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Alsatian conductor Charles Munch was one of the most widely recorded symphonic conductors of the twentieth century. Here is a partial list of his recordings.

See main article: Charles Munch (conductor) for the conductor's biography.


































Recordings made with the Orchestre national de l'O.R.T.F.






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Alsatian conductor Charles Munch was one of the most widely recorded symphonic conductors of the twentieth century. Here is a partial list of his recordings.

See main article: Charles Munch (conductor) for the conductor's biography.

Partial list of sound recordings by Charles Munch


Recordings made with the Amsterdam Concertgebouw Orchestra for Decca
Decca Records

Decca Records is a British record label established in 1929 in music by Edward Lewis . Its U.S. label was established in late 1934; later the link with the British company was broken for several decades....
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  • 1948 Johannes Brahms
    Johannes Brahms

    Johannes Brahms , composer and pianist, was one of the leading musicians of the Romantic music. Born in Hamburg, Brahms spent much of his professional life in Vienna, Austria, where he was a leader of the musical scene....
    : Violin Concerto in D Minor, Op.77 Violinist: Ossy Renardy
  • 1948 Camille Saint-Saëns
    Camille Saint-Saëns

    Charles-Camille Saint-Sa?ns was a French composer, organist, Conductor , and pianist, known especially for The Carnival of the Animals, Danse Macabre , Samson and Delilah , Havanaise , Introduction and Rondo capriccioso , and his Symphony No....
    : Danse macabre


Recording made with the Bavarian Radio and Television Orchestra for Deutsche Grammophon
Deutsche Grammophon

Deutsche Grammophon is a Germany classical record label, now part of the Universal Music Group. The company has long been known for its high standards of high fidelity....
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  • 1968 Hector Berlioz
    Hector Berlioz

    Louis Hector Berlioz was a French Romantic music composer and guitarist, best known for his compositions Symphonie fantastique and Requiem . Berlioz made great contributions to the modern orchestra with his Treatise on Instrumentation and by utilizing huge orchestral forces for his works; as a conductor, he performed several c...
    : Requiem
    Requiem

    The Requiem or Requiem Mass , also known formally in Latin as the Missa pro defunctis or Missa defunctorum , is a liturgy of the Roman Catholic Church, Anglo-Catholic Anglicans, and certain Lutheran Church Churches in the United States....
    , Op. 5 with the Bavarian Radio and Television Orchestra Chorus and Soloist: Peter Schreier
    Peter Schreier

    File:Bundesarchiv Bild 183-R0423-0017, Berlin,Generalprobe Er?ffnung Palast der Republik.jpgPeter Schreier is a German tenor and conducting....


Broadcasts from Moscow of the Boston Symphony Orchestra
Boston Symphony Orchestra

The Boston Symphony Orchestra is an American orchestra based in Boston, Massachusetts. It is one of the five American orchestras commonly referred to as the "Big Five "....
 released by Ars Nova:

  • 1956 Paul Dukas
    Paul Dukas

    Paul Abraham Dukas was a French composer and teacher of European classical music....
    : The Sorcerer's Apprentice
  • 1956 Joseph Haydn
    Joseph Haydn

    Joseph Haydn was an Austrians composer. He was one of the most prominent composers of the classical music era, and is called by some the "Father of the Symphony" and "Father of the String Quartet"....
    : Symphony No. 102 in B-flat Major
  • 1956 Maurice Ravel
    Maurice Ravel

    Joseph-Maurice Ravel was a French composer and pianist of Impressionist music known especially for the subtlety, richness, and poignancy of his melodies, orchestral and instrumental Texture and effects....
    : Daphnis et Chloé
    Daphnis et Chloé

    Daphnis et Chlo? is a ballet with music by Maurice Ravel. Ravel described it as a "symphonie chor?ographique" . The scenario was adapted by Michel Fokine from an Daphnis and Chloe by the Greece writer Longus thought to date from around the 3rd century AD....
    , Suite No. 2, same as Arte release
  • 1956 Richard Strauss
    Richard Strauss

    Richard Georg Strauss was a German composer of the late Romantic music and early modern eras, particularly of operas, Lieder and tone poems. Strauss was also a prominent Conducting....
    : Don Juan, Op. 20


Broadcast from Moscow of the Boston Symphony Orchestra released by Arte:

  • 1956 Ludwig van Beethoven
    Ludwig van Beethoven

    Ludwig van Beethoven was a German composer and pianist. He was a crucial figure in the transitional period between the Classical music era and Romantic music eras in classical music, and remains one of the most acclaimed and influential composers of all time....
    : Symphony No. 3
    Symphony No. 3

    Among the pieces of music with the title Symphony No. 3 are:*William Alwyn's Symphony No. 3 *Malcolm Arnold's Symphony No. 3 , op. 63*Henk Badings's Symphony No....
     in E-Flat Major, Op. 55
  • 1956 Maurice Ravel
    Maurice Ravel

    Joseph-Maurice Ravel was a French composer and pianist of Impressionist music known especially for the subtlety, richness, and poignancy of his melodies, orchestral and instrumental Texture and effects....
    : Daphnis et Chloé
    Daphnis et Chloé

    Daphnis et Chlo? is a ballet with music by Maurice Ravel. Ravel described it as a "symphonie chor?ographique" . The scenario was adapted by Michel Fokine from an Daphnis and Chloe by the Greece writer Longus thought to date from around the 3rd century AD....
    , Suite No. 2, same as Arts Nova release
  • 1956 Robert Schumann
    Robert Schumann

    Robert Schumann, sometimes given as Robert Alexander Schumann, was a German composer, aesthete and influential music critic. He is one of the most famous Romantic music composers of the 19th century....
    : Symphony No. 2 in C Major, Op. 61, Adagio


Broadcasts of the Boston Symphony Orchestra from Symphony Hall Centennial Set released by the Boston Symphony Orchestra:

  • 1953 Daniel Auber
    Daniel Auber

    Daniel Fran?ois Esprit Auber was a French composer....
    : La Meuette de Portici Overture, same as West Hill Radio Archives release
  • 1953 Sergei Prokofiev
    Sergei Prokofiev

    Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev was a Russian composer who mastered numerous musical genres and came to be admired as one of the greatest composers of the 20th century....
    : Love for Three Oranges March and Scherzo
  • 1958 Albert Roussel
    Albert Roussel

    File:Roussel.gifAlbert Charles Paul Marie Roussel was a France composer. Although Roussel spent seven years as a midshipman, only turning to music as an adult, he became one of the most prominent French composers of the inter-war period....
    : Suite in F Op. 33
  • 1959 Gabriel Fauré
    Gabriel Fauré

    Gabriel Urbain Faur? was a French composer, organist, pianist, and teacher. He was the foremost French composer of his generation, and his musical style influenced many 20th century composers....
    : Penelope Overture, same as Music & Arts release
  • 1959 César Franck
    César Franck

    C?sar Franck , a Belgian composer, organist and music teacher who lived in France, was one of the great figures in Romantic music in the second half of the 19th century....
    : Le Chasseur Maudit (The Accursed Hunter)
  • 1962 Claude Debussy
    Claude Debussy

    Achille-Claude Debussy was a French composer. Along with Maurice Ravel, he is considered one of the most prominent figures working within the field of Impressionist music, though he himself intensely disliked the term when applied to his compositions....
    : La Mer
  • 1962 Maurice Ravel
    Maurice Ravel

    Joseph-Maurice Ravel was a French composer and pianist of Impressionist music known especially for the subtlety, richness, and poignancy of his melodies, orchestral and instrumental Texture and effects....
    : La Valse


Broadcast of the Boston Symphony Orchestra released by Living Stage:

  • 1958 Arthur Honegger
    Arthur Honegger

    Arthur Honegger was a Swiss composer, who was born in France and lived a large part of his life in Paris. He was a member of Les Six. His most frequently performed work is probably the orchestral work Pacific 231, which is interpreted as imitating the sound of a steam engine locomotive....
    : Symphony No. 3


Broadcasts of the Boston Symphony Orchestra released by Memories:

  • 1952 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Mozart showed prodigious ability from his earliest childhood in Salzburg. Already competent on keyboard and violin, he composed from the age of five and performed before European royalty; at seventeen he was engaged as a court musician in Salzburg, but grew restless and traveled in search of a better position, always...
    : Symphony No. 41 in C, K.551, Jupiter, same as West Hill Radio Archives release
  • 1954 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Symphony No. 31 in D major, K.297, Paris
  • 1956 Ludwig van Beethoven
    Ludwig van Beethoven

    Ludwig van Beethoven was a German composer and pianist. He was a crucial figure in the transitional period between the Classical music era and Romantic music eras in classical music, and remains one of the most acclaimed and influential composers of all time....
    : Piano Concerto No. 3 in c, Op. 37 with Clara Haskil, same West Hill Radio Archives and Music & Arts releases
  • 1958 Anton Bruckner
    Anton Bruckner

    Anton Bruckner was an Austrian composer known primarily for his symphony, mass , and motets. His symphonies are often considered emblematic of the final stage of Austro-German Romantic music because of their rich harmonic language, complex polyphony, and considerable length....
    : Symphony No. 7
  • 195? Johannes Brahms
    Johannes Brahms

    Johannes Brahms , composer and pianist, was one of the leading musicians of the Romantic music. Born in Hamburg, Brahms spent much of his professional life in Vienna, Austria, where he was a leader of the musical scene....
    : Violin Concerto in D Minor, Op.77 Violinist: Joseph Szigeti
    Joseph Szigeti

    Joseph Szigeti was a Hungary virtuoso violinist.Born into a musical family, he spent his early childhood in a small town in Transylvania. He quickly proved himself to be a child prodigy on the violin, and moved to Budapest with his father to study with renowned pedagogue Jeno Hubay....


Broadcast from Prague of the Boston Symphony Orchestra released by Multisonic:

  • 1956 Johannes Brahms
    Johannes Brahms

    Johannes Brahms , composer and pianist, was one of the leading musicians of the Romantic music. Born in Hamburg, Brahms spent much of his professional life in Vienna, Austria, where he was a leader of the musical scene....
    : Symphony No. 2 in D Major, Op. 73
  • 1956 Arthur Honegger
    Arthur Honegger

    Arthur Honegger was a Swiss composer, who was born in France and lived a large part of his life in Paris. He was a member of Les Six. His most frequently performed work is probably the orchestral work Pacific 231, which is interpreted as imitating the sound of a steam engine locomotive....
    : Symphony No. 3


Broadcasts of the Boston Symphony Orchestra released by Music & Arts:

  • 1956 Ludwig van Beethoven
    Ludwig van Beethoven

    Ludwig van Beethoven was a German composer and pianist. He was a crucial figure in the transitional period between the Classical music era and Romantic music eras in classical music, and remains one of the most acclaimed and influential composers of all time....
    : Piano Concerto No. 3 in C minor, Op. 37 with Clara Haskil
    Clara Haskil

    Clara Haskil was a Jewish Romania european classical music pianist, renowned as an interpreter of the classical and early Romantic music repertoire....
    , same as Memories and West Hill Radio Archives releases
  • 1956 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Mozart showed prodigious ability from his earliest childhood in Salzburg. Already competent on keyboard and violin, he composed from the age of five and performed before European royalty; at seventeen he was engaged as a court musician in Salzburg, but grew restless and traveled in search of a better position, always...
    : Piano Concerto No. 9 in E-flat, K. 271 with Clara Haskil
  • 1959 Gabriel Fauré
    Gabriel Fauré

    Gabriel Urbain Faur? was a French composer, organist, pianist, and teacher. He was the foremost French composer of his generation, and his musical style influenced many 20th century composers....
    : Pelleas et Melisande Suite, Op. 80
  • 1959 Gabriel Fauré: Penelope Overture, same as BSO release
  • 1959 César Franck
    César Franck

    C?sar Franck , a Belgian composer, organist and music teacher who lived in France, was one of the great figures in Romantic music in the second half of the 19th century....
    : Le Chasseur maudit (The Accursed Hunter)
  • 1960 Gabriel Fauré: Ballade for Piano and Orchestra with Nicole Henriot-Schweitzer
  • 1961 César Franck: Symphonic Variations
    Symphonic Variations (Franck)

    The Symphonic Variations , M. 46, is a work for piano and orchestra, written in 1885 by C?sar Franck. It has been described as "one of Franck's tightest and most finished works", "a superb blending of piano and orchestra", and "a flawless work and as near perfection as a human composer can hope to get in a work of this nature"....
     with Vlado Perlemuter
    Vlado Perlemuter

    Vlado Perlemuter was a France pianist.He was born to a Polish Jewish family in Kovno, Russia . At the age of three, he lost the use of his left eye in an accident....
  • 1961 César Franck: Symphony in D minor
    Symphony in D minor (Franck)

    The Symphony in D minor is the most famous orchestral work and the only symphony written by the 19th-century Belgium composer C?sar Franck. After two years of work, the symphony was completed 22 August 1888....
  • 1961 Maurice Ravel
    Maurice Ravel

    Joseph-Maurice Ravel was a French composer and pianist of Impressionist music known especially for the subtlety, richness, and poignancy of his melodies, orchestral and instrumental Texture and effects....
    : Daphnis et Chloé
    Daphnis et Chloé

    Daphnis et Chlo? is a ballet with music by Maurice Ravel. Ravel described it as a "symphonie chor?ographique" . The scenario was adapted by Michel Fokine from an Daphnis and Chloe by the Greece writer Longus thought to date from around the 3rd century AD....
    , with chorus of Berkshire Festival
  • 1962 Claude Debussy
    Claude Debussy

