On Saturday, June 18, 2022 at 7:17:26 AM UTC-4, MELMOTH wrote:
> randy wolfgang avait prétendu :
> > ordered mine from DeepDiscount Each volume 92.49 = 194.98 (free shipping)
> > . tax= 11.03 - 10% discount - 18.50 - total = 177.51.
> Many thanks for this absolutely fascinating post...
It was my pleasure!!!!

On 5/30/22 5:45 PM, largo_57 wrote:
> Eloquence has announced 2 boxes of Paul Paray & Detroit Symphony Mercury recordings for release on June 17:
>
> https://www.eloquenceclassics.com/forthcoming-releases/
>

In a related subject the two Eloquence Kubelik boxes were
added to broinc.com

On Saturday, June 18, 2022 at 10:20:19 PM UTC-4, weary flake wrote:
> On 5/30/22 5:45 PM, largo_57 wrote:
> > Eloquence has announced 2 boxes of Paul Paray & Detroit Symphony Mercury recordings for release on June 17:
> >
> > https://www.eloquenceclassics.com/forthcoming-releases/
> >
> In a related subject the two Eloquence Kubelik boxes were
> added to broinc.com

Thanks for heads up on Berkshire Record Outlet.

Sadly, their mailing costs (domestically at $6 for first disc plus
$1.50 each additional Disc) adds $22.50 to the Kubelik Decca box.

They have always calculated shipping on a "first disc price plus a much lesser
price for each additional item in order," and that always argued strongly
for placing big orders. Certainly not a problem for ordering a dozen jewel-cased
single CDs.

But is $22.50 a realistic shipping and packaging cost for this newer
class of cardboard-based clamshell packaging?

Jerry

On 6/19/2022 12:18 PM, Jerry wrote:
> On Saturday, June 18, 2022 at 10:20:19 PM UTC-4, weary flake wrote:
>> On 5/30/22 5:45 PM, largo_57 wrote:
>>> Eloquence has announced 2 boxes of Paul Paray & Detroit Symphony Mercury recordings for release on June 17:
>>>
>>> https://www.eloquenceclassics.com/forthcoming-releases/
>>>
>> In a related subject the two Eloquence Kubelik boxes were
>> added to broinc.com
>
> Thanks for heads up on Berkshire Record Outlet.
>
> Sadly, their mailing costs (domestically at $6 for first disc plus
> $1.50 each additional Disc) adds $22.50 to the Kubelik Decca box.
>
> They have always calculated shipping on a "first disc price plus a much lesser
> price for each additional item in order," and that always argued strongly
> for placing big orders. Certainly not a problem for ordering a dozen jewel-cased
> single CDs.
>
> But is $22.50 a realistic shipping and packaging cost for this newer
> class of cardboard-based clamshell packaging?
>
> Jerry

Perhaps you already have, but you could contact Joe at BRO with this comment.

"Jerry" wrote in message
news:af1f0723-3aa8-4908-8608-1ac3510ab7c3n@googlegroups.com...

Thanks for heads up on Berkshire Record Outlet.

>Sadly, their mailing costs (domestically at $6 for first disc plus
$>1.50 each additional Disc) adds $22.50 to the Kubelik Decca box.

Is that really the case? The last time I ordered from BRO, the shipping
was $6 for the first disc plus 10 Cents for each additional disc.

I've got to go check that out. That's quite a change.

Ed Presson

On 6/19/2022 7:27 PM, Ed Presson wrote:
> "Jerry" wrote in message
> news:af1f0723-3aa8-4908-8608-1ac3510ab7c3n@googlegroups.com...
>
>
> Thanks for heads up on Berkshire Record Outlet.
>
>> Sadly, their mailing costs (domestically at $6 for first disc plus
> $>1.50 each additional Disc) adds $22.50 to the Kubelik Decca box.
>
> Is that really the case? The last time I ordered from BRO, the shipping
> was $6 for the first disc plus 10 Cents for each additional disc.
>
> I've got to go check that out. That's quite a change.
>
> Ed Presson
>
>
E
I just checked my most recent BRO order which was less than a month ago. The shipping charge was you say. $6.00 for the first disc and $.10 for each additional. Shipping for multi CD sets is charged by the CD not the set.

