Beethoven Cello Sonatas Complete Rostropovich Richter Philips Stereo 2LP SUPERB

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Yes, Rostropovich and Richter fans in the Home Viewing Audience (we know you are legion!), V.S.O.V. stands ever-ready to advance and celebrate your musical cults! We, too, adore the mighty Slava and the peerless Sviatoslav, too, and are currently sitting atop a small mountain of choice, well-curated recordings (only brand new and pristine used) through which these true Chamber Music Masters can be inimitably and beautifully heard. Here on offer is a Choice Rarity: the Original Philips 2-LP Stereo, Dutch-Pressed Reissue set from 1973 carrying the Beethoven Cello Sonatas (Complete). It don't get no better than this! Indeed, upon first Stereo release in 1963, these justly famed Dutch recordings won both the Edison Prize and the coveted Grand Prix du Disque both for the supremely beautiful, masterly interpretations and for the expansive, perfectly calibrated audio engineering quality--Thank You Dutch sound technicians! When they first made this Stereo set, among their first Stereo recordings in the West, both artists were racing upwards toward totally brilliant command of their instruments. Together, they made the very finest, most genial, and tightly interconnected duo to take on some of Beethoven's absolutely greatest chamber compositions from all eras of that Titan's lifework. Arguably, here Rostropovich and Richter set to Stereo vinyl the Definitive readings of these epic sonatas. Exterior packaging for the set on offer here indicates the 1973 Dutch Stereo reissue of the original recordings. Under bright light, both disks here appear pristine and flawless. Play Grading throughout shows super-quiet disk surfaces, outstanding capture of both musical lines, and the pure expressive joy of two great masterly players reveling in Beethoven's grand, eloquent, and jesting chamber rhetorics for cello and keyboard. Both disks still show high-gloss vinyl and appear little played. Deadwax Mechanical Stampers read: (Disk 1), AA 835 182 1Y 7 670 (Side 1) and AA 835 182 2Y 4 670 (Side 2); (Disk 2), AA 835 183 1Y 7 670 (Side 1); and AA 835 183 2Y 4 670 (Side 2). The Base Matrices for the 1973 Set are identical to those showing on the acclaimed, prize-winning 1963 first issue. Stout Box Set here also superb. Near-Mint, All Seams Intact. Not a Cut-out. Inner Plastic-lined, Philips Paper sleeves of era. Highly detailed and copiously illustrated liner note booklet. Simply a legendary and now quite rare vinyl recording of its era and in any edition. Snatch up this Pristine 1973 Stereo exemplar right now!
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