BLOCH / BRUCH / LALO / SAINT-SAENS
Works for cello and orchestra Pierre Fournier (cello) / Orchestre Lamoureux, Berlin Philharmonic, Jean Martinon, Alfred Wallenstein [ Deutsche Grammophon Originals / CD - released 20/Jan/2009 ] "Fournier is impassioned and eloquent [in the Lalo]...expressive in the slow movement and rhythmic in the delightful Allegro presto dance section […] the Bruch is played with dignity and without undue emotionalism" Gramophone |
PYOTR ILYICH TCHAIKOSVKY
Tchaikovsky: Piano Trio Op.50 Roge Roge (piano) Pierre Amoyal (violin) Frederic Lodeon (cello) [ Apex / CD - released 7/Oct/2002 ] |
MAURICE RAVEL
Ravel: Daphnis et Chloe (complete ballet) / Rapsodie espagnole / etc Chorus of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden / London Symphony Orchestra / Pierre Monteux [ Decca Historic / CD - released 10/Apr/1990 ] 1001 Classical recordings you must hear before you die (1901-1950) "There is only one word for this work, this performance, and this recording, and that is - ravishing." Gramophone |
PIERRE BOULEZ
Sur Incises / Messagesquisse / Anthames II Jean-Guihen Queyras / Hae-Sun Kang / Ensemble Intercontemporain / Pierre Boulez [ Deutsche Grammophon Grand Prix / CD - released 1/May/2007 ] "Late Boulez, in all its facets, brilliantly encapsulated on this supremely well-performed and engineered disc" - Gramophone |
London Symphony Orchestra, Pierre Monteux
Ravel - Orchestral Favourites (Incls Ma Mare l'Oye, Bolero, etc) [ Philips 50 / CD - released 5/May/2001 ] five of Ravel's most popular orchestral masterpieces |
LIGETI
Chamber Music (Incls trio for violin, horn & piano) Saschko Gawriloff (violin) Marie-Luise Neunecker (horn) Pierre-Laurent Aimard (piano) / London Winds / Tabea Zimmermann (viola) [ Sony Ligeti Edition Vol 7 / CD - released 16/Feb/2008 ] György Ligeti was one of the most important avant-garde composers in the latter half of the twentieth century. He stood with Boulez, Berio, Stockhausen, and Cage as one of the most innovative and influential among progressive figures of his time. |
RICHARD WAGNER
Wagner Choruses Chor und Orchester der Bayreuther Festspiele, Wolfgang Sawallisch, Silvio Varviso, Pierre Boulez & James Levine [ Decca SBS Australian Eloquence / CD - released 20/Mar/2016 ] Bayreuth is the holy grail of Wagner lovers and this outstanding disc captures great choral moments from Wagner's operas over a period of nearly 30 years, with key 'big' moments from seven operas, from the Sawallisch Tannhäuser (1962) to Peter... |
BACH / MOZART / GLUCK
Music for flute & orchestra Claude Monteux (flute) / London Symphony Orchestra, Pierre Monteux [ Decca Australian Eloquence / CD - released 10/Aug/2015 ] "Claude Monteux's tone is clear and cool, his technique impeccable, his style admirably Mozartian, and in choosing his own cadenzas to play he chose right: these are at once the most idiomatic and the most effective of all those at present on offer". |
W. A. MOZART / J. S. BACH / GLUCK
Music for flute & orchestra Claude Monteux (flute) / London Symphony Orchestra, Pierre Monteux [ Decca Australian Eloquence / CD - released 20/Sep/2015 ] "Claude Monteux's tone is clear and cool, his technique impeccable, his style admirably Mozartian, and in choosing his own cadenzas to play he chose right: these are at once the most idiomatic and the most effective of all those at present on offer" |
GIACOMO MEYERBEER
Meyerbeer In France Hjördis Thébault (soprano), PierreâYves Pruvot (baritone), Sofia Philharmonic Orchestra [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 19/Aug/2016 ] Renowned in his lifetime, Giacomo Meyerbeer - born Jakob Liebmann Meyer Beer - was one of the first opera composers to truly establish himself as master of the genre. His fame was at a height in the mid 19th century, as he managed to produce hit... |
NICOLAI RIMSKY-KORSAKOV
Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade / Russian Easter Festival Overture London Philharmonic Orchestra, Adrian Boult / London Symphony Orchestra, Pierre Monteux [ Decca SBS Australian Eloquence / CD - released 10/Aug/2015 ] In his most famous orchestral composition, Scheherazade, Rimsky-Korsakov, like Beethoven in his 'Pastoral' Symphony before him, was more interested in evoking feelings and impressions than in spoon-feeding listeners a pre-digested program. So the... |
MAURICE RAVEL
Ravel: Boléro / La Valse / Pavane pour une infante défunte / etc London Symphony Orchestra, Pierre Monteux [ Decca Australian Eloquence / CD - released 1/Nov/2015 ] Pierre Monteux as the ideal interpreter of Ravel, that great teaser and lover of mystification. Born less than a month apart in 1875, the two men were bound to come together in pre-war Paris, which was such fertile ground for artistic novelty. The... |
DEBUSSY
Images / Nocturnes I & II / Prelude A l'aprAs-midi d'un faune / etc London Symphony Orchestra, Pierre Monteux [ Decca SBS Eloquence / CD - released 10/Mar/2013 ] "Some vintage performances but the competition from Munch is daunting" (MusicWeb April 2006) |
JOHANNES BRAHMS
Pierre Monteux conducts Brahms [Incls Symphony No 2] London Symphony Orchestra, Pierre Monteux [ Decca Australian Eloquence / CD - released 20/Jul/2016 ] "...subtleties of nuance and timing, and modifications of pacing, reflect a lifetime's love and experience of the work, and a man who is still keen to explore its textural and structural possibilities." (Gramophone) |
RAVEL
The Best of Ravel: Bolero; Daphnis et Chloe Suite No. 2; etc Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra / Zubin Mehta / London Symphony Orchestra / Pierre Monteux [ Decca Eloquence / CD - released 21/Aug/2002 ] 'the visceral excitement Mehta produces is most compelling one marvels at the vivid Decca sound' Penguin Guide to CDs (2000 Yearbook) |
TCHAIKOVSKY
Sleeping Beauty [highlights] (with Stravinsky - Firebird Suite) Paris Conservatoire Orchestra, Pierre Monteux [ Decca SBS Eloquence / CD - released 10/Jan/2014 ] |
NICOLAI RIMSKY-KORSAKOV
Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade Op 35 (rec 1954) / Le Coq d'Or [The Golden Cockerel] Suite Pierre Nerini (violin) / Paris Conservatoire Orchestra / L'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande / Ernest Ansermet [ Australian Decca SBS Eloquence / CD - released 1/Aug/2008 ] While Ansermet's stereo Suisse Romande recording of Scheherazade is well-known and has been frequently reissued, his early (1954) Paris Conservatoire Orchestra recording of this piece is a relative rarity and here receives its first CD outing on... |
SCHUBERT
Symphony No. 8 / Rosamunde [excerpts] Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Wiener Philharmoniker, Pierre Monteux [ Decca Australian Eloquence / CD - released 1/Nov/2015 ] "beautiful performances […] the playing [of the Vienna Philharmonic] is distinguished by the lovely string tone and the sensitive woodwind playing"(Gramophone) |
BRAHMS
Symphony No 2 / variations on a theme by Haydn Vienna pHilharmonic Oorchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, Pierre Monteux [ Decca SBS Australian Eloquence / CD - released 10/Sep/2015 ] Monteux recorded Brahms's Second Symphony several times; in addition to the present recording for Decca with the Vienna Philharmonic, there are versions with the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra and the London Symphony Orchestra. He recorded the... |
DVORAK / JANACEK / TCHAIKOVSKY
Cello Concerto / Sinfonietta / Romeo And Juliet - Fantasy Overture Vienna Philharmonic / Rafael Kubelik (conductor) / Pierre Fournier (cello) [ Decca ABC Eloquence / CD ] Legendary cellist Pierre Fournier's stereo recording of the Dvorák Cello Concerto is well known, but his earlier recording from July 194? for Decca is largely forgotten. It is revived in this Kubelik-led anthology, also bringing back to the catalogue... |