Symphony No.6 In F - 'Pastoral' by Beethoven*, André Cluytens, The Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra* - Released: 1974
Clean Labels - Nice and shin record - plays excellent - original sleeve in awesome condition
Artist Profile - Beethoven*, André Cluytens, The Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra*
German composer and pianist, born in 1770 (baptized 17 December 1770) in Bonn, Electorate of Cologne and died 26 March 1827 in Vienna, Austrian Empire.
A crucial figure in the transition between the Classical and Romantic eras in classical music. Beethoven led Viennese Classicism to its highest development and paved the way for Romantic music.
Beethoven was the eldest son of a singer in the Kapelle of the Archbishop-Elector of Cologne and grandson of the Archbishop's Kapellmeister. He moved in 1792 to Vienna, where he had some lessons from Haydn and others, quickly establishing himself as a remarkable keyboard-player and original composer. By 1815 increasing deafness made public performance impossible and accentuated existing eccentricities of character, patiently tolerated by a series of rich patrons and his royal pupil the Archduke Rudolph.
Beethoven did much to enlarge the possibilities of music and widen the horizons of later generations of composers. To his contemporaries he was sometimes a controversial figure, making heavy demands on listeners both by the length and by the complexity of his writing, as he explored new fields of music.
Artist Images
Vinyl Record available in Nottingham
Notes
LABELS:
- Cream label (1st variant), i.e.:
--- brown swirl design across upper half of label
--- red Classics For Pleasure logo
- "MADE IN GREAT BRITAIN" at 12 o'clock
- "℗ 1960" at 6 o'clock
SLEEVE:
- No lamination
- No flipbacks
- "PHOTOGRAPH: ERICH LESSING (Shows one of Beethoven's favourite walking places, a brookside path in the Helenenthal, near Baden.)"
- "Notes © J. MCKAY MARTIN 1960"
- "Printed in England by Robert Stace"
- "This STEREO record can also be played with a suitable MONO pick-up"
- "MUSIC FOR PLEASURE LTD, 80 Blyth Road, Hayes Middlesex" > early version without postcode
- EMI logo in rectangular box > NO "MANUFACTURED BY EMI"
A similar version with [url=https://www.discogs.com/release/6655498]ASTRONAUT HOUSE address[/url] exist. See bottom rear cover.
℗ 1960
Printed in England.
Companies
Robert Stace | Printed By
Credits
Beethoven | Composed By
André Cluytens | Conductor
Jack Wood (3) | Design [Sleeve Design]
The Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra | Orchestra
Erich Lessing | Photography By
J. McKay Martin | Sleeve Notes
Identifiers
Matrix / Runout: 2YRA 1655 (A Side: label & stamped in the run-out)
Matrix / Runout: 2YRA 1656 (B Side: label & stamped in the run-out)