    Achille-Claude Debussy was a French composer. Along with Maurice Ravel, he is considered one of the most prominent figures working within the field of Impressionist music, though he himself intensely disliked the term when applied to his compositions....
    : Nocturnes
  • 1962 Claude Debussy: Printemps
  • 1962 Claude Debussy: La Mer
  • 1962 Maurice Ravel: La Valse


Broadcast of the Boston Symphony Orchestra released by Tahra:

  • 1951 Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
    Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky – ) was a Russian composer of the Romantic music era. He wrote some of the most popular concert and theatrical music in the current classical repertoire, including the ballets Swan Lake and Nutcracker, the 1812 Overture, his Piano Concerto No....
    : Violin Concerto in D Major, Op.35, (1st movement only) Violinist: Michele Auclair


Broadcasts of the Boston Symphony Orchestra released by West Hill Radio Archives:

  • 1951 Richard Strauss
    Richard Strauss

    Richard Georg Strauss was a German composer of the late Romantic music and early modern eras, particularly of operas, Lieder and tone poems. Strauss was also a prominent Conducting....
    : Tod und Verklärung
  • 1952 Ludwig van Beethoven
    Ludwig van Beethoven

    Ludwig van Beethoven was a German composer and pianist. He was a crucial figure in the transitional period between the Classical music era and Romantic music eras in classical music, and remains one of the most acclaimed and influential composers of all time....
    : Concerto No. 5 in E-flat, Emperor, Pianist: Lelia Gousseau
  • 1952 Arthur Honegger
    Arthur Honegger

    Arthur Honegger was a Swiss composer, who was born in France and lived a large part of his life in Paris. He was a member of Les Six. His most frequently performed work is probably the orchestral work Pacific 231, which is interpreted as imitating the sound of a steam engine locomotive....
    : La Danse des Morts, Soloist: Betty Allen, Mariquita Moll, Arnold Moss and Gérard Souzay
    Gérard Souzay

    G?rard Souzay was a French baritone singer, regarded as one of the best interpreters of m?lodie since Charles Panz?ra and Pierre Bernac....
     with New England Conservatory Chorus
  • 1952 Felix Mendelssohn
    Felix Mendelssohn

    Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, born, and generally known in English-speaking countries, as Felix Mendelssohn was a Germany composer, pianist, organist and conducting of the early Romantic music period....
    ; Symphony No. 4 in A, Italian
  • 1952 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Mozart showed prodigious ability from his earliest childhood in Salzburg. Already competent on keyboard and violin, he composed from the age of five and performed before European royalty; at seventeen he was engaged as a court musician in Salzburg, but grew restless and traveled in search of a better position, always...
    : Symphony No. 41 in C, K. 551. Jupiter, same as Memories release
  • 1952 Franz Schubert
    Franz Schubert

    Franz Peter Schubert was an Austrian composer. He wrote some 600 lieder, nine symphonies , liturgy music, operas, and a large body of chamber music and solo piano music....
    : Symphony No. 5 in B-flat
  • 1952 Franz Schubert: Symphony No. 8 in B minor, Unfinished
  • 1952 Richard Wagner
    Richard Wagner

    Wilhelm Richard Wagner was a German composer, Conducting, theatre director and essayist, primarily known for his operas . Unlike most other great opera composers, Wagner wrote both the scenario and libretto for his works....
    : Tristan and Isolde – Prelude & Liebestod
  • 1953 Daniel Auber
    Daniel Auber

    Daniel Fran?ois Esprit Auber was a French composer....
    : La Muette de Portici Overture, same as BSO release
  • 1953 Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 2 in D
  • 1953 Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 3 in E-flat, Eroica
  • 1953 Johannes Brahms
    Johannes Brahms

    Johannes Brahms , composer and pianist, was one of the leading musicians of the Romantic music. Born in Hamburg, Brahms spent much of his professional life in Vienna, Austria, where he was a leader of the musical scene....
    : Piano Concerto No. 2 in B-flat, Pianist: Claudio Arrau
    Claudio Arrau

    Claudio Arrau Le?n was a Chilean pianist known for his interpretations of a vast repertoire spanning from the baroque music to 20th century classical music composers, especially Chopin and Beethoven....
  • 1953 Claude Debussy
    Claude Debussy

    Achille-Claude Debussy was a French composer. Along with Maurice Ravel, he is considered one of the most prominent figures working within the field of Impressionist music, though he himself intensely disliked the term when applied to his compositions....
    : Ibéria
  • 1953 Édouard Lalo
    Édouard Lalo

    ?douard-Victoire-Antoine Lalo was a France composer of Spanish descent....
    : Symphonie Espagnole, (Missing Movement III), Violinist: Ruth Posselt
  • 1953 Maurice Ravel
    Maurice Ravel

    Joseph-Maurice Ravel was a French composer and pianist of Impressionist music known especially for the subtlety, richness, and poignancy of his melodies, orchestral and instrumental Texture and effects....
    : Le Tombeau de Couperin
  • 1953 Richard Strauss: Divertimento (after Couperin)
  • 1953 Richard Wagner: Die Meistersinger – Act III Excerpts
  • 1954 Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 7 in A, Op. 92
  • 1954 Ludwig van Beethoven: Violin Concerto in D, Op. 61, Violinist: Zino Francescatti
    Zino Francescatti

    Ren?-Charles Francescatti, known as Zino Francescatti was a French virtuoso violinist.Zino Francescatti was born in Marseilles, to a musical family....
  • 1954 Johannes Brahms: Variations on a Theme by Haydn
  • 1954 Antonín Dvorák
    Antonín Dvorák

    Anton?n Leopold Dvor?k was a Czechs composer of Romantic music, who employed the idioms and melodies of the folk music of Moravia and his native Bohemia....
    : Symphony No. 9 in E minor, From the New World, Op. 95
  • 1954 Jacques Ibert
    Jacques Ibert

    Jacques Fran?ois Antoine Ibert was a French composer of european classical music....
    : Flute Concerto, Flutist: Doriot Anthony Dwyer
  • 1954 Camille Saint-Saëns
    Camille Saint-Saëns

    Charles-Camille Saint-Sa?ns was a French composer, organist, Conductor , and pianist, known especially for The Carnival of the Animals, Danse Macabre , Samson and Delilah , Havanaise , Introduction and Rondo capriccioso , and his Symphony No....
    : Symphony No. 3 in C minor "Organ", Organist: E. Power Biggs
    E. Power Biggs

    Edward George Power Biggs , more familiarly known as E. Power Biggs, was a prominent concert organist and recording artist of the twentieth century....
  • 1954 Richard Strauss: Allerseelen, Wiegenlied, Morgen, Ständchen, Soprano: Irmgard Seefried
    Irmgard Seefried

    Irmgard Seefried was a distinguished German soprano who sang opera and lieder.Born as a daughter of educated Austrian-born parents, she studied at Augsburg University before making her debut in Aachen as the priestess in Verdi's Aida in 1940....
  • 1954 Richard Wagner: Eine Faust Overture
  • 1955 Ludwig van Beethoven: Violin Concerto in D, Op. 61, Violinist: Jascha Heifetz
    Jascha Heifetz

    Jascha Heifetz was a Jewish violin virtuoso born in Lithuania . He is hailed as the greatest violinist of the 20th century.Early life ...
  • 1955 Ludwig van Beethoven: Die Weihe des Hauses, Op. 124: Overture
  • 1955 Johannes Brahms: Symphony No. 2 in D, Op. 73 (9/30/55)
  • 1955 Robert Schumann
    Robert Schumann

    Robert Schumann, sometimes given as Robert Alexander Schumann, was a German composer, aesthete and influential music critic. He is one of the most famous Romantic music composers of the 19th century....
    : Symphony No. 2 in C
  • 1955 Richard Strauss: Don Juan, Op. 20
  • 1956 Ludwig van Beethoven: Leonore Overture No. 2, Op. 72
  • 1956 Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 3 in C minor, Op. 37, Pianist: Clara Haskil
  • 1956 Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 3 Eroica in E
  • 1956 Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 6 Pastoral in F, Op. 68
  • 1956 Johannes Brahms: Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 1 in D minor, Op. 15, Pianist: Rudolph Serkin
  • 1956 Johannes Brahms: Concerto for Violin, Cello and Orchestra in A minor, Violinist: Zino Francescatti and Cellist: Samuel Mayes
  • 1956 Robert Schumann: Symphony No.4 in D minor, Op.120
  • 1957 Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 5 Emperor in E flat, Op. 73. Pianist: Claudio Arrau
  • 1957 Johannes Brahms: Academic Festival Overture, Op. 80
  • 1957 Robert Schumann: Cello Concerto in A minor, Op. 129, Cellist: Pierre Fournier
    Pierre Fournier

    Pierre Fournier was a France cello who was called the "aristocrat of cellists," on account of his elegant musicianship and majestic sound.He was born in Paris, the son of a French Army general....
  • 1957 Richard Strauss: Ein Heldenleben, Violinist: Richard Burgin


Recordings made with the Boston Symphony Orchestra for RCA Records
RCA Records

RCA Records is one of the flagship labels of Sony Music Entertainment. The RCA initials stand for Radio Corporation of America , which was the parent corporation from 1929 to 1983 and a partner from 1983 to 1986....
:

  • 1949 Ludwig van Beethoven
    Ludwig van Beethoven

    Ludwig van Beethoven was a German composer and pianist. He was a crucial figure in the transitional period between the Classical music era and Romantic music eras in classical music, and remains one of the most acclaimed and influential composers of all time....
    : Symphony No. 7 in A Major, Op. 92, same as Tahra release
  • 1949 Ludwig van Beethoven: Gratulations Menuet W.o.O.3, same as Tahra release
  • 1949 Franz Schubert
    Franz Schubert

    Franz Peter Schubert was an Austrian composer. He wrote some 600 lieder, nine symphonies , liturgy music, operas, and a large body of chamber music and solo piano music....
    : Symphony No. 2 in B-flat Major, D.125
  • 1949 Hector Berlioz
    Hector Berlioz

    Louis Hector Berlioz was a French Romantic music composer and guitarist, best known for his compositions Symphonie fantastique and Requiem . Berlioz made great contributions to the modern orchestra with his Treatise on Instrumentation and by utilizing huge orchestral forces for his works; as a conductor, he performed several c...
    : Beatrice et Benedict Overture
  • 1950 Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 1 in C Major, Op. 15
  • 1950 Johannes Brahms
    Johannes Brahms

    Johannes Brahms , composer and pianist, was one of the leading musicians of the Romantic music. Born in Hamburg, Brahms spent much of his professional life in Vienna, Austria, where he was a leader of the musical scene....
    : Symphony No. 4 in E Minor, Op. 98
  • 1950 Joseph Haydn
    Joseph Haydn

    Joseph Haydn was an Austrians composer. He was one of the most prominent composers of the classical music era, and is called by some the "Father of the Symphony" and "Father of the String Quartet"....
    : Symphony No. 103 in E-flat Major, Hob.I-103
  • 1950 Joseph Haydn: Symphony No. 104 in D Major, Hob.I-104
  • 1950 George Frideric Handel
    George Frideric Handel

    George Frideric Handel was an England Baroque music composer of Germany birth who is famous for his operas, oratorios, and concerto grosso. His life and music may justly be described as "cosmopolitan": he was born in Germany, trained in Italy, and spent most of his life in England....
     arranged by Sir Hamilton Harty
    Hamilton Harty

    Sir Herbert Hamilton Harty was an Irish and British composer, conducting and accompanist.Harty was born in Hillsborough, County Down, Ireland, the fourth of ten children of church organist William Michael Harty and his wife, Annie Elizabeth, the daughter of Joseph Hamilton Richards, a soldier from Bray....
    : Water Music Suite
  • 1950 Maurice Ravel
    Maurice Ravel

    Joseph-Maurice Ravel was a French composer and pianist of Impressionist music known especially for the subtlety, richness, and poignancy of his melodies, orchestral and instrumental Texture and effects....
    : Rapsodie Espagnole
  • 1950 Maurice Ravel: La Valse
  • 1950 Édouard Lalo
    Édouard Lalo

    ?douard-Victoire-Antoine Lalo was a France composer of Spanish descent....
    : Le Roi D'Ys Overture
  • 1951 Max Bruch
    Max Bruch

    Max Christian Friedrich Bruch also known as Max Karl August Bruch, was a German Romantic music composer and Conducting who wrote over 200 works, including three violin concertos, one of which is a staple of the violin repertoire....
    : Violin Concerto No. 1 in G Minor, Op.26 Violinist: Yehudi Menuhin
    Yehudi Menuhin

    Yehudi Menuhin, Baron Menuhin, Order of Merit, Order of the British Empire was a violinist and conducting who spent most of his performing career in the United Kingdom....
  • 1951 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Mozart showed prodigious ability from his earliest childhood in Salzburg. Already competent on keyboard and violin, he composed from the age of five and performed before European royalty; at seventeen he was engaged as a court musician in Salzburg, but grew restless and traveled in search of a better position, always...
    : Le nozze di Figaro Overture
  • 1951 Camille Saint-Saëns
    Camille Saint-Saëns

    Charles-Camille Saint-Sa?ns was a French composer, organist, Conductor , and pianist, known especially for The Carnival of the Animals, Danse Macabre , Samson and Delilah , Havanaise , Introduction and Rondo capriccioso , and his Symphony No....
    : La Princesse Jaune Overture
    La princesse jaune

    La princesse jaune is an op?ra comique in one act and five scenes by composer Camille Saint-Sa?ns to a French language libretto by Louis Gallet....
  • 1951 Robert Schumann
    Robert Schumann

