Can anybody tell me more

[MrAdrianMcintyre]

Good evening all, I have this very old looking L.P that says it was made in USSR, it is       "Beethoven trio no7 in B-flat, op97".  Despite researching and trying to find some details on it I simply cannot find any details or info on it. Im hoping some one out there might be able to help me and tell me some more.  kindest of regards in advance.
The sleeve is blank on the back, the front has blue at the top with a forest and river picture underneath. The first lot of writing is in Russian then goes to English.

[Gurn Blanston]

Good evening all, I have this very old looking L.P that says it was made in USSR, it is       "Beethoven trio no7 in B-flat, op97".  Despite researching and trying to find some details on it I simply cannot find any details or info on it. Im hoping some one out there might be able to help me and tell me some more.  kindest of regards in advance.
The sleeve is blank on the back, the front has blue at the top with a forest and river picture underneath. The first lot of writing is in Russian then goes to English.

Welcome on, then. I know little to nothing about LP's, which I infer is what you want to know. The music would be a different story!  Anyway, lots of LP enthusiasts here, someone will know something.

[JBS]

Can you post a photo?

[Jo498]

Post a photo. There are people here who read Russian and even more can decipher names in kyrillic script.

[Draško]

The sleeve is blank on the back, the front has blue at the top with a forest and river picture underneath.

Blue top with a landscape below and a blank back is an Aprelevski Zavod LP. That was the main soviet record label between mid 20s and mid 60s when Melodiya was formed and Aprelevski Zavod became a part of it.

If it is an LP then it was pressed between 1952 and 1964, if it is in stereo then '61-'64.

[Draško]

And if it is Beethoven's Trio op.97 the performers are most likely either:

Emil Gilels / Leonid Kogan / Mstislav Rostropovich (1956)

https://www.youtube.com/v/FrsaNoWHTVM

or Lev Oborin / David Oistrakh / Sviatoslav Knushevitsky (1958)

https://www.youtube.com/v/DHgRL0m5dIE

[Irons]

And if it is Beethoven's Trio op.97 the performers are most likely either:

Emil Gilels / Leonid Kogan / Mstislav Rostropovich (1956)

https://www.youtube.com/v/FrsaNoWHTVM

or Lev Oborin / David Oistrakh / Sviatoslav Knushevitsky (1958)

https://www.youtube.com/v/DHgRL0m5dIE

Gilels/Kogan/Rostropvich is much more a likely candidate as recorded in Moscow. Looking up Paul Geffen's Oistrakh discography, he only recorded the Archduke once which was in London for Columbia, later released by Melodiya under license.
I have rarely seen Soviet LPs with blank back sleeves. This leads me to think a LP from the early 1950's.

[Irons]

A way to decipher is to compare with something you know. This is a Kogan/Gilels/Rostropovich recording on an early "Torch" pressing.