On Sunday, June 19, 2022 at 9:32:06 PM UTC-4, mswd...@gmail.com wrote:
> On Sunday, June 19, 2022 at 11:18:10 AM UTC-5, Jerry wrote:
> > Sadly, their mailing costs (domestically at $6 for first disc plus
> > $1.50 each additional Disc) adds $22.50 to the Kubelik Decca box.
> It appears that is the shipping cost if the first is sent domestically and the others to Europe. :-)

My sincere apologies for the mistake. The BROINC "additional disc" cost is 10 cents,
exactly as I remembered it. I can only ascribe this to my transcription error as
I was moving my vision back and forth between computer screen and paper.

Jerry

UPDATE: CONTENTS ANALYSIS OF THE PARAY BOXES (VOLUME ONE 1953-1957) (VOLUME TWO 1958-1962)
Two Frenchmen in America:
Charles Munch recorded 83 LPs (17 mono, 66 stereo) for RCA with the Boston Symphony between 1949 and 1962.
Paul Paray recorded 43 LPs (12 mono, 31 stereo) for Mercury with the Detroit Symphony between 1953 and 1962.
Both labels were long sought after by audiophiles – the RCAs were more luxuriant, the Mercury’s drier and punchier.
Confusion: Mercury’s trademark was “Living Presence”, RCA’s trademark was “Living Stereo”.

In 2016, Sony issued an original jacket box of Munch’s RCA recordings (83 CDs + 3 CDs recorded for Columbia).
My analysis (“Contents List with composers identified”) is published on Amazon, but you have to scroll down a bit to find it.
Now Eloquence is releasing Paray’s complete Mercury recordings in two newly-remastered original jacket boxes: 45 CDs total (includes 2 bonus CDs).
Each box comes with a (different) 44 page booklet.
Scholarly and well-done.

There is a lot of overlap between the Munch and Paray recordings.
As might be expected, both conductors were French music specialists.
One difference - Paray recorded a lot more light music than Munch:
Overtures and short works by Adam, Auber, Boieldieu, Hérold, Massenet, Meyerbeer, Offenbach and Thomas, plus full discs devoted to the music of Chabrier and Suppé (technically Austrian, but there is an accent at the end of his name).
In Boston, this repertoire was the property of Arthur Fiedler and the Boston Pops (at least as far as RCA was concerned).

Ten of twelve mono LPs (recorded 1953-1955) are receiving their first official CD release (all the monos are in Volume One).
All but one of Paray’s 31 stereo LPs (recorded 1956-1962) were previously released on CD.
The sound was excellent on those “Living Presence” CDs and is, if anything, better now.
New to CD is the 1959 stereo recording of Beethoven’s first two symphonies (in Volume Two).

THE NAKED CARMEN
Electric Rock Opera issued on LP in 1970 (Volume 2, CD 21).
Written, arranged and produced by John Corigliano & David A. Hess, adapted from Bizet’s Carmen.
They used Paray’s 1956 Detroit Symphony recording of the Carmen Suite, plus synthesizer, kazoo and vocals.
As someone who was a teenager in the 1960s, I apologize.

CONTENTS ANALYSIS
Detroit Symphony unless otherwise indicated.
STEREO unless otherwise indicated.
A = Volume One, B = Volume Two - followed by the CD number:

