Alsatian conductor Charles Munch was one of the most widely recorded symphonic conductors of the twentieth century. Here is a partial list of his recordings.

See main article: Charles Munch (conductor) for the conductor's biography.

Recordings made with the Amsterdam Concertgebouw Orchestra for Decca

Decca Records

Decca Records began as a British record label established in 1929 by Edward Lewis. Its U.S. label was established in late 1934; however, owing to World War II, the link with the British company was broken for several decades....

 

• 1948 Brahms
  Johannes Brahms
  Johannes Brahms was a German composer and pianist, and one of the leading musicians of the Romantic period. Born in Hamburg, Brahms spent much of his professional life in Vienna, Austria, where he was a leader of the musical scene...
  
  : Violin Concerto in D Minor, Op.77 Violinist: Ossy Renardy
• 1948 Saint-Saëns
  Camille Saint-Saëns
  Charles-Camille Saint-Saëns was a French Late-Romantic composer, organist, conductor, and pianist. He is known especially for The Carnival of the Animals, Danse macabre, Samson and Delilah, Piano Concerto No. 2, Cello Concerto No. 1, Havanaise, Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso, and his Symphony...
  
  : Danse macabre

Recording made with the Bavarian Radio and Television Orchestra for Deutsche Grammophon

Deutsche Grammophon

Deutsche Grammophon is a German classical record label which was the foundation of the future corporation to be known as PolyGram. It is now part of Universal Music Group since its acquisition and absorption of PolyGram in 1999, and it is also UMG's oldest active label...

 

• 1968 Berlioz
  Hector Berlioz
  Hector Berlioz was a French Romantic composer, best known for his compositions Symphonie fantastique and Grande messe des morts . Berlioz made significant contributions to the modern orchestra with his Treatise on Instrumentation. He specified huge orchestral forces for some of his works; as a...
  
  : Requiem
  Requiem
  A Requiem or Requiem Mass, also known as Mass for the dead or Mass of the dead , is a Mass celebrated for the repose of the soul or souls of one or more deceased persons, using a particular form of the Roman Missal...
  
  , Op. 5 with the Bavarian Radio and Television Orchestra Chorus and Soloist: Peter Schreier
  Peter Schreier
  Peter Schreier is a German tenor and conductor.-Early life:Schreier was born in Meissen, Saxony, and spent his first years in the small village of Gauernitz, near Meissen, where his father was a teacher, cantor and organist...
  
  

Broadcasts from Tokyo of the Boston Symphony Orchestra

Boston Symphony Orchestra

The Boston Symphony Orchestra is an orchestra based in Boston, Massachusetts. It is one of the five American orchestras commonly referred to as the "Big Five". Founded in 1881, the BSO plays most of its concerts at Boston's Symphony Hall and in the summer performs at the Tanglewood Music Center...

 released by Altus

• 1960 Samuel Barber
  Samuel Barber
  Samuel Osborne Barber II was an American composer of orchestral, opera, choral, and piano music. His Adagio for Strings is his most popular composition and widely considered a masterpiece of modern classical music...
  
  : Medea Meditation and Dance of Vengeance
• 1960 Ludwig von Beethoven: Symphony No. 5
• 1960 Hector Berlioz
  Hector Berlioz
  Hector Berlioz was a French Romantic composer, best known for his compositions Symphonie fantastique and Grande messe des morts . Berlioz made significant contributions to the modern orchestra with his Treatise on Instrumentation. He specified huge orchestral forces for some of his works; as a...
  
  : Rackoczky March
• 1960 Hector Berlioz
  Hector Berlioz
  Hector Berlioz was a French Romantic composer, best known for his compositions Symphonie fantastique and Grande messe des morts . Berlioz made significant contributions to the modern orchestra with his Treatise on Instrumentation. He specified huge orchestral forces for some of his works; as a...
  
  : Symphonie Fantastique
  Symphonie Fantastique
  Symphonie Fantastique: Épisode de la vie d'un Artiste...en cinq parties , Op. 14, is a program symphony written by the French composer Hector Berlioz in 1830. It is one of the most important and representative pieces of the early Romantic period, and is still very popular with concert audiences...
  
  
• 1960 Easley Blackwood
  Easley Blackwood Jr.
  Easley Blackwood, , is a professor of music, a concert pianist, a composer of music, some using unusual tunings, and the author of books on music theory, including his research into the properties of microtonal tunings and traditional harmony.Blackwood was born in Indianapolis, Indiana...
  
  : Symphony No. 1
• 1960 Claude Debussy
  Claude Debussy
  Claude-Achille Debussy was a French composer. Along with Maurice Ravel, he was one of the most prominent figures working within the field of impressionist music, though he himself intensely disliked the term when applied to his compositions...
  
  : La Mer
• 1960 Georg F. Handel: Water Music, Andante and Alla Pipehorn
• 1960 Japanese National Anthem: Kimi Ga Yo
• 1960 Felix Mendelssohn
  Felix Mendelssohn
  Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Barthóldy , use the form 'Mendelssohn' and not 'Mendelssohn Bartholdy'. The Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians gives ' Felix Mendelssohn' as the entry, with 'Mendelssohn' used in the body text...
  
  : Octet, Scherzo
• 1960 Walter Piston
  Walter Piston
  Walter Hamor Piston Jr., , was an American composer of classical music, music theorist and professor of music at Harvard University whose students included Leroy Anderson, Leonard Bernstein, and Elliott Carter....
  
  : Symphony No. 6
• 1960 Maurice Ravel
  Maurice Ravel
  Joseph-Maurice Ravel was a French composer known especially for his melodies, orchestral and instrumental textures and effects...
  
  : Daphnis et Chloé
  Daphnis et Chloé
  Daphnis et Chloé is a ballet with music by Maurice Ravel. Ravel described it as a "symphonie choréographique" . The scenario was adapted by Michel Fokine from an eponymous romance by the Greek writer Longus thought to date from around the 2nd century AD...
  
  , Suite No. 2
• 1960 Albert Roussel
  Albert Roussel
  Albert Charles Paul Marie Roussel was a French composer. He spent seven years as a midshipman, turned to music as an adult, and became one of the most prominent French composers of the interwar period...
  
  : Bacchus and Adriane, Suite No. 2
• 1960 Francis Scott Key
  Francis Scott Key
  Francis Scott Key was an American lawyer, author, and amateur poet, from Georgetown, who wrote the lyrics to the United States' national anthem, "The Star-Spangled Banner".-Life:...
  
  : Star Spangled Banner
• 1960 Richard Wagner
  Richard Wagner
  Wilhelm Richard Wagner was a German composer, conductor, theatre director, philosopher, music theorist, poet, essayist and writer primarily known for his operas...
  