    Robert Schumann, sometimes given as Robert Alexander Schumann, was a German composer, aesthete and influential music critic. He is one of the most famous Romantic music composers of the 19th century....
    : Symphony No. 1 in B-flat Major, Op. 38, Spring
  • 1951 Robert Schumann: Genoveva Overture, Op. 81
  • 1952 Johannes Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 2 in B-flat, Op. 98 Pianist: Arthur Rubinstein
    Arthur Rubinstein

    Arthur Rubinstein Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire was a Poland-United States pianist who is widely considered as one of the greatest pianists of the 20th century....
  • 1952 Arthur Honegger
    Arthur Honegger

    Arthur Honegger was a Swiss composer, who was born in France and lived a large part of his life in Paris. He was a member of Les Six. His most frequently performed work is probably the orchestral work Pacific 231, which is interpreted as imitating the sound of a steam engine locomotive....
    : Symphony No. 5, Di tre Re
  • 1952 Maurice Ravel: Pavane pour une Infante Defunte
  • 1952 Albert Roussel
    Albert Roussel

    File:Roussel.gifAlbert Charles Paul Marie Roussel was a France composer. Although Roussel spent seven years as a midshipman, only turning to music as an adult, he became one of the most prominent French composers of the inter-war period....
    : Bacchus et Adriane, Suite No. 2
  • 1953 Hector Berlioz: Romeo and Juliet
    Romeo and Juliet

    Romeo and Juliet is a Shakespearean tragedy written early in the career of playwright William Shakespeare about two young "Star-crossed" whose untimely deaths ultimately unite their feuding families....
    , Op. 17 with the Harvard Glee Club and Radcliffe Choral Society and Soloists: Margaret Roggero, Leslie Chabay, and Yi-Kwei Sze
  • 1953 Arthur Honegger: Symphony No. 2
  • 1953 Richard Strauss
    Richard Strauss

    Richard Georg Strauss was a German composer of the late Romantic music and early modern eras, particularly of operas, Lieder and tone poems. Strauss was also a prominent Conducting....
    : Don Quixote, Op.35 Cellist: Gregor Piatigorsky
    Gregor Piatigorsky

    Gregor Piatigorsky was a Ukraine-USA cello....
    , Violist: Joseph de Pasquale, and Violinist: Richard Burgin
  • 1953 Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
    Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky – ) was a Russian composer of the Romantic music era. He wrote some of the most popular concert and theatrical music in the current classical repertoire, including the ballets Swan Lake and Nutcracker, the 1812 Overture, his Piano Concerto No....
    : Violin Concerto in D Major, Op.35 Violinist: Nathan Milstein
    Nathan Milstein

    Nathan Mironovich Milstein was a Jewish virtuoso violinist born in Russia.He died in London ten days before his 89th birthday.He is widely considered one of the finest violinists of the 20th century, well known for his interpretations of Johann Sebastian Bach solo violin works, and for works from the Romantic music period....
  • 1954 Hector Berlioz: La damnation de Faust
    The Damnation of Faust

    La damnation de Faust is a work for orchestra, voices, and choir written by Hector Berlioz .Berlioz read Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Faust Part One in 1828, in G?rard de Nerval's translation; "this marvelous book fascinated me from the first", he recalled in his Memoirs....
     with the Harvard Glee Club and Radcliffe Choral Society and Soloists Suzanne Danco
    Suzanne Danco

    Suzanne Danco , was a celebrated Belgian soprano and mezzo-soprano....
    , David Poleri, Martial Singher
    Martial Singher

    Martial Singher was a France baritone opera singer born in Oloron Sainte Marie, Pyr?n?es-Atlantiques.Initially singing only as a hobby, he was encouraged by then French education minister ?douard Herriot to pursue singing professionally....
     and Donald Gramm (added to the National Recording Registry
    National Recording Registry

    The National Recording Registry is a list of sound recordings that "are culturally, historically, or aesthetically important, and/or inform or reflect life in the United States." The registry was established by the National Recording Preservation Act of 2000, which created the National Recording Preservation Board, whose members are appointed...
     for 2005)
  • 1954 Hector Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique
    Symphonie Fantastique

    An Episode in the Life of the Artist Opus 14, usually referred to by its subtitle Symphonie fantastique is a symphony written by French composer Hector Berlioz in 1830....
  • 1954 Frédéric Chopin
    Frédéric Chopin

    Fr?d?ric Chopin was a composer and virtuoso pianist of the Romantic music period. He is widely regarded as the greatest Polish composer, and one of music's greatest tone poets....
    : Piano Concerto No. 2 in F Minor, Op. 21 Pianist: Alexander Brailowsky
    Alexander Brailowsky

    Alexander Brailowsky was a Russian pianist who specialized in the works of Fr?d?ric Chopin. He achieved most of his fame between the two world wars....
  • 1954 Gian Carlo Menotti
    Gian Carlo Menotti

    Gian Carlo Menotti was an Italy composer and libretto. Although he often referred to himself as an American composer, he kept his Italian citizenship....
    : Violin Concerto Violinist: Tossy Spivakovsky
    Tossy Spivakovsky

    Nathan "Tossy" Spivakovsky was a Russian-born, Germany-trained violinist, who lived in Australia for seven years and later moved to the United States....
  • 1954 Camille Saint-Saëns
    Camille Saint-Saëns

    Charles-Camille Saint-Sa?ns was a French composer, organist, Conductor , and pianist, known especially for The Carnival of the Animals, Danse Macabre , Samson and Delilah , Havanaise , Introduction and Rondo capriccioso , and his Symphony No....
    : Piano Concerto No. 4 in C Minor, Op. 44 Pianist: Alexander Brailowsky
    Alexander Brailowsky

    Alexander Brailowsky was a Russian pianist who specialized in the works of Fr?d?ric Chopin. He achieved most of his fame between the two world wars....
  • 1955 Ludwig van Beethoven: Violin Concerto
    Violin Concerto (Beethoven)

    Ludwig van Beethoven's Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 61, was written in 1806.The work was premiered on December 23, 1806 in the Theater an der Wien in Vienna....
     Violinist: Jascha Heifetz
    Jascha Heifetz

    Jascha Heifetz was a Jewish violin virtuoso born in Lithuania . He is hailed as the greatest violinist of the 20th century.Early life ...
  • 1955 Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 5 in C Minor, Op. 67
  • 1955 Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 6 in C Minor, Op. 68
  • 1955 Hector Berlioz
    Hector Berlioz

    Louis Hector Berlioz was a French Romantic music composer and guitarist, best known for his compositions Symphonie fantastique and Requiem . Berlioz made great contributions to the modern orchestra with his Treatise on Instrumentation and by utilizing huge orchestral forces for his works; as a conductor, he performed several c...
    : Nuits d'ete with Soloist Victoria de los Ángeles
    Victoria de los Ángeles

    Victoria de los ?ngeles was a Spanish operatic soprano and recitalist from Catalonia whose career began in the early 1940s and reached its height in the mid 1960s....
  • 1955 Johannes Brahms: Symphony No. 2 in D Major, Op. 73
  • 1955 Johannes Brahms: Tragic Overture, Op. 81
  • 1955 Ernest Chausson
    Ernest Chausson

    Am?d?e-Ernest Chausson was a France Romantic music composer who died just as his career was beginning to flourish....
    : Poeme Violinist: David Oistrakh
    David Oistrakh

    David Fyodorovich Oistrakh , David Fiodorovic Ojstrah; – October 24, 1974) was a Russian violin virtuoso who made many recordings and was the dedicatee of numerous violin works....
  • 1955 Claude Debussy
    Claude Debussy

    Achille-Claude Debussy was a French composer. Along with Maurice Ravel, he is considered one of the most prominent figures working within the field of Impressionist music, though he himself intensely disliked the term when applied to his compositions....
    : La Damoiselle Élue with the Radcliffe Choral Society Soloists Victoria de los Ángeles
    Victoria de los Ángeles

    Victoria de los ?ngeles was a Spanish operatic soprano and recitalist from Catalonia whose career began in the early 1940s and reached its height in the mid 1960s....
     and Carol Smith
  • 1955 Maurice Ravel: Daphnis et Chloé
    Daphnis et Chloé

    Daphnis et Chlo? is a ballet with music by Maurice Ravel. Ravel described it as a "symphonie chor?ographique" . The scenario was adapted by Michel Fokine from an Daphnis and Chloe by the Greece writer Longus thought to date from around the 3rd century AD....
    , with the New England Conservatory Chorus
  • 1955 Maurice Ravel: La Valse
  • 1955 Camille Saint-Saëns: Introduction and Rondo Caproccioso Violinist: David Oistrakh
    David Oistrakh

    David Fyodorovich Oistrakh , David Fiodorovic Ojstrah; – October 24, 1974) was a Russian violin virtuoso who made many recordings and was the dedicatee of numerous violin works....
  • 1955 Franz Schubert: Symphony No. 8
    Symphony No. 8

    Works with the title Symphony No. 8 include:*Malcolm Arnold's Symphony No. 8 *Ludwig van Beethoven's Symphony No. 8 *Anton Bruckner's Symphony No....
     in B minor, D 759 The Unfinished
  • 1955 Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
    Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky – ) was a Russian composer of the Romantic music era. He wrote some of the most popular concert and theatrical music in the current classical repertoire, including the ballets Swan Lake and Nutcracker, the 1812 Overture, his Piano Concerto No....
    : Symphony No. 4
    Symphony No. 4

    Among the pieces of music with the title Symphony No. 4 are:*William Alwyn's Symphony No. 4 *Malcolm Arnold's Symphony No. 4 *Arnold Bax's Symphony No....
     in F Minor, Op.36
  • 1956 Ludwig van Beethoven: Coriolan Overture, Op. 62
  • 1956 Ludwig van Beethoven: Fidelio Overture, Op. 72b
  • 1956 Ludwig van Beethoven: Leonore Overture No. 1, Op. 138
  • 1956 Ludwig van Beethoven: Leonore Overture No. 2, Op. 72
  • 1956 Ludwig van Beethoven: Leonore Overture No. 3, Op. 72a
  • 1956 Hector Berlioz: L'Enfance du Christ
    L'enfance du Christ

    L'enfance du Christ , Opus 25, is a choral by the France composer Hector Berlioz, based on the story of the Holy Family's flight into Egypt....
     (issued in mono only on LP; issued in stereo on CD), with the New England Conservatory Chorus and soloists Florence Kopleff
    Florence Kopleff

    Florence Kopleff is an American contralto.She was born in New York City.She began her career in 1941 when she was in her senior year of high school....
    , Giorgio Tozzi
    Giorgio Tozzi

    Giorgio Tozzi was for many years a leading basso with the Metropolitan Opera, and was seen playing lead roles in nearly every major opera house world-wide....
    , Cesare Valletti
    Cesare Valletti

    Cesare Valletti was an Italian operatic tenor, one of the leading tenore di grazia of the postwar era. He was much admired for his polished vocal technique, his musical refinement and elegance, and beauty of tone....
     and Gerard Souzay
    Gérard Souzay

    G?rard Souzay was a French baritone singer, regarded as one of the best interpreters of m?lodie since Charles Panz?ra and Pierre Bernac....
  • 1956 Johannes Brahms: Symphony No. 1 in C Minor, Op. 68
  • 1956 Claude Debussy: La Mer
  • 1956 Claude Debussy: Le Maytyre de Saint Sebastien with the New England Conservatory Chorus Soloists Florence Kopleff
    Florence Kopleff

    Florence Kopleff is an American contralto.She was born in New York City.She began her career in 1941 when she was in her senior year of high school....
    , Catherine Akos, Phyllis Curtin
    Phyllis Curtin

    Phyllis Curtin is an American soprano....
    , and Charles Münch
  • 1956 Claude Debussy: Prelude a l'apres-midi d'un faune with Flutist Doriot Anthony Dwyer
  • 1956 Bohuslav Martinu
    Bohuslav Martinu

    Bohuslav Martinu He became a violinist in the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, and taught music in his home town. In 1923 Martinu left Czechoslovakia for Paris, and deliberately withdrew from the Romantic style in which he had been trained....
    : Symphony No. 6 Fantaisies Symphoniques
  • 1956 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Mozart showed prodigious ability from his earliest childhood in Salzburg. Already competent on keyboard and violin, he composed from the age of five and performed before European royalty; at seventeen he was engaged as a court musician in Salzburg, but grew restless and traveled in search of a better position, always...
    : Mozart at Tanglewood: Clarinet Concerto
    Clarinet Concerto (Mozart)

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Clarinet concerto in A major, K?chel-Verzeichnis 622 was written in 1791 for the clarinetist Anton Stadler.It consists of the usual three movements, in a fast-slow-fast form:...
    , and Quintet, with Clarinetist: Benny Goodman
    Benny Goodman

    Benjamin David Goodman, was an United States jazz musician, clarinetist and bandleader, known as "King of Swing ", "Patriarch of the Clarinet", "The Professor", and "Swing's Senior Statesman"....
    , Cellist: Samuel Mayes, Violist: Joseph de Pasquale, and Violinist: Richard Burgin and Alfred Krips
  • 1956 Walter Piston
    Walter Piston

    Walter Hamor Piston Jr. was an American composer and music theorist....
    : Symphony No. 6
  • 1956 Maurice Ravel: Bolero
  • 1956 Maurice Ravel: Rapsodie Espagnole
  • 1956 Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Francesca da Rimini, Op.32
  • 1956 Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Romeo and Juliet Fantasy Overture
  • 1957 Johann Sebastian Bach
    Johann Sebastian Bach

    Johann Sebastian Bach was a German composer and organ whose sacred and secular works for choir, orchestra, and solo instruments drew together the strands of the Baroque music period and brought it to its ultimate maturity....
    : Brandenburg Concertos
    Brandenburg concertos

