Number:1269253 THUMBNAIL Uploaded By:Magic Marmalade Description: Clara Haskil - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Piano Concerto No.19, F Major; K.459 / Piano Concerto No.27, Bb Major; K.595 - Deutsche Grammophon - UK - Front over
Number:1269254 Uploaded By:Magic Marmalade Description: Clara Haskil - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Piano Concerto No.19, F Major; K.459 / Piano Concerto No.27, Bb Major; K.595 - Deutsche Grammophon - UK - Back Cover
Number:1269255 Uploaded By:Magic Marmalade Description: Clara Haskil - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Piano Concerto No.19, F Major; K.459 / Piano Concerto No.27, Bb Major; K.595 - Deutsche Grammophon - UK - Label - Side 1
Number:1269256 Uploaded By:Magic Marmalade Description: Clara Haskil - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Piano Concerto No.19, F Major; K.459 / Piano Concerto No.27, Bb Major; K.595 - Deutsche Grammophon - UK - Label - Side 2
...Firstly, because I only usually bother getting the German presses when I find them, I only grab English ones when they are of these earlier sleeve types...
And secondly, on this occasion, because of that picture of Clara Haskil on the cover... she doesn't seem like an altogether happy camper... in fact, she looks like the proverbial cranky old spinster, or a face that might be staring at you form a window in an old horror movie!
(Not very charitable of me, I know, but it did grab my attention)
...but having done a brief search to discover a little more about her, it seems that she had something of a tough life, and in fact was something of a beauty in her earlier days... suppose her ailments just wore her down... very sad.
Ah... now I've opened my eyes in daylight, I see the cat on the labels is "DGM" prefixed, even though the sleeve is "LPM", but both are most definitely made in England.
...you're right with regards to the company name... the sleeve back is: "Deutsche Grammophon (Great Britain) Ltd.", so mine would be that later repress.
Which must mean then that this only appeared in the "DGM" sleeve very, very briefly, before adopting the German cat number prefixing... so a copy you may find with the DGM sleeve would seem to signify a first press, with some degree of accuracy.
(Can't be many of those about then!)
The vinyl is lovely, thick, stiff, and has rough textured yellow labels, and there's all sorts of weirdness in the deadwax on side A:
Side A: 18383 (Stamped...With a tiny little "3" like an exponent next to that first set of digits), then an "A", then another set of digits stamped: 18555 (tiny little "G" exponent style next to those) and an "A", then a really large set of stamped digitsto be read over the label: "1 8 3 8 3 A" with that kind of spacing.... then: "10" stamped (Plate), and opposite that: "B H".
Side B doesn't have the two lots of catalogue number stamps, just the one set of big spaced 'Over the label' "B" matrix, but it too has another set of digits: 033 580 (Tiny exponent style "5"... then "S".
A Deutsche Grammophon ad in the August 1958 GRAMOPHONE, apparently in connection with that year's Edinburgh Festival, has the catalogue number as DGM 18383, as does a later ad in the November 1958 issue, by which time the company name had changed from Heliodor Record Company Ltd. to Deutsche Grammophon (Great Britain) Ltd. If yours has the latter company name, that would suggest a later repress. I will add 1958 as the release year in the meantime.
I'll get the scans up for this tomorrow... but just wanted to remark on the virtue of adding the complete catalogue number - including prefix - for DG issues:
The UK issue of this on Discogs has cat: DGM 18383, whereas my one here is LPM 18383... Which is the German issue catalogue number prefix. Very strange.
Mine is most definitely fully marked on sleeve and labels: "Made In England", as are those of the UK one on Discogs.