  : Die Meistersinger – Act III Excerpts

Broadcasts from Moscow of the Boston Symphony Orchestra

Boston Symphony Orchestra

The Boston Symphony Orchestra is an orchestra based in Boston, Massachusetts. It is one of the five American orchestras commonly referred to as the "Big Five". Founded in 1881, the BSO plays most of its concerts at Boston's Symphony Hall and in the summer performs at the Tanglewood Music Center...

 released by Ars Nova

• 1956 Dukas
  Paul Dukas
  Paul Abraham Dukas was a French composer, critic, scholar and teacher. A studious man, of retiring personality, he was intensely self-critical, and he abandoned and destroyed many of his compositions...
  
  : The Sorcerer's Apprentice
• 1956 Haydn
  Joseph Haydn
  Franz Joseph Haydn , known as Joseph Haydn , was an Austrian composer, one of the most prolific and prominent composers of the Classical period. He is often called the "Father of the Symphony" and "Father of the String Quartet" because of his important contributions to these forms...
  
  : Symphony No. 102 in B-flat Major
• 1956 Ravel
  Maurice Ravel
  Joseph-Maurice Ravel was a French composer known especially for his melodies, orchestral and instrumental textures and effects...
  
  : Daphnis et Chloé
  Daphnis et Chloé
  Daphnis et Chloé is a ballet with music by Maurice Ravel. Ravel described it as a "symphonie choréographique" . The scenario was adapted by Michel Fokine from an eponymous romance by the Greek writer Longus thought to date from around the 2nd century AD...
  
  , Suite No. 2, same as Arte release
• 1956 Richard Strauss
  Richard Strauss
  Richard Georg Strauss was a leading German composer of the late Romantic and early modern eras. He is known for his operas, which include Der Rosenkavalier and Salome; his Lieder, especially his Four Last Songs; and his tone poems and orchestral works, such as Death and Transfiguration, Till...
  
  : Don Juan, Op. 20

Broadcast from Moscow of the Boston Symphony Orchestra released by Arte

• 1956 Beethoven
  Ludwig van Beethoven
  Ludwig van Beethoven was a German composer and pianist. A crucial figure in the transition between the Classical and Romantic eras in Western art music, he remains one of the most famous and influential composers of all time.Born in Bonn, then the capital of the Electorate of Cologne and part of...
  
  : Symphony No. 3
  Symphony No. 3 (Beethoven)
  Ludwig van Beethoven's Symphony No. 3 in E flat major , also known as the Eroica , is a landmark musical work marking the full arrival of the composer's "middle-period," a series of unprecedented large scale works of emotional depth and structural rigor.The symphony is widely regarded as a mature...
  
   in E-Flat Major, Op. 55
• 1956 Ravel
  Maurice Ravel
  Joseph-Maurice Ravel was a French composer known especially for his melodies, orchestral and instrumental textures and effects...
  
  : Daphnis et Chloé
  Daphnis et Chloé
  Daphnis et Chloé is a ballet with music by Maurice Ravel. Ravel described it as a "symphonie choréographique" . The scenario was adapted by Michel Fokine from an eponymous romance by the Greek writer Longus thought to date from around the 2nd century AD...
  
  , Suite No. 2, same as Arts Nova release
• 1956 Schumann
  Robert Schumann
  Robert Schumann, sometimes known as Robert Alexander Schumann, was a German composer, aesthete and influential music critic. He is regarded as one of the greatest and most representative composers of the Romantic era....
  
  : Symphony No. 2 in C Major, Op. 61, Adagio

Broadcasts of the Boston Symphony Orchestra from Symphony Hall Centennial Set released by the Boston Symphony Orchestra

• 1953 Auber
  Daniel Auber
  Daniel François Esprit Auber was a French composer.-Biography:The son of a Paris print-seller, Auber was born in Caen in Normandy. Though his father expected him to continue in the print-selling business, he also allowed his son to learn how to play several musical instruments...
  
  : La Muette de Portici Overture, same as West Hill Radio Archives release
• 1953 Prokofiev
  Sergei Prokofiev
  Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev was a Russian composer, pianist and conductor who mastered numerous musical genres and is regarded as one of the major composers of the 20th century...
  
  : Love for Three Oranges March and Scherzo
• 1958 Roussel
  Albert Roussel
  Albert Charles Paul Marie Roussel was a French composer. He spent seven years as a midshipman, turned to music as an adult, and became one of the most prominent French composers of the interwar period...
  
  : Suite in F Op. 33
• 1959 Fauré
  Gabriel Fauré
  Gabriel Urbain Fauré was a French composer, organist, pianist and teacher. He was one of the foremost French composers of his generation, and his musical style influenced many 20th century composers...
  
  : Pénélope Overture, same as Music & Arts release
• 1959 Franck
  César Franck
  César-Auguste-Jean-Guillaume-Hubert Franck was a composer, pianist, organist, and music teacher who worked in Paris during his adult life....
  
  : Le Chasseur Maudit (The Accursed Hunter)
• 1962 Debussy
  Claude Debussy
  Claude-Achille Debussy was a French composer. Along with Maurice Ravel, he was one of the most prominent figures working within the field of impressionist music, though he himself intensely disliked the term when applied to his compositions...
  
  : La Mer
• 1962 Ravel
  Maurice Ravel
  Joseph-Maurice Ravel was a French composer known especially for his melodies, orchestral and instrumental textures and effects...
  
  : La Valse

Broadcast of the Boston Symphony Orchestra released by Living Stage

• 1958 Honegger
  Arthur Honegger
  Arthur Honegger was a Swiss composer, who was born in France and lived a large part of his life in Paris. He was a member of Les six. His most frequently performed work is probably the orchestral work Pacific 231, which is interpreted as imitating the sound of a steam locomotive.-Biography:Born...
  
  : Symphony No. 3

Broadcasts of the Boston Symphony Orchestra released by Memories

• 1952 Mozart
  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart , baptismal name Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart , was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical era. He composed over 600 works, many acknowledged as pinnacles of symphonic, concertante, chamber, piano, operatic, and choral music...
  
  : Symphony No. 41 in C, K.551, Jupiter, same as West Hill Radio Archives release
• 1954 Mozart: Symphony No. 31 in D major, K.297, Paris
• 1956 Beethoven
  Ludwig van Beethoven
  Ludwig van Beethoven was a German composer and pianist. A crucial figure in the transition between the Classical and Romantic eras in Western art music, he remains one of the most famous and influential composers of all time.Born in Bonn, then the capital of the Electorate of Cologne and part of...
  
  : Piano Concerto No. 3 in c, Op. 37 with Clara Haskil, same West Hill Radio Archives and Music & Arts releases
• 1958 Bruckner
  Anton Bruckner
  Anton Bruckner was an Austrian composer known for his symphonies, masses, and motets. The first are considered emblematic of the final stage of Austro-German Romanticism because of their rich harmonic language, complex polyphony, and considerable length...
  
