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
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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
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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    

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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: Sir John Barbirolli / Halle - Dvorak. Wind Serenade / Gounod. Petite Symphonie - PYE 1959

Antonin Dvorak:  Serenade in D minor, op.44    
I: March  ~  II: Minuet and Trio  ~  III: Adagio  ~  IV: Finale -Rondo   
       
Charles Gounod:  Petite Symphonie  
I: Adagio et allegretto  ~  II: Andante cantabile  ~  III: Scherzo -Allegro moderato  ~  IV: Finale -Allegretto   

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The Hallé Orchestra  conducted by  Sir John Barbirolli

PYE  CCL 30153   1959 LP/matrices: APL0116 -1WM / APL0117 -2WM    Recorded: August 1957
Mellifluous recording - broader Tempi than  Karl Haas's versions. The Dvorak appears to be Unavailable - the Gounod only c/w his Mass.   

Slightly re-edited Feb.2022   Sleeve-note  / GSGC 14082 (1967 stereo) cover  / 1959 Hi-Fi News review >>>

24/48: Karl Haas / London Baroque - Dvorak. Wind Serenade / Gounod. Petite Symphonie - Parlophone 1951/1953

Antonin Dvorak:  Serenade in D minor, op.44    I: March  ~  II: Minuet and Trio  ~  III: Adagio  ~  IV: Finale (Rondo)          
(Sidney Sutcliffe / Natalie James, oboes - Jack Brymer / Basil Tchaikov, clarinets - Dennis Brain / Neill Sanders / Ian Beers, horns -
Cecil James / Edward Wilson / Peter Parry, bassoons - John Shinebourne, 'cello - James Merrett, double-bass)

Charles Gounod:  Petite Symphonie     I: Adagio et allegretto  ~  II: Andante cantabile  ~  III: Scherzo (Allegro moderato)  ~  IV: Finale (Allegretto)
(Gareth Morris, flute  - Sidney Sutcliffe / Natalie James, oboes - Jack Brymer / Gervase de Peyer, clarinets - Dennis Brain / Neill Sanders, horns - Cecil James / Peter Parry, bassoons)
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The London Baroque Ensemble  conducted by  Karl Haas    
HMV  XLP 30011  1963 LP/matrices: 2XEA2281 -1N / 2XEA2282 -3N   Recorded: 6/7 Dec.1951 & 24 Dec.(Nov.?)1953.
The Gounod is a first issue and  NOT ON CD.   Slightly re-edited: May 2021.  Sleeve-note / EMG review >>>