Orchestre de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire
During the 140 years of its existence, the Société des Concerts du Conservatoire de Paris was the most stable and the best orchestra in the city of Paris.
Shortly before the Revolution, the composer Gossec and others founded the Ecole Royale de Chant (Royal Singing School) with fifteen students in 1784. The National Directory established a country-wide system of musical education with a Conservatoire Superior (the Paris Conservatoire) as the head institution. It took over the staff of the former Ecole Royale de Chant and opened in October, 1796, with 115 professors and 351 pupils.
In its very first season, the Conservatoire initiated its practice of giving an annual concert featuring its prizewinning students. In 1800, it initiated a series of concerts, from five to twelve each year, using an orchestra of about 60 players, mostly pupils but with some of the teachers as well, that became well known because of the high quality of its playing. The conductor F.-A. Habaneck led these concerts from 1806. The Conservatoire was briefly closed after the fall of Napoleon, but the restored Bourbon monarchy reopened it in 1816. Under the leadership of Luigi Cherubini after 1822, it became the world's leading institute of higher musical education outside the field of musicology, which remained a specialty of the Sorbonne.
The post-Restoration period saw a decline in the pupils' orchestra concerts due to lack of financial support, and they ended altogether in 1824. But after Habaneck was appointed Inspector General of the Conservatoire, he launched a new organization with the support of the Minister of Arts. It was called the Société des Concerts du Conservatoire and its orchestra was made up of 81 present and former students of the Conservatoire. It remained the leading concert organization of Paris for many years as several private concert organizations rose and fell. Richard Wagner wrote that this orchestra was "the only thing in Paris worthy of the attention of a musician." He said they had "correct execution" and the "secret of good interpretation."
In 1859, Pasdeloup founded the Société des Jeune Artistes du Conservatoire, an orchestra of the most superior instrumental players (about 60 of them) and choral singers (around 40) of the Conservatoire, a de facto revival of the old pupils' concerts. This series lasted until the war of 1870, but the main Conservatoire concerts continued despite occasional setbacks for the rest of the century and two-thirds of the next, and became the primary example of the French sound in orchestral playing. Its leading conductors after Habeneck included Hainl, Garcin, Taffanel, and Messager and, after World War I, such leaders as Paray, Wolff, Monteux, and Münch.
The Conservatoire Concerts faced a potent rival after 1937, when the French Radio organization founded its own Orchestra National de la RTF (which has become the French National Orchestra). Charles Munch became conductor of the Conservatoire Orchestra from 1938 to 1948, succeeded by André Cluytens. In 1967, Minister of Culture André Malraux disbanded the Société des concerts du Conservatoire. Many of its players became members of the organization Malraux established in its place, l'Orchestre de Paris.
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Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto; Suite for Orchestra No. 3 (Adrian Boult – The Decca Legacy III, Vol. 5)
Mischa Elman, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestre de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire, Sir Adrian Boult
Klassik - Erschienen bei Universal Music Australia Pty. Ltd. am 07.10.2022
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Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake; The Nutcracker
Anatole Fistoulari, London Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire
Klassik - Erschienen bei Universal Music Australia Pty. Ltd. am 26.10.2018
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Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No. 3, Visions fugitives & Toccata
Samson François, Orchestre de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire, André Cluytens
Klassik - Erschienen bei Warner Classics am 25.09.2020
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Debussy, Dukas: Orchestral Works
Ernest Ansermet, Ernest Ansermet, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Orchestre de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire
Klassik - Erschienen bei Universal Music Australia Pty. Ltd. am 08.06.2018
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Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade; Le Coq d'Or - Suite
Orchestre de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire, Ernest Ansermet, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Ernest Ansermet
Klassik - Erschienen bei Decca Music Group Ltd. am 14.07.2008
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Khachaturian: Suite de Mascarade (Mono Version)
Richard Blareau, Orchestre de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire
Verschiedenes - Erschienen bei BNF Collection am 01.01.1954
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Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 5 "Emperor" - Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 3
Emil Gilels, Philharmonia Orchestra, Orchestre de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire, Leopold Ludwig, André Cluytens
Klassik - Erschienen bei Jube Classic am 22.05.2020
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Tchaikovsky : Sleeping Beauty - Symphony No. 4
Anatole Fistoulari, Orchestre de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Symphonieorchester - Erschienen bei Decca am 11.01.2019
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Ravel: Piano Concerto for the Left Hand in D Major etc.
Samson François, Robert Casadesus, Orchestre de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire
Klassik - Erschienen bei Past Classics am 12.06.2011
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Gluck, C.W.: Orphee et Euridice
Nicolai Gedda, Janine Micheau, Liliane Berton, Chœurs de la Société des concerts du Conservatoire, Orchestre de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire, Louis De Froment
Oper - Erschienen bei Profil am 01.01.1958
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Poulenc: Aubade & Sinfonietta (Mono Version)
Francis Poulenc, Orchestre de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire, Georges Prêtre
Verschiedenes - Erschienen bei BNF Collection am 01.01.1961
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Iphigénie en Tauride
Orchestre de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire, Georges Prêtre, Choeurs Rene Duclos, Rita Gorr
Oper - Erschienen bei ISIS am 24.09.2021
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Ansermet In Russia
Ernest Ansermet, Orchestre de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire, Ernest Ansermet, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande
Klassik - Erschienen bei Universal Music Australia Pty. Ltd. am 08.06.2018
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Stravinsky : Petruskha - The Rite of Spring (1956)
Pierre Monteux, Orchestre de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire, Julius Katchen
Ballett - Erschienen bei Decca Music Group Limited am 12.02.2016
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Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro, K. 492 (Live)
Oper - Erschienen bei Stradivarius am 06.09.2019
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Tchaikovsky: Symphonies 2 & 5 / Russian Orchestral Works
Sir Georg Solti, Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, Berliner Philharmoniker, Orchestre de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire
Klassik - Erschienen bei Universal Music Australia Pty. Ltd. am 20.05.2016
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Ibert: Divertissement - Saint-Saëns: Danse macabre & Le Rouet d'Omphale - Bizet: Jeux d'enfants (Mono Version)
Orchestre de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire, Jean Martinon
Verschiedenes - Erschienen bei BNF Collection am 01.01.1961
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Tchaikovsky & Liszt: Orchestral Works
Orchestre National de France, Orchestre de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire, Pierre Dervaux, Gyorgy Cziffra
Klassik - Erschienen bei Archipel am 12.08.2002
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Schumann & Dvorak : Violin Concertos
Yehudi Menuhin, New York Philharmonic, Orchestre de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire, Sir John Barbirolli, George Enescu
Violinkonzerte - Erschienen bei Naxos am 01.01.1993
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Debussy: Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune, Children's Corner, Trois nocturnes pour orchestre & Tarantelle styrienne (Mono Version)
Jean Fournet, Orchestre Lamoureux, Orchestre de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire
Verschiedenes - Erschienen bei BNF Collection am 01.01.1959
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Ballets d'opéras (Mono Version)
Orchestre de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire, Anatole Fistoulari
Verschiedenes - Erschienen bei BNF Collection am 01.01.1960
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