  : Symphony No. 7
• 195? Brahms
  Johannes Brahms
  Johannes Brahms was a German composer and pianist, and one of the leading musicians of the Romantic period. Born in Hamburg, Brahms spent much of his professional life in Vienna, Austria, where he was a leader of the musical scene...
  
  : Violin Concerto in D Minor, Op.77 Violinist: Joseph Szigeti
  Joseph Szigeti
  Joseph Szigeti was a Hungarian violinist.Born into a musical family, he spent his early childhood in a small town in Transylvania. He quickly proved himself to be a child prodigy on the violin, and moved to Budapest with his father to study with the renowned pedagogue Jenő Hubay...
  
  

Broadcast from Prague of the Boston Symphony Orchestra released by Multisonic

• 1956 Brahms
  Johannes Brahms
  Johannes Brahms was a German composer and pianist, and one of the leading musicians of the Romantic period. Born in Hamburg, Brahms spent much of his professional life in Vienna, Austria, where he was a leader of the musical scene...
  
  : Symphony No. 2 in D Major, Op. 73
• 1956 Honegger
  Arthur Honegger
  Arthur Honegger was a Swiss composer, who was born in France and lived a large part of his life in Paris. He was a member of Les six. His most frequently performed work is probably the orchestral work Pacific 231, which is interpreted as imitating the sound of a steam locomotive.-Biography:Born...
  
  : Symphony No. 3

Broadcasts of the Boston Symphony Orchestra released by Music & Arts

• 1956 Beethoven
  Ludwig van Beethoven
  Ludwig van Beethoven was a German composer and pianist. A crucial figure in the transition between the Classical and Romantic eras in Western art music, he remains one of the most famous and influential composers of all time.Born in Bonn, then the capital of the Electorate of Cologne and part of...
  
  : Piano Concerto No. 3 in C minor, Op. 37 with Clara Haskil
  Clara Haskil
  Clara Haskil was a Romanian classical pianist, renowned as an interpreter of the classical and early romantic repertoire....
  
  , same as Memories and West Hill Radio Archives releases
• 1956 Mozart
  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart , baptismal name Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart , was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical era. He composed over 600 works, many acknowledged as pinnacles of symphonic, concertante, chamber, piano, operatic, and choral music...
  
  : Piano Concerto No. 9 in E-flat, K. 271 with Clara Haskil
• 1959 Fauré
  Gabriel Fauré
  Gabriel Urbain Fauré was a French composer, organist, pianist and teacher. He was one of the foremost French composers of his generation, and his musical style influenced many 20th century composers...
  
  : Pelléas et Mélisande Suite, Op. 80
• 1959 Fauré: Pénélope Overture, same as BSO release
• 1959 Franck
  César Franck
  César-Auguste-Jean-Guillaume-Hubert Franck was a composer, pianist, organist, and music teacher who worked in Paris during his adult life....
  
  : Le Chasseur maudit (The Accursed Hunter)
• 1960 Fauré: Ballade for Piano and Orchestra with Nicole Henriot-Schweitzer
• 1961 Franck: Symphonic Variations
  Symphonic Variations (Franck)
  The Symphonic Variations , M. 46, is a work for piano and orchestra, written in 1885 by César Franck. It has been described as "one of Franck's tightest and most finished works", "a superb blending of piano and orchestra", and "a flawless work and as near perfection as a human composer can hope to...
  
  with Vlado Perlemuter
  Vlado Perlemuter
  Vlado Perlemuter was a Lithuanian-born French pianist.-Biography:Vlado Perlemuter was born to a Polish Jewish family, the third of four sons, in Kovno, Russia . At the age of three, he lost the use of his left eye in an accident.His family settled in France in 1907...
  
  
• 1961 Franck: Symphony in D minor
  Symphony in D minor (Franck)
  The Symphony in D minor is the most famous orchestral work and the only symphony written by the 19th-century Belgian composer César Franck. After two years of work, the symphony was completed 22 August 1888. It was premiered at the Paris Conservatory on 17 February 1889 under the direction of ...
  
  
• 1961 Ravel
  Maurice Ravel
  Joseph-Maurice Ravel was a French composer known especially for his melodies, orchestral and instrumental textures and effects...
  
  : Daphnis et Chloé
  Daphnis et Chloé
  Daphnis et Chloé is a ballet with music by Maurice Ravel. Ravel described it as a "symphonie choréographique" . The scenario was adapted by Michel Fokine from an eponymous romance by the Greek writer Longus thought to date from around the 2nd century AD...
  
  , with chorus of Berkshire Festival
• 1962 Debussy
  Claude Debussy
  Claude-Achille Debussy was a French composer. Along with Maurice Ravel, he was one of the most prominent figures working within the field of impressionist music, though he himself intensely disliked the term when applied to his compositions...
  
  : Nocturnes
• 1962 Debussy: Printemps
• 1962 Debussy: La mer
• 1962 Ravel: La valse

Broadcast of the Boston Symphony Orchestra released by Tahra

• 1951 Tchaikovsky
  Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
  Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (Russian: Пётр Ильи́ч Чайко́вский ; often "Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky" in English. His names are also transliterated "Piotr" or "Petr"; "Ilitsch", "Il'ich" or "Illyich"; and "Tschaikowski", "Tschaikowsky", "Chajkovskij"...
  
  : Violin Concerto in D Major, Op.35, (1st movement only) Violinist: Michèle Auclair
  Michèle Auclair
  Michèle Auclair was a French violinist and teacher.Michèle Auclair was born into a family with sense for arts and culture...
  
  

Broadcasts of the Boston Symphony Orchestra released by West Hill Radio Archives

• 1951 Richard Strauss
  Richard Strauss
  Richard Georg Strauss was a leading German composer of the late Romantic and early modern eras. He is known for his operas, which include Der Rosenkavalier and Salome; his Lieder, especially his Four Last Songs; and his tone poems and orchestral works, such as Death and Transfiguration, Till...
  
  : Tod und Verklärung
• 1952 Beethoven
  Ludwig van Beethoven
  Ludwig van Beethoven was a German composer and pianist. A crucial figure in the transition between the Classical and Romantic eras in Western art music, he remains one of the most famous and influential composers of all time.Born in Bonn, then the capital of the Electorate of Cologne and part of...
  
  : Concerto No. 5 in E-flat, Emperor, Pianist: Lelia Gousseau
• 1952 Honegger
  Arthur Honegger
  Arthur Honegger was a Swiss composer, who was born in France and lived a large part of his life in Paris. He was a member of Les six. His most frequently performed work is probably the orchestral work Pacific 231, which is interpreted as imitating the sound of a steam locomotive.-Biography:Born...
  
  : La Danse des Morts, Soloist: Betty Allen
  Betty Allen
  Betty Allen was a renowned American operatic mezzo-soprano who had an active international singing career during the 1950s through the 1970s...
  
