Radio transcription Jean Martinon Marchand Marcel Mihalovici Monique Haas

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 I am listing records that are all hopefully interesting to audiophiles and lovers of classical music, I could not find a few online so some may be rare. I have done my best to describe them and have spent the last three days preparing the auctions. I have not cleaned any of them so they may need a gentle dust off before playing. I have examined each wearing gloves and under bright light - when I had to I would play and listen to either a whole album or parts with a clean needle. I have included many images of each lot but if you have any questions or requests please just let me know. I will do what I can on my end to answer any questions. I can combine to some extent with shipping but I will want to pack them well. I understand that with records condition is everything so I will do everything I can to assure that they arrive as they are now. I will be able to send them out three to four days after the auctions end. If I can I will send them sooner but most likely it will be 4 days after. They will be sent with tracking and insurance and well packed. Thank you and good luck bidding!

This auction is for two records that belong togther - they are original French radio transcriptions for North America and would have two programs on two records - this way the engineer could cue up program without having to turn the record over.I will be listing about 120 separate lots of these programs which are all from the French Broadcasting System In North America. They are all to some degree related to classical music with some programs containing avant-garde and experimental music. I believe these records were from programs dating from 1969 to 1972. I have about 250 records I will be listing beginning tonight and ending in early December so if any of the record auctions are of interest please check back. These records were made in pairs so there would be two programs on two records. That way the radio station engineer could cue up the programs second half without having to interrupt the show by turning the record over. Many of these recordings are rare and obscure and I believe very few were pressed and even fewer surviving. I could find no reference online to many of them and I have just begun to go through them. Many performances were recording using various conductors and soloists at the Paris L'O.R.T.F. (The Office de Radiodiffusion-Télévision Française (ORTF) was the national agency charged, between 1964 and 1974, with providing public radio and television in France.) These records would be sent to participating radio stations with a paper transcript. Unfortunately I do not have these transcripts so I have had to carefully listen to the introductions to discern what the performances are - as well as referring to the labels. Each program has a short English language introduction before the piece is played - each side of each record is 13 to 15+ minutes in length. The records are in their original simple white sleeve - they were not issued with traditional covers. For the most part the records are sharp and clean with very light signs of handling or wear. I cannot clean records so they may have light dust etc.. - you may have to gently wipe them off or clean them as you see fit. I visually inspect them carefully - and have , when needed listened to them using a clean needle. I believe they are in Very Good plus or better condition and when there is a condition or sound issue I try to include that in the description. So please ask questions. I would like to have fun listing these because they are so rare but it will also be quite time consuming so I am unsure how long it will take to list all of them. Please feel free to ask any questions!

3. The French Broadcasting System In North America - GRC 12004 A & B / GRC 12005 A & B
Processed by the Gotham Recording Corporation New York City, New York
33 1/3 RPM Long Playing
French Music and French Musicians Program No. 175 Jean Martinon
Concerto : pour violoncelle et orchestre : opus 52 (Concerto work for Cello) Reine Flachot / Orchestre National de l'ORTF - first side has light surface noise at times and a few light flaws in pressing causing a low bump sound at begining and also near end but it does not last long - it is a low sound and is not a skip.

French Music and French Musicians Program No. 176 Louis Marchand and Marcel Mihalovici
Marchand - 2 pieces played by Henriette Puig-Roget - I am unsure what they are titled. 

Mihalovici's Study in 2 parts - composer wrote it for his wife and the recording is of his wife Monique Haas playing the piano. Ars Nova Ensemble of the O.R.T.F?

 Jean Francisque-Étienne Martinon (usually known simply as Jean Martinon (10 January 1910 – 1 March 1976) was a French conductor and composer.

Martinon was born in Lyon, where he began his education, going on to the Conservatoire de Paris to study under Albert Roussel for composition, under Charles Munch and Roger Désormière for conducting, under Vincent d'Indy for harmony, and under Jules Boucherit for violin. He served in the French army during World War II, and was taken prisoner in 1940, composing works such as Chant des captifs while incarcerated. Among his other compositions are four symphonies, four concertos, additional choral works and chamber music.
 
After the war, Martinon was appointed conductor of the Orchestre de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire of Paris, and, in 1946, of the Bordeaux Philharmonic Orchestra. Other orchestras with which he was associated were the Chicago Symphony Orchestra as music director from 1963 to 1968; the Düsseldorfer Symphoniker, the French National Orchestra, the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the Radio Éireann Symphony Orchestra, the Concerts Lamoureux and Het Residentie Orkest in The Hague.
 
Martinon's repertoire focused on the works of early twentieth century French and Russian composers. The premieres of his violin- and cello-concerti were given by Henryk Szeryng and Pierre Fournier respectively.
 
He was a National Patron of Delta Omicron, an international professional music fraternity.
 
Martinon was diagnosed with bone cancer, not long after he guest conducted the San Francisco Symphony in their first complete performances of Deryck Cooke's orchestration of Gustav Mahler's tenth symphony. He died in Paris. 

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