Sony Classical presents a new reissue of all the recordings that Charles Munch, one of the most dynamic and charismatic conductors of the 20th century, made for RCA Victor while in Boston conducting the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Munch turned the BSO into arguably the greatest French orchestra in the world while preserving its sovereignty in the American, Austro-German, central European and Russian repertoires. An 86-CD box set, The Complete Album Collection marks the first time that this cornerstone of the classical catalogue has been available in a single box with 16 works new to CD and 29 works newly remastered from the original analogue tapes. The new set also contain Munch s 1963 French-music compilation with the Philadelphia Orchestra for American Columbia.
Charles Munch was born in Strasbourg in 1891, during the brief period when Alsace-Lorraine was part of the German Empire. He himself straddled the two cultures: trained as a violinist at the conservatories of Strasbourg and Paris, he was conscripted into the German army in World War I. After the war he taught at the conservatory and played in the orchestra of Strasbourg (by then French again) from 1920 until he was appointed concertmaster of the illustrious Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra in 1926 under Wilhelm Furtwängler and Bruno Walter. After making his own podium début in Paris in 1932, Munch settled there and established his reputation as one of the leading French conductors of the day, championing the music of Berlioz as well as of such contemporaries as Honegger, Roussel and Poulenc. Following World War II during which he strongly supported the French resistance (he was awarded the Légion d Honneur in 1945) his international career took off. In 1946 he made his début with several US orchestras, including the Boston Symphony. Three years later, aged 58, he was appointed by that patrician ensemble to succeed Serge Koussevitzky as music director.
CD 1: Saint-Saëns - Symphony No.3 in C Minor, op.78 “Organ” (1947) [new to CD]
CD 2: Beethoven - Symphony No.7, op.92; Schubert - Symphony No.2 in B flat Major, D125 (1949) [new to CD]; Beethoven - Gratulations-Menuett in E flat, WoO 3 [new to CD]
CD 3: D’Indy - Symphonie sur un chant montagnard francais, op.25 (1948) [new to CD]; Franck - Variations
symphoniques, FWV46 [new to CD]; Mozart - Piano Concerto No.21 in C major, K467 [new to CD]
CD 4: Brahms - Symphony No.4 in E Minor, op.98 (1950) [new to CD]; Haydn - Symphony No.104 in D major, “London”
CD 5: Bruch - Violin Concerto No.1 in G Minor, op.26; Schumann - Symphony No.1 in B flat major, op.38 “Spring” (1951) [new to CD]
CD 6: Beethoven - Symphony No.1 in C major, op.21; Haydn - Symphony No.103 in E flat major, “Drum Roll”
CD 7: Ravel - Rapsodie espagnole (1950) [new to CD]; Ravel - La Valse (1950) [new to CD]; Saint-Saëns - La
Princesse jaune, op.30: Overture; Berlioz - Béatrice et Bénédict: Overture; Lalo - Le Roi d’Ys: Overture
CD 8: Handel - Water Music Suite; Mozart - Le nozze di Figaro: Overture; Schumann - Genoveva: Overture, op.81
CD 9: Brahms: Piano Concerto No.2 in B flat major, op.83
CD 10/11: Berlioz - Roméo et Juliette, op.17
CD 12: Honegger - Symphonie no.5 “di tre re”; Roussel - Bacchus et Ariane: Ballet Suite No.2; Ravel - Pavane
pour une infante défunte (1952)
CD 13: R Strauss - Don Quixote, op.35
CD 14: Tchaikovsky - Violin Concerto, op.35 (1953)
CD 15/16: Berlioz: La Damnation de Faust, Op. 24
CD 17: Chopin - Piano Concerto No.2 in F minor, op.21; Saint-Saëns - Piano Concerto No.4, op.44
CD 18: Menotti - Violin Concerto in A minor; Honegger - Symphonie no.2 pour cordes et trompette ad libitum
CD 19: Ravel - Daphnis et Chloé (1955)
CD 20: Berlioz - Symphonie fantastique, op.14 (1954)
CD 21: Debussy - La Damoiselle élue; Berlioz - Les Nuits d’été, op.7
CD 22: Beethoven - Symphony No.5 in C minor, op.67; Schubert - Symphony No.8 in B minor, D759 “Unfinished”
CD 23: Chausson - Poème, op.25; Saint-Saëns - Introduction et Rondo capriccioso, op.28; Berlioz - Grande Fête
chez les Capulets (Great festivities at the Capulet's palace); Nuit sereine; Love Scene
CD 24: Tchaikovsky - Symphony No.4 in F minor, op.36
CD 25: Brahms - Symphony No.2 in D major, op.73; Brahms - Tragic Overture
CD 26: Beethoven - Leonore Overture No.2, op.72a; Leonore Overture No.3, op.72a; Leonore Overture No.1, op.138; Fidelio Overture, op.72; Coriolan Overture