    The Brandenburg concerti by Johann Sebastian Bach are a collection of six instrumental works presented by Bach to Christian Ludwig of Brandenburg-Schwedt, margrave of Brandenburg-Schwedt, in 1721 ....
      No.1 - 6, BWV1046-1051
  • 1957 Samuel Barber
    Samuel Barber

    Samuel Osborne Barber II was an American composer of orchestral, opera, choral, and piano music. His Adagio for Strings is among his most popular compositions and widely considered a masterpiece of modern classical music....
    : Medea's Meditation and Dance of Vengeance, Op. 23a
  • 1957 Samuel Barber: Adagio for Strings, Op. 11
  • 1957 Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 3
    Symphony No. 3

    Among the pieces of music with the title Symphony No. 3 are:*William Alwyn's Symphony No. 3 *Malcolm Arnold's Symphony No. 3 , op. 63*Henk Badings's Symphony No....
     in E-Flat Major, Op. 55
  • 1957 Ernst Bloch
    Ernst Bloch

    Ernst Simon Bloch was a Germany Marxism Philosophy.Bloch was influenced by both Hegel and Marx. He was also interested in music and art . He established friendships with Georg Lukacs, Bertolt Brecht, Kurt Weill and Theodor W....
    : Schelomo Cellist: Gregor Piatigorsky
    Gregor Piatigorsky

    Gregor Piatigorsky was a Ukraine-USA cello....
  • 1957 Claude Debussy: Images pour orchestre
  • 1957 Paul Dukas
    Paul Dukas

    Paul Abraham Dukas was a French composer and teacher of European classical music....
    : The Sorcerer's Apprentice
  • 1957 Edward Elgar
    Edward Elgar

    Sir Edward William Elgar, 1st Baronet, Order of Merit, Royal Victorian Order was an England composer. Several of his first major orchestral works, including the Enigma Variations and the Pomp and Circumstance Marches, were greeted with acclaim....
    : Introduction and Allegro for Strings, Op. 47
  • 1957 César Franck
    César Franck

    C?sar Franck , a Belgian composer, organist and music teacher who lived in France, was one of the great figures in Romantic music in the second half of the 19th century....
    : Symphony in D Minor
  • 1957 Felix Mendelssohn
    Felix Mendelssohn

    Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, born, and generally known in English-speaking countries, as Felix Mendelssohn was a Germany composer, pianist, organist and conducting of the early Romantic music period....
    : Symphony No. 3
    Symphony No. 3 (Mendelssohn)

    The Symphony No. 3 in A Minor, op. 56, called the "Scottish" Symphony, was composed by Felix Mendelssohn. It was conceived as early as 1829 during Mendelssohn's trip to Scotland, but was not completed until 1842, and was not published in full score until the following year....
  • 1957 Felix Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 5
    Symphony No. 5 (Mendelssohn)

    The Symphony No. 5 in D Major/D Minor, op. 107, called the "Reformation" Symphony, was composed by Felix Mendelssohn in 1832 in honor of the 300th anniversary of Martin Luther?s Augsburg Confession which had established the founding doctrines of Lutheranism and was a momentous document of the Protestant Reformation....
  • 1957 Sergei Prokofiev
    Sergei Prokofiev

    Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev was a Russian composer who mastered numerous musical genres and came to be admired as one of the greatest composers of the 20th century....
    : Piano Concerto No. 2 in G Minor, Op. 16 Pianist: Nicole Henriot-Schweitzer
  • 1957 Sergei Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet - excerpts, Op. 64a/b and Op. 101
  • 1957 Sergei Rachmaninoff
    Sergei Rachmaninoff

    Sergei Vasilievich Rachmaninoff was a Russian composer, pianist, and conducting. He was one of the finest pianists of his day and, as a composer, the last great representative of Russian late Romantic music in classical music....
    : Piano Concerto No. 3 in D Minor, Op. 30 Pianist: Byron Janis
  • 1957 Camille Saint-Saëns
    Camille Saint-Saëns

    Charles-Camille Saint-Sa?ns was a French composer, organist, Conductor , and pianist, known especially for The Carnival of the Animals, Danse Macabre , Samson and Delilah , Havanaise , Introduction and Rondo capriccioso , and his Symphony No....
    : Omphale's Spinning Wheel, Op. 31
  • 1957 Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Serenade for Strings, Op. 48
  • 1957 William Walton
    William Walton

    Sir William Turner Walton Order of Merit was a United Kingdom composer and Conductor .His style was influenced by the works of Igor Stravinsky and Sergei Prokofiev as well as jazz music, and is characterized by rhythmic vitality, bittersweet harmony, sweeping Romantic music melody and brilliant orchestration....
    : Cello Concerto Cellist: Gregor Piatigorsky
    Gregor Piatigorsky

    Gregor Piatigorsky was a Ukraine-USA cello....
  • 1957 Richard Wagner
    Richard Wagner

    Wilhelm Richard Wagner was a German composer, Conducting, theatre director and essayist, primarily known for his operas . Unlike most other great opera composers, Wagner wrote both the scenario and libretto for his works....
    : Götterdämmerung - Brunhilde's Immolation Soloist: Eileen Farrell
  • 1957 Richard Wagner: Götterdämmerung - Siegfried's Rhine Journey
  • 1957 Richard Wagner: Tannhäuser - Overture and Bacchanale (Paris Version)
  • 1957 Richard Wagner: Tristan and Isolde - Prelude and Liebestod Soloist: Eileen Farrell
  • 1957 Richard Wagner: Die Walküre - The Magic Fire Music
  • 1958 Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 8
    Symphony No. 8

    Works with the title Symphony No. 8 include:*Malcolm Arnold's Symphony No. 8 *Ludwig van Beethoven's Symphony No. 8 *Anton Bruckner's Symphony No....
     in F Major, Op. 93
  • 1958 Hector Berlioz: Beatrice et Benedict Overture
  • 1958 Hector Berlioz: Le carnaval romain Overture, Op. 9
  • 1958 Hector Berlioz: Le corsaire Overture, Op. 21
  • 1954 Hector Berlioz: Harold in Italy, Op. 16, Violist: William Primrose
  • 1958 Easley Blackwood
    Easley Blackwood Jr.

    Easley Blackwood, , the son of Easley Blackwood Sr., is a professor of music, a concert pianist, a composer of music, some using unusual musical tuning, and the author of books on music theory, including his research into the properties of microtonal tunings and traditional harmony....
    : Symphony No. 1
  • 1958 Johannes Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 1 in D Minor, Op. 15 Pianist: Gary Graffman
    Gary Graffman

    Gary Graffman is a classical pianist, teacher of piano and music administrator.Graffman was born in New York City to Russian-Jewish parents. Having started piano at age 3, Graffman entered the Curtis Institute of Music at age 7 in 1936 as a piano student of Isabelle Vengerova....
  • 1958 Vincent d'Indy
    Vincent d'Indy

    Paul Marie Th?odore Vincent d'Indy was a French composer and teacher....
    : Symphonie sur un chant montagnard français
    Symphonie sur un chant montagnard français

    The Symphonie sur un chant montagnard fran?ais , opus number 25, written in 1886 in music by Vincent d'Indy, is virtually the only work by the composer which still receives regular performances today....
     (Symphony on a French Mountain Air) Pianist: Nicole Henriot-Schweitzer (the Conductor's niece)
  • 1958 Alexei Haieff: Symphony No. 2
  • 1958 Gustav Mahler
    Gustav Mahler

    Gustav Mahler was a Bohemian-born Austrian composer and conducting. He was best known during his own lifetime as one of the leading orchestral and operatic conductors of the day....
    : Kindertotenlieder Soloist: Maureen Forrester
  • 1958 Gustav Mahler: Songs of the Wayfarer Soloist: Maureen Forrester
  • 1958 Maurice Ravel: Mother Goose Suite
  • 1958 Maurice Ravel: Piano Concerto in G Major Pianist: Nicole Henriot-Schweitzer
  • 1958 Felix Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 4
    Symphony No. 4 (Mendelssohn)

    The Symphony No. 4 in A major, Opus 90, commonly known as the Italian, is an orchestral symphony written by Germany composer Felix Mendelssohn....
  • 1958 Franz Schubert: Symphony No. 9
    Symphony No. 9 (Schubert)

    The Symphony No. 9 in C major, D. 944, known as the Great, is the final symphony completed by Franz Schubert. Nicknamed The Great C major originally to distinguish it from his Symphony No....
    , D 944 The Great
  • 1958 Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 9
    Symphony No. 9

    Works with the title Symphony No. 9 include:*Sir Malcolm Arnold's Symphony No. 9 *Ludwig van Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 , Choral*Havergal Brian's Symphony No....
     in D Minor, Op. 125 The Choral with the New England Conservatory Chorus and soloists Leontyne Price
    Leontyne Price

    Mary Violet Leontyne Price in Laurel, Mississippi in the United States is one of America's most beloved and widely recorded operatic sopranos....
    , Maureen Forrester
    Maureen Forrester

    Maureen Forrester, Order of Canada, National Order of Quebec is a Canada operatic contralto.She was born as Maureen Kathleen Stewart Forrester in Montreal, Quebec as one of four children to Thomas Forrester and May Arnold, and grew up in a poor section of east Montreal....
    , David Poleri, and Giorgio Tozzi
    Giorgio Tozzi

    Giorgio Tozzi was for many years a leading basso with the Metropolitan Opera, and was seen playing lead roles in nearly every major opera house world-wide....
  • 1959 Hector Berlioz: Benvenuto Cellini Overture, Op. 23
  • 1959 Hector Berlioz: Requiem
    Requiem (Berlioz)

    The Grande Messe des morts, opus number. 5 by Hector Berlioz was composed in 1837. The Grande Messe des Morts is one of Berlioz's best-known works, with a tremendous orchestration of woodwind instrument and brass instruments, including four antiphonal brass ensembles placed at the corners of the concert stage....
    , Op. 5 with the New England Conservatory Chorus and Soloist: Léopold Simoneau
    Léopold Simoneau

    L?opold Simoneau, Order of Canada, National Order of Quebec was a French-Canadian lyric tenor, one of the outstanding Mozarteans of his time....
  • 1959 Hector Berlioz: Les Troyens - Royal Hunt and Storm Music
  • 1959 Felix Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto
    Violin Concerto (Mendelssohn)

    Felix Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto in E minor, Op. 64 is his last large orchestral work. It forms an important part of the violin repertoire and is one of the most popular and most frequently performed violin concertos of all time....
     Violinist: Jascha Heifetz
  • 1957 Sergei Prokofiev: Violin Concerto No. 2 in G Minor, Op. 63 Violinist: Jascha Heifetz
  • 1959 Robert Schumann
    Robert Schumann

    Robert Schumann, sometimes given as Robert Alexander Schumann, was a German composer, aesthete and influential music critic. He is one of the most famous Romantic music composers of the 19th century....
    : Symphony No. 1 in B-flat Major, Op. 38, Spring
  • 1959 Robert Schumann: Manfred Overture, Op. 115
  • 1959 Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto
    Violin concerto

    A violin concerto is a concerto for solo violin and instrumental ensemble, customarily orchestra. Such works have been written since the Baroque music period, when the solo concerto form was first developed, up through the present day....
     in D Major, Op.35 Violinist: Henryk Szeryng
    Henryk Szeryng

    Henryk Szeryng was a violin virtuoso of Poland and Jewish heritage.He was born in Zelazowa Wola, Poland. Henryk started piano and harmony training with his mother when he was 5, and at age 7 turned to the violin, receiving instruction from Maurice Frenkel....
    .
  • 1959 Camille Saint-Saëns: Symphony No. 3
    Symphony No. 3 (Saint-Saëns)

    The Symphony No. 3 in C minor, Opus number 78, was completed by Camille Saint-Sa?ns in 1886 at what was probably the artistic zenith of his career....
     Organist: Berj Zamkochian
    Berj Zamkochian

    Berj Zambochian was an American organist. He studied at the New England Conservatory of Music and eventually joined the faculty. In 1957, at the age of 27, he was appointed organist of the Boston Symphony Orchestra and Boston Pops Orchestra....
  • 1959 Johann Sebastian Bach: Violin Concerto
    Violin concerto

    A violin concerto is a concerto for solo violin and instrumental ensemble, customarily orchestra. Such works have been written since the Baroque music period, when the solo concerto form was first developed, up through the present day....
     No.1, BWV1041, Violinist: Jamie Laredo
  • 1960 Ludwig van Beethoven: Creatures of Prometheus - Excerpts
  • 1960 Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 1 in C Major, Op. 15 Pianist: Sviatoslav Richter
    Sviatoslav Richter

    Sviatoslav Teofilovich Richter was a Soviet pianist and widely recognized as one of the greatest pianists of the 20th century. He was well known for the depth of his interpretations, virtuoso technique and vast repertoire....
  • 1960 Frédéric Chopin: Piano Concerto No. 1 in C Minor, Op. 11 Pianist: Gary Graffman
    Gary Graffman

    Gary Graffman is a classical pianist, teacher of piano and music administrator.Graffman was born in New York City to Russian-Jewish parents. Having started piano at age 3, Graffman entered the Curtis Institute of Music at age 7 in 1936 as a piano student of Isabelle Vengerova....
  • 1960 Antonin Dvorák
    Antonín Dvorák

    Anton?n Leopold Dvor?k was a Czechs composer of Romantic music, who employed the idioms and melodies of the folk music of Moravia and his native Bohemia....
    : Cello Concerto in B Minor, Op. 104 Cellist: Gregor Piatigorsky
    Gregor Piatigorsky

    Gregor Piatigorsky was a Ukraine-USA cello....
  • 1960 Felix Mendelssohn: Capriccio Brilliant in B Minor, Op. 22 Pianist: Gary Graffman
    Gary Graffman

