24/48: RPO - Mussorgsky. Pictures at an Exhibition (Eugene Goossens) ... French Overtures (Vilem Tausky) - HMV 1959/60

Modest Mussorgsky / orch. Ravel:  "Pictures at an Exhibition"
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra  conducted by  Sir Eugene Goossens 
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HMV  SXLP 30068  1967 reissue (ALP1627 - no stereo). Matrices: 2YEA3071 -1 /3072 -2.  Recorded: 26/28 September 1957 - EMI Studio 1, Abbey Road. 

Daniel Auber:  "Fra Diavolo"   /   Étienne Méhul:  "Les deux aveugles de Tolède"
Adolphe Adam:  "La poupée de Nuremberg"   /   Georges Bizet:  "Le Docteur Miracle"   /    Jacques Offenbach:  "La Vie Parisienne"  
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra  conducted by  Vilem Tausky  

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HMV  SXLP 30117  1969 reissue: previously 45rpm stereo EP's PES5258 (Auber/Mehul) & PES5271. Matrices: 2YEA3519/20 -2G. Single-sided tests -mastered 29 January 1969.  Recorded: circa 1958/9 - EMI Studio 1, Abbey Road.   NOT ON CD  -  NO auto-declick/re-eq.    Sleeve-notes / SXLP30117 cover + ALP1627 sleeve / SRG 6 Mussorgsky review + Mr Wabisuke's "KechiKechi Classics" review (the crappy ALP1627 pic isn't mine -but the LP transfer is..) >>>  

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-declick/re-eq.   Contains some distinctly substandard "Le 2nd XI" playing - however each LP contains decent (+) performances.  "Carmen" Frequency response >>>

24/48: Charles Munch / Royal Philharmonic Orchestra - Bizet. Symphony 1 / Tchaikovsky. Francesca da Rimini - Reader's Digest 1963

Peter Tchaikovsky: "Francesca da Rimini", op.32
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Georges Bizet:  Symphony in C
I:  Allegro vivo  ~  II:  Adagio  ~  III:  Allegro vivace ; Trio  ~  IV:  Allegro vivace
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Royal Philharmonic Orchestra  conducted by  Charles Munch 
Reader's Digest  RDS 5025 (12LP boxset)  1963 Decca LP/matrices: P2RS-2091/2 -1G.  Recorded: 5 & 9/10 April 1963 -Walthamstow Assembly Hall. 

The Tchaikovsky is without faults as on the Brahms 4/Reiner... The Bizet is altogether excellent with some sparkling playing. Not bothering with the other Orchestral's in the Treasury set - CRQ Editions will do £9 specials of this/the lot - but 5 are already here (+Danon/Kempe/Krips/Reiner)...go there!

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