Stokowski rarest LP Yunus Emre Saygun

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May 15, 2019 Sold Date

Apr 15, 2019 Start Date

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Generally speaking if you're looking at this you know what you're looking for and have been looking for a very long time! Someone on Ebay in Turkey is listing a copy for $2500...... Albert Ten Brink ("A Classical Record" - store in Manhattan known as much as anything for featuring the World's Largest Cat - Crackers RIP, later replaced by Albert Junior - dog) had a copy back in the 1990s which he sold to a Stokowski completist. There were only 50 LPS pressed and it was a private edition. Stoki conducted this at the UN with the Symphony of the Air and a chorus from SUNY Potsdam. It may be the chorus that arranged for the recording to be put on LP (speculation on my part). See the below link for more info.

https://www.questia.com/library/journal/1G1-258435506/leopold-stokowski-s-rarest-recording-saygun-s-yunus
The pressing is not perfect, a couple of light scratches but I doubt that it was ever perfect, private LP with not the best vinyl (think Remington Records.......). It plays well, the surfaces are generally very quiet. Dave Canfield would have given this a B+ back in the good old days of Ars Antiqua.
Albert Ten Brink sold his copy for $500 years ago.

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