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. db >________________________________ > From: Donald Tait <[log in to unmask]> >To: [log in to unmask] >Sent: Friday, April 26, 2013 4:52:11 PM >Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] Single LP box sets > > > 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. > >db > > > > > >