-------------------------- PART ONE: FRENCH MUSIC -------------------------
ADAM:
--- Si j’étais roi Overture [B-13]
AUBER:
--- Le Cheval de bronze Overture [B-11]
--- Les Diamants de la couronne Overture [B-13]
--- Fra Diavolo Overture [B-11]
--- Masaniello Overture [B-11]
BARRAUD:
--- Offrande à une ombre [A-14]
BERLIOZ:
--- Symphonie fantastique (B-14)
--- Le Carnaval romain Overture [B-3]
--- Le Corsaire Overture [B-3]
--- Marche hongroise from La Damnation de Faust [B-8]
--- Marche troyenne from Les Troyens [B-8]
--- Chasse royale et orage from Les Troyens [B-20
BIZET:
--- L’Arlésienne Suites [A-13]
--- Carmen Suite [A-13]
--- Danse bohème from Carmen Suite No.2 [B-20]
--- La Patrie Overture [B-3]
BIZET adapted by CORIGLIANO & HESS:
--- Naked Carmen: Electric Rock Opera [B-21] recycles Paray’s recording of the Carmen Suite
BOIELDIEU:
--- La Dame blanche Overture [B-13]
CHABRIER:
--- Bourreé fantasque [A-14]
--- España Rhapsody [mono A-11], [stereo B-9]
--- Gwendoline Overture [B-9]
--- Joyeuse marche [B-8]
--- Suite Pastorale [B-9]
--- Danse slave & Fête polonaise from Le Roi malgré lui [B-9]
CHAUSSON:
--- Symphony [A-17]
DEBUSSY:
--- Ibéria [A-15]
--- La Mer [A-15]
--- Nocturnes for orchestra [B-17]
--- Petite Suite orch. Büsser [B-10]
--- Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune [B-10]
DUKAS:
--- L’Apprenti sorcier [mono A-7] with and without narration
FAURÉ:
--- Pavane [mono A-6]
--- Pelléas et Mélisande [mono A-7]
FRANCK:
--- Symphony [mono A-4], [stereo B-18]
--- Psyché excerpts [mono A-6]
GOUNOD:
--- Ballet music from Faust [B-20]
--- Marche funèbre d’une marionette [B-8]
HÉROLD:
--- Zampa Overture [B-13]
IBERT:
--- Escales [mono A-11], [stereo B-19]
LALO:
--- Namouna: Suite No.1 [B-2]
--- Le Roi d’Ys Overture [B-3]
MASSENET:
--- Phèdre Overture [B-20]
MEYERBEER:
--- Coronation March from Le Prophète [B-8]
OFFENBACH:
--- La belle Hélène Overture [B-11]
--- Orphée aux enfers Overture [B-11]
--- Les Contes d’Hoffmann Suite [B-11]
PARAY:
--- Mass for the 500th Anniversary of the Death of Joan of Arc [A-21]
RAVEL:
--- Alborada del gracioso [B-19]
--- Boléro [mono A-1], [stereo A-14]
--- Daphnis et Chloé Suite No.2 with chorus [B-17]
--- Ma Mère l’oye Suite [A-14]
--- Pavane pour une infante défunte [B-19]
--- Rapsodie espagnole [mono A-11] , [stereo B-19]
--- Le Tombeau de Couperin [B-10]
--- La Valse [mono A-6], [stereo B-19]
--- Valses nobles et sentimentales [B-10]
--- Piano Concerti with Monique Haas, Orchestre National de France [B-22] recorded by DG
ROUGET DE LISLE:
--- La Marseillaise orch. Berlioz [B-8]
ROUSSEL:
--- Le Festin de l’araignée [mono A-7]
--- Suite in F major [A-14]
SAINT-SAËNS:
--- Symphony No. 3 ‘Organ Symphony’ with Marcel Dupré, organ [A-16]
--- Danse macabre [B-5]
--- Marche héroïque [B-8]
--- Marche militaire française from Suite algérienne [B-8]
--- Bacchanale from Samson et Dalila [B-20]
SCHMITT:
--- La Tragédie de Salomé [B-2]
THOMAS:
--- Mignon Overture [B-13]
--- Gavotte from Mignon [B-20]
--- Raymond Overture [B-13]

