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The Pierre Monteux entry in EMI’s Great Conductors of the 20th Century series is hardly an overview of the conductor’s incredibly long career; rather it’s
Pierre Monteux is commonly associated with Ravel and Stravinsky, and he won his initial acclaim by conducting the premieres of some of their seminal compositions.
Pierre Monteux’s Stravinsky recordings never will be remembered for their rhythmic precision, but it’s hard to fault their unerring sense of style and character. Petrushka
Zubin Mehta’s Ravel receives some predictably fine playing from the Los Angeles Philharmonic. Boléro really lets the individual members of the orchestra show off, and
Listeners familiar with Leopold Stokowski’s work will know to expect a highly idiosyncratic rendition of Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 4. He doesn’t disappoint, as this performance
Your chief motivation for purchasing this reissue will most likely be the chance to get Pierre Monteux’s 1964 complete Mother Goose. It’s still an extremely
The Schumann Concerto stems from a 1943 New York Philharmonic broadcast, and it preserves Artur Schnabel’s artistry in a major work he otherwise did not
Those who claim that Yehudi Menuhin’s violin playing reached its technical apogee during his teens will get no argument from these quarters. His Bach recordings
While the CD booklet for this release offers a detailed appreciation of Pierre Monteux’s long and historically important career, it’s unfortunate that these broadcast performances
The teenaged Yehudi Menuhin’s Bach concerto recordings were first transferred to CD by EMI in the late 1980s and have also surfaced on numerous independent