  , Mariquita Moll, Arnold Moss and Gérard Souzay
  Gérard Souzay
  Gérard Souzay was a French baritone singer, regarded as one of the very finest interpreters of mélodie in the generation after Charles Panzéra and Pierre Bernac.-Background and education:...
  
   with New England Conservatory Chorus
• 1952 Mendelssohn
  Felix Mendelssohn
  Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Barthóldy , use the form 'Mendelssohn' and not 'Mendelssohn Bartholdy'. The Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians gives ' Felix Mendelssohn' as the entry, with 'Mendelssohn' used in the body text...
  
  ; Symphony No. 4 in A, Italian
• 1952 Mozart
  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart , baptismal name Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart , was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical era. He composed over 600 works, many acknowledged as pinnacles of symphonic, concertante, chamber, piano, operatic, and choral music...
  
  : Symphony No. 41 in C, K. 551. Jupiter, same as Memories release
• 1952 Schubert
  Franz Schubert
  Franz Peter Schubert was an Austrian composer.Although he died at an early age, Schubert was tremendously prolific. He wrote some 600 Lieder, nine symphonies , liturgical music, operas, some incidental music, and a large body of chamber and solo piano music...
  
  : Symphony No. 5 in B-flat
• 1952 Schubert: Symphony No. 8 in B minor, Unfinished
• 1952 Wagner
  Richard Wagner
  Wilhelm Richard Wagner was a German composer, conductor, theatre director, philosopher, music theorist, poet, essayist and writer primarily known for his operas...
  
  : Tristan and Isolde – Prelude & Liebestod
• 1953 Auber
  Daniel Auber
  Daniel François Esprit Auber was a French composer.-Biography:The son of a Paris print-seller, Auber was born in Caen in Normandy. Though his father expected him to continue in the print-selling business, he also allowed his son to learn how to play several musical instruments...
  
  : La Muette de Portici Overture, same as BSO release
• 1953 Beethoven: Symphony No. 2 in D
• 1953 Beethoven: Symphony No. 3 in E-flat, Eroica
• 1953 Brahms
  Johannes Brahms
  Johannes Brahms was a German composer and pianist, and one of the leading musicians of the Romantic period. Born in Hamburg, Brahms spent much of his professional life in Vienna, Austria, where he was a leader of the musical scene...
  
  : Piano Concerto No. 2 in B-flat, Pianist: Claudio Arrau
  Claudio Arrau
  Claudio Arrau León was a Chilean pianist known for his interpretations of a vast repertoire spanning from the baroque to 20th-century composers, especially Beethoven, Schubert, Chopin, Schumann, Liszt, Brahms and Debussy...
  
  
• 1953 Debussy
  Claude Debussy
  Claude-Achille Debussy was a French composer. Along with Maurice Ravel, he was one of the most prominent figures working within the field of impressionist music, though he himself intensely disliked the term when applied to his compositions...
  
  : Ibéria
• 1953 Lalo
  Édouard Lalo
  Édouard-Victoire-Antoine Lalo was a French composer.-Biography:Lalo was born in Lille , in northernmost France. He attended that city's music conservatory in his youth. Then, beginning at age 16, Lalo studied at the Paris Conservatoire under Berlioz's old enemy François Antoine Habeneck...
  
  : Symphonie Espagnole, (Missing Movement III), Violinist: Ruth Posselt
• 1953 Ravel
  Maurice Ravel
  Joseph-Maurice Ravel was a French composer known especially for his melodies, orchestral and instrumental textures and effects...
  
  : Le Tombeau de Couperin
• 1953 Richard Strauss: Divertimento (after Couperin)
• 1953 Wagner: Die Meistersinger – Act III Excerpts
• 1954 Beethoven: Symphony No. 7 in A, Op. 92
• 1954 Beethoven: Violin Concerto in D, Op. 61, Violinist: Zino Francescatti
  Zino Francescatti
  René-Charles "Zino" Francescatti was a French virtuoso violinist.Zino Francescatti was born in Marseilles, to a musical family. Both parents were violinists. His father, who also played the cello, had studied with Camillo Sivori. Zino studied violin from age three and was quickly recognized as a...
  
  
• 1954 Berlioz: Beatrice and Benedict Overture
• 1954 Berlioz: Harold in Italy Violist: Joseph de Pasquale
• 1954 Brahms: Variations on a Theme by Haydn
• 1954 Dvořák
  Antonín Dvorák
  Antonín Leopold Dvořák was a Czech composer of late Romantic music, who employed the idioms of the folk music of Moravia and his native Bohemia. Dvořák’s own style is sometimes called "romantic-classicist synthesis". His works include symphonic, choral and chamber music, concerti, operas and many...
  
  : Symphony No. 9 in E minor, From the New World, Op. 95
• 1954 Ibert
  Jacques Ibert
  Jacques François Antoine Ibert was a French composer. Having studied music from an early age, he studied at the Paris Conservatoire and won its top prize, the Prix de Rome at his first attempt, despite studies interrupted by his service in World War I.Ibert pursued a successful composing career,...
  
  : Flute Concerto, Flutist: Doriot Anthony Dwyer
• 1954 Saint-Saëns
  Camille Saint-Saëns
  Charles-Camille Saint-Saëns was a French Late-Romantic composer, organist, conductor, and pianist. He is known especially for The Carnival of the Animals, Danse macabre, Samson and Delilah, Piano Concerto No. 2, Cello Concerto No. 1, Havanaise, Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso, and his Symphony...
  
  : Symphony No. 3 in C minor "Organ", Organist: E. Power Biggs
  E. Power Biggs
  Edward George Power Biggs , more familiarly known as E. Power Biggs, was a British-born American concert organist and recording artist.-Biography:...
  
  
• 1954 Richard Strauss: Allerseelen, Wiegenlied, Morgen, Ständchen, Soprano: Irmgard Seefried
  Irmgard Seefried
  Irmgard Seefried was a distinguished German soprano who sang opera and lieder.Maria Theresia Irmgard Seefried was born in Köngetried, near Mindelheim, Bavaria, Germany, the daughter of educated Austrian-born parents. She studied at Augsburg University before making her debut in Aachen as the...
  
  
• 1954 Wagner: Eine Faust Overture
• 1955 Beethoven: Violin Concerto in D, Op. 61, Violinist: Jascha Heifetz
  Jascha Heifetz
  Jascha Heifetz was a violinist, born in Vilnius, then Russian Empire, now Lithuania. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest violinists of all time.- Early life :...
  
  
• 1955 Beethoven: Die Weihe des Hauses, Op. 124: Overture
• 1954 Berlioz: Les nuits d'été Soprano: Victoria de los Ángeles
• 1955 Brahms: Symphony No. 2 in D, Op. 73 (9/30/55)
• 1955 Debussy: La damoiselle élue Soprano: Victoria de los Ángeles with Radcliffe Choral Society
  Radcliffe Choral Society
  The Radcliffe Choral Society is a 60-voice all-female choral ensemble at Harvard University. Founded in 1899, it is one of the country's oldest women's chorus and one of its most prominent collegiate choirs. With the all-male Harvard Glee Club and the mixed-voice Harvard-Radcliffe Collegium...
  
