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Here's the first side of the Classic Records reissue of The Royal Ballet with Ernest Ansermet conducting the Royal Opera House Orchestra. This was recorded in famed Kingsway Hall in 1957 for the British Decca Record company and licensed to RCA for sale in America.

The engineer was the great K.E. (Kenneth) Wilkinson. The original 2 LP set on the SORIA series regularly sells for $500+ as does this Classic Records multi-singled sided 45rpm box set reissue mastered by Bernie Grundman from the original master tapes.

The Nutcracker s a traditional Christmas favorite so i transcribed side one using the Ortofon A95 mounted on the Swedish Analogue Technologies SAT tone arm on the Continuum Caliburn turntable. The phono preamp is the Ypsilon 16L step up transformer/VPS-100 combo. Digitization was via the Lynx HiLo A/D, D/A converter. The "rumble" you might hear is actually Kingsway Hall, not the turntable. The noise goes away between bands.

Enjoy (or not)!