Description
Tracklist:
: Quatuor Pour La Fin Du Temps (1940) = Quartett Auf Das Ende Der Zeit = Quartet For The End Of Time = Quartetto Per La Fine Del Tempo
Comes in a resealable plastic outer that has “The Original Source” hype sticker on its front. Single pocket gatefold jacket has images inside of recording documentation. The A4 size insert has details about ‘The Original Source’ series on one side and an image of the tape box covering side A only on the other. The LP is housed in a plain black poly-lined inner sleeve.
There is a note and some technical credits on the back cover in German, English, French and Italian. The note refers to the recording taking place in the presence of the composer and with his authorization. The liner notes on the gatefold interior are in English only.
Tracks have numbering from 1. to 8. on the back cover, and from I. to VIII. on the labels.
[Catalog numbers]
486 7126: spine and labels
00289 486 7126: back cover and sticker
2531 093: front and back covers
[Back cover]
{Timings}
Seite/Side/Face/Facciata 1: [26’14]
Seite/Side/Face/Facciata 2: [22’41]
{Other}
Verlag/Edition/Edizione: Ed Durand & Cie, Paris
Cover: Nicolas Bataille Apocalypse (Detail)
Angers, Muse des Tapisseries
Ecktachrome: Giraudon, Paris
1979 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Mhlenstrae 25, 10243 Berlin
2025 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
A Universal Music Company
Editor: Annette Nubbemeyer [Texthouse logo]
Printed and Made in the EU
Mixed by Rainer Maillard & cut by Sidney C. Meyer directly from original analogue source at Emil Berliner Studios
180g heavyweight vinyl pressing
Limited edition #### / 3500. (Boxed; ‘####’ i.e. the individual number, is handwritten)
[Labels]
Made in the EU
1979 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
[Insert]
ORT: Paris, Maison de la Mutalit
Datum: 13, April 1978
First released in 1979 (LP 2531 093), based on 2nd generation stereo downmix
[The Original Source sticker]
Audiophile vinyl reissues
Pure analogue mix & cut from the original 1 inch 8-track tapes
Manufactured at optimal media on 180-gram virgin vinyl
Runouts are etched. Plating marks: side A, variant 2 ‘1D’ is mirrored (interpreted as ‘D’); side B, variant 2 ‘1’ is inverted.
[DG shop release page]
“the renowned Emil Berliner Studios have remastered and edited the original four- and eight-track tapes in 100% analog quality (AAA)”
