[78-L] Malcolm Sargent - Messiah

[David Lennick]

I know where my copy is, but didn't feel like going out to the garage to check it.

dl

On 3/11/2013 5:09 PM, Randy Watts wrote:
> And your guess would be correct. The records in MM-666 are 71910-D/71928-D.
>
> Randy
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>> From: David Lennick<dlennick at sympatico.ca>
>> To: 78-L Mail List<78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
>> Sent: Monday, March 11, 2013 3:37 PM
>> Subject: Re: [78-L] Malcolm Sargent - Messiah
>>
>> Disc numbers for US Columbia 78s:
>> 71891/71909D in M 666, per WERM which always opted to list the manual version
>> unless there was no choice. Columbia's 1949 catalog shows MM 666 but no disc
>> numbers (71910/71928D would be my guess).
>> English Columbia set number is 313, no prefix (per 1948-9 catalogue). Manual
>> sequence DX 1283/1301, auto sequence DX 8223/8241.
>>
>> On 3/11/2013 4:29 PM, David Lennick wrote:
>>> SL 51 might be manual and SL 151 auto sequence. I have it on 78s, with
>>> slipcase, and it's master pressings (and it occasionally turns up on eBay with
>>> a million dollar price tag..per volume).
>>>
>>> 666..funny, from a company that abandoned a 13000 series because of
>>> superstitious customers 20 years earlier.
>>>
>>> dl
>>>
>>> On 3/11/2013 4:27 PM, Thomas Stern wrote:
>>>>       Questions about the 1946 Malcolm Sargent recording of MESSIAH - this is the version with Isobel Baillie, Gladys Ripley,
>>>> James Johnston, Norman Walker, the Huddersfield Choral Society, and the Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra.
>>>>
>>>>       According to the DUTTON reissue (2CDEA 5010) this was recorded Huddersfield Town Hall, 12-17 July, 26 September 1946.
>>>>
>>>> Columbia(UK) DX 1283-1301 (CAX 9572-9609)  19 disks    IS THERE A SET NUMBER?
>>>> Columbia(US) Set 666  19 disks, in 2 volumes.          WHAT ARE THE Disk numbers?
>>>>       Is the US version dubbed ?
>>>>
>>>> The US Columbia set appears to have been reissued on LP in set SL-51 or SL-151 (3-LPs).  There appear
>>>> to be 2 versions - a slipcased set, with 3 LP's in individual jackets, notes and texts on the jackets,
>>>> and also a conventional BOX containing 3 LP's and libretto.
>>>>
>>>> Can someone enlighten me on the catalog numbering scheme of the SL-51 issue ?
>>>> When was the Slipcase packaging used?  when was it replaced by a conventional Box?  or were they same era???
>>>> Slipcase appears to indicate set SL-51, 1st disk is SL-51, disk 2 and 3 SL-151, also numbered ML-4110, 4111, 4112).
>>>> Box issue appears to be set SL-151.
>>>>
>>>> Any other variants?
>>>>
>>>> Was this set issued on LP in the UK ?
>>>> Was this set issued on CD in the UK or US (other than DUTTON) ?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks!
>>>> Best wishes, Thomas.
>>>>
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