------------------------------ NOT FRENCH MUSIC ----------------------
BEETHOVEN:
--- Symphony No.1 [B-7]
--- Symphony No.2 [B-7]
--- Symphony No.6 [mono A-10]
--- Symphony No.7 [mono A-3]
BRAHMS:
--- Symphony No.4 [mono A-12]
DVOŘÁK:
--- Symphony No.9 ‘New World’ [B-15]
HAYDN:
--- Symphony No.96 ‘Miracle’ [A-22]
LISZT:
--- Mephisto Waltz No.1 [B-5]
--- Les Préludes [mono A-8] - previously released mono CD in Japan
MENDELSSOHN:
--- Symphony No.5 ‘Reformation’ [B-1]
--- Midsummer Night’s Dream excerpts [B-1]
MOZART:
--- Symphony No.35 ‘Haffner’ [A-22]
RACHMANINOV:
--- Symphony No.2 [A-18]
RIMSKY-KORSAKOV:
--- Symphony No.2 ‘Antar’ [mono A-5] - previously released mono CD in Japan
--- Russian Easter Overture [mono A-5] - previously released mono CD in Japan
--- Capriccio Espagnol [mono A-1] - previously released mono CD in Japan
ROSSINI:
--- William Tell Overture [B-5]
SCHUMANN:
--- Symphony No.1 [B-4]
--- Symphony No.2 [A-19]
--- Symphony No.3 [A-23]
--- Symphony No.4 [mono A-8] - previously released mono CD
--- Manfred Overture [B-4]
SIBELIUS:
--- Symphony No.2 [B-6]
R. STRAUSS:
--- Dance of the Seven Veils from Salome [B-2]
SUPPÉ
--- six Overtures [B-16]
WAGNER:
--- four CDs of orchestral excerpts [mono A-2, A-9], [stereo A-20, B-12]
WEBER:
--- Invitation to the Dance, orch. Berlioz [B-5]

