MONTEUX CONDUCTS RAVEL
CD-4812(1)

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The pre-eminent French conductor of his era, Pierre Monteux enjoyed a lengthy and unusually eventful life. This was the man who worked with Colonne (a close friend of Berlioz), who met Brahms, who made music with Saint-Saens, who collaborated with Debussy, Ravel and Stravinsky and who championed the avant-garde in all phases of his career. The main work on this album, which Ravel subtitled "A Choreographic Symphony," was premiered by Monteux in June 1912 as a Diaghilev Ballet Russe spectacle. We have it here in a magnificent live performance with the Concertgebouw, along with a song cycle by Ravel which Monteux never recorded commercially.

CD-4812(1)     MONTEUX CONDUCTS RAVEL. Daphnis et Chloé (complete ballet), ACO (23 June 1955) & Shéhèrazade, ACO, with Victoria de Los Angeles, soprano (20 Nov. 1963).   UPC #0-17685-48122-2