art direction Raymond Bannerman
booklet editor Adam Freeman
booklet editor Bruce Raggatt
booklet editor Thomas Fine
conductor Rafael Kubelik
coordinator Cassandra Paz
tracks 10-6 to 10-10 engineer Bert Whyte
tracks 10-1 engineer John Quinn
engineer Robert Fine
tracks 1-1 to 4-4 engineer [assistant] George Piros
executive-producer Thomas Fine
orchestra Chicago Symphony Orchestra
producer Wilma Cozart
producer [eloquence] Cyrus Meher-Homji
recording supervisor David Hall
remastered by Thomas Fine
tracks 3-1 to 4-4 transferred by [tape to digital] Craig Thompson
tracks 1-1 to 2-8, 7-1 to 9-9 transferred by [tape to digital] Jared Hawkes
tracks 10-6 to 10-10 transferred by [tape to digital] Mark Obert-Thorn
tracks 10-2 to 10-5 transferred by [tape to digital] Thomas Fine
Phonographic Copyright (p) Decca Music Australia Pty Ltd
Phonographic Copyright (p) Universal International Music B.V.
Copyright (c) Universal Music Australia Pty Ltd
Copyright (c) Decca Music Group Limited
Marketed By Universal Classics & Jazz
Made By Technicolor, Australia
Recorded At Orchestra Hall, Chicago
This edition ℗ 2021 Decca Music Australia Pty. Ltd. Artwork © 202 Universal Music Australia Pty. Ltd.
Marketed in Australasia by Universal Classics & Jazz, a division of Universal Music Group under exclusive license.
Made in Australia.

Total Timing: 7'39:00 — CD1: 28:34 – CD2: 51:51 – CD3: 38:09 – CD4: 43:16 – CD5: 43:23 – CD6: 44:55 – CD7: 75:56 – CD8: 42:25 – CD9: 36:58 – CD10: 53:34

Recording Location: Orchestra Hall, Chicago, USA: 23–24 April 1951 (Mussorgsky, Bartok, Bloch); 19–20 November 1951 (Dvořák, Tchaikovsky 4); 21–22 April 1952 (Tchaikovsky 6); 4–6 December 1952 (Smetana, Mozart 34); 3–5 April 1953 (Hindemith, Schoenberg)

FIRST REEL: 23 April 1951 (Bloch); STEREO experiment: 6 December 1952 (Smetana); 3 April 1953 (Mozart)

Recording Specifications: Neumann U-47 microphone, telephone line patch to Universal Recording, Ampex 300 tape recorder (Mussorgsky, Bartok, Bloch); U-47 mic, Ampex 300 tape recorder (Dvořák, Tchaikovsky 4); U-47 mic, recording truck with Fairchild tape recorder (Tchaikovsky 6, Brahms, Smetana, Mozart 34); Schoeps M201 microphone, recording truck, Fairchild tape recorder (Mozart 38, Hindemith, Schoenberg)

Original Mercury Release: Mussorgsky (MG 50000: October 1957); Bartok / Bloch* (MG 50001: October 1957); Dvořák (MG 50002: February 1952); Tchaikovsky 4* (MG 50003: February 1952); Tchaikovsky 6* (MG 50006: September 1952); Brahms* (MG 50007: September 1952); Smetana (OL-2-100 / MG 50013–14: January 1953); Mozart 34*, 38 (MG 50015: September 1953); Hindemith, Schoenberg (MG 50024: September 1955)
* First international release on CD

℗ 1951 (Mussorgsky, Bartok, Bloch), 1952 (Dvořák, Tchaikovsky 4 & 6, Brahms), 1953 (Smetana, Mozart), 1955 (Hindemith, Schoenberg) Universal International Music B.V.
℗ 1996 (interview), 2021 (CD10: Bloch, Smetana, Mozart) Decca Music Group Limited

With special thanks to Thomas Fine, Mark Obert-Thorn, and Edward Weston.
Barcode: 0 028948 430284 (Text)
Barcode: 028948430284 (Scanned)
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