  
• 1955 Milhaud
  Darius Milhaud
  Darius Milhaud was a French composer and teacher. He was a member of Les Six—also known as The Group of Six—and one of the most prolific composers of the 20th century. His compositions are influenced by jazz and make use of polytonality...
  
  : Symphony No. 6
• 1955 Ravel: Introduction and Allegro
  Introduction and Allegro (Ravel)
  Introduction and Allegro for Harp, Flute, Clarinet and String Quartet was written by Maurice Ravel in 1905...
  
  for Harp, Flute, Clarinet, and Strings, Harp: Bernard Zighera, Flute: Doriot Anthony Dwyer, and Clarinet: Gino Cioffi
• 1955 Ravel: Rapsodie espagnole
  Rapsodie espagnole
  Rapsodie espagnole is an orchestral rhapsody written by Maurice Ravel. Composed between 1907 and 1908, the Rapsodie represents one of Ravel's first major works for orchestra....
  
  
• 1955 Roussel: Suite in F
• 1955 Schumann
  Robert Schumann
  Robert Schumann, sometimes known as Robert Alexander Schumann, was a German composer, aesthete and influential music critic. He is regarded as one of the greatest and most representative composers of the Romantic era....
  
  : Symphony No. 2 in C
• 1955 Richard Strauss: Don Juan, Op. 20
• 1956 Beethoven: Leonore Overture No. 2, Op. 72
• 1956 Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 3 in C minor, Op. 37, Pianist: Clara Haskil
• 1956 Beethoven: Symphony No. 3 Eroica in E
• 1956 Beethoven: Symphony No. 6 Pastoral in F, Op. 68
• 1956 Brahms: Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 1 in D minor, Op. 15, Pianist: Rudolf Serkin
  Rudolf Serkin
  Rudolf Serkin , was a Bohemian-born pianist.-Life and early career:Serkin was born in Eger, Bohemia, Austro-Hungarian Empire to a Russian-Jewish family....
  
  
• 1956 Brahms: Concerto for Violin, Cello and Orchestra in A minor, Violinist: Zino Francescatti and Cellist: Samuel Mayes
• 1956 Fauré: Requiem, Adele Addison, Donald Gramm, Harvard Glee Club
  Harvard Glee Club
  The Harvard Glee Club is a 60-voice, all-male choral ensemble at Harvard University. Founded in 1858 in the tradition of English and American glee clubs, it is the oldest collegiate chorus in the US. The Glee Club is part of the Holden Choruses of Harvard University, which also include the...
  
   and Radcliffe Choral Society
  Radcliffe Choral Society
  The Radcliffe Choral Society is a 60-voice all-female choral ensemble at Harvard University. Founded in 1899, it is one of the country's oldest women's chorus and one of its most prominent collegiate choirs. With the all-male Harvard Glee Club and the mixed-voice Harvard-Radcliffe Collegium...
  
  
• 1956 Schumann: Symphony No.4 in D minor, Op.120
• 1957 Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 5 Emperor in E flat, Op. 73. Pianist: Claudio Arrau
• 1957 Brahms: Academic Festival Overture, Op. 80
• 1957 Debussy: Images pour orchestre
• 1957 Franck: Symphony in D Minor
• 1957 Schumann: Cello Concerto in A minor, Op. 129, Cellist: Pierre Fournier
  Pierre Fournier
  Pierre Fournier was a French cellist who was called the "aristocrat of cellists," on account of his elegant musicianship and majestic sound....
  
  
• 1957 Richard Strauss: Ein Heldenleben, Violinist: Richard Burgin
• 1958 Berlioz: Le Corsaire Overture
• 1958 Debussy: Jeux
• 1958 Debussy: La Mer
• 1958 d'Indy
  Vincent d'Indy
  Vincent d'Indy was a French composer and teacher.-Life:Paul Marie Théodore Vincent d'Indy was born in Paris into an aristocratic family of royalist and Catholic persuasion. He had piano lessons from an early age from his paternal grandmother, who passed him on to Antoine François Marmontel and...
  
  : Symphonie sur un chant montagnard français (Symphony on a French Mountain Air) Pianist: Nicole Henriot-Schweitzer (the Conductor's niece)
• 1958 Ravel: La Valse
• 1958 Ravel: Piano Concerto in G Major Pianist: Nicole Henriot-Schweitzer
• 1958 Ravel: La valse
• 1955 Ravel: Rapsodie Espagnole
• 1958 Ravel: Valses nobles et sentimentales

Recordings made with the Boston Symphony Orchestra for RCA Records

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• 1949 Beethoven
  Ludwig van Beethoven
  Ludwig van Beethoven was a German composer and pianist. A crucial figure in the transition between the Classical and Romantic eras in Western art music, he remains one of the most famous and influential composers of all time.Born in Bonn, then the capital of the Electorate of Cologne and part of...
  
  : Symphony No. 7 in A Major, Op. 92, same as Tahra release
• 1949 Beethoven: Gratulations Menuet W.o.O.3, same as Tahra release
• 1949 Schubert
  Franz Schubert
  Franz Peter Schubert was an Austrian composer.Although he died at an early age, Schubert was tremendously prolific. He wrote some 600 Lieder, nine symphonies , liturgical music, operas, some incidental music, and a large body of chamber and solo piano music...
  
  : Symphony No. 2 in B-flat Major, D.125
• 1949 Berlioz
  Hector Berlioz
  Hector Berlioz was a French Romantic composer, best known for his compositions Symphonie fantastique and Grande messe des morts . Berlioz made significant contributions to the modern orchestra with his Treatise on Instrumentation. He specified huge orchestral forces for some of his works; as a...
  
  : Beatrice et Benedict Overture
• 1950 Beethoven: Symphony No. 1 in C Major, Op. 15
• 1950 Brahms
  Johannes Brahms
  Johannes Brahms was a German composer and pianist, and one of the leading musicians of the Romantic period. Born in Hamburg, Brahms spent much of his professional life in Vienna, Austria, where he was a leader of the musical scene...
  
  : Symphony No. 4 in E Minor, Op. 98
• 1950 Haydn
  Joseph Haydn
  Franz Joseph Haydn , known as Joseph Haydn , was an Austrian composer, one of the most prolific and prominent composers of the Classical period. He is often called the "Father of the Symphony" and "Father of the String Quartet" because of his important contributions to these forms...
  
