Elman Campoli Szigeti Prihoda

	£		3,100
	$		4,108

This outstanding collection of 233 LPs (12 inch) and 17 EP (10 inch records) with focus on early stereophonic orchestral recordings contains many audiophile gems especially from golden RCA & Decca years and the EMI studio legacy. It also contains some of the finest and extremely rare Cello, Violin & Piano recordings (part. mono) never seen together in one auction.

You’ll find many valuable and rare mono & stereo records issued in the 50's & 60's including the

- Decca SXL 2000 Series / 6000 Series (deep groved UK silver-wideband ‘Original recording by’)

- Decca UK promo label (stereo)

- ARGO ZRG oval logo

- London CS deep-grooved silver-wideband label

- Decca LXT (orange-gold and orange-silver),

- HMV ALP (UK red-gold)

- HMVASD (UK white-gold label & semi-circle label)

- Columbia SAX (UK blue-silver label)  

- Columbia UK (blue-gold) 33CX

– Columbia SMC & STC (German white-gold label including earliest stereo gatefold issues)

- Columbia SMC German white promo label

- EPIC BC Stereo label

- RCA LSC ‘Living Stereo’ (shaded dog)

- Mercury SR (plum) Living Presence

- Philips plum Hi-Fi Stereo Label

- Telefunken Stereo label (12 inch) and black-gold Mono label on 10inch.

- various Westminster labels (including the blue-band early WST label, the black-red circle WST label and monophonic WL label)

- early Urania swirl label

Featuring some of the greatest musicians including:

Violinists, Cellists and Chamber Music Ensemles:  Beaux Arts Trio / Alfredo Campoli / Kyung-Wha Chung / Mischa Elman / Christian Ferras / Pierre Fournier / Maurice Gendron / Ivry Gitlis Arthur Grumiaux / Heutling Quartet / Ludwig Hoelscher / The Julliard String Quartet / Leonid Kogan / Gideon Kremer / David Oistrakh / Vesselin Parashkevov / Vasa Prihoda / Ruggiero Ricci / Karl Suske / Joseph Szigeti / Jacques Thibaud

Pianists / Accompanists: Claudio Arrau / Wilhelm Backhaus / Jorge Bolet / Shura Cherkassky Van Cliburn / Alfred Cortot / Clifford Curzon / Byron Janis / Christian Ferras / Annie Fischer / Edwin Fischer / Emil Gilels / Jakob Gimpel / Clara Haskil / Wilhelm Kempff / Wanda Landovska / Gustav Leonhardt / Dinu Lipatti / Walter Olbertz / Cecile Oussset / Hans Pischner / Maurizio Pollini / Leon Pommers / Rafael Puyana / Michael Raucheisen / Hans Richter-Haaser / Sviatoslav Richter / Artur Rubinstein / Solomon / Rosalyn Tureck / Mitsuko Uchida

Conductors: Claudio Abbado / Ataulfo Argenta / Ernest Ansermet / John Barbirolli, Sir Thomas Beecham / Sir Adrian Boult / Eduard von Beinum / Richard Bonygne / Adrian Boult / Guido Cantelli / André Cluytens,  Antal Dorati, Anatole Fistoulari / Øivin Fjeldstad / Ferenc Fricsay / Wilhelm Furtwangler /Alceo Galliera / Pierino Gamba /Alexander Gibson / Carlo Maria Giulini / Herbert von Karajan / Istvan Kertesz / Aram Khatchaturian / Rudolf Kempe / Erich Kleiber / Hans Knappertsbusch / Otto Klemperer / Kiril Kondrashin / Josef Krips / Rafael Kubelik / John Lanchberry / Erich Leinsdorf / Peter Maag / Lorin Maazel / Igor Markevitch / Neville Marriner / Jean Martinon / Lovro von Matacic / Zubin Mehta / Pierre Monteux / Charles Munch / Paul Paray / George Prêtre / Fritz Reiner / Hermann Scherchen / Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt / Constantin Silvestri / William Steinberg / Walter Susskind / Sir Georg Solti / George Szell / Bruno Walter / Albert Wolff

Due the large amount of this collection I’m not able to display all records with an own description - here’s a selection from early stereophonic Decca & RCA recordings:

RCA

LSC 1806 Strauss: Also sprach Zarathustra – Chicago Symphony Orchestra / Reiner

LSC 1901 Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6 – Boston Symphony Orchestra / Pierre Monteux

LSC 1984 Ravel: Bolero / La Valse / Rhapsodie Espagnole + Debussy: Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun – Boston Symphony Orchestra

LSC 2183 The Reiner Sound – Chicago Symphony Orchestra / Reiner

LSC 2214 Dvorák: Symphony No. 9 ‘From the new world’ – Chicago Symphony Orchestra / Reiner

LSC 2225 Whitches Brew – New Symphony Orchestra of London / Gibson

LSC 2252 Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 1 in B-flat minor – Cliburn / RCA SO / Kondrashin

LSC 2285 Walton: Façade Suite + Lecoq: Suite from ‘Mamzelle Angot’ – Orchestra of the Royal Opera House Covent Garden / Fistoulari

LSC 2313 Venice (Operatic Overtures and Preludes) - Orchestra of the Royal Opera House Covent Garden / Solti

LSC 2348 Beethoven: Symphony No. 7 – Vienna Philarmonic / Karajan

LSC 2355 Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No. 3 in D minor– Cliburn / Symphony of the Air Orchestra / Kondrashin

LSC 2369 / Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4 – Boston Symphony Orchestra / Monteux

LSC 2374 Bartók: Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta + Hungarian Scetches – Chicago Symphony Orchestra / Reiner

