I share Ralph Moore's admiration for the 1951 Vier letzte Lieder, and indeed the rest of the programme. My father was a member of the orchestra, and Fritz Busch one of his favourite conductors, so we listened to most of these together when they were rebroadcast fifty years ago. I believe the set Jonathan Wolff reviewed in 2004, see http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2004/mar04/Royal_Stockholm.htm , contains an improved later transfer, and it's a pity you did not have access to this - nor it seems Pristine Audio as they claim the recording has not been available for thirty years.
Incidentally, all the material on their new CD is by what is now the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, then Stockholms Konsertförenings orkester. At the time, it was part-funded by Swedish Radio (Radiotjänst="the Radio Service"), the national broadcasting monopoly. For studio broadcasts the name Radiotjänsts symfoniorkester was used.
I just published an extensive article on Tor Mann in Liner Notes (Spring 2023; https://liner-notes-magazine.com/ ). He was chief conductor of the orchestra's radio activities, so I tried to explain the orchestra's double identity at the time. However, in the orchestra's searchable historic archive https://www.konserthuset.se/en/about-us/historic-archive/
all performances on the new CD are described as by the "Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra", so I believe they were broadcasts of ordinary concerts rather than radio productions. The exception is the Erling which was some sort of prerecorded theatre incidental music, played by a smaller group from the orchestra in a Stockholm church. It was previously issued in a box also reviewed by mr Wolff: http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2016/Feb/Marteau_pupils_CAP21620.htm .
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