  : Symphony No. 103 in E-flat Major, Hob.I-103
• 1950 Haydn: Symphony No. 104 in D Major, Hob.I-104
• 1950 Handel
  George Frideric Handel
  George Frideric Handel was a German-British Baroque composer, famous for his operas, oratorios, anthems and organ concertos. Handel was born in 1685, in a family indifferent to music...
  
   arranged by Sir Hamilton Harty
  Hamilton Harty
  Sir Hamilton Harty was an Irish and British composer, conductor, pianist and organist. In his capacity as a conductor, he was particularly noted as an interpreter of the music of Berlioz and he was much respected as a piano accompanist of exceptional prowess...
  
  : Water Music Suite
• 1950 Ravel
  Maurice Ravel
  Joseph-Maurice Ravel was a French composer known especially for his melodies, orchestral and instrumental textures and effects...
  
  : Rapsodie Espagnole
• 1950 Ravel: La Valse
• 1950 Lalo
  Édouard Lalo
  Édouard-Victoire-Antoine Lalo was a French composer.-Biography:Lalo was born in Lille , in northernmost France. He attended that city's music conservatory in his youth. Then, beginning at age 16, Lalo studied at the Paris Conservatoire under Berlioz's old enemy François Antoine Habeneck...
  
  : Le Roi d'Ys Overture
• 1951 Bruch
  Max Bruch
  Max Christian Friedrich Bruch , also known as Max Karl August Bruch, was a German Romantic composer and conductor who wrote over 200 works, including three violin concertos, the first of which has become a staple of the violin repertoire.-Life:Bruch was born in Cologne, Rhine Province, where he...
  
  : Violin Concerto No. 1 in G Minor, Op.26 Violinist: Yehudi Menuhin
  Yehudi Menuhin
  Yehudi Menuhin, Baron Menuhin, OM, KBE was a Russian Jewish American violinist and conductor who spent most of his performing career in the United Kingdom. He was born to Russian Jewish parents in the United States, but became a citizen of Switzerland in 1970, and of the United Kingdom in 1985...
  
  
• 1951 Mozart
  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart , baptismal name Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart , was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical era. He composed over 600 works, many acknowledged as pinnacles of symphonic, concertante, chamber, piano, operatic, and choral music...
  
  : Le nozze di Figaro Overture
• 1951 Saint-Saëns
  Camille Saint-Saëns
  Charles-Camille Saint-Saëns was a French Late-Romantic composer, organist, conductor, and pianist. He is known especially for The Carnival of the Animals, Danse macabre, Samson and Delilah, Piano Concerto No. 2, Cello Concerto No. 1, Havanaise, Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso, and his Symphony...
  
  : La Princesse Jaune Overture
  La princesse jaune
  La princesse jaune is an opéra comique in one act and five scenes by composer Camille Saint-Saëns to a French libretto by Louis Gallet. The opera premiered at the Opéra-Comique in Paris on 12 June 1872....
  
  
• 1951 Schumann
  Robert Schumann
  Robert Schumann, sometimes known as Robert Alexander Schumann, was a German composer, aesthete and influential music critic. He is regarded as one of the greatest and most representative composers of the Romantic era....
  
  : Symphony No. 1 in B-flat Major, Op. 38, Spring
• 1951 Schumann: Genoveva Overture, Op. 81
• 1952 Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 2 in B-flat, Op. 98 Pianist: Arthur Rubinstein
  Arthur Rubinstein
  Arthur Rubinstein KBE was a Polish-American pianist. He received international acclaim for his performances of the music of a variety of composers...
  
  
• 1952 Honegger
  Arthur Honegger
  Arthur Honegger was a Swiss composer, who was born in France and lived a large part of his life in Paris. He was a member of Les six. His most frequently performed work is probably the orchestral work Pacific 231, which is interpreted as imitating the sound of a steam locomotive.-Biography:Born...
  
  : Symphony No. 5, Di tre Re
• 1952 Ravel: Pavane pour une Infante Defunte
• 1952 Roussel
  Albert Roussel
  Albert Charles Paul Marie Roussel was a French composer. He spent seven years as a midshipman, turned to music as an adult, and became one of the most prominent French composers of the interwar period...
  
  : Bacchus et Ariane, Suite No. 2
• 1953 Berlioz: Romeo and Juliet
  Romeo and Juliet
  Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy written early in the career of playwright William Shakespeare about two young star-crossed lovers whose deaths ultimately unite their feuding families. It was among Shakespeare's most popular archetypal stories of young, teenage lovers.Romeo and Juliet belongs to a...
  
  , Op. 17 with the Harvard Glee Club
  Harvard Glee Club
  The Harvard Glee Club is a 60-voice, all-male choral ensemble at Harvard University. Founded in 1858 in the tradition of English and American glee clubs, it is the oldest collegiate chorus in the US. The Glee Club is part of the Holden Choruses of Harvard University, which also include the...
  
   and Radcliffe Choral Society
  Radcliffe Choral Society
  The Radcliffe Choral Society is a 60-voice all-female choral ensemble at Harvard University. Founded in 1899, it is one of the country's oldest women's chorus and one of its most prominent collegiate choirs. With the all-male Harvard Glee Club and the mixed-voice Harvard-Radcliffe Collegium...
  
   and Soloists: Margaret Roggero, Leslie Chabay, and Yi-Kwei Sze
• 1953 Honegger: Symphony No. 2
• 1953 Richard Strauss
  Richard Strauss
  Richard Georg Strauss was a leading German composer of the late Romantic and early modern eras. He is known for his operas, which include Der Rosenkavalier and Salome; his Lieder, especially his Four Last Songs; and his tone poems and orchestral works, such as Death and Transfiguration, Till...
  
  : Don Quixote, Op. 35 Cellist: Gregor Piatigorsky
  Gregor Piatigorsky
  Gregor Piatigorsky was a Russian-born American cellist.-Early life:...
  
  , Violist: Joseph de Pasquale, and Violinist: Richard Burgin
• 1953 Tchaikovsky
  Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
  Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (Russian: Пётр Ильи́ч Чайко́вский ; often "Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky" in English. His names are also transliterated "Piotr" or "Petr"; "Ilitsch", "Il'ich" or "Illyich"; and "Tschaikowski", "Tschaikowsky", "Chajkovskij"...
  
  : Violin Concerto in D Major, Op.35 Violinist: Nathan Milstein
  Nathan Milstein
  Nathan Mironovich Milstein was a Russian-born American virtuoso violinist.Widely considered one of the finest violinists of the 20th century, Milstein was known for his interpretations of Bach's solo violin works and for works from the Romantic period...
  
