I did not "forget" "The Rubinstein Story" (LM/LSC-2265). The subject was single LPs packaged in boxes. LM/LSC-2265 was not packaged in a box. It is a gatefold album. Therefore I didn't think it qualified for inclusion. Nor was it part of the Soria series. Nor was anything from Giselle, which was not packaged in a box.

  There were numerous RCA Victor single LPs packaged in gatefold containers. 

  I presume the Horowitz Soria series album to which you refer is LD-7021 (two records of mono material). I bought mine in Chicago when it was issued.

  Don Tait

 

 

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Roger Kulp <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Fri, Apr 26, 2013 7:37 pm
Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] Single LP box sets


You forgot The Artur Rubenstein Story,or whatever they called it.Not to mention 
the Giselle.Those Sorias are in a class by themselves.I have all of them except 
the La Voix Humaine set. I also have this remarkable Soria-type box set,from 
1960 on Victor Red Seal of Japan,that collects many of Vladimir Horowitz's mono 
recordings for RCA.Deluxe Japanese-only sets are a completely different subject 
entirely. Leinsdorf's entire output for RCA is best forgotten.The Wikipedia 
entry on Dynagroove gives a  pretty good overview why.No other artist's 
reputation was hurt more by this dreadful practice.I don't think it's his 
style,I find a lot to like about Leinsdorf's records for Capitol and 
Westminster. Roger> Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2013 18:23:04 -0400> From: 
[log in to unmask]> Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] Single LP box sets> To: 
[log in to unmask]> >   Yes, I also remember the Leinsdorf/BSO MSND music 
on Victor as being yet another depressing example of Leinsdorf's suffocating 
musical style. All very correct. And all very the last word in absolutely 
nothing.> >   Don Tait> >  > >  > >  > > -----Original Message-----> From: 
Dennis Rooney <[log in to unmask]>> To: ARSCLIST <[log in to unmask]>> 
Sent: Fri, Apr 26, 2013 4:56 pm> Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] Single LP box sets> > > 
I purchased the MSND music with the Boydell engravings of Fuseli when it> was 
released. I kept it in a heavy manilla envelope for decades until I> finally 
sold it on eBay several years ago, not enriched thereby,> unfortunately, but 
happy to pass on the ungainly package. I recall the> performance as 
disappointing, rather prosaic, and recorded with RCA> Victor's celebrated 
incompetence.> > DDR> > On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 4:52 PM, Donald Tait 
<[log in to unmask]> wrote:> > >   The Don Quixote was in the Soria series 
and was packaged with a de luxe,> > gorgeous heavy booklet containing tipped-in 
art reproductions. The> > Reiner/CSO Beethoven Pastoral was also in a slipcase 
sort of thing, at> > least at the beginning. Later issues were in standard 
cardboard sleeves.> > The de luxe Pastoral  package doesn't turn up often in my 
experience.> >> >   In a class by itself was the original RCA Victor packaging 
of> > Mendelssohn's Midsummer Night's Dream music with Leinsdorf/BSO. As James> 
> North writes in his BSO discography:> > "LSC/D-2673 is a limited edition, 
housed in a 13.5 x 17 inch hard-cover> > folder, which also contains 
reproductions of two eighteenth-century> > engravings of Henry Fuseli paintings 
basked on Shakespeare's play."> >> >   The Victor LP package, bound in dark blue 
cloth, was so awkward at 17"> > high and 13.5 wide that it seemed to pose 
problems for dealers to display.> > I remember that Rose Records on Wabash 
Avenue in Chicago had a few copies> > on the floor, leaning against a vertical 
pipe. They had nothing else to do.> >> >   Don Tait> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> 
> -----Original Message-----> > From: Carl Pultz <[log in to unmask]>> > To: 
ARSCLIST <[log in to unmask]>> > Sent: Fri, Apr 26, 2013 2:41 pm> > 
Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] Single LP box sets> >> >> > ...LDS3284, the Don Quixote 
Soria issue, a single disc in a slipcase, if> > that counts...> >> > 
-----Original Message-----> > From: Association for Recorded Sound Discussion 
List> > [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Donald Tait> > Sent: 
Friday, April 26, 2013 2:45 PM> > To: [log in to unmask]> > Subject: Re: 
[ARSCLIST] Single LP box sets> >> >    Yes, but the RCA Victor first recording 
of Amahl (LM-1701) came with a> > text booklet. Thus the box for the single 
record.> >> >   Similar RCA Victor single LPs in boxes with enclosed printed 
texts> > included LCT-1033 (Die Walkure Act I -- Lehmann, Melchior, Bruno 
Walter> > etc.); LM-1217 (Treasury of Harpsichord Music -- Landowska, later> > 
repackaged> > in a single standard cardboard sleeve with booklet); LM-1802 ("An 
Adventure> > in High Fidelity"); LM-1849 (Verdi: Te Deum, Boito: Mefistofele 
Prologue --> > Toscanini); LM-1862 (Romberg: "Deep in My Heart, Dear" -- 
Romberg, cond.);> > and LM-1944 (Busoni: Arlecchino -- Glyndebourne Festival). 
So was LHMV-1007> > (Purcell: Dido and Aeneas -- Flagstad et. al.). There were 
also the entire> > issued titles in LHMV-1 through -32, single LPs in boxes with 
text inserts> > and, in many cases, art reproductions.> >> >   Also, the single 
Capitol LPs issued in boxes contained text booklets.> > That> > included "The 
Orchestra" and other Stokowski titles.> >> >   The point of the original inquiry 
about this, if I recall correctly,> > concerned the Telefunken, 
Ducretet-Thomson, London International etc. LPs> > issued in the USA in single 
boxes that contained nothing but the record in> > its regular heavy paper 
sleeve. No printed texts.> >> >   Don Tait> >> >> >> >> >> > -----Original 
Message-----> > From: DAVID BURNHAM <[log in to unmask]>> > To: ARSCLIST 
<[log in to unmask]>> > Sent: Fri, Apr 26, 2013 3:15 am> > Subject: 
[ARSCLIST] Single LP box sets> >> >> > I just came across another recording that 
falls into this category which> > I'm> >> > sending only because there were no 
RCA Victor LPs in my list I sent> > previously -> > Menotti's "Amahl and the 
Night Visitors" was released on RCA in a box with> > a> >> > single LP.> >> > 
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