[78-L] Russian Opera - Prince Igor from.1945

[Michael Biel]

From: Clifford Bolling <78records at cdbpdx.com>
> I found some of these recordings with matching matrix numbers on the USSR label,
> this album is most likely pressed from those masters.

Thanks for the posting.

Judging from the style of the matrix number seen in the photo of side
two, these are not master pressings but are dubs.

Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: [78-L] Russian Opera - Prince Igor from.1945
From: Clifford Bolling <78records at cdbpdx.com>
Date: Sat, June 08, 2013 1:58 am
To: 78-l Online <78-l at 78online.com>

Here's something you don't see every day:
 
http://pdx78s.cdbpdx.com/ASCH8001/
 
Prince Igor opera by Alexander Borodin performed by the Bolshoi Theater
State Orchestra recorded in the USSR
and released on ASCH label as a 5 (12") record album set in late 1945,
album 800.  After WWII and before the
USSR became the cold war bad guys.  Probably didn't sell a lot of these
albums in the U.S. after 1948 or so.
 
I found some of these recordings with matching matrix numbers on the
USSR label, this album is most likely
pressed from those masters.
 
Enjoy!  CDB