“Pierre Monteux – The Complete RCA Album Collection” [box CD]

Il box RCA

È il cinquantesimo anniversario della morte di Pierre Monteux (1 luglio 1964), cui dedicai un breve post:

https://musicofilia.wordpress.com/2009/04/04/pierre-monteux/

La Sony mette in commercio, con etichetta RCA, le incisioni che il grande Maestro francese realizzò dal 1941 al 1961. Oltre a incisioni già disponibili sul mercato ci sono rimasterizzazioni effettuate per l’occasione:

Rimsky-Korsakov: Le Coq d’or: Cortège de noces (1941)
Franck: Symphony in D minor (1941)
Debussy: Images pour orchestre: Gigues & Rondes de printemps (1942)
Rimsky-Korsakov: The Tale of Tsar Saltan: March (1942)
Bruch: Violin Concerto No. 1 with Yehudi Menuhin (1945)
Berlioz: Grande Ouverture de Benvenuto Cellini (1945 & 1947)
Stravinsky: Le Sacre du printemps (1945)
Rimsky-Korsakov: Le Coq d’or: Introduction and Cortège de noces (1945)
Milhaud: Suite symphonique No 2 (1945)
Scriabin: Le Poème de l’extase (1947)
Mendelssohn: Ruy Blas Overture (1947)
Beethoven: Symphony No. 2 (1949)
J. S. Bach: Weihnachtsoratorium: No. 10 Sinfonia (1949)
Brahms: Alto Rhapsody with Marian Anderson (1950)
Chausson: Poème de l’amour et de la mer (1952)
Various: French Songs with Gladys Swarthout (1952/53)
Verdi: La traviata with Rosanna Carteri & Cesare Valletti (1956)
Wagner: Siegfried Idyll (1960)

Ecco l’elenco completo dei 40 CD:

DISC 1:
Ravel: La valse
Rimsky-Korsakov: Le coq d’or – Cortège Des Noces (1941)
Indy: Symphonie sur un chant montagnard francais (Symphonie cévenole), Op. 25
Franck: Symphony in D Minor (1941)

DISC 2:
Franck: Pièce héroique
Debussy: Images pour orchestre No. 1, Gigues (1942)
Debussy: Images pour orchestre No. 3, Rondes de printemps (1942)
Indy: Symphony No. 2, Op. 57
Rimsky-Korsakov: Tsar Sultan – March
Lalo: Le roi d’Ys – Overture

DISC 3:
Lalo: Symphonie espagnole, Op. 21
Bruch: Concerto No. 1 for Violin and Orchestra in G Minor, Op. 26

DISC 4:
Berlioz: Benvenuto Cellini – Overture (1945)
Berlioz: Les troyens: Act II – Overture
Indy: Istar: Symphonic Variations, Op. 42
Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique (1945)

DISC 5:
Indy: Fervaal Prelude, Op. 40
Rimsky-Korsakov: Sadko, Op. 5
Brahms: Alto Rhapsody, Op. 53 (Nach “Harzreise im Winter”) (1945)
Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring (1945)

DISC 6:
Brahms: Symphony No. 2 in D Major, Op. 73 (1945)
Rimsky-Korsakov: Le coq d’or – Introduction and Cortège Des Noces (1945)
Milhaud: Symphonic Suite No. 2 “Protée”
Chausson: Poème, Op. 25
Grünberg: Violin Concerto, Op. 47

DISC 7:
Milhaud: Symphonic Suite No. 2, Op. 57 “Protée”
Chausson: Poème, Op. 25
Gruenberg: Violin Concerto, Op. 47

DISC 8:
Ibert: Escales
Rimsky-Korsakov: Symphony No. 2 “Antar”, Op. 9
Ravel: Valses nobles et sentimentales
Ravel: Daphnis et Chloé: Suite No. 1
Debussy: Sarabande

DISC 9:
Strauss: Ein Heldenleben, Op. 40
Chabrier: Le roi malgré lui: Fete-polonaise

DISC 10:
Scriabin: Symphony No. 4, op. 54 “Le poème de l’extase” (1947)
Gounod: Faust: Ballet Music
Mendelssohn: Ruy Blas, Op. 95 – Overture
Ravel: Alborado del gracioso
Berlioz: Benvenuto Cellini – Overture (1947)
Berlioz: La damnation de Faust – Rákóczy March

DISC 11:
Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade: Symphonic Suite, Op. 35

DISC 12:
Beethoven: Symphony No. 2 in D Major, Op. 36

DISC 13:
Franck: Symphony in D Minor (1950)

DISC 14:
Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique (1951)

DISC 15:
Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring (1913/21 version) (1951)

DISC 16:
Brahms: Symphony No. 2, Op. 73 in D (1951)

DISC 17:
Chausson: Symphony, Op. 20 in B flat

DISC 18:
Brahms: Alto Rhapsody, Op. 53 (Nach “Harzreise im Winter”) (1950)
Mahler: Kindertotenlieder

DISC 19:
Debussy: Images pour orchestrstre No. 3, Gigues (1951)
Debussy: Ibéria

DISC 20:
Brahms: Song of Destiny, Op. 54 (Schicksalslied)
Bach: Passacaglia and Fugue in C Minor
Bach: Christmas Oratorio – Sinfonia
Beethoven: Die Ruinen von Athen, Op. 113

DISC 21:
Beethoven: Symphony No. 4, Op. 60 in B-Flat
Schumann: Symphony No. 4 in D minor, op. 120

DISC 22:
Scriabin: Symphony No. 4, op. 54 “Le poème de l’extase” (1952)
Liszt: Les préludes (Symphonic Poem No. 3)

DISC 23:
Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 12 in A, K.414
Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 18 in B-Flat, K.456

DISC 24:
Chausson: Poème de l’amour et de la mer
Various: French Songs

DISC 25:
Beethoven: Symphony No. 8, Op. 93 in F
Berlioz: Benvenuto Cellini – Overture (1952)

DISC 26:
Delibes: Sylvia: Suite
Delibes: Coppélia: Suite
Delibes: Coppélia: Prélude, Mazurka (Stereo Version)

DISC 27:
Debussy: La mer
Debussy: Nocturnes
Debussy: La mer: De l’aube à midi (Stereo Version)

DISC 28-29:
Verdi: La traviata

DISC 30:
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6, Op. 74 “Pathétique” in B Minor

DISC 31:
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5, Op. 64 in E Minor

DISC 32:
Khatchaturian: Violin Concerto
Saint-Saens: Havanaise, Op. 83

DISC 33:
Brahms: Concerto for violin in D, Op. 77

DISC 34:
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4, Op. 36 in F Minor

DISC 35:
Stravinsky: Pétrouchka

DISC 36-37:
Gluck: Orfeo and Euridice

DISC 38:
Strauss: Tod und Verklärung, Op. 24
Wagner: Siegfried Idyll

DISC 39:
Franck: Symphony in D Minor (1961)

DISC 40:
Bonus: Interview

Il prezzo di vendita si aggira intorno ai 130 euro, ma on line si può trovare intorno ai 90 euro.

Tag: BOX CD, CD, Pierre Monteux, RCA