John Fowler schrieb am Freitag, 8. Juli 2022 um 12:05:01 UTC+2:
> UPDATE: CONTENTS ANALYSIS OF THE PARAY BOXES (VOLUME ONE 1953-1957) (VOLUME TWO 1958-1962)
> Two Frenchmen in America:
> Charles Munch recorded 83 LPs (17 mono, 66 stereo) for RCA with the Boston Symphony between 1949 and 1962.
> Paul Paray recorded 43 LPs (12 mono, 31 stereo) for Mercury with the Detroit Symphony between 1953 and 1962.
> Both labels were long sought after by audiophiles – the RCAs were more luxuriant, the Mercury’s drier and punchier.
> Confusion: Mercury’s trademark was “Living Presence”, RCA’s trademark was “Living Stereo”.
>
> In 2016, Sony issued an original jacket box of Munch’s RCA recordings (83 CDs + 3 CDs recorded for Columbia).
> My analysis (“Contents List with composers identified”) is published on Amazon, but you have to scroll down a bit to find it.
> Now Eloquence is releasing Paray’s complete Mercury recordings in two newly-remastered original jacket boxes: 45 CDs total (includes 2 bonus CDs).
> Each box comes with a (different) 44 page booklet.
> Scholarly and well-done.
>
> There is a lot of overlap between the Munch and Paray recordings.
> As might be expected, both conductors were French music specialists.
> One difference - Paray recorded a lot more light music than Munch:
> Overtures and short works by Adam, Auber, Boieldieu, Hérold, Massenet, Meyerbeer, Offenbach and Thomas, plus full discs devoted to the music of Chabrier and Suppé (technically Austrian, but there is an accent at the end of his name).
> In Boston, this repertoire was the property of Arthur Fiedler and the Boston Pops (at least as far as RCA was concerned).
>
> Ten of twelve mono LPs (recorded 1953-1955) are receiving their first official CD release (all the monos are in Volume One).
> All but one of Paray’s 31 stereo LPs (recorded 1956-1962) were previously released on CD.
> The sound was excellent on those “Living Presence” CDs and is, if anything, better now.
> New to CD is the 1959 stereo recording of Beethoven’s first two symphonies (in Volume Two).
>
> THE NAKED CARMEN
> Electric Rock Opera issued on LP in 1970 (Volume 2, CD 21).
> Written, arranged and produced by John Corigliano & David A. Hess, adapted from Bizet’s Carmen.
> They used Paray’s 1956 Detroit Symphony recording of the Carmen Suite, plus synthesizer, kazoo and vocals.
> As someone who was a teenager in the 1960s, I apologize.
>
> CONTENTS ANALYSIS
> Detroit Symphony unless otherwise indicated.
> STEREO unless otherwise indicated.
> A = Volume One, B = Volume Two - followed by the CD number:
>
> -------------------------- PART ONE: FRENCH MUSIC -------------------------
> ADAM:
> --- Si j’étais roi Overture [B-13]
> AUBER:
> --- Le Cheval de bronze Overture [B-11]
> --- Les Diamants de la couronne Overture [B-13]
> --- Fra Diavolo Overture [B-11]
> --- Masaniello Overture [B-11]
> BARRAUD:
> --- Offrande à une ombre [A-14]
> BERLIOZ:
> --- Symphonie fantastique (B-14)
> --- Le Carnaval romain Overture [B-3]
> --- Le Corsaire Overture [B-3]
> --- Marche hongroise from La Damnation de Faust [B-8]
> --- Marche troyenne from Les Troyens [B-8]
> --- Chasse royale et orage from Les Troyens [B-20
> BIZET:
> --- L’Arlésienne Suites [A-13]
> --- Carmen Suite [A-13]
> --- Danse bohème from Carmen Suite No.2 [B-20]
> --- La Patrie Overture [B-3]
> BIZET adapted by CORIGLIANO & HESS:
> --- Naked Carmen: Electric Rock Opera [B-21] recycles Paray’s recording of the Carmen Suite
> BOIELDIEU:
> --- La Dame blanche Overture [B-13]
> CHABRIER:
> --- Bourreé fantasque [A-14]
> --- España Rhapsody [mono A-11], [stereo B-9]
