Sold Date: September 3, 2022
Start Date: August 27, 2022
Final Price: $17.99 (USD)
Bid Count: 2
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Continuing here a sale run of rare, top-choice audiophile disks at V.S.O.V. (Stay Tuned for More!), on offer now is a Near-Mint copy of the famous and coveted Chesky album (RC8) featuring a reissue of the celebrated early RCA Living Stereo recording (1960) of the inimitable Earl Wild and the swaggering Arthur Fielder doing George Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue" and "American in Paris." In their day, these were epic performances/recordings. Penguin Guide awarded 3 Stars and still salutes "Wild's playing full of energy and brio." Exactly right. Chesky Records prided itself on offering superlative Audiophile re-issues of the very highest technical refinement and did so by adroitly conveying pure, re-mixed stereo tracks direct from pre-amp to disk-cutting lathe. These unfiltered, ultra-clear stereo tracks were then preserved on highest-grade, heavy-weight vinyl creating a record to treasure and audition for eons. This disk (RC8 in the Chesky Catalog) was first issued in 1984 and this exemplar is first edition with first pressings. Desk deadwax hand engraved RE1 (Side 1) and RE1 (Side 2). A certain audiophile rarity! Jacket is also Near-Mint. Not a Cut-Out. Inner, plastic-lined paper sleeve is Original and Perfect as well.
All Used and Open rare classical albums sold here at V.S.O.V. are examined under brightest light to detect any visible imperfections. I will sell no album below a grade of Near-Mint and that I would not add to my own meticulously kept classical record collection developed over the last 40 years. All of your used and open purchases here will be cleaned before shipment to you using a Music Hall, wcs-2 vacuum cleaning machine for disks treated prior and gently with a very low-alcohol cleaning fluid. Play grading happily provided upon request. Kindly Contact me via Ebay before bidding to request this service. Buy your used and open classical disks here with total confidence that they will be very safely packed in proper, reinforced, heavy-gauge cardboard record mailers for shipment to any location and arrive to you in near-flawless playing condition. Guaranteed or your money back! Combined shipping always on offer here. Please Just await my prompt invoice with combined shipping costs at the conclusion of your purchases and before paying. Given steeply rising costs for all prime packaging materials and increased postal rates, shipping for all items will henceforward start at $5.00 per single disk.  Thank You!