831 – 5577 E – Mail - Polyphony Recordings

LP's : RCA's - continued
909. LM-6053(2): BERLIOZ - L'Enfance du Christ. Kopleff; Souzay; Tozzi; Valletti; Munch/BSO;
NEC Cho. [the mono-only original issue; superb copy with original glassine inner sleeves;
PD; 4S/1S/1S/3S] A- ........................................................................................................................ 25.00
910. LM-6129(3): THE TONE POEM - LISZT: Mephisto Waltz; STRAUSS: Don Juan (1954)
(Reiner/CSO). TCHAIKOVSKY: Romeo and Juliet; Francesca da Rimini; RAVEL: La
Valse (Munch/BSO). LISZT: Les Preludes (Monteux/BSO). CASELLA: Italia; COPLAND:
El Salon Mexico (Fiedler/Boston Pops). DEBUSSY: Nuages; IBERT: Escales
(Stokowski/His Sym). [I can find no other issue of the Casella, at least on LP] A-(the box is
pristine!) ........................................................................................................................................... 45.00
911. LM-9019: DINNER MUSIC - Sigmund Romberg & His Orchestra. Thirteen works including
Gold & Silver Waltz, Blossom Time Waltzes, Ballet Music from The Student Prince, Merry
Widow Waltzes. [notes by Oscar Hammerstein II] B++(a few tks; earliest labels)......................... 16.00
912. LPM-1055: LECUONA PLAYS LECUONA: 18 original pieces. Composer, pf. [BL; 8S/5S] A-
to B+ ................................................................................................................................................. 12.00
913. LPM-1058: LECUONA PLAYS FOR TWO: 16 original compositions. Composer, piano. [BL;
3S/1S] A- .......................................................................................................................................... 18.00
914. LPM-1429: GERSHWIN - Rhapsody in Blue (Janis). GROFE - Grand Canyon Suite: Painted
Desert; On the Trail; Cloudburst. Winterhalter/His Orch. [BL; 4S/3S] A--................................. 16.00
915.*LSA-2485: HOLIDAY FOR PERCUSSION. Dick Schory's Percussion Pops Orchestra. [Gold;
Steele] [In heavy-duty slipcase with cutout to inner jacket below; gimmicky "stereo action"
manipulations, but you can still sense Chicago's Orchestra Hall ambiance, c.1962!] [BL;
4S/1S] A--......................................................................................................................................... 19.00
916.*LSC-1934: BARTOK - Concerto for Orchestra. Reiner/CSO. [TAS 65:154L; 65:176; 73:147]
[SD; 9S/8S] A--/A-(brief bubble thumps, mvt 1)............................................................................. 27.00
917.*LSC-2129: TCHAIKOVSKY - Violin Concerto. Heifetz; Reiner/CSO. [SD; 16S/24S] A-
(lovely!) ............................................................................................................................................ 35.00
918.*LSC-2183: THE REINER SOUND - Ravel: Rapsodie Espagnole; Pavan for a Dead Princess.
RACHMANINOFF: Isle of the Dead. Reiner/CSO. [Mohr; Layton; TAS 21/22:165; 86:184-
86; very scarce in this original stereo issue; deleted April 1961] [SD; 18S/24S] A--(nearly A-;
a touch too much vinyl "presence").................................................................................................. 65.00
919.*LSC-2208: RIMSKY-KORSAKOV - Scheherazade. Monteux/LSO. [Wallun; Wilkinson; TAS
73:196] [SD; 10S/12S] A--/A- ......................................................................................................... 20.00
920.*LSC-2213: BOSTON TEA PARTY - Merry Wives & Bohemian Girl Overtures; Greensleeves;
Merry Widow & Count of Luxemburg Waltzes; Hernando's Hideaway; Moonglow & Theme
from Picnic; Bolzoni Minuet. Fiedler/BPS. [TAS 61:126] [SD; 5S/5S] A- ................................... 24.00
921.*LSC-2231: ON STAGE WITH ROBERT SHAW - 12 Show Songs including September Song,
Wunderbar, Oklahoma, Yesterdays, All the Things You Are; Gone, Gone, Gone; Romany
Life. Shaw/His Chorale/RCA Orch. [SD; 1S/1S] A--(writing on back cover: timings etc.) ........ 20.00
922.*LSC-2257: SIR ARTHUR BLISS - Things to Come Suite; Welcome to the Queen. ELGAR -
Pomp & Circumstance Marches #1 - #5. Bliss/LSO. [scarce: in print only 4/59 - 4/61; TAS
75/6:178; SD; 1S/1S] A- .................................................................................................................. 38.00
923.*LSC-2280: THE ART OF SONG - Songs by Schubert(3), Schumann(3), Pizzetti, Scarlatti(4),
Handel, Stradella, Sarti. Cesare Valletti; Taubman, piano. [Mohr; Layton] [SD; 1S/1S] A-- ..... 17.00
924.*LSC-2328: TCHAIKOVSKY - Nutcracker (exc). Reiner/CSO. [Mohr; Layton; TAS 69:147-8]
[LD] FS(c/c) ..................................................................................................................................... 12.00
925.*LSC-2369: TCHAIKOVSKY - Symphony #4. Monteux/BSO. [Pfeiffer; Crawford; TAS 32:148;
36:124; 42:83; 65:160L] [ND; 7S/8S] A-(c/c) ................................................................................. 12.00
926.*LSC-2371: MAHLER - Songs of a Wayfarer; Kindertotenlieder. Forrester; Munch/BSO.
[Pfeiffer; Crawford; Munch's only recorded Mahler; scarce anyway, but particularly so in
truly fine condition: this is first copy in 20 years that I've been able to grade A-] [SD; 1S/1S]
A-(lovely!)........................................................................................................................................ 65.00