This glorious production had both a 6- and 4-track mix for its original 70 and 35 mm showings, respectively. The old Criterion/BFI blu-rays are sourced from masters that weren’t struck from the negative, and I think it’s a pretty fair to assume that the audio was treated similarly. The audio on the new restoration is a big improvement in every possible way, and presumably comes from one of the original mixes--no idea which. The StudioCanal BD has both a 3.0 and 2.0 audio track, but that 2.0 is just a mixdown of the 3.0. Criterion also tend not to include fold-downs on their releases (evident here and with The Umbrellas of Cherbourg), so their disc only has a 3.0 track.
The Criterion 3.0 has been hit by some moderate noise reduction (and for no real reason – there was hardly any hiss anyway), while the StudioCanal has more high frequency detail and therefore possesses greater clarity.
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