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
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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 **
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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 >>> 

24/48: Nicolai Malko / Philharmonia - 1812 ~ Zampa ~ Hebrides ~ Ruy Blas ~ Poet & Peasant - HMV 1953/6

Ferdinand Herold:  "Zampa" – overture      (January 1953)
Peter Tchaikovsky:  1812 0verture, op.49      (6 February 1953)  
Felix Mendelssohn:  "The Hebrides" – overture, op.26      (February 1956)  
Franz von Suppe:  "Poet and Peasant" – overture      (February 1956)  
Felix Mendelssohn:  "Ruy Blas" – overture, op.95      (1 March 1956)  
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The Philharmonia Orchestra  conducted by  Nicolai Malko  
EMI / MfP  MFP 2034  1966 matrices: MFP2034 -1 / 2XEA987 -6  Recorded: Kingsway Hall.  
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24/48: Albert Wolff / Paris Conservatoire - Overtures in Hi Fi - Decca 1958

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Emil Reznicek:  "Donna Diana"    /     Franz von Suppe:  "Pique Dame"     /    Otto Nicolai:  "Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor"

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Adolphe Adam:  "Si j’etais roi"     /     Daniel-Francois Auber:  "Le Domino noir"     /      Louis Herold:  "Zampa"
Paris Conservatoire Orchestra  conducted by  Albert Wolff  
Decca  SXL 2008  1961 pressing.  Matrices: ZAL3816 -7D / ZAL3815 -6E.  Recorded: 6-8 November 1957 - Maison de la Mutualite, Paris.    
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