Pierre Monteux Live
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Label: Somm
Cat No: ARIADNE50282
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 2
Genre: Orchestral
Expected Release Date: 21st June 2024
Contents
Works
Symphony no.6 in F major, op.68 'Pastoral'Symphony no.7 in D minor, op.70 (excerpts)
Symphony no.104 in D major, Hob.I:104 'London'
Daphnis et Chloe: Suite no.2
Rapsodie espagnole
The Rite of Spring (Le Sacre du printemps)
Jubel-Ouverture (Jubilee Overture), op.59 J245
Artists
BBC Northern OrchestraRoyal Philharmonic Orchestra
London Symphony Orchestra
Conductor
Pierre MonteuxWorks
Symphony no.6 in F major, op.68 'Pastoral'Symphony no.7 in D minor, op.70 (excerpts)
Symphony no.104 in D major, Hob.I:104 'London'
Daphnis et Chloe: Suite no.2
Rapsodie espagnole
The Rite of Spring (Le Sacre du printemps)
Jubel-Ouverture (Jubilee Overture), op.59 J245
Artists
BBC Northern OrchestraRoyal Philharmonic Orchestra
London Symphony Orchestra
Conductor
Pierre MonteuxAbout
This set also commemorates the revered conductor – on the 60th anniversary of his death and ahead of the 150th anniversary of his birth – with moving testimony from LSO musicians involved in the landmark Stravinsky concert. These interviews were recorded between 1992 and 1995 by this set’s producer, Jon Tolansky, co-founder of Music Preserved and the author of documentary features on composers and performers. Monteux is also heard speaking on tape here, in a 1955 interview and a 1959 rehearsal of the LSO in Dvořák’s Seventh Symphony, providing a window onto the man’s intellect, work ethic and rapport with fellow musicians.
Rounding out this set are still more never-before-issued recordings of Monteux conducting the BBC Northern Orchestra and Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in music by Haydn, Weber and Beethoven, as well as works by Ravel, who, like Stravinsky, was a composer Monteux knew personally. To the highly discriminating players of the RPO of 1960, Monteux was a favourite guest conductor. As with The Rite of Spring, he represented a direct link to the origins of Daphnis and Chloé, another Ballets Russes production that Monteux led in its world premiere. The RPO’s Principal Clarinet, Jack Brymer, remembered “this wonderfully energetic and meticulous little man” who “even in his eighties … had the touch of elegance, the humour, the exquisite good taste” and “could produce a sudden sforzato second to none by a tiny stab of his baton.”
The recordings of the performances in this album, all made privately off-air from various sources, have been fastidiously polished by Restoration Engineer Paul Baily. His restoration of the recent Sir Adrian Boult Conducts (ARIADNE 5024-2) was honoured with the Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik (German Records Critics’ Award) in the Historical Recordings category.
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