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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Callas sings Mozart, Beethoven & Weber Arias - Callas Remastered
Maria Callas, Nicola Rescigno, Orchestre de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire
Opera - Released by Warner Classics on Jan 1, 1964
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Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade Symphonic Suite, Op.35
Orchestre de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire
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Ganne: Hans, le joueur de flûte
Liliane Berton, André Mallabrera, Michel Dens, Orchestre de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire, Jean-Pierre Marty
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Andrè Cluytens in Munich live Deutsches Museum 1958
Maurice Ravel, Orchestre de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire, Kölner Rundfunk Sinfonie Orchester, Monique Haas, André Cluytens
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Stravinsky, Ravel, Coppola & Chabrier: Le sacre du printemps - Le petit poucet (Ma mère l’oye) - Interlude dramatique - Fête Polonaise [Le Roi malgré lui] - La valse
Orchestre de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire
Ballets - Released by Altair on May 31, 2022
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Prokofiev: Lieutenant Kijé; The Love for Three Oranges (Adrian Boult – The Decca Legacy III, Vol. 15)
London Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestre de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire, Sir Adrian Boult
Classical - Released by Universal Music Australia Pty. Ltd. on Jan 1, 1956
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Chopin, Ravel & Saint-Saëns: Piano Concerto for the Left Hand, M. 82 - Piano Concerto NO. 2, OP. 21 - Piano Concerto NO. 4, M. 81
Orchestre de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire, Alfred Cortot
Keyboard Concertos - Released by Altair on Mar 23, 2023
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Berlioz - Symphonie Fantastique
Ataulfo Argenta, Orchestre de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire
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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Orchestre de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire
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Schubert: Symphony No. 9 - Liszt: Ce qu'on entend sur la montagne, S. 95
Orchestre de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire, Rundfunk Sinfonieorchester Berlin, Hans Rosbaud
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Debussy, Ravel & Mussorgsky: La Mer - La Valse - Pictures at an Exhibition
Ernest Ansermet, Ernest Ansermet, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Orchestre de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire
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Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5
Orchestre de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire, Sir Georg Solti
Classical - Released by Decca Music Group Ltd. on Jan 1, 1956
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Zino Francescatti, Vol. 2: Beethoven, Mozart & Ravel (Live)
Zino Francescatti, Artur Balsam, André Cluytens, Orchestre de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire
Chamber Music - Released by DOREMI on May 7, 2002
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Mozart: Violin Concertos
Yehudi Menuhin, Orchestre de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire, George Enescu, Pierre Monteux
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Clara Haskil Plays Mozart
Clara Haskil, Orchestre de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire, Jerzy Katlewicz
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Conductor's Gallery, Vol. 7: Victor de Sabata, Roger Désormière
Janine Micheau, Orchestre de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire, National Symphony Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Roger Désormière, Victor De Sabata
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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
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Franz Joseph Haydn, Vol. 4
Bruno Walter, Orchestre de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire
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Delibes: Coppélia and Sylvia
Classical Masters, Orchestre de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire
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