    Gary Graffman is a classical pianist, teacher of piano and music administrator.Graffman was born in New York City to Russian-Jewish parents. Having started piano at age 3, Graffman entered the Curtis Institute of Music at age 7 in 1936 as a piano student of Isabelle Vengerova....
  • 1960 Felix Mendelssohn: Octet - Scherzo in E-flat Major, Op. 20, arranged for strings
  • 1960 Darius Milhaud
    Darius Milhaud

    Darius Milhaud was a French composer and teacher. He was a member of Les Six - also known as the Groupe des Six - and one of the most prolific composers of the 20th century....
    : La Creation du Monde Op. 81
  • 1960 Darius Milhaud: Suite Provençale Op. 152b
  • 1960 Francis Poulenc
    Francis Poulenc

    Francis Jean Marcel Poulenc was a France composer and a member of the French group Les Six. He composed music in all major genres, including art song, chamber music, oratorio, opera, ballet music, and orchestral music....
    : Concerto for Organ, Strings, and Timpani Organist: Berj Zamkochian
    Berj Zamkochian

    Berj Zambochian was an American organist. He studied at the New England Conservatory of Music and eventually joined the faculty. In 1957, at the age of 27, he was appointed organist of the Boston Symphony Orchestra and Boston Pops Orchestra....
     and Timpanist: Everett Firth
  • 1960 Franz Schubert: Symphony No. 2 in B-flat Major, D.125
  • 1960 Igor Stravinsky
    Igor Stravinsky

    Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky was a Russian-born composer, considered by many to be the most influential composer of 20th century music. He was a quintessentially Cosmopolitanism Russian who was named by Time as one of the 100 most influential people of the century....
     Jeu de cartes
    Jeu de cartes (ballet)

    Jeu de cartes is a ballet in three Card_game#The_deals by Igor Stravinsky, composed in 1936-1937, with the story by the composer and choreography by George Balanchine....
  • 1961 Hector Berlioz: Romeo and Juliet
    Romeo and Juliet

    Romeo and Juliet is a Shakespearean tragedy written early in the career of playwright William Shakespeare about two young "Star-crossed" whose untimely deaths ultimately unite their feuding families....
    , Op. 17 with the New England Conservatory Chorus and Soloists: Rosalind Elias, Cesare Valetti, and Giorgio Tozzi
  • 1961 Antonín Dvorák: Symphony No. 8 in G Major, Op. 88
  • 1961 Maurice Ravel: Daphnis et Chloé
    Daphnis et Chloé

    Daphnis et Chlo? is a ballet with music by Maurice Ravel. Ravel described it as a "symphonie chor?ographique" . The scenario was adapted by Michel Fokine from an Daphnis and Chloe by the Greece writer Longus thought to date from around the 3rd century AD....
    , with the New England Conservatory Chorus
  • 1961 Richard Straus: Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks, Op. 28
  • 1961 [Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Romeo and Juliet Fantasy Overture
  • 1962 Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6 in B Minor, Op.74
  • 1962 Hector Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique
    Symphonie Fantastique

    An Episode in the Life of the Artist Opus 14, usually referred to by its subtitle Symphonie fantastique is a symphony written by French composer Hector Berlioz in 1830....
  • 1962 Ernest Chausson
    Ernest Chausson

    Am?d?e-Ernest Chausson was a France Romantic music composer who died just as his career was beginning to flourish....
    : Symphony
  • 1962 Claude Debussy
    Claude Debussy

    Achille-Claude Debussy was a French composer. Along with Maurice Ravel, he is considered one of the most prominent figures working within the field of Impressionist music, though he himself intensely disliked the term when applied to his compositions....
    : Nocturnes - Nuages and Fetes
  • 1962 Claude Debussy: Printemps
  • 1962 Claude Debussy: Prelude a l'apres-midi d'un faune Flutist: Doriot Anthony Dwyer
  • 1962 César Franck: Le Chasseur Maudit (The Accursed Hunter)
  • 1962 Maurice Ravel: Bolero
  • 1962 Maurice Ravel: La Valse
  • 1962 Maurice Ravel: Pavane pour une Infante Defunte


  • 19?? Robert Schumann: Piano Concerto, Pianist: Van Cliburn (Never Issued)


Broadcasts of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Chicago Symphony Orchestra

The Chicago Symphony Orchestra is an American orchestra based in Chicago, Illinois. It is one of the five American orchestras commonly referred to as the "Big Five "....
 released by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra's From the Archives Series:

  • 1963 Jean-Phillippe Rameau orchestrated by Vincent D'Indy
    Vincent d'Indy

    Paul Marie Th?odore Vincent d'Indy was a French composer and teacher....
    : Dardanus Suite
  • 1966 Albert Roussel
    Albert Roussel

    File:Roussel.gifAlbert Charles Paul Marie Roussel was a France composer. Although Roussel spent seven years as a midshipman, only turning to music as an adult, he became one of the most prominent French composers of the inter-war period....
    : Bacchus et Adriane, Suite No. 2
  • 1967 Albert Roussel: Symphony No. 3 in G Minor, Op. 42


Recording made with the Czech Philharmonic for Multisonic:

  • 1957 Arthur Honegger
    Arthur Honegger

    Arthur Honegger was a Swiss composer, who was born in France and lived a large part of his life in Paris. He was a member of Les Six. His most frequently performed work is probably the orchestral work Pacific 231, which is interpreted as imitating the sound of a steam engine locomotive....
    : Symphony No. 2


Recording made with the Czech Philharmonic for Praga:

  • 1957 César Franck
    César Franck

    C?sar Franck , a Belgian composer, organist and music teacher who lived in France, was one of the great figures in Romantic music in the second half of the 19th century....
    : Symphony in D minor


Recording made with freelance orchestra of London musicians for HMV
HMV

His Master's Voice is a famous trademark in the music business, and for many years was the name of a large record label. The name was coined in 1899 as the title of a painting of the dog Nipper listening to a wind-up phonograph....
:

  • 1935 Camille Saint-Saëns
    Camille Saint-Saëns

    Charles-Camille Saint-Sa?ns was a French composer, organist, Conductor , and pianist, known especially for The Carnival of the Animals, Danse Macabre , Samson and Delilah , Havanaise , Introduction and Rondo capriccioso , and his Symphony No....
    : Piano Concerto No. 4 in C Minor, Op. 44 Pianist: Alfred Cortot
    Alfred Cortot

    Alfred Denis Cortot was a Franco-Swiss pianist and conducting. He is one of the most popular 20th century musicians, especially renowned for his poetic insight in Romantic period piano works, particularly those of Fr?d?ric Chopin and Robert Schumann....


Recording made with freelance orchestra of Paris musicians for HMV
HMV

His Master's Voice is a famous trademark in the music business, and for many years was the name of a large record label. The name was coined in 1899 as the title of a painting of the dog Nipper listening to a wind-up phonograph....

  • 1941 Georg M. Hoffman: Meine Seele Ruhmt und Priest Soloist: Pierre Bernac
    Pierre Bernac

    Pierre Bernac was a France baritone.Although coming to music relatively late, he became the most renowned interpreter of the French art song, and was also famous as a teacher....
  • 19?? Antonio Vivaldi
    Antonio Vivaldi

    Antonio Lucio Vivaldi , nicknamed il Prete Rosso , was a Baroque music composer and Venice priest, as well as a famous virtuoso violinist, born and raised in the Republic of Venice....
     orchestrated by Dandelot: Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 3, No. 9, Violinist: D. Soriano
  • 19?? Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Mozart showed prodigious ability from his earliest childhood in Salzburg. Already competent on keyboard and violin, he composed from the age of five and performed before European royalty; at seventeen he was engaged as a court musician in Salzburg, but grew restless and traveled in search of a better position, always...
    : Violin Concerto No. 7 in D major, K. 217a, Violinist: D. Soriano


Recording made with the Hungarian Radio and Television Orchestra for Philips
Philips

Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V. , usually known as Philips, is a Netherlands electronics company. It is one of the largest electronics companies in the world, founded and headquartered in the Netherlands....

  • 1966 Hector Berlioz
    Hector Berlioz

    Louis Hector Berlioz was a French Romantic music composer and guitarist, best known for his compositions Symphonie fantastique and Requiem . Berlioz made great contributions to the modern orchestra with his Treatise on Instrumentation and by utilizing huge orchestral forces for his works; as a conductor, he performed several c...
    : Symphonie Fantastique
    Symphonie Fantastique

    An Episode in the Life of the Artist Opus 14, usually referred to by its subtitle Symphonie fantastique is a symphony written by French composer Hector Berlioz in 1830....


Recordings made with London Philharmonic for Decca:

  • 1947 Albert Roussel
    Albert Roussel

    File:Roussel.gifAlbert Charles Paul Marie Roussel was a France composer. Although Roussel spent seven years as a midshipman, only turning to music as an adult, he became one of the most prominent French composers of the inter-war period....
    : The Spider's Banquet
  • 1947 Albert Roussel: Suite in F Op. 33
  • 1947? Georges Bizet
    Georges Bizet

    Georges Bizet was a France composer and pianist of the Romantic music era. He is best known for the opera Carmen....
    : Symphony in C
    Symphony in C (Bizet)

    The Symphony in C is a symphony by the French composer Georges Bizet. According to Grove's Dictionary, "In quality and craftsmanship it has few rivals and perhaps no superior among the work of composers of such tender years"....
  • 1947? Georges Bizet: Jolie Fille de Perth - Dance bohèmienne


Broadcast of the NBC Symphony released by Memories, same as Muisc & Arts set:

  • 1954 Claude Debussy
    Claude Debussy

    Achille-Claude Debussy was a French composer. Along with Maurice Ravel, he is considered one of the most prominent figures working within the field of Impressionist music, though he himself intensely disliked the term when applied to his compositions....
    : Iberia
  • 1954 Maurice Ravel
    Maurice Ravel

    Joseph-Maurice Ravel was a French composer and pianist of Impressionist music known especially for the subtlety, richness, and poignancy of his melodies, orchestral and instrumental Texture and effects....
    : Le Tombeau de Couperin
  • 1954 Albert Roussel
    Albert Roussel

    File:Roussel.gifAlbert Charles Paul Marie Roussel was a France composer. Although Roussel spent seven years as a midshipman, only turning to music as an adult, he became one of the most prominent French composers of the inter-war period....
    : Bacchus et Adriane, Suite No. 2


Broadcast of the NBC Symphony released by Music & Arts, same as Memories set:

  • 1954 Claude Debussy
    Claude Debussy

    Achille-Claude Debussy was a French composer. Along with Maurice Ravel, he is considered one of the most prominent figures working within the field of Impressionist music, though he himself intensely disliked the term when applied to his compositions....
    : Iberia
  • 1954 Maurice Ravel
    Maurice Ravel

    Joseph-Maurice Ravel was a French composer and pianist of Impressionist music known especially for the subtlety, richness, and poignancy of his melodies, orchestral and instrumental Texture and effects....
    : Le Tombeau de Couperin
  • 1954 Albert Roussel
    Albert Roussel

    File:Roussel.gifAlbert Charles Paul Marie Roussel was a France composer. Although Roussel spent seven years as a midshipman, only turning to music as an adult, he became one of the most prominent French composers of the inter-war period....
    : Bacchus et Adriane, Suite No. 2


Recordings made with the New Philharmonia Orchestra
New Philharmonia Orchestra

New Philharmonia Orchestra may refer to:*The 1964-1977 incarnation of the Philharmonia Orchestra, a London-based professional orchestra*New Philharmonia Orchestra of Massachusetts, a non-professional orchestra based in Newton, Massachusetts...
 for Decca:

  • 1966 Jacques Offenbach
    Jacques Offenbach

    File:Offencolor.jpgJacques Offenbach was a Germany-born France composer and cello of the Romantic music era and one of the originators of the operetta form....
     arranged by Manuel Rosenthal: Gaite parisienne
  • 1966 Georges Bizet
    Georges Bizet

    Georges Bizet was a France composer and pianist of the Romantic music era. He is best known for the opera Carmen....
    : L'Aresienne Suite
  • 1966 Georges Bizet: Carmen Suite
  • 1967 Ottorino Respighi
    Ottorino Respighi

    Ottorino Respighi was an Italian composer, musicologist and Conducting. He is best known for his orchestral Roman trilogy: Fontane di Roma - "Fountains of Rome"; Pini di Roma - "Pines of Rome"; and Feste Romane - "Roman Festivals"....
    : Fontane di Roma
  • 1967 Ottorino Respighi: Pini di Roma


Recordings made with the New York Philharmonic
New York Philharmonic

The New York Philharmonic is the oldest active symphony orchestra in the United States, organized during 1842. Based in New York City, the Philharmonic performs most of its concerts at Avery Fisher Hall....
 for Columbia Records:

  • 1947 Camille Saint-Saëns
    Camille Saint-Saëns

    Charles-Camille Saint-Sa?ns was a French composer, organist, Conductor , and pianist, known especially for The Carnival of the Animals, Danse Macabre , Samson and Delilah , Havanaise , Introduction and Rondo capriccioso , and his Symphony No....
    : Symphony No. 3
    Symphony No. 3 (Saint-Saëns)

    The Symphony No. 3 in C minor, Opus number 78, was completed by Camille Saint-Sa?ns in 1886 at what was probably the artistic zenith of his career....
    . Soloist: E. Niels-Berger
  • 1948 Vincent d'Indy
    Vincent d'Indy

    Paul Marie Th?odore Vincent d'Indy was a French composer and teacher....
    : Symphonie sur un chant montagnard français
    Symphonie sur un chant montagnard français