> --- Gwendoline Overture [B-9]
> --- Joyeuse marche [B-8]
> --- Suite Pastorale [B-9]
> --- Danse slave & Fête polonaise from Le Roi malgré lui [B-9]
> CHAUSSON:
> --- Symphony [A-17]
> DEBUSSY:
> --- Ibéria [A-15]
> --- La Mer [A-15]
> --- Nocturnes for orchestra [B-17]
> --- Petite Suite orch. Büsser [B-10]
> --- Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune [B-10]
> DUKAS:
> --- L’Apprenti sorcier [mono A-7] with and without narration
> FAURÉ:
> --- Pavane [mono A-6]
> --- Pelléas et Mélisande [mono A-7]
> FRANCK:
> --- Symphony [mono A-4], [stereo B-18]
> --- Psyché excerpts [mono A-6]
> GOUNOD:
> --- Ballet music from Faust [B-20]
> --- Marche funèbre d’une marionette [B-8]
> HÉROLD:
> --- Zampa Overture [B-13]
> IBERT:
> --- Escales [mono A-11], [stereo B-19]
> LALO:
> --- Namouna: Suite No.1 [B-2]
> --- Le Roi d’Ys Overture [B-3]
> MASSENET:
> --- Phèdre Overture [B-20]
> MEYERBEER:
> --- Coronation March from Le Prophète [B-8]
> OFFENBACH:
> --- La belle Hélène Overture [B-11]
> --- Orphée aux enfers Overture [B-11]
> --- Les Contes d’Hoffmann Suite [B-11]
> PARAY:
> --- Mass for the 500th Anniversary of the Death of Joan of Arc [A-21]
> RAVEL:
> --- Alborada del gracioso [B-19]
> --- Boléro [mono A-1], [stereo A-14]
> --- Daphnis et Chloé Suite No.2 with chorus [B-17]
> --- Ma Mère l’oye Suite [A-14]
> --- Pavane pour une infante défunte [B-19]
> --- Rapsodie espagnole [mono A-11] , [stereo B-19]
> --- Le Tombeau de Couperin [B-10]
> --- La Valse [mono A-6], [stereo B-19]
> --- Valses nobles et sentimentales [B-10]
> --- Piano Concerti with Monique Haas, Orchestre National de France [B-22] recorded by DG
> ROUGET DE LISLE:
> --- La Marseillaise orch. Berlioz [B-8]
> ROUSSEL:
> --- Le Festin de l’araignée [mono A-7]
> --- Suite in F major [A-14]
> SAINT-SAËNS:
> --- Symphony No. 3 ‘Organ Symphony’ with Marcel Dupré, organ [A-16]
> --- Danse macabre [B-5]
> --- Marche héroïque [B-8]
> --- Marche militaire française from Suite algérienne [B-8]
> --- Bacchanale from Samson et Dalila [B-20]
> SCHMITT:
> --- La Tragédie de Salomé [B-2]
> THOMAS:
> --- Mignon Overture [B-13]
> --- Gavotte from Mignon [B-20]
> --- Raymond Overture [B-13]
>
> ------------------------------ NOT FRENCH MUSIC ----------------------
> BEETHOVEN:
> --- Symphony No.1 [B-7]
> --- Symphony No.2 [B-7]
> --- Symphony No.6 [mono A-10]
> --- Symphony No.7 [mono A-3]
> BRAHMS:
> --- Symphony No.4 [mono A-12]
> DVOŘÁK:
> --- Symphony No.9 ‘New World’ [B-15]
> HAYDN:
> --- Symphony No.96 ‘Miracle’ [A-22]
> LISZT:
> --- Mephisto Waltz No.1 [B-5]
> --- Les Préludes [mono A-8] - previously released mono CD in Japan
> MENDELSSOHN:
> --- Symphony No.5 ‘Reformation’ [B-1]
> --- Midsummer Night’s Dream excerpts [B-1]
> MOZART:
> --- Symphony No.35 ‘Haffner’ [A-22]
> RACHMANINOV:
> --- Symphony No.2 [A-18]
> RIMSKY-KORSAKOV:
> --- Symphony No.2 ‘Antar’ [mono A-5] - previously released mono CD in Japan
> --- Russian Easter Overture [mono A-5] - previously released mono CD in Japan
> --- Capriccio Espagnol [mono A-1] - previously released mono CD in Japan
> ROSSINI:
> --- William Tell Overture [B-5]
> SCHUMANN:
> --- Symphony No.1 [B-4]
> --- Symphony No.2 [A-19]
> --- Symphony No.3 [A-23]
> --- Symphony No.4 [mono A-8] - previously released mono CD
> --- Manfred Overture [B-4]
> SIBELIUS:
> --- Symphony No.2 [B-6]
> R. STRAUSS:
> --- Dance of the Seven Veils from Salome [B-2]
> SUPPÉ
> --- six Overtures [B-16]
> WAGNER:
> --- four CDs of orchestral excerpts [mono A-2, A-9], [stereo A-20, B-12]
> WEBER:
> --- Invitation to the Dance, orch. Berlioz [B-5]

