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Alan Abel
LXT 5000
Number SXL No Composer Title Conductor/Soloist Orchestra Producer Recording Engineer Recording
LXT5468-70 SXL2054-6  Puccini Madame Butterfly Tullio Serafin Santa Cecilia Academy Chorus & Orchestra James Walker  Kenneth Wilkinson & Alan Abel 6 - 14 July 1958 Santa Cecilia, Rome
Renata Tebaldi ( s ) Madama Butterfly / Carlo Bergonzi ( T ) Pinkerton
Fiorenza Cossotto ( Ms ) Suzuki / Enzo Sordello ( Bs ) Sharpless
Angelo Mercuriali ( T ) Goro / Paolo Washington ( Br ) Bonze
Lidia Nerozzi ( Ms ) Kate Pinkerton / Michele Cazzato ( Br ) Prince Yamador
Virgilio Carbonari ( T ) Imperial Commissioner
LXT5611 SXL2251        Arias of the 18th Century Teresa Berganza ( Ms ) / Alexander Gibson Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden Michael Bremner  Alan Abel 8-11 june 1960 Kingsway Hall
Handel Giulio Cesare HWV17 : Piangerò, la sorte mia 
Pergolesi La Serva Padrona : Stizzoso, mio stizzoso
Gluck Alceste : Divinités du Styx
Gluck Orfeo ed Euridice : Che farò & Che puro ciel
Gluck Paride ed Elena : O del mio dolce ardor
Paisiello Nina Pazza per Amore : Il mio ben
Cherubini Medea : Medea, O Medea
LXT5624 SXL2264 Britten  Spring Symphony Op.44 Benjamin Britten Orchestra and  Chorus of the Royal Opera House  Christopher Raeburn  Alan Abel  22 - 26 November 1960 in Kingsway Hall, London 
Jennifer Vyvyan ( s ) / Peter Pears ( T ) Covent Garden & 
        Norma Procter ( Contralto ) Chorus Of Boys From Emanuel School, Wandsworth      
LXT5626 SXL2266 Rossini  Overtures Pierino Gamba London Symphony Orchestra Erik Smith  Alan Abel 15-16 November 1960 Walthamstow Assembly Hall
Il Barbiere di Siviglia / La Gazza Ladra / Guillaume Tell
      La Scala di Seta / Semiramide          
LXT5641 SXL2279 Tchaikovsky  Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 35 Ruggiero Ricci ( vn ) / Malcolm Sargent London Symphony Orchestra Christopher Raeburn Alan Abel 5, 6 & 11 January 1961 in Kingsway Hall, London. 
    Dvorak  Violin Concerto In A minor, Op.53                 "                 "                 "         "                 "
DECCA SXL 2000
Number LXT number Composer Title Conductor/Soloist Orchestra Producer Recording Engineer Recording
SXL2010 LXT5482 Beethoven  Piano Concerto No. 4 In G Major, Op. 58 Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt / Wilhelm Backhaus ( p ) Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra Erik Smith Alan Abel 16 - 22 April 1958 in the Sofiensaal, Vienna 
SXL2178 LXT5552 Beethoven  Piano Concerto No.1 In C Major, Op.15 Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt  / Wilhelm Backhaus ( p ) Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra Erik Smith  Alan Abel  16-22 April 1958 Sofiensaal, Vienna
      Piano Concerto No.2 In B Flat Major, Op.19              "              " Ray Minshull  Gordon Parry  29 & 30 June 1959 Sofiensaal, Vienna
DECCA SXL 6000
Number Composer Title Conductor/Soloist Orchestra Producer Recording Engineer Recording  
SXL6057   Rachmaninoff  Piano Concerto No.3 In D Minor, Op.30 Anatole Fistoulari / Vladimir Ashkenazy ( p )  London Symphony Orchestra Erik Smith Alan Abel & Kenneth Wilkinson 18 - 19 March 1963 in Walthamstow Assembly Hall, London 
SXL6064   Beethoven  Piano Sonata No. 12 in A-flat major, Op. 26 Wilhelm Backhaus ( p )   Michael Bremner Alan Abel February 1963 in the Victoria Hall, Geneva 
      Piano Sonata No. 18 in E-flat major, Op. 31, No. 3              "                "              "              "