Tchaikovsky, Piotr Ilyich: Eugene Onegin

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Eugene Onegin by Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Cast:Valentina Petrova, Galina Vishnevskaya, Larisa Avdeyeva, Eugenia Verbitskaya, Eugene Belov, Sergei Lemeshev, Ivan Petrov, Georgy Pankov, Igor Mikhailov, ASndrei Sokolov, Nikolai Timchenko; Chorus and Orchestra of the Bolshoi Theatre Moscow, conducted by Boris Khaikin
Label: Parlophone-Odeon
Catalogue number PPB 104 (PMA 1050-52)
Country of Issue: UK
Date: 1958
Recording made in the USSR
Mono
Format: LP Boxed Set (3 discs ))
Label design: early P-OD,  brown with gold print
Discs: Near Mint /EX+.   visiuall,  each disc looks as new,  shiny and unmarked except for a light scratch on each side, producing a very small click only.  Considering  these are original 1958 pressings, quite remarkabel condition.
Outer box: VG+.  sound, good for its age, small scuffs and tiny breaks in surface on edges,  marks on the back, side flap detached from side flaps.
Inner sleeves: original, polylined, excellent but sunfaded
Booklet: none - only a leaflet listing the cast and recording data

Acquired by us in 2007 as part of a large collection but never played since.

 Most Russian recordings were issued in England on HMV,  it is very unusual to see one on the very attractive Parlophone-Odeon label, which normally specialised in recordings  from Odeon and EMI Germany.