I recently purchased the fancy Leinsdorf "Midsummer Night's Dream" package complete with booklet, pictures and a US pressed LP in fine condition, (I think most Canadian collectors agree that US R.C.A. pressings were cleaner than Canadian ones). But you're right, it is hard to find a place for it amongst your other LPs.
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> 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.
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> 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."
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> 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.
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>From: Carl Pultz <[log in to unmask]>
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>Sent: Fri, Apr 26, 2013 2:41 pm
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>...LDS3284, the Don Quixote Soria issue, a single disc in a slipcase, if
>that counts...
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> Yes, but the RCA Victor first recording of Amahl (LM-1701) came with a
>text booklet. Thus the box for the single record.
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> 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.
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> Also, the single Capitol LPs issued in boxes contained text booklets. That
>included "The Orchestra" and other Stokowski titles.
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> 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.
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>From: DAVID BURNHAM <[log in to unmask]>
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>Sent: Fri, Apr 26, 2013 3:15 am
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>I just came across another recording that falls into this category which I'm
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>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
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>single LP.
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