24/48: Leonid Kogan - Lalo. Symphonie espagnole / Tchaikovsky. Serenade + Meditation (+ Violin Concerto) - EMI 1959

Edouard Lalo:  Symphonie espagnole, op.21
I: Allegro non troppo ~ II: Scherzando (Allegro molto) ~ III: Intermezzo (Allegro non troppo) ~ IV: Andante ~ V: Rondo (Allegro) 
Peter Tchaikovsky:  Sérénade mélancolique in B minor, op.26 
Leonid Kogan, violin - The Philharmonia Orchestra  conducted by  Kiril Kondrashin 

Peter Tchaikovsky:  Meditation in D minor, op.42
Leonid Kogan, violin - Paris Conservatoire Orchestra  conducted by  Constantin Silvestri 

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EMI  Classics for Pleasure  CFP 40040   Recorded: 25-27 February 1959 - EMI Studio 1, Abbey Road  -&-  17 November 1959 - Salle Wagram, Paris.

Peter Tchaikovsky:  Violin Concerto in D major, op.35  I:  Adagio moderato  ~  II:  Canzonetta (Andante)  ~  III: Allegro vivacissimo.  Rec:  10/11+28 November 1959 - Salle Wagram, Paris.

EMI  Classics for Pleasure  CFP 40083         2 files 16/44 zip FLAC  Mega Download    (The LP transfer was low-level (peaks @ -5dB -and side 2 needed 2 dB amplification...also noted in 1962)   CFP sleeves / EMG reviews >>>    N.B: The Lalo is excellent.

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: Hugo Rignold / Paris Conservatoire - Delibes. Sylvia -&- Coppelia - Decca/RCA 1959

Leo Delibes: "Sylvia"
Prelude - Les Chasseresses - Intermezzo & Valse lente - Pizzicati & Cortege de Bacchus

Leo Delibes: "Coppelia"
Prelude et Mazurka - Scene et Valse de la poupee - Czardas - Valse de Swanhilda - Ballade et Theme slave varie

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Paris Conservatoire Orchestra  conducted by  Hugo Rignold

RCA  VICS 1130  1965 (Plum label) reissue of RCA LSC2485. US LP/matrices: SVRS3840/1 -1S/2S.  Recorded: 2/4 May 1959 -La Maison de la Chimie, Paris.  

NOT ON CD   No auto de-click/eq.  Some less than Stellar soloists!   Sleeve-note / EMG review / Desormiere reissue LXT5217 sleeve >>>

24/48: Leonid Kogan / Paris Conservatoire / Constantin Silvestri - Beethoven. Violin Concerto - EMI 1959

Ludwig van Beethoven:
Violin Concerto in D major, op.61 
I: Allegro ma non troppo (Cadenza by Joachim) -Tempo 1 ~ II: Larghetto ~ III: Rondo -Allegro (Cadenza by Joachim) -Tempo 1 

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Leonid Kogan, violin - Paris Conservatoire Orchestra  conducted by  Constantin Silvestri

EMI Classics For Pleasure  CFP 139. 1970 reissue of Columbia SAX2386. Matrices: YLX1052/3 -5G.  Recorded: 16+28 November 1959 - Salle Wagram, Paris.

Languid performance!  Sleeve-note / EMG review / labels  (+Silvestri's 1957-1963 EMG reviews + early CFP booklet..)  >>>

24/48: Leonid Kogan / Paris Conservatoire / Silvestri - Mozart. Violin Concerto 3 -&- Mendelssohn. Violin Concerto - EMI 1959

W.A.Mozart: Violin Concerto no.3 in G major, K.216
I: Allegro -(Cadenza by Franko)- Tempo 1 ~ II: Adagio -(Cadenza by Franko)- Tempo 1 ~ III: Rondo (Allegro-Andante-Allegretto-Tempo 1)
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Felix Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto in E minor, op.64
I: Allegro molto appassionato (Cadenza) - Tempo 1 - Presto ~ II: Andante ~ III: Allegretto non troppo
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Leonid Kogan, violin - Paris Conservatoire Orchestra  conducted by  Constantin Silvestri

EMI Classics for Pleasure  CFP 40031   Matrices: YLX1060 -1 / YLX1061 -2. 1973 First UK Stereo: originally Columbia 33CX1744 mono (French Stereo SAXF138). Recorded: 26/7 & 13/14/18 November 1959 - Salle Wagram, Paris.
No auto declick/re-eq. Slight LF noises in Mozart start for a few mins. Edited-away various glitches. Shure V15/3E original. Sleeve-note / EMG review / labels >>>  

