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Die Maßnahme --- 2012

The bonus track (track 9) material was recorded on shellac in December 1930, as [l=Homocord] 4-4032. ℗ 1998 Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk © 2012 MDR Klassik | Telepool GmbH | Hanns und Steffy Eisler Stiftung Made in Germany "A Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk Production ... Published by MDR Klassik - Telepool GmbH in collaboration with the Hanns und Steffy Eisler Stiftung ... By kind permission of Universal Edition Wien (represented by Schott Music Mainz) and Suhrkamp Verlag" (booklet p.3). Release is MDR Klassik Vol. 7. Performance recorded live during 12. Dresdner Tage der zeitgenössischen Musik, 3. Oktober 1998, Festspielhaus Hellerau. 40-page booklet (German only) contains tracklist and performers' names (pp.2-3); essay „[i]Die Maßnahme[/i] - Ein ,dialektisches Oratorium’” (pp.4-11) by Jürgen Schebera; Brecht's text (pp.12-29); biographical timelines for Eisler (pp.30-31) and Brecht (pp.32-33); and artist biographies with photos (pp.34-37). [u]Booklet and Cover Illustrations[/u] Photographs: -- Hanns Eisler and Bertolt Brecht, 1930 (p.4); first performance of [i]Die Maßnahme[/i], Berlin, 13 Dec.1930 (p.6); Erik Wirl, Brecht and Eisler at recording session, Homocord studio, Dec.1930 (p.9) - Archiv Jürgen Schebera -- Eisler and Brecht at work on "Kühle Wampe", 1932 (p.11) - Ullstein | Kluger & Szigethy -- Brecht and Elisabeth Hauptmann during work on [i]Die Dreigroschenoper[/i], 1928 (p.39) - Ullstein | Zander & Labisch -- Stage Production, Dresden-Hellerau, Oct. 1998 (front covers & p.14) - Matthias Creutziger Other: "Und weil ein Mensch ein Mensch ist", 1961 (p.31) / "Brechts Verhör", 1959 (p.32), lithographs, and "Brecht and Eisler in the 50s," etching (back booklet cover) - Herbert Sandberg. Repro. akg/ddrbildarchiv.de Advertisement in morning press for 2nd performance, 18. January 1931 (p.7) Original Homocord record labels (p.10) Acknowledgement to Herr Dr Jürgen Schebera for "produktive Zusammenarbeit". While MDR Klassik 1207 has SID codes in mirror band and plastic hub, it carries no manufacturing identifier, and where one might expect a matrix string there is only the composer's name. The codes, however, match those of https://www.musik-sammler.de/release/wahrschauer-cd-zum-heft-61-cd-775668/, the site's reference example for IFPI C0** Mould SID Codes. The latter's description includes two other features shared with MDR Klassik 1207: 1) the Mastering SID Code, fitted in just below the barcode's left-hand end, is so minute that it can only be made out with the help of a loupe, and 2) on the side of the spindle hole opposite the specified 3-digit Mould SID Code there is another SID Code, illegible because obliterated by a stamped XXXX XXXXX (see above). The musik-sammler.de example was produced by DigiCon; it seems quite possible that MDR Klassik 1207 was also.