    The Symphonie sur un chant montagnard fran?ais , opus number 25, written in 1886 in music by Vincent d'Indy, is virtually the only work by the composer which still receives regular performances today....
     Pianist: Robert Cassadesus
  • 1948 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Mozart showed prodigious ability from his earliest childhood in Salzburg. Already competent on keyboard and violin, he composed from the age of five and performed before European royalty; at seventeen he was engaged as a court musician in Salzburg, but grew restless and traveled in search of a better position, always...
    : Piano Concerto No. 23 in C Major, KV 467 Pianist: Robert Cassadesus


Broadcast of the New York Philharmonic issued by LYS:

  • 1948 Emmanuel Chabrier
    Emmanuel Chabrier

    Emmanuel Chabrier was a French Romantic music composer....
    : Bouree Fantastique
  • 1948 Vincent d'Indy
    Vincent d'Indy

    Paul Marie Th?odore Vincent d'Indy was a French composer and teacher....
    : Symphonie sur un chant montagnard français
    Symphonie sur un chant montagnard français

    The Symphonie sur un chant montagnard fran?ais , opus number 25, written in 1886 in music by Vincent d'Indy, is virtually the only work by the composer which still receives regular performances today....
     Pianist: Robert Cassadesus
  • 1948 Franz Liszt
    Franz Liszt

    Franz Liszt was a Kingdom of Hungary composer, virtuoso pianist and teacher.Liszt became renowned throughout Europe for his great skill as a performer during the 19th century....
    : Piano Concerto No. 2 Pianist: Robert Cassadesus
  • 1948 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Mozart showed prodigious ability from his earliest childhood in Salzburg. Already competent on keyboard and violin, he composed from the age of five and performed before European royalty; at seventeen he was engaged as a court musician in Salzburg, but grew restless and traveled in search of a better position, always...
    : Symphony No. 35 in D Major Haffner


Broadcasts of the New York Philharmonic released by Music & Arts:

  • 1949 Ernest Chausson
    Ernest Chausson

    Am?d?e-Ernest Chausson was a France Romantic music composer who died just as his career was beginning to flourish....
    : Poeme Violinist: Ginette Neveu
    Ginette Neveu

    Ginette Neveu was a France violinist.Born in Paris into a musical family, Ginette Neveu became a violinist and her brother Jean-Paul Neveu a classical pianist....
  • 1949 Maurice Ravel
    Maurice Ravel

    Joseph-Maurice Ravel was a French composer and pianist of Impressionist music known especially for the subtlety, richness, and poignancy of his melodies, orchestral and instrumental Texture and effects....
    : Daphnis & Chloe, Suite No. 2
  • 1949 Maurice Ravel: Tzigane Violinist: Ginette Neveu
    Ginette Neveu

    Ginette Neveu was a France violinist.Born in Paris into a musical family, Ginette Neveu became a violinist and her brother Jean-Paul Neveu a classical pianist....


Recordings made with the Orchestre de l'Association des Concerts Lamoreaux
Lamoureux Orchestra

The Orchestre Lamoureux is an orchestral concert society which once gave weekly concerts by its own orchestra, founded in Paris by Charles Lamoureux in 1881....
 for Erato
Erato Records

Erato Records is a record label founded in 1953 in music to promote France classical music. In 1992 in music it became part of Warner Bros. Records....
:

  • 1965 Henri Dutilleux
    Henri Dutilleux

    Henri Dutilleux is one of the most important French composers of the second half of the 20th century, producing work in the tradition of Maurice Ravel, Claude Debussy, and Albert Roussel, but in a style distinctly his own....
    : Symphony No. 2,     Le double
  • 1965 Édouard Lalo
    Édouard Lalo

    ?douard-Victoire-Antoine Lalo was a France composer of Spanish descent....
    : Cello Concerto in D Minor Cellist: André Navarra
    André Navarra

    Andr?-Nicolas Navarra was a France cellist and cello teacher....
  • 1965 Albert Roussel
    Albert Roussel

    File:Roussel.gifAlbert Charles Paul Marie Roussel was a France composer. Although Roussel spent seven years as a midshipman, only turning to music as an adult, he became one of the most prominent French composers of the inter-war period....
    : Suite in F Major, Op. 33
  • 1965 Albert Roussel: Symphony No. 3 in G Minor, Op. 42
  • 1965 Albert Roussel: Symphony No. 4 in A Major, Op. 53
  • 1965 Camille Saint-Saëns
    Camille Saint-Saëns

    Charles-Camille Saint-Sa?ns was a French composer, organist, Conductor , and pianist, known especially for The Carnival of the Animals, Danse Macabre , Samson and Delilah , Havanaise , Introduction and Rondo capriccioso , and his Symphony No....
    : Cello Concerto No. 1 in A Minor, Op. 33 Cellist: André Navarra
    André Navarra

    Andr?-Nicolas Navarra was a France cellist and cello teacher....


Recordings made with the Orchestre de Paris
Orchestre de Paris

The Orchestre de Paris is a France orchestra founded in 1967, based in Paris, whose current music director is Christoph Eschenbach. Most concerts are currently held at the Salle Pleyel....
 for EMI/Angel:

  • 1967 Hector Berlioz
    Hector Berlioz

    Louis Hector Berlioz was a French Romantic music composer and guitarist, best known for his compositions Symphonie fantastique and Requiem . Berlioz made great contributions to the modern orchestra with his Treatise on Instrumentation and by utilizing huge orchestral forces for his works; as a conductor, he performed several c...
    :     Symphonie Fantastique
    Symphonie Fantastique

    An Episode in the Life of the Artist Opus 14, usually referred to by its subtitle Symphonie fantastique is a symphony written by French composer Hector Berlioz in 1830....
  • 1967 Johannes Brahms
    Johannes Brahms

    Johannes Brahms , composer and pianist, was one of the leading musicians of the Romantic music. Born in Hamburg, Brahms spent much of his professional life in Vienna, Austria, where he was a leader of the musical scene....
    : Symphony No. 1 in C Minor, Op. 68
  • 1967 Arthur Honegger
    Arthur Honegger

    Arthur Honegger was a Swiss composer, who was born in France and lived a large part of his life in Paris. He was a member of Les Six. His most frequently performed work is probably the orchestral work Pacific 231, which is interpreted as imitating the sound of a steam engine locomotive....
    : Symphony No. 2
  • 1967 Maurice Ravel
    Maurice Ravel

    Joseph-Maurice Ravel was a French composer and pianist of Impressionist music known especially for the subtlety, richness, and poignancy of his melodies, orchestral and instrumental Texture and effects....
    :     Bolero
  • 1967 Maurice Ravel: Daphnis et Chloé
    Daphnis et Chloé

    Daphnis et Chlo? is a ballet with music by Maurice Ravel. Ravel described it as a "symphonie chor?ographique" . The scenario was adapted by Michel Fokine from an Daphnis and Chloe by the Greece writer Longus thought to date from around the 3rd century AD....
     Suite No. 2
  • 1968 Maurice Ravel: Pavane pour une Infante Defunte
  • 1968 Maurice Ravel: Piano Concerto in G Major Pianist: Nicole Henriot-Schweitzer
  • 1968 Maurice Ravel: Rapsodie Espagnole


Recordings made with the Orchestre national de France for Auvidis-Valois, previously issued on Disques Montaigne*:

  • 1962 Claude Debussy
    Claude Debussy

    Achille-Claude Debussy was a French composer. Along with Maurice Ravel, he is considered one of the most prominent figures working within the field of Impressionist music, though he himself intensely disliked the term when applied to his compositions....
    :     La Mer*
  • 1962 Claude Debussy: Iberia*
  • 1962 Claude Debussy: Fantasy for Piano and Orchestra Pianist: Nicole Henriot-Schweitzer*
  • 1962 Henri Dutilleux
    Henri Dutilleux

    Henri Dutilleux is one of the most important French composers of the second half of the 20th century, producing work in the tradition of Maurice Ravel, Claude Debussy, and Albert Roussel, but in a style distinctly his own....
    : Symphony No. 2    Le Double*
  • 1962 Arthur Honegger
    Arthur Honegger

    Arthur Honegger was a Swiss composer, who was born in France and lived a large part of his life in Paris. He was a member of Les Six. His most frequently performed work is probably the orchestral work Pacific 231, which is interpreted as imitating the sound of a steam engine locomotive....
    : Symphony No. 1*
  • 1962 Arthur Honegger: Le Chant de Nigamon
  • 1962 Arthur Honegger: Pastorale d'ete
  • 1962 Albert Roussel
    Albert Roussel

    File:Roussel.gifAlbert Charles Paul Marie Roussel was a France composer. Although Roussel spent seven years as a midshipman, only turning to music as an adult, he became one of the most prominent French composers of the inter-war period....
    :     Bacchus et Adriane, Suite No. 2*
  • 1963 Ludwig van Beethoven
    Ludwig van Beethoven

    Ludwig van Beethoven was a German composer and pianist. He was a crucial figure in the transitional period between the Classical music era and Romantic music eras in classical music, and remains one of the most acclaimed and influential composers of all time....
    : Symphony No. 7 in A Major, Op. 92
  • 1963 Ludwig van Beethoven: Consecration of the House Overture, Op. 124
  • 1963 Hector Berlioz
    Hector Berlioz

    Louis Hector Berlioz was a French Romantic music composer and guitarist, best known for his compositions Symphonie fantastique and Requiem . Berlioz made great contributions to the modern orchestra with his Treatise on Instrumentation and by utilizing huge orchestral forces for his works; as a conductor, he performed several c...
    :     Symphonie Fantastique
    Symphonie Fantastique

    An Episode in the Life of the Artist Opus 14, usually referred to by its subtitle Symphonie fantastique is a symphony written by French composer Hector Berlioz in 1830....
  • 1964 Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 4 in B-flat Major, Op. 60
  • 1964 Arthur Honegger: Symphony No. 2
  • 1964 Arthur Honegger: Symphony No. 5, Di tre Re
  • 1964 Albert Roussel
    Albert Roussel

    File:Roussel.gifAlbert Charles Paul Marie Roussel was a France composer. Although Roussel spent seven years as a midshipman, only turning to music as an adult, he became one of the most prominent French composers of the inter-war period....
    : Symphony No. 3 in G Minor, Op. 42
  • 1964 Jean Sibelius
    Jean Sibelius

    Johan Julius Christian Sibelius was a Finland composer of the later Romantic music whose music played an important role in the formation of the Finnish national identity....
    :     Legendes, Op. 22
  • 1965 Johannes Brahms
    Johannes Brahms

    Johannes Brahms , composer and pianist, was one of the leading musicians of the Romantic music. Born in Hamburg, Brahms spent much of his professional life in Vienna, Austria, where he was a leader of the musical scene....
    : Symphony No. 2 in D Major, Op. 73
  • 1966 Hector Berlioz
    Hector Berlioz

    Louis Hector Berlioz was a French Romantic music composer and guitarist, best known for his compositions Symphonie fantastique and Requiem . Berlioz made great contributions to the modern orchestra with his Treatise on Instrumentation and by utilizing huge orchestral forces for his works; as a conductor, he performed several c...
    :     Benvenuto Cellini Overture, Op. 23
  • 1966 Gabriel Fauré
    Gabriel Fauré

    Gabriel Urbain Faur? was a French composer, organist, pianist, and teacher. He was the foremost French composer of his generation, and his musical style influenced many 20th century composers....
    :     Pelleas et Melisande Suite Op. 80
  • 1966 Albert Roussel: Symphony No. 4 in A Major, Op. 53
  • 1966 Albert Roussel: Bacchus et Adriane, Suite No. 2
  • 1966 Robert Schumann
    Robert Schumann

    Robert Schumann, sometimes given as Robert Alexander Schumann, was a German composer, aesthete and influential music critic. He is one of the most famous Romantic music composers of the 19th century....
    : Symphony No. 4 in D Major, Op. 120
  • 1967 Hector Berlioz: Le corsaire Overture, Op. 21
  • 1967 César Franck
    César Franck

    C?sar Franck , a Belgian composer, organist and music teacher who lived in France, was one of the great figures in Romantic music in the second half of the 19th century....
    : Symphony in D Minor


Broadcast made with the Orchestre national de France for Cascavelle:

  • 1953 Hector Berlioz
    Hector Berlioz

    Louis Hector Berlioz was a French Romantic music composer and guitarist, best known for his compositions Symphonie fantastique and Requiem . Berlioz made great contributions to the modern orchestra with his Treatise on Instrumentation and by utilizing huge orchestral forces for his works; as a conductor, he performed several c...
    :     Romeo et Juliet Op. 17., Soloists: Irma Kolassi, Joseph Peyron, Lucien Lovano with National Orchestra Chorus of Radio France


Broadcasts of the Orchestre national de France for Euromuses:

  • 1958 Florent Schmitt
    Florent Schmitt

    Florent Schmitt was a France composer. He entered the Conservatoire de Paris in 1889, studying under Albert Lavignac, Theodore Dubois, Jules Massenet, Gustave Sandre, and Gabriel Faur?....
    : Symphony No. 2
  • 1962 Claude Debussy
    Claude Debussy

    Achille-Claude Debussy was a French composer. Along with Maurice Ravel, he is considered one of the most prominent figures working within the field of Impressionist music, though he himself intensely disliked the term when applied to his compositions....
    : Fantasy for Piano and Orchestra, Pianist: Nicole Henriot-Schweitzer


Recordings made with the Orchestre national de France for HMV
HMV

His Master's Voice is a famous trademark in the music business, and for many years was the name of a large record label. The name was coined in 1899 as the title of a painting of the dog Nipper listening to a wind-up phonograph....
:

  • 1949 Hector Berlioz
    Hector Berlioz

    Louis Hector Berlioz was a French Romantic music composer and guitarist, best known for his compositions Symphonie fantastique and Requiem . Berlioz made great contributions to the modern orchestra with his Treatise on Instrumentation and by utilizing huge orchestral forces for his works; as a conductor, he performed several c...
    :     Symphonie Fantastique
    Symphonie Fantastique

    An Episode in the Life of the Artist Opus 14, usually referred to by its subtitle Symphonie fantastique is a symphony written by French composer Hector Berlioz in 1830....
  • 1957 Robert Schumann
    Robert Schumann

    Robert Schumann, sometimes given as Robert Alexander Schumann, was a German composer, aesthete and influential music critic. He is one of the most famous Romantic music composers of the 19th century....
    : Piano Concerto, Pianist: Samson François


Recordings made with the Orchestre national de l'O.R.T.F. for Accord:

  • 1961 Henry Barraud
    Henry Barraud

    Henry Barraud was a France composer.He was born in Bordeaux. He was a student of Louis Aubert at the Conservatoire de Paris, but in 1927 failed to graduate, apparently because of his refusal to follow orthodox methods....
    : Symphony No. 3
  • 1961 Albert Roussel
    Albert Roussel

    File:Roussel.gifAlbert Charles Paul Marie Roussel was a France composer. Although Roussel spent seven years as a midshipman, only turning to music as an adult, he became one of the most prominent French composers of the inter-war period....
    :     Bacchus et Adriane, Suite No. 2
  • 1962 Claude Debussy
    Claude Debussy

    Achille-Claude Debussy was a French composer. Along with Maurice Ravel, he is considered one of the most prominent figures working within the field of Impressionist music, though he himself intensely disliked the term when applied to his compositions....
    :     Iberia
  • 1962 Claude Debussy: La Mer
  • 1962 Claude Debussy: Trois Nocturnes


Recordings made with the Orchestre national de l'O.R.T.F. for Erato
Erato Records

Erato Records is a record label founded in 1953 in music to promote France classical music. In 1992 in music it became part of Warner Bros. Records....
:

  • 1967 Henri Dutilleux
    Henri Dutilleux

    Henri Dutilleux is one of the most important French composers of the second half of the 20th century, producing work in the tradition of Maurice Ravel, Claude Debussy, and Albert Roussel, but in a style distinctly his own....
    :     Metaboles
  • 1967 Arthur Honegger
    Arthur Honegger

    Arthur Honegger was a Swiss composer, who was born in France and lived a large part of his life in Paris. He was a member of Les Six. His most frequently performed work is probably the orchestral work Pacific 231, which is interpreted as imitating the sound of a steam engine locomotive....
    : Symphony No. 4     Deliciae Balisienses
  • 196? Albert Roussel
    Albert Roussel

    File:Roussel.gifAlbert Charles Paul Marie Roussel was a France composer. Although Roussel spent seven years as a midshipman, only turning to music as an adult, he became one of the most prominent French composers of the inter-war period....
    :     Suite in F Op. 33


Broadcast made with the Orchestre national de l'O.R.T.F. for Music & Arts:

  • 1951 Camille Saint-Saëns
    Camille Saint-Saëns

    Charles-Camille Saint-Sa?ns was a French composer, organist, Conductor , and pianist, known especially for The Carnival of the Animals, Danse Macabre , Samson and Delilah , Havanaise , Introduction and Rondo capriccioso , and his Symphony No....
    : Violin Concerto No. 3 in B minor, Op. 61, Violinist: Zino Francescatti


Recordings made with the Orchestre national de l'O.R.T.F. for Turnabout(?):

  • 1966 Isaac Albéniz
    Isaac Albéniz

    Isaac Manuel Francisco Alb?niz i Pascual was a Spain Catalonia pianist and composer best known for his piano works based on folk music.=Life=...
    :     Iberia
  • 1966 Claude Debussy
    Claude Debussy

    Achille-Claude Debussy was a French composer. Along with Maurice Ravel, he is considered one of the most prominent figures working within the field of Impressionist music, though he himself intensely disliked the term when applied to his compositions....
    :     Iberia
  • 1966 Claude Debussy: La Mer
  • 1967 Georges Bizet
    Georges Bizet

    Georges Bizet was a France composer and pianist of the Romantic music era. He is best known for the opera Carmen....
    :     Jeux d'Enfants
  • 1967 Georges Bizet: Patrie Overture
  • 1967 Georges Bizet: Symphony in C
    Symphony in C (Bizet)

    The Symphony in C is a symphony by the French composer Georges Bizet. According to Grove's Dictionary, "In quality and craftsmanship it has few rivals and perhaps no superior among the work of composers of such tender years"....
  • 1967 Alexander Borodin
    Alexander Borodin

    Alexander Porfiryevich Borodin was a Russian composer of Georgian people-Russian people parentage who made his living as a notable chemistry. He was a member of the group of composers called The Five , who were dedicated to producing a specifically Russian kind of art music....
    :     In the Steppes of Central Asia
  • 1967 Modest Mussorgsky
    Modest Mussorgsky

    Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky , one of the Russian composers known as the Five, was an innovator of Music of Russia. He strove to achieve a uniquely Russian musical identity, often in deliberate defiance of the established conventions of Western music....
    :     Khovanchina - Introduction and Persian Dance
  • 1967 Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
    Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

    Nikolai Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov , also Nikolay, Nicolai, and Rimsky-Korsakoff, was a Russian composer, and a member of the group of composers known as "The Five." Noted particularly for a predilection for folk and fairy-tale subjects as well as his extraordinary skill in orchestration, his best known orchestral compositions...
    :     Golden Cockerel
  • 1967 Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov: Russian Easter Festival Overture


Broadcast of the Orchestre Philharmonique de la R.T.F. for Euromuses:

  • 1962 Albert Roussel
    Albert Roussel

    File:Roussel.gifAlbert Charles Paul Marie Roussel was a France composer. Although Roussel spent seven years as a midshipman, only turning to music as an adult, he became one of the most prominent French composers of the inter-war period....
    : Suite in F, op. 33


Recordings made with the Orchestre de la Societe des Concerts du Conservatoire
Orchestre de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire

The Orchestre de la Soci?t? des Concerts du Conservatoire was a symphony orchestra established in Paris in 1828. Administered by the philharmonic association of the Conservatoire de Paris, the orchestra occupied the center-stage of France european classical music life throughout the 19th and most of the 20th centuries....
 for Decca:

  • 1946 Hector Berlioz
    Hector Berlioz

    Louis Hector Berlioz was a French Romantic music composer and guitarist, best known for his compositions Symphonie fantastique and Requiem . Berlioz made great contributions to the modern orchestra with his Treatise on Instrumentation and by utilizing huge orchestral forces for his works; as a conductor, he performed several c...
    :     Benvenuto Cellini Overture, Op. 23
  • 1946 Gabriel Fauré
    Gabriel Fauré

    Gabriel Urbain Faur? was a French composer, organist, pianist, and teacher. He was the foremost French composer of his generation, and his musical style influenced many 20th century composers....
    :     Pavane, Op. 50
  • 1946 César Franck
    César Franck

    C?sar Franck , a Belgian composer, organist and music teacher who lived in France, was one of the great figures in Romantic music in the second half of the 19th century....
    : Symphonic Variations with Ellen Joyce
  • 1946 César Franck: Symphony in D Minor
  • 1946 Maurice Ravel
    Maurice Ravel

    Joseph-Maurice Ravel was a French composer and pianist of Impressionist music known especially for the subtlety, richness, and poignancy of his melodies, orchestral and instrumental Texture and effects....
    :     Bolero
  • 1946 Maurice Ravel: Dapnis and Chloe Suites 1 and 2
  • 1946 Albert Roussel
    Albert Roussel

    File:Roussel.gifAlbert Charles Paul Marie Roussel was a France composer. Although Roussel spent seven years as a midshipman, only turning to music as an adult, he became one of the most prominent French composers of the inter-war period....
    :     Petite Suite Op. 39
  • 1946 Albert Roussel: Suite in F
  • 1946 Camille Saint-Saëns
    Camille Saint-Saëns

    Charles-Camille Saint-Sa?ns was a French composer, organist, Conductor , and pianist, known especially for The Carnival of the Animals, Danse Macabre , Samson and Delilah , Havanaise , Introduction and Rondo capriccioso , and his Symphony No....
    :     Omphale's Spinning Wheel, Op. 31
  • 1947 Ludwig van Beethoven
    Ludwig van Beethoven

    Ludwig van Beethoven was a German composer and pianist. He was a crucial figure in the transitional period between the Classical music era and Romantic music eras in classical music, and remains one of the most acclaimed and influential composers of all time....
    : Symphony No. 8 in F Major,
  • 1947 Claude Debussy
    Claude Debussy

    Achille-Claude Debussy was a French composer. Along with Maurice Ravel, he is considered one of the most prominent figures working within the field of Impressionist music, though he himself intensely disliked the term when applied to his compositions....
    :     Iberia
  • 1947 Claude Debussy: Berecuse Heroique
  • 1947 Vincent d'Indy
    Vincent d'Indy

    Paul Marie Th?odore Vincent d'Indy was a French composer and teacher....
    :     Fervaal Prelude, Op. 40
  • 1947 Gabriel Fauré
    Gabriel Fauré

    Gabriel Urbain Faur? was a French composer, organist, pianist, and teacher. He was the foremost French composer of his generation, and his musical style influenced many 20th century composers....
    :     Pelleas et Melisande Suite, Op. 80
  • 1947 Felix Mendelssohn
    Felix Mendelssohn

    Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, born, and generally known in English-speaking countries, as Felix Mendelssohn was a Germany composer, pianist, organist and conducting of the early Romantic music period....
    : Symphony No. 5, "Reformation
  • 1947 Serge Prokofiev: Symphony No. 1, Op. 25, The Classical
  • 1948 Hector Berlioz: Le corsaire Overture, Op. 21
  • 1948 Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
    Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky – ) was a Russian composer of the Romantic music era. He wrote some of the most popular concert and theatrical music in the current classical repertoire, including the ballets Swan Lake and Nutcracker, the 1812 Overture, his Piano Concerto No....
    : Symphony No. 6 in B Minor, Op.74
  • 1949 Hector Berlioz: Romeo and Juliet excerpts, Op. 9
  • 1949 Hector Berlioz: Les Troyens - Royal Hunt and Storm Music
  • 1949 Maurice Ravel: Piano Concerto, Pianist: Nicole Henriot-Schweitzer


Recordings made with the Orchestre de la Societe des Concerts du Conservatoire for HMV:

  • 1939 Ernst Bloch
    Ernst Bloch

    Ernst Simon Bloch was a Germany Marxism Philosophy.Bloch was influenced by both Hegel and Marx. He was also interested in music and art . He established friendships with Georg Lukacs, Bertolt Brecht, Kurt Weill and Theodor W....
    : Violin Concerto in A minor, Violinst: Joseph Szigeti
    Joseph Szigeti

    Joseph Szigeti was a Hungary virtuoso violinist.Born into a musical family, he spent his early childhood in a small town in Transylvania. He quickly proved himself to be a child prodigy on the violin, and moved to Budapest with his father to study with renowned pedagogue Jeno Hubay....
  • 1939 Maurice Ravel
    Maurice Ravel

    Joseph-Maurice Ravel was a French composer and pianist of Impressionist music known especially for the subtlety, richness, and poignancy of his melodies, orchestral and instrumental Texture and effects....
    : Concerto for the Left Hand, Pianist: Alfred Cortot
  • 1941 Marcel Delannoy: Grand Suite de La Pantoufle de Vair (Grand Suite on the ballet, Cinderela) Violinst: Henri Merkel
  • 1941 Marcel Delannoy: Serenade Concertante for Violin Violinst: Henri Merkel
  • 1941 Gustave Samazeuilh: Nuit
  • 1941 Gustave Samazeuilh: Rapsodia Portugesa Pianist: Magarite Long
  • 1941 Arthur Honegger
    Arthur Honegger

    Arthur Honegger was a Swiss composer, who was born in France and lived a large part of his life in Paris. He was a member of Les Six. His most frequently performed work is probably the orchestral work Pacific 231, which is interpreted as imitating the sound of a steam engine locomotive....
    : La Danse des Morts with Jean-Louis Barrault, Odette Turba-Rabier, Charles Panzera and Elaine Schenneberg with chorus
  • 1941 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Mozart showed prodigious ability from his earliest childhood in Salzburg. Already competent on keyboard and violin, he composed from the age of five and performed before European royalty; at seventeen he was engaged as a court musician in Salzburg, but grew restless and traveled in search of a better position, always...
    : Violin Concerto No. 5, K. 219, Violinst: Jacques Thibaud
  • 1942 Claude Debussy
    Claude Debussy

    Achille-Claude Debussy was a French composer. Along with Maurice Ravel, he is considered one of the most prominent figures working within the field of Impressionist music, though he himself intensely disliked the term when applied to his compositions....
     La Mer
  • 1942 Arthur Honegger: Symphony No. 2
  • 1942 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 20, K. 466, Pianist: Jean Doyen
  • 1942 Maurice Ravel
    Maurice Ravel

    Joseph-Maurice Ravel was a French composer and pianist of Impressionist music known especially for the subtlety, richness, and poignancy of his melodies, orchestral and instrumental Texture and effects....
    : La Valse
  • 1942 Maurice Ravel: Pavane for a Dead Princess
  • 1942 Maurice Ravel: Concerto for the Left Hand, Pianist: Jacques Fevier
  • 1942 Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
    Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky – ) was a Russian composer of the Romantic music era. He wrote some of the most popular concert and theatrical music in the current classical repertoire, including the ballets Swan Lake and Nutcracker, the 1812 Overture, his Piano Concerto No....
    : Piano Concerto No. 1, Pianist: Kostia Kostantinov
  • 1944 Ludwig von Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 5, Op. 73,The Emperor, Pianist: Magarite Long
  • 1946 Louis Aubert
    Louis Aubert

    Louis Fran?ois Marie Aubert was a France composer....
    : Habanera
  • 1946 Frédéric Chopin
    Frédéric Chopin

    Fr?d?ric Chopin was a composer and virtuoso pianist of the Romantic music period. He is widely regarded as the greatest Polish composer, and one of music's greatest tone poets....
     orchestrated by Louis Aubert
    Louis Aubert

    Louis Fran?ois Marie Aubert was a France composer....
    : La Nuit ensorcelee (Enchanted Night)
  • 1946 André Jolivet
    André Jolivet

    Andr? Jolivet was a French composer. Known for his devotion to French culture and musical thought, Jolivet's music draws on his interest in acoustics and atonality as well as both ancient and modern influences in music, particularly on instruments used in ancient times....
    : Les Trois complaintes du soldat vaincu (Three Laments of the Defeated Soldier) Soloist: Pierre Bernac
    Pierre Bernac

    Pierre Bernac was a France baritone.Although coming to music relatively late, he became the most renowned interpreter of the French art song, and was also famous as a teacher....


