Pierre Monteux - A Treasury of Concert Performances 1951-58 & with Boston Symphony Orchestra 1958 & 1959 Seasons

 

Label : WHRA

Format : Flac track

Cover : Front

Tracklist :

CD 1

Felix MENDELSSOHN

Overture: The Hebrides (Fingal’s Cave), op.26

Joseph HAYDN

Symphony No 94 in G major ‘Surprise’, Hob.I.94

Franz SCHUBERT

Symphony No. 9 in C major Great D.944

CD 2

Robert SCHUMANN

Symphony No. 3 in E flat major Rhenish

Pyotr Ilyich TCHAIKOVSKY

Symphony No. 5 in E minor Op. 64

CD 3

Edward ELGAR

Enigma – Variations on an original Theme, Op.36

Igor STRAVINSKY

The Rite of Spring

Petrouchka Suite (1947 version)

CD 4

Pyotr Ilyich TCHAIKOVSKY

Hamlet, Op.67

Suite No. 4 in G major, Op.61 'Mozartiana' – Mvt IV Theme and Variations

Concert Fantasy for piano and orchestra Op.56

Sergei PROKOFIEV

Symphony No.1 in D Major, Op.25 'Classical'

CD 5

Peter llyich TCHAIKOVSKY

Symphony No.6 in B minor, Op.74 ‘Pathétique’

Vincent D’INDY

Istar, symphonic variations for orchestra

CD 6

Béla BARTÓK

Violin Concerto No. 2, BE 117

Karol SZYMANOWSKI

Violin Concerto No. 1 Op. 35

CD 7

Richard WAGNER

Parsifal – Prelude

Claude DEBUSSY

Le martyre de Saint Sébastien: Fragments symphoniques (1911) – omits last two movements

Richard WAGNER

Götterdämmerung – Dawn and Rhine Journey

Götterdämmerung – Funeral Music

Claude DEBUSSY

Trois Images pour orchestre (1905-12); Gigues; and continuous with applause to Jeux

CD 8

Peter llyich TCHAIKOVSKY

Symphony No. 4 in F minor 

Igor STRAVINSKY

Petrouchka (original 1911 version)

Vaera Franceshi (piano), Tossy Spivakovsky (violin), Roman Totenberg (violin)

Boston Symphony Orchestra, Pierre Monteux

Label : WHRA

Format : Flac track

Cover : Front

Tracklist :

CD 1

Ludwig van BEETHOVEN/Felix WEINGARTNER

Grosse Fuge 

Claude DEBUSSY

Martyrdom of St. Sebastian

Richard STRAUSS

Death and Transfiguration

All rec. 10 January 1958, Symphony Hall, Boston

Richard STRAUSS

Don Juan

rec. 24 July 1959, Tanglewood

CD 2

Johannes BRAHMS

Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 77

Leonid Kogan (violin)

Rec. 10 January 1958, Symphony Hall, Boston

Johannes BRAHMS

Academic Festival Overture

rec. 20 July 1958, Tanglewood

Maurice RAVEL

La Valse

Rec. 25 July 1958, Tanglewood

Richard WAGNER

Prelude and Liebestod (Tristan und Isolde)

rec. 1 August 1959, Tanglewood

CD 3

Johannes BRAHMS

Piano Concerto No 1 in D minor, Op. 15

Leon Fleisher (piano)

Igor STRAVINSKY

Petrushka

All rec. 20 July 1958, Tanglewood

CD 4

Mikhail GLINKA

Ruslan and Ludmilla – Overture

Peter TCHAIKOVSKY

Symphony No 4 in F minor, Op 36

Darius MILHAUD

Les Eumenides – Act 3 Prelude

Claude DEBUSSY

Nocturnes

All rec. 25 July 1958, Tanglewood

CD 5

Richard WAGNER

Parsifal: Prelude

Parsifal: Ich sah das Kind

Lohengrin: Prelude

Lohengrin: Einsam in trüben Tagen

Rienzi: Overture 

Der fliegende Holländer: Overture

Der fliegende Holländer: Trafft ihr das Schiff

Siegfried: Forest Murmurs

Tannhäuser: Dich, teure Halle 

Die Walküre: Walküneritt 

Margaret Harshaw (soprano)

All rec. 3 August 1958, Tanglewood

CD 6

Ludwig van BEETHOVEN

Creatures of Prometheus

Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 61 

Leonore Overture No 3

Berl Senofsky (violin)

All rec. 9 August 1958, Tanglewood

CD 7

Johannes BRAHMS

Tragic Overture, Op 81

Paul HINDEMITH

Nobilissima Visione

Richard STRAUSS

Don Quixote

Samuel Mayes (cello); Joseph de Pasquale (viola)

All rec. 23 January 1959, Symphony Hall, Boston

Nicolai RIMSKY-KORSAKOV

Le coq d’or – Introduction and Wedding March

rec. 19 July 1959, Tanglewood

CD 8

Claude DEBUSSY

Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun

Vincent D’INDY

Symphony on a French Mountain Air

Peter TCHAIKOVSKY

Symphony No 5 in E minor, Op. 64

Nicole Henriot-Schweitzer (piano)

All rec. 19 July 1959, Tanglewood

CD 9

Johann Sebastian BACH/Ottorino RESPIGHI

Passacaglia and Fugue in C minor

Johannes BRAHMS

Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 77

Johannes BRAHMS/Virgil THOMSON

11 Chorale Preludes, Op. 122

Isaac Stern (violin)

All rec. 24 July 1959, Tanglewood

CD 10

Felix MENDELSSOHN

Symphony No 4 in A major, Op 90 (‘Italian’)

Piano Concerto No 1 in G minor, Op 25

Robert SCHUMANN

Manfred Overture

Introduction and allegro appassionato

Rudolf Serkin (piano)

All rec. 1 August, 1959, Tanglewood

CD 11

Ludwig van BEETHOVEN

Fidelio Overture

Symphony No 6 in F major, Op 68 [40:33]

Symphony No 5 in C minor, Op. 67 [29:12]

All rec. 8 August, 1959, Tanglewood

Boston Symphony Orchestra, Pierre Monteux