LSC 2405 Sibelius: Symphony No. 5 + Karelia Suite – London Symphony Orchestra / Gibson

LSC 2413 Debussy: String Quartet in G minor + Ravel: String Quartet in F major – The Julliard String Quartet

LSC 2455 Schumann: Piano Concerto in A minor – Cliburn / Chicago Symphony Orchestra / Reiner

LSC 2466 Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 2 B-flat major – Richter / Chicago Symphony Orchestra / Erich Leinsdorf

LSC 2567 Poulenc: Concerto for Organ, Strings and Timpani + Stravinsky: Jeu de Cartes – Boston Symphony Orchestra / Charles Munch

LSC 2673 Mendelssohn: A Midsummer Night’s Dream – Boston Symphony Orchestra / Munch

VICS 1017 Stravinsky: Le Sacre du Printemps – Paris Conservatoire Orchestra / Monteux

VICS 1066 Ballet Music from ‘Nutcracker’, ‘Carnaval’, ‘Coppelia’ & ‘Giselle’ - Orchestra of the Royal Opera House Covent Garden / Ansermet

DECCA

SXL 2009 Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique – Paris Conservatoire Orchestra / Argenta

SXL 2010 Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 4 in G major – Backhaus / Vienna Philharmonic / Schmidt-Isserstedt

SXL 2012 Grieg: Peer Gynt – London Symphony Orchestra / Øivin Fjeldstad

SXL 2013 Brahms: Symphony No. 1 – Vienna Philharmonic / Rafael Kubelik

SXL 2045 Schubert: Symphony No. 9 ‘Great C major’ – London Symphony Orchestra / Krips

SXL 2110 Schubert: Piano Quartet in A minor ‘trout’ – Clifford Curzon / Members of the Vienna Octet

SXL 2113 Music of Rimsky-Korsakov – OSR / Ansermet

SXL 2128 Adam: Giselle – Paris Conservatoire Orchestra / Martinon

SXL 2266 Rossini: Ouvertures – London Symphony Orchestra / Pierino Gamba

SXL 2136 Debussy: La Boite a Joujoux / Printemps – OSR / Ansermet

SXL 2313 Hérold-Lanchberry: La Fille mal Gardée - Orchestra of the Royal Opera House Covent Garden / Lanchberry

SXL 6000 Khachaturian: Spartacus / Gayaneh – Vienna Philharmonic / Khachaturian

SXL 6002 Adam: Giselle – Vienna Philharmonic / Karajan

SXL 6111 Bartók: Suite from ‘The Miracolous Mandarin’ / Music for Strings, Percussion and Celestra – London Symphony Orchestra – Georg Solti

SXL 6157 Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4 – Vienna Philharmonic / Maazel

SXL 6159 Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 1 – Vienna Philharmonic / Maazel

SXL 6162 Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 2 – Vienna Philharmonic / Maazel

SXL 6163 Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 3 – Vienna Philharmonic / Maazel

SXL 6188 Adam: Le Diable a Quartre – London Symphony Orchestra / Richard Bonynge

SXL 6227 Bruckner: Symphony No. 4 E-flat major – London Symphony Orchestra / Kertesz

SXL 6223 Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 ‘Choral’ – Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra / Sutherland / Horne / King / Talvela / Schmidt-Isserstedt

SXL 6236 Sibelius: Symphonies Nos 5 & 7 – Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra / Maazel

SXL 6253 Dvorak: Symphony No. 7 D major – London Symphony Orchestra / Kertesz

Ignore the ebay shipping cost ! Due to the large amount of this lot (60 kg) this lot has to be shipped in three large boxes of 20 kg. As a result the shipping costs esp. to Asia and US are very high (www.dhl.de).

POSTAGE GERMANY: 32,70 €

POSTAGE EU including UK registered shipment 93,00 € / 126 US $ / 82,50 GBP

POSTAGE USA + Canada: registered shipment: 192 € / 261 US $

POSTAGE ASIA registered shipment: 252 € / 342 US $

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This is a private auction, so no warranty whatsoever can be given. Item is located in Germany. Multiple orders can be combined to reduce postage costs.

You (should) know the artists, the issues of this collection and about it’s tremendous artistic and monetary value – which is – let’s say two dimensions above usual single-item auctions. So good luck for your bid(s) to rise to this unique occasion.

 Due a customer's request I noticed I forgot a word on the condition of the vinyl and the cover sleeves: e

As advanced collector it has always been one of my priorities to by my records in the best possible condition. After listening to this large lot for years I'd like to emphasize that most records and their cover sleeves offered in this auction are in near mint quality (nm+ / nm / nm-). Few stereo issues appear vg+ grading the vinyl and sleeves.

Most jacket appears in excellent condition with in perfect condition apart from minimal edge/ring wear. Esp. some Deccas got slight ring wear at front before I bought them (I stored many in protective sleeves), but still in very desirable condition after all.

Most vinyl surfaces are near mint with  full glossy surface, some with with spindle marks, many simply perfect without any surface defaults -more mint than nm, but some have show some lonely scuff(s) without much sound affection.

A minority of the lot, especially the monophonic records, are average vg / vg+ on vinyl and sleeves - so the most monos do have some ticks and some ground noise when playing. The sleeves as well mostly has more visible edge and ring wear, some sleeves with small defects like beginning spilt-up, but some of these issues are nearly up to 58 years old with signs of former ownership. But I think there is nothing to worry about when we are talking about the condition of this lot; many superb copys are just in a stunning, very outstanding condition and it is not sure that you might get better ones anywhere.

In the Artist's list I forgot to mention that this auction also contains recordings of Carl Schuricht and legendary Michael Rabin.