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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Ravel: Les deux concertos pour piano (Stereo Version)
Samson François, Orchestre de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire, André Cluytens
Divers - Paru chez BNF Collection le 1 janv. 1960
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Ravel: Concertos pour piano (Mono Version)
Jean Casadesus, Orchestre de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire, Pierre Dervaux
Divers - Paru chez BNF Collection le 1 janv. 1958
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Tchaikovsky: Concerto pour violon, Op. 35 & Souvenir d'un lieu cher, Op. 42 (Stereo Version)
Orchestre de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire, Constantin Silvestri, Leonid Kogan
Divers - Paru chez BNF Collection le 1 janv. 1960
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Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique by Ataúlfo Argenta (2024 Remastered, Paris 1957)
Ataulfo Argenta, Orchestre de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire
Classique - Paru chez Alexandre Bak - Classical Music Reference Recording le 14 févr. 2024
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Overtures In Hi-Fi
Orchestra Of The Opera-Comique, Paris, Orchestre de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire, Albert Wolff
Classique - Paru chez Decca Music Group Ltd. le 1 janv. 2010
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Hindemith: Symphony "Mathis Der Maler"
Daniel Benyamini, Orchestre de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire, Boston Symphony Orchestra, William Steinberg, Daniel Barenboim
Classique - Paru chez Deutsche Grammophon (DG) le 1 janv. 1972
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Romantic Russia - Borodin / Glinka / Mussorgsky / Tchaikovsky
London Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire, Sir Georg Solti
Classique - Paru chez Decca Music Group Ltd. le 1 janv. 1999
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Airs d'opéras. Les noces de Figaro, Les puritains, Samson et Dalila, Tannhäuser, Othello...
Ernest Blanc, Orchestre de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire, Georges Prêtre
Classique - Paru chez Warner Classics le 8 déc. 2023
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Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No. 3 - Saint-Saëns: Piano Concerto No. 2
Emil Gilels, André Cluytens, Orchestre de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire
Classique - Paru chez Warner Classics le 6 févr. 2006
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Marguerite Long, Vol. 2
Marguerite Long, Pedro De Freitas Branco, Darius Milhaud, Georges Tzipine, Philippe Gaubert, Orchestre de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire
Classique - Paru chez APR le 4 nov. 2022
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Strauss: La chauve-souris
Jacqueline Brumaire, Liliane Berton, Jean Christophe Benoit, Michel Roux, Orchestre de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire, Franck Pourcel
Classique - Paru chez Warner Classics le 25 août 2023
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Conductor's Gallery, Vol. 12: Ernest Ansermet
Orchestre de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire, Ernest Ansermet, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Ernest Ansermet
Classique - Paru chez Universal Music Australia Pty. Ltd. le 25 août 2023
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Rimsky-Korsakov: Capriccio espagnol & La grande Pâque russe - Borodin: Dans les steppes de l'Asie centrale - Mussorgsky: Une nuit sur le mont Chauve (Mono Version)
Orchestre de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire, André Cluytens
Divers - Paru chez BNF Collection le 1 janv. 1952
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Lully, Rameau & Gluck: Suites d'airs de ballet (Mono Version)
Orchestre de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire, Gustave Cloëz
Divers - Paru chez BNF Collection le 1 janv. 1963
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Mussorgsky, Ravel: Tableaux d'une exposition (Stereo Version)
Andre Vandernoot, Orchestre de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire
Divers - Paru chez BNF Collection le 1 janv. 1962
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Falla: L'amour sorcier (Mono Version)
Ana María Iriarte, Orchestre de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire, Ataulfo Argenta
Divers - Paru chez BNF Collection le 1 janv. 1952
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Mozart: Don Giovanni, Le nozze di Figaro & Così fan tutte (Live at Festival d'Aix-en-Provence 1956 & 1957)
Hans Rosbaud, Orchestre de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire
Opéra - Paru chez Classica le 23 juin 2017
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Russian Recital: Rimsky-Korsakov, Borodine & Mussorgsky
André Cluytens, Orchestre de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire
Classique - Paru chez Jube Classic le 15 mai 2020
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Adam: Giselle, ballet (Mono Version)
Orchestre de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire, Jean Martinon
Divers - Paru chez BNF Collection le 1 janv. 1960
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Falla: Extraits de La vie brève & L'amour sorcier (Mono Version)
Orchestre de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire, Edouard Lindenberg
Divers - Paru chez BNF Collection le 1 janv. 1956
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Scheherazade, Symphonic Suite, Op. 35
Classique - Paru chez Stage Door le 18 déc. 2011
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