Many thanks for the detailed analysis. I see that the sets are now arriving on amazon. Does this mean that all but two disks of the second set were included in the three Mercury box sets? Will order Vol. 1 now ;)

On Thursday, July 21, 2022 at 4:44:38 PM UTC-5, Stefan Huber wrote:
> John Fowler schrieb am Freitag, 8. Juli 2022 um 12:05:01 UTC+2:
> > UPDATE: CONTENTS ANALYSIS OF THE PARAY BOXES (VOLUME ONE 1953-1957) (VOLUME TWO 1958-1962)
> > Two Frenchmen in America:
> > Charles Munch recorded 83 LPs (17 mono, 66 stereo) for RCA with the Boston Symphony between 1949 and 1962.
> > Paul Paray recorded 43 LPs (12 mono, 31 stereo) for Mercury with the Detroit Symphony between 1953 and 1962.
> > Both labels were long sought after by audiophiles – the RCAs were more luxuriant, the Mercury’s drier and punchier.
> > Confusion: Mercury’s trademark was “Living Presence”, RCA’s trademark was “Living Stereo”.
> >
> > In 2016, Sony issued an original jacket box of Munch’s RCA recordings (83 CDs + 3 CDs recorded for Columbia).
> > My analysis (“Contents List with composers identified”) is published on Amazon, but you have to scroll down a bit to find it.
> > Now Eloquence is releasing Paray’s complete Mercury recordings in two newly-remastered original jacket boxes: 45 CDs total (includes 2 bonus CDs).
> > Each box comes with a (different) 44 page booklet.
> > Scholarly and well-done.
> >
> > There is a lot of overlap between the Munch and Paray recordings.
> > As might be expected, both conductors were French music specialists.
> > One difference - Paray recorded a lot more light music than Munch:
> > Overtures and short works by Adam, Auber, Boieldieu, Hérold, Massenet, Meyerbeer, Offenbach and Thomas, plus full discs devoted to the music of Chabrier and Suppé (technically Austrian, but there is an accent at the end of his name).
> > In Boston, this repertoire was the property of Arthur Fiedler and the Boston Pops (at least as far as RCA was concerned).
> >
> > Ten of twelve mono LPs (recorded 1953-1955) are receiving their first official CD release (all the monos are in Volume One).
> > All but one of Paray’s 31 stereo LPs (recorded 1956-1962) were previously released on CD.
> > The sound was excellent on those “Living Presence” CDs and is, if anything, better now.
> > New to CD is the 1959 stereo recording of Beethoven’s first two symphonies (in Volume Two).
> >
> > THE NAKED CARMEN
> > Electric Rock Opera issued on LP in 1970 (Volume 2, CD 21).
> > Written, arranged and produced by John Corigliano & David A. Hess, adapted from Bizet’s Carmen.
> > They used Paray’s 1956 Detroit Symphony recording of the Carmen Suite, plus synthesizer, kazoo and vocals.
> > As someone who was a teenager in the 1960s, I apologize.
> >
> > CONTENTS ANALYSIS
> > Detroit Symphony unless otherwise indicated.
> > STEREO unless otherwise indicated.
> > A = Volume One, B = Volume Two - followed by the CD number:
> >
> > -------------------------- PART ONE: FRENCH MUSIC -------------------------
> > ADAM:
> > --- Si j’étais roi Overture [B-13]
> > AUBER:
> > --- Le Cheval de bronze Overture [B-11]
> > --- Les Diamants de la couronne Overture [B-13]
> > --- Fra Diavolo Overture [B-11]
> > --- Masaniello Overture [B-11]
> > BARRAUD:
> > --- Offrande à une ombre [A-14]
> > BERLIOZ:
> > --- Symphonie fantastique (B-14)
> > --- Le Carnaval romain Overture [B-3]
> > --- Le Corsaire Overture [B-3]
> > --- Marche hongroise from La Damnation de Faust [B-8]
> > --- Marche troyenne from Les Troyens [B-8]
> > --- Chasse royale et orage from Les Troyens [B-20
> > BIZET:
> > --- L’Arlésienne Suites [A-13]
> > --- Carmen Suite [A-13]
> > --- Danse bohème from Carmen Suite No.2 [B-20]
> > --- La Patrie Overture [B-3]
> > BIZET adapted by CORIGLIANO & HESS:
> > --- Naked Carmen: Electric Rock Opera [B-21] recycles Paray’s recording of the Carmen Suite
> > BOIELDIEU:
> > --- La Dame blanche Overture [B-13]
> > CHABRIER:
> > --- Bourreé fantasque [A-14]
> > --- España Rhapsody [mono A-11], [stereo B-9]
