CS 7155  TCHAIKOVSKY: SYMPHONY No. 4   ZUBIN MEHTA / LOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA

DECCA  / LONDON  1978   ORIGINAL NARROW BAND   4G / 5G   DUTCH PRESSING

MEHTA'S SECOND RECORDING OF THIS WORK, TWELVE YEARS AFTER HIS FIRST  NM / EX (crease bottom right front - see photograph)

MEHTA RECORDED ALL SIX SYMPHONIES IN 1976 / 77 AND THE CYCLE WAS ISSUED AS A UK PRESSED BOX SET BOTH SIDES OF THE ATLANTIC IN 1978      (CSP 10 in USA & D95D6 in UK). BY THE TIME DECCA / LONDON DECIDED TO ISSUE THE SYMPHONIES SINGLY, PRESSING FACILITIES HAD SWITCHED TO HOLLAND. ALL SIX SYMPHONIES APPEARED ON CS. BUT ONLY SYMPHONY No. 1 WAS ISSUED ON SXL, PRESUMABLY TO MAKE WAY FOR ASHKENAZY'S PROJECTED TCHAIKOVSKY SYMPHONY RECORDINGS.