Recordings made with the Orchestre de la Societe des Concerts du Conservatoire for Oiseau-Lyre

  • 1938 Joseph Haydn
    Joseph Haydn

    Joseph Haydn was an Austrians composer. He was one of the most prominent composers of the classical music era, and is called by some the "Father of the Symphony" and "Father of the String Quartet"....
    : Sinfonia Concertante for Violin, Viola, Cello, Oboe and Basson


Recording made with the Paris Philharmonic for Polydor:

  • 1938 Maurice Ravel
    Maurice Ravel

    Joseph-Maurice Ravel was a French composer and pianist of Impressionist music known especially for the subtlety, richness, and poignancy of his melodies, orchestral and instrumental Texture and effects....
    : Concerto for the Left Hand, Pianist: Jacqueline Blanchard
  • 19?? Charles-Marie Widor
    Charles-Marie Widor

    Charles-Marie Jean Albert Widor was a French organists, composer and teacher....
    : Fantasy for Piano and Orchestra, Pianist: M. Herrenschmidt


Recordings made with the Philadelphia Orchestra
Philadelphia Orchestra

The Philadelphia Orchestra is an orchestra based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in the United States. It is historically considered to be one of the "Big Five " American orchestras....
 for Columbia Records
Columbia Records

Columbia Records is an American record label founded in 1888.Columbia is the oldest surviving brand name in pre-recorded sound, being the first record company to produce pre-recorded records as opposed to blank cylinders....
:

  • 1963 Hector Berlioz
    Hector Berlioz

    Louis Hector Berlioz was a French Romantic music composer and guitarist, best known for his compositions Symphonie fantastique and Requiem . Berlioz made great contributions to the modern orchestra with his Treatise on Instrumentation and by utilizing huge orchestral forces for his works; as a conductor, he performed several c...
    : La Damnation de Faust - Excerpts
  • 1963 Gabriel Fauré
    Gabriel Fauré

    Gabriel Urbain Faur? was a French composer, organist, pianist, and teacher. He was the foremost French composer of his generation, and his musical style influenced many 20th century composers....
    : Pelleas et Melisande Suite, Op. 80
  • 1963 Maurice Ravel
    Maurice Ravel

    Joseph-Maurice Ravel was a French composer and pianist of Impressionist music known especially for the subtlety, richness, and poignancy of his melodies, orchestral and instrumental Texture and effects....
    : Valses nobles et sentimentales


Broadcast of the Philadelphia Orchestra released on the Philadelphia Orchestra's Centennial Set:

  • 1963 Maurice Ravel
    Maurice Ravel

    Joseph-Maurice Ravel was a French composer and pianist of Impressionist music known especially for the subtlety, richness, and poignancy of his melodies, orchestral and instrumental Texture and effects....
    : Daphnis et Chloé Suite No. 2


Broadcast of the RAI
Raï

Ra? is a form of traditional music that originated in Oran, Algeria, and then in Oujda from Bedouin shepherds, mixed with Music of Spain, Music of France, African music and Arabic musical forms, which dates back to the 1930s and has been primarily evolved by women in the culture....
 Symphony Orchestra released by Tahra:

  • 1951 Ludwig van Beethoven
    Ludwig van Beethoven

    Ludwig van Beethoven was a German composer and pianist. He was a crucial figure in the transitional period between the Classical music era and Romantic music eras in classical music, and remains one of the most acclaimed and influential composers of all time....
    : Symphony No. 6
    Symphony No. 6

    Works with the title Symphony No. 6 include:*Malcolm Arnold's Symphony No. 6 *Arnold Bax's Symphony No. 6 *Ludwig van Beethoven's Symphony No....
     Pastorale
  • 1951 Claude Debussy
    Claude Debussy

    Achille-Claude Debussy was a French composer. Along with Maurice Ravel, he is considered one of the most prominent figures working within the field of Impressionist music, though he himself intensely disliked the term when applied to his compositions....
    : La Mer


Recording made with the Rotterdam Philharmonic for Turnabout
Turnabout

Turnabout can refer to:*Turnabout - a BBC television game show*Turnabout - a 1931 novel by Thorne Smith*Turnabout - a 1940 comedy directed by Hal Roach, based on the Thorne Smith novel...
(?)

  • 1962 César Franck
    César Franck

    C?sar Franck , a Belgian composer, organist and music teacher who lived in France, was one of the great figures in Romantic music in the second half of the 19th century....
    : Symphony in D minor
  • 1967 Ludwig van Beethoven
    Ludwig van Beethoven

    Ludwig van Beethoven was a German composer and pianist. He was a crucial figure in the transitional period between the Classical music era and Romantic music eras in classical music, and remains one of the most acclaimed and influential composers of all time....
    : Symphony No. 6
    Symphony No. 6

    Works with the title Symphony No. 6 include:*Malcolm Arnold's Symphony No. 6 *Arnold Bax's Symphony No. 6 *Ludwig van Beethoven's Symphony No....
     Pastorale


Recording made with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra is a British orchestra based in London. It tours widely, and is sometimes referred to as "Britain's national orchestra"....
 for Reader's Digest:

  • 1963 Georges Bizet
    Georges Bizet

    Georges Bizet was a France composer and pianist of the Romantic music era. He is best known for the opera Carmen....
    : Symphony in C
    Symphony in C (Bizet)

    The Symphony in C is a symphony by the French composer Georges Bizet. According to Grove's Dictionary, "In quality and craftsmanship it has few rivals and perhaps no superior among the work of composers of such tender years"....
  • 1963 Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
    Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky – ) was a Russian composer of the Romantic music era. He wrote some of the most popular concert and theatrical music in the current classical repertoire, including the ballets Swan Lake and Nutcracker, the 1812 Overture, his Piano Concerto No....
    : Francesca da Rimini
    Francesca da Rimini (Tchaikovsky)

    Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's symphonic poem Francesca da Rimini: Symphonic Fantasy after Dante, Op. 32 was composed in less than three weeks during his visit to Bayreuth in the autumn of 1876....
    , Op.32


Broadcast of the Symphony of the Air released by Music & Arts:

  • 1957 Claude Debussy
    Claude Debussy

    Achille-Claude Debussy was a French composer. Along with Maurice Ravel, he is considered one of the most prominent figures working within the field of Impressionist music, though he himself intensely disliked the term when applied to his compositions....
    : La Mer


Recordings Lacking Full Information

  • 19?? Marcel Delannoy: Sérénade Concertante for Violin & Orchestra, Violinist: Lola Bobesco, Orchestra:?, Malibran
  • 19?? Marcel Delannoy: Grand Suite de La Pantoufle de Vair Danse de négrillons, Violinist: Lola Bobesco, Orchestra:?, Malibran


Video of Charles Münch on DVD


DVD with the Boston Symphony on NHK

  • 1960 Ludwig van Beethoven
    Ludwig van Beethoven

    Ludwig van Beethoven was a German composer and pianist. He was a crucial figure in the transitional period between the Classical music era and Romantic music eras in classical music, and remains one of the most acclaimed and influential composers of all time....
    : Symphony No. 3
    Symphony No. 3

    Among the pieces of music with the title Symphony No. 3 are:*William Alwyn's Symphony No. 3 *Malcolm Arnold's Symphony No. 3 , op. 63*Henk Badings's Symphony No....
     in E-Flat Major, Op. 55
  • 1960 Maurice Ravel
    Maurice Ravel

    Joseph-Maurice Ravel was a French composer and pianist of Impressionist music known especially for the subtlety, richness, and poignancy of his melodies, orchestral and instrumental Texture and effects....
    : Daphnis et Chloé Suite No. 2


DVDs with the Boston Symphony on VAI

  • 1962 Hector Berlioz
    Hector Berlioz

    Louis Hector Berlioz was a French Romantic music composer and guitarist, best known for his compositions Symphonie fantastique and Requiem . Berlioz made great contributions to the modern orchestra with his Treatise on Instrumentation and by utilizing huge orchestral forces for his works; as a conductor, he performed several c...
    : Symphonie Fantastique
  • 1962 Claude Debussy
    Claude Debussy

    Achille-Claude Debussy was a French composer. Along with Maurice Ravel, he is considered one of the most prominent figures working within the field of Impressionist music, though he himself intensely disliked the term when applied to his compositions....
    : La Mer
  • 1962 Maurice Ravel
    Maurice Ravel

    Joseph-Maurice Ravel was a French composer and pianist of Impressionist music known especially for the subtlety, richness, and poignancy of his melodies, orchestral and instrumental Texture and effects....
    : Daphnis et Chloé Suite No. 2
  • 1966 Hector Berlioz: L'Enfance du Christ with the Harvard Glee Club and Radcliffe Choral Society and Soloists Donald Gramm, Florence Kopleff
    Florence Kopleff

    Florence Kopleff is an American contralto.She was born in New York City.She began her career in 1941 when she was in her senior year of high school....
    , Donald Meanders, John McCollum, and Theodore Uppman


DVD with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra on VAI

  • 1963 Hector Berlioz
    Hector Berlioz

    Louis Hector Berlioz was a French Romantic music composer and guitarist, best known for his compositions Symphonie fantastique and Requiem . Berlioz made great contributions to the modern orchestra with his Treatise on Instrumentation and by utilizing huge orchestral forces for his works; as a conductor, he performed several c...
    : Les Troyens - Royal Hunt and Storm Music
  • 1963 Jean-Phillippe Rameau orchestrated by Vincent D'Indy
    Vincent d'Indy

    Paul Marie Th?odore Vincent d'Indy was a French composer and teacher....
    : Dardanus Suite
  • 1963 Maurice Ravel
    Maurice Ravel

    Joseph-Maurice Ravel was a French composer and pianist of Impressionist music known especially for the subtlety, richness, and poignancy of his melodies, orchestral and instrumental Texture and effects....
    : La Valse
  • 1963 Maurice Ravel: Valses nobles et sentimentales


DVD with the Orchestre National de l'ORTF on EMI

  • 1966 Johannes Brahms
    Johannes Brahms

    Johannes Brahms , composer and pianist, was one of the leading musicians of the Romantic music. Born in Hamburg, Brahms spent much of his professional life in Vienna, Austria, where he was a leader of the musical scene....
    : Symphony No. 1 in C Minor, Op. 68 (Movements II through IV only)
  • 1966 Maurice Ravel
    Maurice Ravel

    Joseph-Maurice Ravel was a French composer and pianist of Impressionist music known especially for the subtlety, richness, and poignancy of his melodies, orchestral and instrumental Texture and effects....
    : Daphnis et Chloé Suite No. 2


DVD with the Orchestre de Radio-Canada on VAI

  • 1963 Hector Berlioz
    Hector Berlioz

    Louis Hector Berlioz was a French Romantic music composer and guitarist, best known for his compositions Symphonie fantastique and Requiem . Berlioz made great contributions to the modern orchestra with his Treatise on Instrumentation and by utilizing huge orchestral forces for his works; as a conductor, he performed several c...
    : Symphonie Fantastique


DVD The Art of Conducting Volume II on EMI

  • 1957 César Franck
    César Franck

    C?sar Franck , a Belgian composer, organist and music teacher who lived in France, was one of the great figures in Romantic music in the second half of the 19th century....
    : Symphony in D Minor - excerpts with the Czech Philharmonic
  • 1962 Hector Berlioz
    Hector Berlioz

    Louis Hector Berlioz was a French Romantic music composer and guitarist, best known for his compositions Symphonie fantastique and Requiem . Berlioz made great contributions to the modern orchestra with his Treatise on Instrumentation and by utilizing huge orchestral forces for his works; as a conductor, he performed several c...
    : Symphonie Fantastique - excerpts with Boston Symphony
  • 1962 Claude Debussy
    Claude Debussy

    Achille-Claude Debussy was a French composer. Along with Maurice Ravel, he is considered one of the most prominent figures working within the field of Impressionist music, though he himself intensely disliked the term when applied to his compositions....
    : La Mer - excerpts with Boston Symphony
  • 1962 Maurice Ravel
    Maurice Ravel

    Joseph-Maurice Ravel was a French composer and pianist of Impressionist music known especially for the subtlety, richness, and poignancy of his melodies, orchestral and instrumental Texture and effects....
    : Daphnis et Chloé Suite No. 2 - excerpts with Boston Symphony
  • 1966 Hector Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique - excerpts with the Hungarian Radio and Television Orchestra