DECCA SXL 6589 1st Ed.: BRAHMS TRIO/CELLO SONATA STARKER/KATCHEN/SUK: EX
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Description
BRAHMS
Trio in C Major for Piano, Violin & Cello
Sonata No. 2 in F Major for Piano & Cello
JANOS STARKER (Cello)
JULIUS KATCHEN (Piano)
JOSEF SUK (Violin)
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Original 1968 (Snape Maltings) DECCA LP recording - SXL 6589
Narrow Band, White Label, 1st Stereo Pressing - rare early stereo pressing: Stampers 1W & 1W
Famous, very highly acclaimed and authoritative performances in wonderful sound
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This is not a near mint record. It shows signs of being played; a number of scuff marks on side one particularly give rise to some light, intermittent and occasional repeated tics. Although the disc does not play faultlessly it is still a wonderful listening experience as there are no skips or jumps and it does have a generally quiet background; it still retains a very bright sheen and is visually graded EX/76 (see below).
The pictures gives a good impression of the sleeve, very clean, robust and fully intact, a little shelf wear towards the edges and a hand written inscription on the reverse "If music be the food of love: - play on, give me excess" graded NM/84 (see below).
Satisfaction guaranteed - a full refund of the purchase price (excluding postage & packing costs) will be given for any item which does not comply with my description/grading and is returned to me within 14 days of receipt.
Postage discount of £2.00 for each additional item purchased
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Record Condition Grading System
I apply a visual grading system as follows:
90% - Mint, (90% is the highest figure I give as no records are perfect)
80-89% - Near Mint, NM almost flawless, at 85% only the lightest scuff marks to the record, slight wear to the cover; above 85% and up to 89%, there should be no marks on the playing surface of the record. Below 85%, down to 80%, there will be progressively more marking, but this will only be very light and superficial.
70-79% - Excellent, EX, a few more light surface marks than will be seen at 80-85%, light ring wear or creasing to cover, slight tears/laminate lift to the cover. Remains/marks of price labels or sellotape may be evident to the cover.
60-69% - Very Good, VG, more obvious marks to the record, more obvious creasing, ring wear or laminate lift, worse tears to the cover. There may be ticks from the record but see below*.
Records are viewed under both daylight and under a halogen light where practical to clearly shows any marks.
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