Budapest String Quartet – 8 Beethoven Quartets on 5 Early Issue Columbia LPs– NM
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Beethoven Cycle or Early & Middle Quartets performed by the Budapest String Quartets
Joseph Roisman and Alexander Schneider, Violins
Boris Kroyt, Viola; Mischa Schneider, Cello
Not usually one to “gush” over a set of 57-58-year-old records, but these five (individual albums) are an exception. No hesitation grading all five NM on both the LPs and their jackets. Four of the albums are encased in their original shrink wrap while the loner w/o looks clean and new (I’ve added a new jacket sleeve to it).
The Records have been extremely well cared for and were stored high and dry. All records lay absolutely flat w/o the even slightest hint warp. Coming out of their original “half-round’ poly-bag sleeves, all records are glossy clean and play dead quiet. Little to no evidence that they have been played much at all.
The first album (Quartets #1 & #2) is Mono, while the rest are Stereo.
Four of the five are “6-Eye” with the other a “2-Eye”.
See my other Beethoven/Budapest String Quartet auction running concurrent to this one for the Columbia cycle (5LPs) of “Later Opus” Quartets that are also in pristine shape.
Beethoven: – Quartet No. 1 in F Major, Op. 18; Quartet No. 2 in G Major, Op. 18
Columbia “6-Eye” Mono – ML 5393 – U.S. - 1959
Beethoven: – Quartet No. 3 in D Major, Op. 18; Quartet No. 4 in C Minor, Op. 18
Columbia “6-Eye” Stereo– MS 6075 – U.S. - 1959
Beethoven: – Quartet No. 8 in E Minor, Op. 59 No. 2 “Rasoumovsky”
Columbia “6-Eye” Stereo– MS 6186 – U.S. - 1960
Beethoven: – Quartet No. 9 in C Major, Op. 59 No. 3 “Rasoumovsky”
Quartet No. 11 in F Minor, Op. 95 “Serioso”
Columbia “2-Eye” Stereo– MS 6187 – U.S. - 1960
Beethoven: – Quartet No. 10 in E-Flat Major, Op. 74 “Harp”
Columbia “6-Eye” Stereo– MS 6188 – U.S. - 1960
This 5-LP record set will be well-packed and promptly shipped upon receipt of payment. Ostensibly, this auction is geared for the domestic U.S. bidder. However, I will mail this set off to eBay’s 3rd party shipper for worldwide conveyance should an international bidder win this auction. My apologies in advance for this expensive and convoluted route, but I have to bow out of the International mailing from my end.
Otherwise, A U.S. winner of this auction will pay $3.75 for a media mail shipment.
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