no date on lp or sleeve, no details of recording location(s) provided
matrix numbers 2XEA.1159 / 2XEA.1160
introduction by thomas beecham
individual pieces' notes by j. mckay martin
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Number:1349088 THUMBNAIL Uploaded By:PhilMH Description: Gramophone December 1957 front cover (full)
Number:1349089 Uploaded By:PhilMH Description: Gramophone December 1957 front cover (section)
Had a look at those Phil, and I'm fairly certain the red labels there with the thinner rim around the shaded dog - with gold text are earlier - coming, as they do in a scalloped flip-back sleeve.
...The other red ones (bold white text) were what they switched the older ones to, to match stereo issue labels once they'd gone from the white / golds, so the mono and stereos were uniform in design.
These later ones would have been issued in non-scalloped, flip-back sleeves.
The older labels are what HMV later emulated in the "retro" design... trying to evoke that era for their albums in the 70s - quadrophonics etc.
Discogs has two mono copies of this, with different labels, and the year entered as 1959, which appears to be the year applicable to the stereo issue. I have no idea which of the two labels came first.
This will be another compilation of tracks taken from records of full works. If you look through the full Beecham discography here you may find some of the albums which were used here