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Hm, I never knew that this set exists. The well-celebrated Leibowitz session with Royal Philharmonic was recorded in spring 1961. It was truly nice cycle and the Reader Digest subscription, as most they press, was a perfect environment for this box set to be released. The surio recording was beautiful, the Leibowitz made Beethoven to sound “exiting”, sometimes overly exiting. I particularly like the “hipper-exitment” from this set on the earlier symphonies, with the Second probably the very best I ever heard. The entire Leibowitz cycle was licensed from RCA by many companies, in CDs and LPs and even Chesky released them.

What however is very strange is that you have mono box set. RCA begun to record stereo commercially in 1954-1955 and during the first years they recorded some performances in stereo AND mono at the same time. There are many of them around from 1954 to 1958 and it is auditable that the microphones even were positioned differently. What however surprised me was that RCA did it in 1961 during the Leibowitz session. Unless you say that it is a different recording session from the one that was recorded in 1961 sessions. In such case I never have seen/hear that album…

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