Pierre Monteux - The Complete Rca Stereo Recording

Pierre Monteux; Boston Symphony Orchestra; Rome Opera Orchestra

Sony Classical is pleased to announce another ten releases in its increasingly comprehensive series of Classical Masters. These new budget-priced releases contain classic recordings, many of them newly remastered, by some of the most celebrated musicians of the 20th century. No great conductor was more versatile than Pierre Monteux, whose RCA stereo recordings are collected in Sony’s new reissue. This legendary Frenchman made his name in Paris collaborating with Stravinsky, Debussy and Ravel and premiering many of their greatest works, including Petrushka – included here in his peerless 1959 Boston Symphony recording. Monteux was equally at home in French, Russian and German repertoire. Among the numerous other treasures in this new release are his unsurpassed recordings of the Franck D minor with the Chicago Symphony; his versions of Tchaikovsky’s last three symphonies (“the beautiful playing of the Boston Symphony and Monteux’s refusal to get hysterical remain all of a piece” – ClassicsToday); the first release of Strauss’s Death and Transfiguration from 1960 (“The maître’s last word from San Francisco is a particularly eloquent illustration of how well a French conductor can play German music” – High Fidelity); as well as his complete Rome Opera recording of Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice (“With the noble Orfeo of the great Risë Stevens, and the masterful, sublime conducting by the peerless Pierre Monteux, this is an Orfeo for the ages” – Fanfare).DISC 1 - CD     Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4 in F Minor, Op. 36 (Remastered)    1     I. Andante sostenuto - Moderato con anima    2     II. Andantino in modo di canzone    3     III. Scherzo - Pizzicato ostinato - Allegro    4     IV. Finale - Allegro con fuoco     DISC 2 - CD     Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5 in E Minor, Op. 64    1     I. Andante - Allegro con anima    2     II. Andante cantabile    3     III. Valse - Allegro moderato    4     IV. Finale - Andante maestoso     DISC 3 - CD     Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6 in B Minor, Op. 74 "Pathétique" (Remastered)    1     I. Adagio - Allegro non troppo    2     II. Allegro con grazia    3     III. Presto - Allegro molto vivace    4     IV. Finale - Adagio lamentoso        Stravinsky: Petrushka (Remastered)        Scene I - The Shrovetide Fair    5     Vivace    6     The Magic Trick    7     Russian Dance    8     Scene II - Petrushka's Room        Stravinsky: Scene III - The Moor's Room    9     Feroce stringendo    10     Dance of the Ballerina    11     Scene III: Waltz - The Ballerina and the Moor        Stravinsky: Scene IV - The Shrovetide Fair    12     Con moto    13     The Wet Nurses' Dance    14     The Peasant and the Bear    15     The Jovial Merchant with Two Gypsy Girls    16     Dance of the Coachmen and the Grooms    17     The Masqueraders    18     The Fight - The Moor and Petrushka    19     Death of Petrushka    20     Petrushka's Ghost     DISC 4 - CD     Franck: Symphony in D Minor, FWV 48 (Remastered)    1     I. Lento - Allegro ma non troppo    2     II. Allegretto    3     III. Finale - Allegro non troppo        Délibes: Coppélia (Remastered)    4     Prélude et Mazurka        Debussy: La mer, L. 109 (Remastered)    5     I. De l'aube à midi sur la mer        Saint-Saëns: Havanaise in E Major, Op. 83 (Remastered)    6     Allegretto lusinghiero    7     Allegro    8     Allegro non troppo     DISC 5 - CD     Strauss: Tod und Verklärung, Op. 24 (Remastered)    1     I. Largo    2     II. Allegro molto agitato    3     III. Meno mosso    4     IV. Moderato    5     Siegfried-Idyll, WWV 103 (Remastered)     DISC 6 - CD     Brahms: Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in D Major, Op. 77    1     I. Allegro non troppo    2     II. Adagio    3     III. Allegro giocoso        Khachaturian: Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in D Minor (Remastered)    4     I. Allegro con fermezza    5     II. Andante sostenuto    6     III. Allegro vivace     DISC 7 - CD     Gluck: Orfeo ed Euridice, Wq. 30        Act I    1     Overture    2     Coro: Ah! Se intorno a quest'urna funesta    3     Recitativo: Amici, quel lamento