  
• 1954 Berlioz: La damnation de Faust
  The Damnation of Faust
  La damnation de Faust , Op. 24 is a work for four solo voices, full seven-part chorus, large children's chorus and orchestra by the French composer Hector Berlioz. He called it a "légende dramatique"...
  
  with the Harvard Glee Club
  Harvard Glee Club
  The Harvard Glee Club is a 60-voice, all-male choral ensemble at Harvard University. Founded in 1858 in the tradition of English and American glee clubs, it is the oldest collegiate chorus in the US. The Glee Club is part of the Holden Choruses of Harvard University, which also include the...
  
   and Radcliffe Choral Society
  Radcliffe Choral Society
  The Radcliffe Choral Society is a 60-voice all-female choral ensemble at Harvard University. Founded in 1899, it is one of the country's oldest women's chorus and one of its most prominent collegiate choirs. With the all-male Harvard Glee Club and the mixed-voice Harvard-Radcliffe Collegium...
  
   and Soloists Suzanne Danco
  Suzanne Danco
  Suzanne Danco , was a celebrated Belgian soprano and mezzo-soprano.-Career:Suzanne Danco was born in Brussels and grew up in a Flemish background although French was her native language...
  
  , David Poleri, Martial Singher
  Martial Singher
  Martial Singher was a French baritone opera singer born in Oloron-Sainte-Marie, Pyrénées-Atlantiques.Initially singing only as a hobby, he was encouraged by then French education minister Édouard Herriot to pursue singing professionally...
  
   and Donald Gramm
  Donald Gramm
  Donald Gramm was an American bass-baritone whose career was divided between opera and concert performances. His appearances were primarily limited to the United States, which at the time was unusual for an American singer...
  
   (added to the National Recording Registry
  National Recording Registry
  The National Recording Registry is a list of sound recordings that "are culturally, historically, or aesthetically important, and/or inform or reflect life in the United States." The registry was established by the National Recording Preservation Act of 2000, which created the National Recording...
  
   for 2005)
• 1954 Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique
  Symphonie Fantastique
  Symphonie Fantastique: Épisode de la vie d'un Artiste...en cinq parties , Op. 14, is a program symphony written by the French composer Hector Berlioz in 1830. It is one of the most important and representative pieces of the early Romantic period, and is still very popular with concert audiences...
  
  
• 1954 Chopin
  Frédéric Chopin
  Frédéric François Chopin was a Polish composer and virtuoso pianist. He is considered one of the great masters of Romantic music and has been called "the poet of the piano"....
  
  : Piano Concerto No. 2 in F Minor, Op. 21 Pianist: Alexander Brailowsky
  Alexander Brailowsky
  Alexander Brailowsky was a Ukrainian French pianist who specialized in the works of Frédéric Chopin. He was a leading concert pianist in the years between the two World Wars.-Early life:...
  
  
• 1954 Menotti
  Gian Carlo Menotti
  Gian Carlo Menotti was an Italian-American composer and librettist. Although he often referred to himself as an American composer, he kept his Italian citizenship. He wrote the classic Christmas opera, Amahl and the Night Visitors, among about two dozen other operas intended to appeal to popular...
  
  : Violin Concerto Violinist: Tossy Spivakovsky
  Tossy Spivakovsky
  Nathan "Tossy" Spivakovsky was a Jewish Russian-born, German-trained violinist, who taught in Australia and later settled in the United States.-Biography:...
  
  
• 1954 Saint-Saëns
  Camille Saint-Saëns
  Charles-Camille Saint-Saëns was a French Late-Romantic composer, organist, conductor, and pianist. He is known especially for The Carnival of the Animals, Danse macabre, Samson and Delilah, Piano Concerto No. 2, Cello Concerto No. 1, Havanaise, Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso, and his Symphony...
  
  : Piano Concerto No. 4 in C Minor, Op. 44 Pianist: Alexander Brailowsky
  Alexander Brailowsky
  Alexander Brailowsky was a Ukrainian French pianist who specialized in the works of Frédéric Chopin. He was a leading concert pianist in the years between the two World Wars.-Early life:...
  
  
• 1955 Beethoven: Violin Concerto
  Violin Concerto (Beethoven)
  Ludwig van Beethoven's Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 61, was written in 1806.The work was premiered on 23 December 1806 in the Theater an der Wien in Vienna. Beethoven wrote the concerto for his colleague Franz Clement, a leading violinist of the day, who had earlier given him helpful advice on...
  
   Violinist: Jascha Heifetz
  Jascha Heifetz
  Jascha Heifetz was a violinist, born in Vilnius, then Russian Empire, now Lithuania. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest violinists of all time.- Early life :...
  
  
• 1955 Beethoven: Symphony No. 5 in C Minor, Op. 67
• 1955 Beethoven: Symphony No. 6 in F major, Op. 68
• 1955 Berlioz
  Hector Berlioz
  Hector Berlioz was a French Romantic composer, best known for his compositions Symphonie fantastique and Grande messe des morts . Berlioz made significant contributions to the modern orchestra with his Treatise on Instrumentation. He specified huge orchestral forces for some of his works; as a...
  
  : Nuits d'été, soprano Victoria de los Ángeles
  Victoria de los Ángeles
  Victoria de los Ángeles was a Spanish Catalan operatic soprano and recitalist whose career began in the early 1940s and reached its height in the years from the mid-1950s to the mid-1960s. Her obituary in The Times noted that she must be counted “among the finest singers of the second half...
  
  
• 1955 Brahms: Symphony No. 2 in D Major, Op. 73
• 1955 Brahms: Tragic Overture, Op. 81
• 1955 Chausson
  Ernest Chausson
  Amédée-Ernest Chausson was a French romantic composer who died just as his career was beginning to flourish.-Life:Ernest Chausson was born in Paris into a prosperous bourgeois family...
  
  : Poème Violinist: David Oistrakh
  David Oistrakh
  David Fyodorovich Oistrakh , , David Fiodorović Ojstrakh, ; – October 24, 1974, was a Soviet violinist....
  
  
• 1955 Debussy
  Claude Debussy
  Claude-Achille Debussy was a French composer. Along with Maurice Ravel, he was one of the most prominent figures working within the field of impressionist music, though he himself intensely disliked the term when applied to his compositions...
  
  : La Damoiselle Élue with the Radcliffe Choral Society
  Radcliffe Choral Society
  The Radcliffe Choral Society is a 60-voice all-female choral ensemble at Harvard University. Founded in 1899, it is one of the country's oldest women's chorus and one of its most prominent collegiate choirs. With the all-male Harvard Glee Club and the mixed-voice Harvard-Radcliffe Collegium...
  
   Soloists Victoria de los Ángeles
  Victoria de los Ángeles
  Victoria de los Ángeles was a Spanish Catalan operatic soprano and recitalist whose career began in the early 1940s and reached its height in the years from the mid-1950s to the mid-1960s. Her obituary in The Times noted that she must be counted “among the finest singers of the second half...
  
   and Carol Smith
• 1955 Ravel: Daphnis et Chloé
  Daphnis et Chloé
  Daphnis et Chloé is a ballet with music by Maurice Ravel. Ravel described it as a "symphonie choréographique" . The scenario was adapted by Michel Fokine from an eponymous romance by the Greek writer Longus thought to date from around the 2nd century AD...
  