CD 27: Debussy - Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune (1956); Ravel - Rapsodie espagnole (1956); Boléro (1956); La Valse (1955)
CD 28: Beethoven - Symphony No.6 in F major, op.68 “Pastoral”
CD 29: Debussy - Le Martyre de Saint-Sébastien
CD 30: Beethoven - Violin Concerto in D major, op.61
CD 31: Tchaikovsky - Romeo and Juliet, Fantasy Overture [new to CD]; Francesca da Rimini, Fantasy after Dante, op.32
CD 32: Mozart - Clarinet Concerto in A major, K622; Clarinet Quintet in A major, K581
CD 33: Piston - Symphony No.6; Martinů - Fantaisies symphoniques (Symphony No.6)
CD 34: Brahms - Symphony No.1 in C minor, op.68
CD 35: Tchaikovsky - Serenade for Strings in C major, op.48; Barber - Adagio for Strings, op.11; Elgar - Introduction & Allegro, op.47
CD 36: Prokofiev - Romeo and Juliet, op.64 (excerpts)
CD 37: Walton - Cello Concerto; Bloch - Schelomo [new to CD]
CD 38: Debussy - La Mer; Ibert - Escales (Ports of Call)
CD 39: Franck - Symphony in D Minor
CD 40: Wagner - Tannhäuser: Overture and Bacchanale; Die Walküre: Magic Fire Music; Götterdämmerung: Siegfried’s Rhine Journey
CD 41/42: Berlioz - L’Enfance du Christ, op.25
CD 43: Prokofiev - Piano Concerto No.2 in G minor, op.16; Barber - Medea’s Meditation & Dance of Vengeance,
op.23a
CD 44: Mendelssohn - Symphony No.4 in A major, op.90 “Italian”; Symphony No.5 in D minor, op.107 “Reformation”
CD 45: Berlioz - Harold en Italie, op.16
CD 46: Beethoven - Symphony No.3 in E flat major, op.55 “Eroica”
CD 47: Rachmaninov - Piano Concerto No.3 in D minor, op.30
CD 48: Wagner - Götterdämmerung: Brunhilde’s Immolation; Tristan und Isolde: Prelude & Liebestod
CD 49: Ravel - Piano Concerto in G major; D’Indy - Symphonie sur un chant montagnard francais, op.25 (1958)
CD 50: Brahms - Piano Concerto No.1 in D minor, op.15 (Remastered 2013)
CD 51: Dukas - The Sorcerer's Apprentice; Saint-Saëns - Omphale’s Spinning Wheel; Ravel - Mother Goose Suite
CD 52: Debussy - Images for orchestra
CD 53: Brahms - Symphony No.4 in E minor, op.98 (1958)
CD 54/55: Bach - Brandenburg Concertos Nos. 1-6
CD 56: Beethoven - Symphony No.9 in D minor, op.125 “Choral”
CD 57: Beethoven - Symphony No.8 in F major, op.93
CD 58: Mendelssohn - Violin Concerto in E minor, op.64; Prokofiev - Violin Concerto No.2 in G minor, op.63
(Remastered)
CD 59: Schubert - Symphony No.9 in C major, D944 “The Great”
CD 60: Saint-Saëns - Symphony No.3 in C minor, op.78 “Organ” (1959)
CD 61: Blackwood - Symphony No.1, op.3 [new to CD]; Haieff - Symphony No.2 [new to CD]
CD 62: Tchaikovsky - Violin Concerto in D major, op.35 (1959)
CD 63: Mahler - Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen; Kindertotenlieder
CD 64/65: Berlioz - Requiem, op.5
CD 66: Chopin - Piano Concerto No.1 in E minor, op.11; Mendelssohn - Capriccio brillante, op.22
CD 67: Dvořák - Cello Concerto in B minor, op.104
CD 68: Berlioz - Roman Carnival Overture, op.9; Béatrice et Bénédict Overture; Le Corsaire Overture; Benvenuto Cellini Overture; Chasse royale et orage (Les Troyens)
CD 69: Beethoven - Piano Concerto No.1 in C major, op.15; Piano Sonata No.22 in F major, op.54
CD 70: Schumann - Symphony No.1 in B flat major, op.38 “Spring” (1959); Manfred Overture, op.115
CD 71: Mendelssohn - Symphony No.3 in A minor, op.56 “Scottish”; Octet in E flat, op.20: III. Scherzo (Allegro leggierissimo)
CD 72: Ravel - Daphnis et Chloé (1961)
CD 73: Poulenc - Organ Concerto in G minor, FP93; Stravinsky - Jeu de cartes
CD 74: Tchaikovsky - Romeo and Juliet Fantasy Overture; R Strauss - Till Eulenspiegel’s Merry Pranks, op.28
CD 75: Schubert - Symphony No.2 in B flat major, D125 (1960); Beethoven - Die Geschöpfe des Prometheus, op.43
CD 76: Berlioz - Symphonie fantastique, op.14 (1962)
CD 77: Milhaud - Suite provençale pour orchestre, op.152b; La Création du monde
CD 78: Dvořák - Symphony No.8 in G major, op.88
CD 79/80: Berlioz - Roméo et Juliette, op.17
CD 81: Chausson - Symphony in B flat major, op.20; Franck - Le Chasseur maudit
CD 82: Ravel - Boléro (1962); Pavane pour une infante défunte (1962); La Valse (1962)
CD 83: Debussy - Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune (1962); Nuages & Fêtes (from Trois Nocturnes); Printemps (Symphonic Suite)
CD 84: Tchaikovsky - Symphony No.6 in B minor, op.74 “Pathétique”
CD 85: Mendelssohn - Violin Concerto in E minor, op.64 [new to CD]; Bach - Violin Concerto No.1 in A minor, BWV 1041
CD 86: Ravel - Valses nobles et sentimentales; Fauré - Pelléas et Mélisande; Berlioz - Rakoczy March (La Damnation de Faust)
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