HIS MASTER'S VOICE 'In A Persian Garden' Omar Khayyam
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Description
A very rare set of old HIS MASTER'S VOICE 78rpm records in a special edition early book style 'box set'.
Entitled 'IN A PERSIAN GARDEN' it features works taken from the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam... the C11th writer and poet.
'Madame Liza Lehmann's music to selected quatrains of the Rubaiyat is some of the most beautiful work of this always beautiful composer...' so says the detailed info given on the inside cover of the book. Each record has its own sleeve with cut out showing the label and the authenticating stamp. Above the label on each sleeve is an extract from the writings of Omar Khayyam pertaining to that piece of music and beneath a wonderful illustration.
This is a marvellous and important record set - unfortunately one of the eight records (number III) has been lost or broken. Nonetheless each piece of music featured on these records is superb in its own right and the loss is not totally deterimental to their value as such.
The 'book' shows some wear and there is some foxing and marking to the sleeves as one might expect from an item this old and rare.
Please ask any questions prior to bidding and I will do my best to answer them - though do not have a record player able to play 78rpm records!
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