02 September 2026

24/48: Rene Leibowitz / Paris Conservatoire Orchestra - Decca/Reader's Digest 1961

Georges Bizet: "Carmen" - Suite   /   Jacques Offenbach: "Les Contes d’Hoffmann" - Barcarolle
Maurice Ravel: "Bolero"   /   Charles Gounod: "Faust" - ballet music
RDS 5004 - Matrices: L70Y6507/8 -1W     4 files 16/44 FLAC  Mega Download           4 files  24/48  XR FLAC  Mega Download

W.A.Mozart: "Le Nozze di Figaro" - Overture   /   Giacomo Puccini: "Manon Lescaut" - Intermezzo
Alexander Borodin: "Prince Igor" - Overture   /   Paul Dukas: "L’Apprenti sorcier"
Claude Debussy: Petite Suite - "En bateau"   /   Jacques Offenbach: "Orphée aux enfers" - Overture
RDS 5006 - Matrices: L70Y6511/2 -3W/-1W     6 files 16/44 FLAC  Mega Download        6 files  24/48  XR FLAC  Mega Download

Daniel Auber: "Les Diamants de la couronne" - Overture   /   Charles Gounod: Funeral March of a Marionette
Gabriel Pierné: "Marche des petits soldats de plomb"   /   Camille Saint-Saens: "Danse macabre"
Maurice Ravel: "La Valse"   /    Alexander Borodin: "Prince Igor" - Polovtsian Dances    

RDS 5011 - Matrices: L70Y6521/2 -3W/-1W     6 files 16/44 FLAC  Mega Download         6 files  24/48  XR FLAC  Mega Download

Paris Conservatoire Orchestra  conducted by  René Leibowitz
Reader's Digest 12 LP box: "Festival of Light Classical Music". 1961 Decca LP's. Recorded: 18,21,23-27 June 1960 - La Maison de la Mutualité, Paris 
NO Auto de-click or Re-Eq..    Contains some distinctly substandard "Le 2nd XI" playing (but nice Trumpet) - however each LP contains decent (+) performances..

4 comments:

  1. Many thanksfor posting these items. I grew up with that set of records, and I look forward to hearing these recordings again.

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  2. Previously (2019/20) uploaded the Boult + Freccia (4LPs) from this set.
    Possibly a bit harsh to remark adversely on the playing, but some soloists sound 'scrawny' - Silvestri's 1958 ALP1684 (also the PCO) of Sorcier/Macabre were far more characterful (and closer-balanced) -and the orchestra can sound un-disciplined. Possibly just me - but the opening of "La Valse" seemed unusual (?).

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  3. Muchas gracias, este archivo musical es maravilloso, saludos.

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  4. Decided to upload as needed to clean these "contaminated" LP's to hear them properly... The Borodin's are good.

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