Pierre Monteux in Boston: A Treasury of Concert Performance 1951-1958 (FLAC)

Composer: Béla Bartók, Claude Achille Debussy, Edward William Elgar, Franz Joseph Haydn, Vincent d’Indy, Felix Mendelssohn, Sergei Prokofiev, Franz Peter Schubert, Robert Schumann, Igor Stravinsky, Karol Szymanowski, Pyotr Il’yich Tchaikovsky, Richard Wagner
Performer: Vera Franceschi, Tossy Spivakovsky, Roman Totenberg
Orchestra: Boston Symphony Orchestra
Conductor: Pierre Monteux
Number of Discs: 8
Format: FLAC (image+cue)
Label: West Hill Radio Archive
Catalogue: WHRA6022
Release: 2008
Size: 1.36 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: cover

CD 01
Mendelssohn: Hebrides Overture, Op. 26
01. The Hebrides, Op. 26, “Fingal’s Cave”

Haydn: Symphony No. 94 in G Major ‘Surprise’
02. I. Adagio cantabile – Vivace assai
03. II. Andante
04. III. Menuetto – Trio – Allegretto molto
05. IV. Finale: Allegro di molto

Schubert: Symphony No. 9 in C major, D944 ‘The Great’
06. I. Andante – Allegro ma non troppo
07. II. Andante con moto
08. III. Scherzo: Allegro vivace
09. IV. Finale: Allegro vivace

CD 02
Schumann: Symphony No. 3 in E flat major, Op. 97 ‘Rhenish’
01. I. Lebhaft
02. II. Scherzo: Sehr massig
03. III. Nicht schnell
04. IV. Feierlich
05. V. Lebhaft

Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5 in E minor, Op. 64
06. I. Andante – Allegro con anima
07. II. Andante cantabile con alcuna licenza
08. III. Valse: Allegro moderato
09. IV. Finale: Andante maestoso – Allegro vivace

CD 03
01. Elgar: Enigma Variations, Op. 36

Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring
Part I: Adoration of the Earth:
02. Introduction
03. Dances of the Young Girls
04. Ritual of Abduction
05. Spring Rounds
06. Ritual of the River Tribes
07. Procession of the Sage
08. The Sage
09. Dance of the Earth

Part II: The Sacrifice:
10. Introduction
11. Mystic Circles of the Young Girls
12. Glorification of the Chosen One
13. Evocation of the Ancestors
14. Ritual Action of the Ancestors
15. Sacrificial Dance

Stravinsky: Petrushka
16. Tableau 1: Russian Dance
17. Tableau 2: Petrushka’s Room
18. Tableau 1: The Shrovetide Fair
19. Tableau 4: Wet Nurses’ Dance
20. Tableau 4: Peasant and Bear
21. Tableau 4: Dance of the Gipsy Girls
22. Tableau 4: Dance of the Coachmen and the Groom
23. Tableau 4: The Mummers

CD 04
01. Tchaikovsky: Hamlet, Op. 67

Tchaikovsky: Suite No. 4 in G major, Op.61 ‘Mozartiana’
02. IV. Theme and Variations

Tchaikovsky: Concert Fantasy, Op. 56
03. I. Quasi Rondo: Andante mosso
04. II. Contrastes: Andante cantabile – Tempo giusto

Prokofiev: Symphony No. 1 in D major, Op. 25 ‘Classical’
05. I. Allegro
06. II. Larghetto
07. III. Gavotte: Non troppo allegro
08. IV. Molto vivace

CD 05
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6 in B minor, Op. 74 ‘Pathétique’
01. I. Adagio – Allegro non troppo
02. II. Allegro con grazia
03. III. Allegro molto vivace
04. IV. Finale: Adagio lamentoso

05. Indy: Istar – Symphonic Variations, Op. 42

CD 06
Bartók: Violin Concerto No. 2, Sz 112
01. I. Allegro non troppo
02. II. Andante tranquillo
03. III. Allegro molto

Szymanowski: Violin Concerto No. 1, Op. 35
04. I. Vivace assai
05. II. Tempo comodo – Andantino
06. III. Vivace – Tempo I

CD 07
Wagner: Parsifal
01. Act I: Prelude

Debussy: Le Martyre de Saint Sébastien – Fragments symphoniques
02. Act I: La cour de lys
03. Act I: Danse extatique et Final

Wagner: Götterdämmerung
04. Act I: Dawn and Siegfried’s Rhine Journey
05. Act III: Siegfried’s Funeral March

Debussy: Images for orchestra, L. 122
06. No. 1. Gigues

07. Debussy: Jeux – Poème dansé

CD 08
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4 in F minor, Op. 36
01. I. Andante sostenuto – Moderato con anima
02. II. Andantino in modo di canzone
03. III. Scherzo: Pizzicato ostinato – Allegro
04. IV. Allegro con fuoco

Petrushka
05. Tableau 1: The Shrovetide Fair
06. Tableau 1: The Magic Trick
07. Tableau 1: Russian Dance
08. Tableau 2: Petrushka’s Room
09. Tableau 3: The Moor’s Room
10. Tableau 3: Dance of the Ballerina
11. Tableau 3: Waltz
12. Tableau 4: The Shrovetide Fair
13. Tableau 4: Wet Nurses’ Dance
14. Tableau 4: Peasant and Bear
15. Tableau 4: Dance of the Gipsy Girls
16. Tableau 4: Dance of the Coachmen and Ostlers
17. Tableau 4: The Mummers

A collection of outstanding Monteux public performances from Boston presented in high fidelity sound; includes several works not available on Monteux’s studio recordings, such as violin concertos by Bartók and Symanovski, Schumann’s “Rhenish” Symphony, Tchaikovsky’s Concert Fantasy for Piano and Orchestra and Hamlet, and Prokofiev’s Classical Symphony.