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Concert Hall Society, Inc. was a record club founded in 1946. The company originally announced that it would turn out only 2,000 copies of its albums, cutting directly from "masters" and thus eliminating the "mother" and "stamper" discs used for mass production of commercial records. This policy was only maintained during the first few years, however, and Concert Hall quite rapidly evolved into a budget label for classical music, often operating as a record sales club in various countries. Releases were available only to .

President of Concert Hall was Dr. David Josefowitz.

Concert Hall didn't have a pressing plant of its own but had its releases - and those of its various sub-labels - pressed by various pressing plants and then distributed all across the US, Canada and Europe. There were also releases for the Japanese market.

Some plants can be identified by 1 or 2 letters on the labels:
AH = Artone Holland
P = Phonodisc B.V.
D, M = unknown
PE = Philips Records Ltd. (Philips England)
TU = Turicaphon AG

Some other plants can only be detected in the runouts:
ARC = Allentown Record Co. Inc.
I = RCA Records Pressing Plant, Indianapolis
M1, M3, M6 = Pathé Marconi, Chatou
R = RCA Records Pressing Plant, Rockaway
TU = Turicaphon AG

Codes such as "F8OL-4513" or "E 3 K U 5586" on the labels and/or runouts would mean a mastering by an RCA Victor studio (see here for complete reference).

Codes such as "EB-xxxx" (e.g. EB-2287) or "GB-xxx" (e.g. GB-288) on the labels and/or runouts would mean Manufactured By Capitol Custom.

Parent Label:

 Concert Hall Society, Inc.

Sublabels:

 Möt Musiken, ...

Info:

1st German address:
Concert Hall GmbH
Grüneburgweg 9
Frankfurt am Main


2nd German address:
Concert Hall GmbH
Myliusstrasse 50
Frankfurt/M.

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  • szametu's avatar
    szametu
    Missing 'Songs and dances of Yugoslavia' from the Danube to the Adriatic

    Concert Hall M-229

    Cat no. CM 2229
    • audiophilly's avatar
      audiophilly
      For more information about the Concert Hall Limited Edition subscriptions series please see Concert Hall Limited Recordings.
      • bilrux's avatar
        bilrux
        I have:
        F-11, Antonin Dvorak, Symphony in D Minor Op. Posthumous, Vienna State Opera Orchestra, Henry Swoboda, Conductor. Disc: bottom of labels, sides 1 & 2 are marked "CHF-11 Pt 1" and "CHF-14 Pt 2." Cover: VG+; original inner sleeve missing. Matrix/Runout engravings: Side 1, EI-LKC-3837-1, A10 and Chel [in script] 7 Pt-1. Side 2, EI-LKC-3838-1A, A1A, F, CHEL-7-PT-2.
        E-14, Franz Schubert, Symphony No. 6 in C Major, Winterthur Symphony Orchestra, Victor Desarzens, Conductor. Disc: bottom of labels, sides 1 & 2 are marked "CHEL-14 Pt 1" and "CHEL-14 Pt 2." Cover: original inner sleeve missing. Matrix/Runout engravings: Side 1, CHEL -14 PT 1 and Fi. Side 2, CHEL -14 PT 2.
        F-15, Richard Strauss, Sonata in E Flat Major for Violin and Piano, Opus 18, Louis Kaufman, violin; Artur Balsam, piano and Serge Prokofieff, Sonata in C Major for Violincello and Piano, Raya Garbousova, cello; David Stimer, piano. Disc: bottom of labels, sides 1 & 2 are marked "CHF-15 Pt 1" and "CHF-15 Pt 2." Cover: with original (?) clear cellophane inner sleeve. Matrix/Runout engravings: Side 1, EI-LKC-3937-1, B10 and CHFL-15. Side 2, EFLKC-5987-IR, A10 and CHFL-15 Pt.2.
        All three of these specimens have the following characteristics:
        Discs: translucent red vinyl, mono; labels are marked in small print around the bottom edge: "Licensed by Concert Hall Society, Inc., NY, U.S.A., only for non-commercial use for phonographs in homes." Covers: burgundy textured leatherette fronts with gold title stickers, notes on back covers are unattributed, each cover is marked at the back bottom: "This Recording is issued in a Limited Edition of 3,000 copies of which this is number _____," with "2091" hand-numbered in each blank space of each cover. This suggests to me that Dr. Josefowitz had to increase his subscription base to 3,000 sometime after the 1946 launch at 2,000. These must have been owned by subscriber # 2091, and I have no idea what happened to the rest of #2091's records in this series. The release dates are unknown, but I'd guess they;re late '40s-early '50s.

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