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12 May 2020

24/48: Massimo Freccia / Filharmonica di Roma - Reader's Digest 1960

Rossini:  "Semiramide" overture     Tchaikovsky:  "Sleeping Beauty" - waltz    Tchaikovsky:  Marche Slave, op.31
Herold:  "Zampa" overture    Verdi:  "Aida" Grand March    Handel:  "Xerxes" largo    Ponchielli:  "La Gioconda" Dance of the Hours
7 files 16/44 zip FLAC Mega Download         7 files 24/48 zip XR FLAC Mega Download 

Glinka:  "Russlan & Ludmilla" overture    Rubinstein:  Kamennoi-Ostrow    Rossini:  "William Tell" overture     Verdi:  "La Traviata" Preludes to Acts.1/3
Mascagni:  "Cavalliera Rusticana" intermezzo    Wagner:  "Die Gotterdamurung" Siegfried's Rhine Journey    Wolf-Ferrari:  "Susanna's Secret" overture **
7 files 16/44 zip FLAC Mega Download       7 files 24/48 zip XR FLAC Mega Download  
Orchestra Filharmonica di Roma  conducted by  Massimo Freccia 
Reader's Digest  RDS 5003/5009   12LP set: 1961 Decca LP's / matrices: L70Y6506/7 & 6517/8 - 1W/2W,  ** (1976 set RDS 9178)      Label pics >>> 

25 October 2014

24/96: Ernest Ansermet / Paris Conservatoire - Prokofiev. Symphony 1 ~ Glinka ~ Borodin ~ Mussorgsky - Decca 1953

Serge Prokofiev:  Symphony no.1 in D major, op.25  ("Classical")
I: Allegro con brio  ~  II: Larghetto  ~  III: Gavotte  ~  IV: Allegro vivace  
Mikhail Glinka:  "Russlan & Ludmilla" - overture  
Alexander Borodin:  "On the Steppes of Central Asia" 
Modest Mussorgsky:  "Night on the Bare Mountain" (arr: Rimsky-Korsakov)  
4 files zip 16/44  FLAC  Mega Download          4 files zip 24/96  XR FLAC   Mega Download
L'Orchestre de la Societe des Concerts du Conservatoire de Paris  conducted by  Ernest Ansermet 
Decca  ACL 123  (LXT 2833)  1967 pressing / 1961 matrices: ARL1760 -1LR / ARL1761 -1NR 
Recorded: 15-19 / 22-25 June 1953 - La Maison de la Mutualite, Paris
Presumably this was recorded with an EMI tape-recorder - as the frequency-range extends to almost 30kHz - thus the 24/96 files are rather superior (and 4x larger).   Difficult surfaces to edit 'to near-perfection' (which, of course, you require)      ACL 123 sleeve / LXT 2833 sleeve-note >>>