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: Michelangeli / Philharmonia / Gracis - Rachmaninov -&- Ravel. Piano Concertos - HMV 1957

Sergei Rachmaninov:  Piano Concerto no.4 in G minor, op.40
I: Allegro vivace ~ II: Largo ~ III: Allegro vivace

Maurice Ravel:  Piano Concerto in G major
I: Allegramente ~ II: Adagio assai ~ III: Presto
   
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Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli, piano - The Philharmonia Orchestra  conducted by  Ettore Gracis

HMV  ALP 1538  1961 pressing/matrices: 2XEA1179/80 -2N.  Recorded: 7,8,10 March 1957 - EMI Studio 1, Abbey Road.
The Mono tapings (closer microphone balance). No auto de-click or re-eq.  Sleeve-note / labels / EMG review >>>

24/48: Lorin Maazel / Philharmonia - Pictures at an Exhibition -&- Prelude a l'apres-midi d'un faune - Columbia 1962

Claude Debussy:  "Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune"

Modest Mussorgsky - orch. Maurice Ravel:  "Pictures at an Exhibition"

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The Philharmonia Orchestra  conducted by  Lorin Maazel

EMI Eminence  EMX 2008  1983 LP/matrices: YAX953 -13 / YAX954 -5.  Recorded: June/August 1962 - Kingsway Hall.
Re-edited May '24 (from original 24/96 wav: no auto de-click).  Debussy NOT ON CD.  Sleeve-note / EMG+BeechamTrust reviews >>>  

1962 Maazel / Philharmonia  R.Strauss Zarathustra + Eulenspiegel >>> 

24/48: Paul Kletzki / Philharmonia - Tchaikovsky ~ Smetana ~ Ravel - Columbia 1954

Peter Tchaikovsky:  Serenade for Strings, op.48
I: Pezzo in forma di Sonatina ~ II: Waltzer ~ III: Elegie ~ IV: Finale (Tema Russo) 

Maurice Ravel:  Boléro

Bedrich Smetana:  "The Bartered Bride" - overture

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The Philharmonia Orchestra  conducted by  Paul Kletzki

EMI Music for Pleasure  MFP 2045  1966 LP/matrices: XAX488 -5 / XAX345 -4  Recorded: 7-10 July 1952 & 15-24 June 1953 - Kingsway Hall
NOT ON CD    (The Tchaikovsky discloses a rather swimmy/nebulous acoustic in the quiet sections..)   MFP cover & Columbia sleevenote (zip folder includes Columbia sleeve in .bmp) >>>  

24/48: Sir Malcolm Sargent / Royal Philharmonic - "Lollipops" - Reader's Digest 1963

Anderson:  “The Syncopated Clock”
Johann Strauss:  “Perpetuum Mobile”, op.257   
Ravel:  “Pavane pour une infante défunte"  
Alfvén:  Swedish Rhapsody no.1, op.19   “Midsummer Vigil”  
Rossini:  “Il Signor Bruschino” - overture  
Johann & Josef Strauss:  “Pizzicato-Polka”  
Tchaikovsky:  “Humoresque” in E minor, op.10/2  
Dvorak:  2 Slavonic Dances, op.46/1 & op.72/2  
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Royal Philharmonic Orchestra  conducted by  Sir Malcolm Sargent 
Reader's Digest  RDS 2022 (from 1963 12LP box-set). 1971 Decca pressing/matrices: P2RS2047/8 -3K/-8K. Recorded: 28/29 March 1963 -Walthamstow Town Hall
Nice sound (except Dvorak: op.72) & performances.  Reader's Digest sleeve-note / sleeve >>> 

24/48: Suzanne Danco sings... Schumann. Liederkreis ... Faure. Bonne Chanson ... Ravel. Sheherazade, Poemes de Stephane Mallarme, Melodies hebraiques - Decca 1953/1955

Robert Schumann:  "Liederkreis", op.39       /       Gabriel Faure:  "La Bonne Chanson", Op.61 **
2 files zip 16/44 FLAC  Mega Download              2 files zip 24/48 XR FLAC  Mega Download         Suzanne Danco, Soprano - with  Guido Agosti, piano  

Maurice Ravel:  "Sheherazade"  /  "Trois Poemes de Stephane Mallarme" ** /  "Deux Melodies hebraiques" 
3 files zip 16/44 FLAC  Mega Download              3 files zip 24/48 XR FLAC  Mega Download          Suzanne Danco - Suisse Romande Orchestra  conducted by  Ernest Ansermet

Decca  LX 3107  10" 1953 LP/matrices: DRL1209 -2A / DRL1210 -2A    /    Decca  ECS 816  STEREO (electronic **)  1978 LP/matrices: EAL12707 -1G / EAL12708 -1G
Recorded: 8/9 April 1952  &  Oct./Nov.1954 - Victoria Hall, Geneva    (The 1952 recordings were re-issued 1957 as Decca/London LL 1324  - no LXT release)
'Mallarme' + Faure are single-channel from the electronic-stereo. Liederkreis LX 3107 additionally auto-de-clicked after vast effort (the surfaces, whilst appearing mint, were stunningly noisy due to inferior matrix processing: now just a subdued trace of 'hash' at side-ends (and sounding superior to Mr Pristine's effort !! mp3 sample - second part is Liederkreis)
October 2016: 24/96 files converted to 24/48 - slight (1.5dB) treble added to 'Liederkreis' - a few ticks removed from 'Sheherazade'..  
Liederkreis:  Not on CD   Two Hebrew Melodies:  Not on CD as stereo.  EMG reviews / Sleeve-notes / "The Times" - obituary 2000 >>>