Charles Munch in Boston - The Early Years & Romantic Favorites

 

Label : WHRA (West Hill Radio Archives)

Format : Flac track

Cover : Yes

Tracklist :

CD 1

Debussy: Images for orchestra, L. 122

Ravel: Le tombeau de Couperin - Orchestral version

Honegger: La Danse des Morts

Gérard Souzay (baritone), Betty Allen (soprano), Arnold Moss (narrator), Mariquita Moll (soprano)

New England Conservatory Chorus

CD 2

Wagner: Tristan und Isolde, Act I: Prelude - Act III: Liebestod

Schubert: Symphony No. 5 in B flat major, D485

Schubert: Symphony No. 8 in B minor, D759 'Unfinished'

CD 3

Auber: La muette de Portici: Overture

Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 4 in A major, Op. 90 'Italian'

Schumann: Symphony No. 2 in C major, Op. 61

CD 4

Wagner: Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg, Act III: Prelude

Mozart: Symphony No. 41 in C major, K551 'Jupiter'

Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 5 in E flat major, Op. 73 'Emperor'

Lelia Gousseau (piano)

CD 5

Beethoven: Symphony No. 2 in D major, Op. 36

Beethoven: Symphony No. 3 in E flat major, Op. 55 'Eroica'

CD 6

Saint-Saëns: Symphony No. 3 in C minor, Op. 78 'Organ Symphony'

E. Power Biggs (organ)

Lalo: Symphonie espagnole, Op. 21

Ruth Posselt (violin)

Ibert: Concerto for Flute & Orchestra

Doriot Anthony Dwyer (flute)

CD 7

Wagner: Faust Overture, WWV59

Brahms: Variations on a theme by Haydn for orchestra, Op. 56a 'St Anthony Variations'

Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 2 in B flat major, Op. 83

Claudio Arrau (piano)

Boston Symphony Orchestra, Charles Munch

CD 1

Schumann: Cello Concerto in A minor, Op. 129

Schumann: Symphony No. 4 in D Minor, Op. 120 

Strauss: Tod und Verklarung, Op. 24, TrV 158

Pierre Fournier (cello)

CD 2

Brahms: Concerto for Violin & Cello in A Minor, Op. 102

Brahms: Symphony No. 2 in D major, Op. 73

Zino Francescatti (violin)

CD 3

Brahms: Academic Festival Overture, Op. 80 

Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 1 in D minor, Op. 15

Rudolf Serkin (piano)

CD 4

Dvořák: Symphony No. 9 in E Minor, Op. 95, B. 178 "From the New World" 

Strauss: Don Juan, Op. 20, TrV 156

CD 5

Strauss: 8 Gedichte aus Letzte Blatter, Op. 10, TrV 141: No. 8, Allerseelen 

Strauss: 5 Lieder, Op. 41, TrV 195No. 1, Wiegenlied 

Strauss: 4 Lieder, Op. 27, TrV 170 No. 4, Morgen

Strauss: 6 Lieder, Op. 17, TrV 149 No. 2, Standchen 

Strauss: Ein Heldenleben, Op. 40, TrV 190 

Strauss: Divertimento, Op. 86

Irmgard Seefried (soprano)

Boston Symphony Orchestra, Charles Munch