Pierre Monteux in France - The 1952-58 Concert Performances With the ONF [8 CDs]
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Label: Music & Arts CD-1182 | 8 CD set | Released 2006 | Live Recordings 1952-58
EAC rip | Flac, IMG+CUE, Log | 2.11 GB | Full Booklet Scans | WinRar 5% Rec.
Label: Music & Arts CD-1182 | 8 CD set | Released 2006 | Live Recordings 1952-58
From the notes: 'In his later years Monteux came to resent being labeled "a French conductor" and being asked to program mostly French music. (His favorite composer was Brahms, followed by Wagner.) As he told Ross Parmenter of The New York Times, "… Debussy didn't exist when I was educated. Neither did Ravel. I was brought up on Haydn, Mozart, and a little Brahms. I have learned the French since. But I am not a French conductor. I'm just a conductor". Yet his rapport with Debussy was very great. He said that Debussy had little patience for those who performed his music in an overly delicate and perfumed manner Debussy rehected the term "impressionism" as applied to his music, and said, according to Monteux, "When I write forte, I mean forte". In the three Images and Jeux Monteux takes the composer at his word, and achieves great transparency of textures without undue delicacy…'