Magic Marmalade 20th Jul 2016
| | Still having to wrestle with the scanner at the mo, so it's a bit hit and miss...
... but I saw a clutch of these Heliodors (Which I've entered) and thought I'd investigate, and try a new label.
While I haven't gotten around to playing them yet, the vinyl is very nice for all of them.
When trying to find info on the net, I could only get Discogs page, and they generally don't give dates for them... The reason seems to be that although the recording patent date is on the label and sleeve in a couple of instances, these are not original releases.
Heliodor is a Deutsche Grammophon label, and when trying to search by title, or artist + work, the results tend to come very close, but not the exact work of the title I have (It'll be the same orchestra/conductor/soloist, and even the same composer, but a different piece).
What the results do tend to have in common is they are Deutsche Grammophon label issues.
...And something which may escape the attention at a casual glance is the word: "Transcription", on the label (Just under the Heliodor logo), and on the back cover (top right, just under the cat#)... So I'm beginning to think these may be Deutsche Grammophon's release label for previously released, but perhaps, less popular selling works, or archive material.
(Except for the one I've entered featuring Andor Foldes, who seems to be an artist signed to the actual Heliodor label (Rather than DG itself) - "Transcription" does not appear on the label of this one, or the sleeve).
But, of note is that the dates given, along with the fact that they are Stereo (Early to mid sixties - the reason I grabbed them - ), might mean that the original DG releases in stereo (if such were in fact released) might be of the few DGs that are quite expensive now, so these might offer a cheaper way to get those stereo recordings.
The vinyl, both labels, and the plastic itself look to be consistent with Deutsche releases of the seventies, so would probably place them around this sort of time period.
One last piece of useless trivia for this rather lengthy comment (sorry):
The search for "Heliodor" on the net produces search results for Yellow Beryl rock/mineral, which is called Heliodor... presumably from: Helios (the Sun) perhaps Dor (as with sister label Polydor) could be derived from the word for gold.
There, you learn something new every day!
(Or not... as the case may be :) |