> > --- Gwendoline Overture [B-9]
> > --- Joyeuse marche [B-8]
> > --- Suite Pastorale [B-9]
> > --- Danse slave & Fête polonaise from Le Roi malgré lui [B-9]
> > CHAUSSON:
> > --- Symphony [A-17]
> > DEBUSSY:
> > --- Ibéria [A-15]
> > --- La Mer [A-15]
> > --- Nocturnes for orchestra [B-17]
> > --- Petite Suite orch. Büsser [B-10]
> > --- Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune [B-10]
> > DUKAS:
> > --- L’Apprenti sorcier [mono A-7] with and without narration
> > FAURÉ:
> > --- Pavane [mono A-6]
> > --- Pelléas et Mélisande [mono A-7]
> > FRANCK:
> > --- Symphony [mono A-4], [stereo B-18]
> > --- Psyché excerpts [mono A-6]
> > GOUNOD:
> > --- Ballet music from Faust [B-20]
> > --- Marche funèbre d’une marionette [B-8]
> > HÉROLD:
> > --- Zampa Overture [B-13]
> > IBERT:
> > --- Escales [mono A-11], [stereo B-19]
> > LALO:
> > --- Namouna: Suite No.1 [B-2]
> > --- Le Roi d’Ys Overture [B-3]
> > MASSENET:
> > --- Phèdre Overture [B-20]
> > MEYERBEER:
> > --- Coronation March from Le Prophète [B-8]
> > OFFENBACH:
> > --- La belle Hélène Overture [B-11]
> > --- Orphée aux enfers Overture [B-11]
> > --- Les Contes d’Hoffmann Suite [B-11]
> > PARAY:
> > --- Mass for the 500th Anniversary of the Death of Joan of Arc [A-21]
> > RAVEL:
> > --- Alborada del gracioso [B-19]
> > --- Boléro [mono A-1], [stereo A-14]
> > --- Daphnis et Chloé Suite No.2 with chorus [B-17]
> > --- Ma Mère l’oye Suite [A-14]
> > --- Pavane pour une infante défunte [B-19]
> > --- Rapsodie espagnole [mono A-11] , [stereo B-19]
> > --- Le Tombeau de Couperin [B-10]
> > --- La Valse [mono A-6], [stereo B-19]
> > --- Valses nobles et sentimentales [B-10]
> > --- Piano Concerti with Monique Haas, Orchestre National de France [B-22] recorded by DG
> > ROUGET DE LISLE:
> > --- La Marseillaise orch. Berlioz [B-8]
> > ROUSSEL:
> > --- Le Festin de l’araignée [mono A-7]
> > --- Suite in F major [A-14]
> > SAINT-SAËNS:
> > --- Symphony No. 3 ‘Organ Symphony’ with Marcel Dupré, organ [A-16]
> > --- Danse macabre [B-5]
> > --- Marche héroïque [B-8]
> > --- Marche militaire française from Suite algérienne [B-8]
> > --- Bacchanale from Samson et Dalila [B-20]
> > SCHMITT:
> > --- La Tragédie de Salomé [B-2]
> > THOMAS:
> > --- Mignon Overture [B-13]
> > --- Gavotte from Mignon [B-20]
> > --- Raymond Overture [B-13]
> >
> > ------------------------------ NOT FRENCH MUSIC ----------------------
> > BEETHOVEN:
> > --- Symphony No.1 [B-7]
> > --- Symphony No.2 [B-7]
> > --- Symphony No.6 [mono A-10]
> > --- Symphony No.7 [mono A-3]
> > BRAHMS:
> > --- Symphony No.4 [mono A-12]
> > DVOŘÁK:
> > --- Symphony No.9 ‘New World’ [B-15]
> > HAYDN:
> > --- Symphony No.96 ‘Miracle’ [A-22]
> > LISZT:
> > --- Mephisto Waltz No.1 [B-5]
> > --- Les Préludes [mono A-8] - previously released mono CD in Japan
> > MENDELSSOHN:
> > --- Symphony No.5 ‘Reformation’ [B-1]
> > --- Midsummer Night’s Dream excerpts [B-1]
> > MOZART:
> > --- Symphony No.35 ‘Haffner’ [A-22]
> > RACHMANINOV:
> > --- Symphony No.2 [A-18]
> > RIMSKY-KORSAKOV:
> > --- Symphony No.2 ‘Antar’ [mono A-5] - previously released mono CD in Japan
> > --- Russian Easter Overture [mono A-5] - previously released mono CD in Japan
> > --- Capriccio Espagnol [mono A-1] - previously released mono CD in Japan
> > ROSSINI:
> > --- William Tell Overture [B-5]
> > SCHUMANN:
> > --- Symphony No.1 [B-4]
> > --- Symphony No.2 [A-19]
> > --- Symphony No.3 [A-23]
> > --- Symphony No.4 [mono A-8] - previously released mono CD
> > --- Manfred Overture [B-4]
> > SIBELIUS:
> > --- Symphony No.2 [B-6]
> > R. STRAUSS:
> > --- Dance of the Seven Veils from Salome [B-2]
> > SUPPÉ
> > --- six Overtures [B-16]
> > WAGNER:
> > --- four CDs of orchestral excerpts [mono A-2, A-9], [stereo A-20, B-12]
> > WEBER:
> > --- Invitation to the Dance, orch. Berlioz [B-5]
> Many thanks for the detailed analysis. I see that the sets are now arriving on amazon. Does this mean that all but two disks of the second set were included in the three Mercury box sets? Will order Vol. 1 now ;)
yes