The 1954 (stereo) Christian Ferras Mozart VC3/'7' still available @ http://themusicparlour.blogspot.com/2010/03/karl-munchinger-conducts-liszt-mazeppa_19.html

24/48: Albert Wolff / Paris Conservatoire - Auber. Overtures - Decca 1955

Daniel-Francois Auber:
Masaniello  (La Muette de Portici)
The Bronze Horse
Fra Diavolo
The Crown Diamonds 

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L'Orchestre de la Societe des Concerts du Conservatoire de Paris  conducted by  Albert Wolff

Decca  LXT 5005  1955 LP/Matrices: ARL2355/6 -1A.  Recorded: 29 September 1954 - La Maison de la Mutualite, Paris

Sleeve-note / EMG reviews >>>  High-level LP mastering (+3dB). Treble +2.5dB @10kHz / flat Bass. '1' de-click   "Le Domino noir" included in SXL 2008 >>> 

24-bit: Carl Schuricht / Paris Conservatoire - Schumann. Symphonies 2 & 3 + Overture, Scherzo, Finale - Decca 1952-4

Robert Schumann:  Symphony no.2 in C major, op.61
I: Sostenuto assai - Allegro ma non troppo  ~  II: Scherzo (Allegro vivace)  ~  III: Adagio espressivo  ~  IV:  Allegro molto vivace 

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Robert Schumann:  Symphony no.3 in E flat major, op.97  "Rhenish"   I: Lebhaft  ~  II: Scherzo (Sehr massig)  ~  III: Nicht schnell  ~  IV: Feirlich  ~  V: Lebhaft 

Robert Schumann:  Overture, Scherzo & Finale, op.52    I: Andante con moto - Allegro  ~  II: Scherzo (Vivo)  ~  III: Finale (Allegro molto vivace) 

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L'Orchestre de la Societe des Concerts du Conservatoire de Paris  conducted by  Carl Schuricht

Decca  ACL 236  (LXT2745) 1964 matrices/pressing: ARL1307/8 - 2K.  Decca  ACL 231  (LXT2985) 1964 matrices/pressing: ARL1701 -7K / ARL1700 -5K. Recorded: June 1952  -&-  June 1953 / June 1954 - La Maison de la Mutualite, Paris 
Symphony 3 dubbed +1dB then additionally normalized to -0.5dB peak to match. Symphony 2 much clearer than the original LXT.   Sleeve-notes / ACL covers / EMG LXT reviews >>>   

2012/3 transfers of Schuricht/PCO LXT ACL Wagner + the Schumann OSF >>>

24/48: Capriccio Italien - Dervaux ... Capriccio Espagnol - Vandernoot - Command 1961

Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov:  "Capriccio Espagnol"
Paris Conservatoire Orchestra  conducted by  Andre Vandernoot  

Peter Tchaikovsky:  "Capriccio Italien"
Concerts Colonne Orchestra  conducted by  Pierre Dervaux 

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Command Classics  CC 11004-SD  35MM  1961 USA LP  Piros mastered -2K  (Pierre Dervaux: 21 May 1961 -Salle Wagram, Paris).
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24/48: Albert Wolff / Paris Conservatoire - Overtures in Hi Fi - Decca 1958

SIDE ONE: (3 files)  16/44 FLAC   Mega Download              24/48 XR FLAC  Mega Download
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.    
Sleeve-note / EMG review >>>  

24/96: Roger Desormiere / Paris Conservatoire - Les Sylphides ... Sleeping Beauty - Decca 1950/1

 

Frederic Chopin / Orchestrated by Alexander Gretchaninov:  "Les Sylphides" -  Ballet  (arr: Desormiere)
Nocturne (op.32/2) ~ Valse (op.70/1) ~ Mazurka (op.33/2) ~ Mazurka (op.67/3) ~ Prelude (op.28/7) ~ Valse (op.64/2) ~ Grande Valse Brillante (op.18)
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Peter Tchaikovsky:  "The Sleeping Beauty", op.66  - Suite:  Introduction (Prologue) ~ Finale, Act.1 (The Lilac Fairy) ~ Pas d'action, Act.2 ~ Pas de caractere (Puss in Boots & the White Cat), Act.3 ~ Panorama, Act.2 ~ Valse, Act.3
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L'Orchestre de la Societe des Concerts du Conservatoire de Paris  conducted by  Roger Desormiere    
Decca  ACL 8  1959 pressing/matrices: ARL1799 -1HR / ARL899 -3ER.  Recorded: 22 February 1950 / 15-20 June 1951 - La Maison de la Mutualite, Paris
Originally: LM4511 / LXT2610    Tchaikovsky: Sept.2010  files re-edited May 2012  -  (Les Sylphides NOT ON CD)

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)  
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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 >>>