  , with the New England Conservatory Chorus
• 1955 Ravel: La valse
• 1955 Saint-Saëns: Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso Violinist: David Oistrakh
  David Oistrakh
  David Fyodorovich Oistrakh , , David Fiodorović Ojstrakh, ; – October 24, 1974, was a Soviet violinist....
  
  
• 1955 Schubert: Symphony No. 8
  Symphony No. 8 (Schubert)
  Franz Schubert's Symphony No. 8 in B minor , commonly known as the "Unfinished Symphony" , D.759, was started in 1822 but left with only two movements known to be complete, even though Schubert would live for another six years. A scherzo, nearly completed in piano score but with only two pages...
  
   in B minor, D 759 The Unfinished
• 1955 Tchaikovsky
  Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
  Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (Russian: Пётр Ильи́ч Чайко́вский ; often "Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky" in English. His names are also transliterated "Piotr" or "Petr"; "Ilitsch", "Il'ich" or "Illyich"; and "Tschaikowski", "Tschaikowsky", "Chajkovskij"...
  
  : Symphony No. 4
  Symphony No. 4 (Tchaikovsky)
  Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 4 in F minor, Op. 36, was written between 1877 and 1878. The symphony's first performance was at a Russian Musical Society concert in Saint Petersburg on February 10 /February 22 1878, with Nikolai Rubinstein as conductor.- Form :The symphony is in four...
  
   in F Minor, Op.36
• 1956 Beethoven: Coriolan Overture, Op. 62
• 1956 Beethoven: Fidelio Overture, Op. 72b
• 1956 Beethoven: Leonore Overture No. 1, Op. 138
• 1956 Beethoven: Leonore Overture No. 2, Op. 72
• 1956 Beethoven: Leonore Overture No. 3, Op. 72a
• 1956 Berlioz: L'Enfance du Christ
  L'enfance du Christ
  L'enfance du Christ , Opus 25, is an oratorio by the French composer Hector Berlioz, based on the Holy Family's flight into Egypt. Berlioz wrote his own words for the piece. Most of it was composed in 1853 and 1854, but it also incorporates an earlier work La fuite en Egypte...
  
  (issued in mono only on RCA Victor Red Seal LP; issued in stereo on RCA Victrola LP and CD), with the New England Conservatory Chorus and soloists Florence Kopleff
  Florence Kopleff
  Florence Kopleff is an American contralto.She was born in New York City.She began her career in 1941 when she was in her senior year of high school. She has been very active as a concert and oratorio singer, appearing and recording with many of the great conductors of her era, particularly as a...
  
  , Giorgio Tozzi
  Giorgio Tozzi
  Giorgio Tozzi was for many years a leading bass with the Metropolitan Opera, as well as playing lead roles in nearly every major opera house worldwide.-Career:Tozzi was born George John Tozzi in Chicago, Illinois...
  
  , Cesare Valletti
  Cesare Valletti
  Cesare Valletti was an Italian operatic tenor, one of the leading tenore di grazia of the postwar era. He was much admired for his polished vocal technique, his musical refinement and elegance, and beauty of tone....
  
   and Gerard Souzay
  Gérard Souzay
  Gérard Souzay was a French baritone singer, regarded as one of the very finest interpreters of mélodie in the generation after Charles Panzéra and Pierre Bernac.-Background and education:...
  
  
• 1956 Brahms: Symphony No. 1 in C Minor, Op. 68
• 1956 Debussy: La Mer
• 1956 Debussy: Le Martyre de Saint Sebastien with the New England Conservatory Chorus Soloists Florence Kopleff
  Florence Kopleff
  Florence Kopleff is an American contralto.She was born in New York City.She began her career in 1941 when she was in her senior year of high school. She has been very active as a concert and oratorio singer, appearing and recording with many of the great conductors of her era, particularly as a...
  
  , Catherine Akos, Phyllis Curtin
  Phyllis Curtin
  Phyllis Curtin is an American classical soprano who had an active career in operas and concerts from the early 1950s through the 1980s. She was known for her creation of new roles such as the title role in the Carlisle Floyd opera Susannah, Catherine Earnshaw in Floyd's Wuthering Heights, and in...
  
  , and Charles Münch
• 1956 Debussy: Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune with Flutist Doriot Anthony Dwyer
  Doriot Anthony Dwyer
  Doriot Anthony Dwyer is an American flautist. She was the first woman to be awarded principal chair for a major U.S. orchestra. She was the principal flute for the Boston Symphony Orchestra from 1952 until 1990. She was second flute for the National Symphony Orchestra and the Los Angeles...
  
  
• 1956 Ibert
  Jacques Ibert
  Jacques François Antoine Ibert was a French composer. Having studied music from an early age, he studied at the Paris Conservatoire and won its top prize, the Prix de Rome at his first attempt, despite studies interrupted by his service in World War I.Ibert pursued a successful composing career,...
  
   Escales
• 1956 Martinů
  Bohuslav Martinu
  Bohuslav Martinů was a prolific Czech composer of modern classical music. He was of Czech and Rumanian ancestry. Martinů wrote six symphonies, 15 operas, 14 ballet scores and a large body of orchestral, chamber, vocal and instrumental works. Martinů became a violinist in the Czech Philharmonic...
  
  : Symphony No. 6 Fantaisies Symphoniques
• 1956 Mozart
  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart , baptismal name Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart , was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical era. He composed over 600 works, many acknowledged as pinnacles of symphonic, concertante, chamber, piano, operatic, and choral music...
  
  : Mozart at Tanglewood: Clarinet Concerto
  Clarinet Concerto (Mozart)
  Mozart's Clarinet concerto in A major, K. 622 was written in 1791 for the clarinetist Anton Stadler.It consists of the usual three movements, in a fast–slow–fast form:# Allegro# Adagio# Rondo: Allegro...
  
  , and Quintet, with Clarinetist: Benny Goodman
  Benny Goodman
  Benjamin David “Benny” Goodman was an American jazz and swing musician, clarinetist and bandleader; widely known as the "King of Swing".In the mid-1930s, Benny Goodman led one of the most popular musical groups in America...
  
  , Cellist: Samuel Mayes, Violist: Joseph de Pasquale, and Violinist: Richard Burgin and Alfred Krips
• 1956 Piston
  Walter Piston
  Walter Hamor Piston Jr., , was an American composer of classical music, music theorist and professor of music at Harvard University whose students included Leroy Anderson, Leonard Bernstein, and Elliott Carter....
  
  : Symphony No. 6
• 1956 Ravel: Bolero
• 1956 Ravel: Rapsodie Espagnole
• 1956 Tchaikovsky: Francesca da Rimini, Op.32
• 1956 Tchaikovsky: Romeo and Juliet Fantasy Overture
• 1957 Johann Sebastian Bach
  Johann Sebastian Bach
  Johann Sebastian Bach was a German composer, organist, harpsichordist, violist, and violinist whose sacred and secular works for choir, orchestra, and solo instruments drew together the strands of the Baroque period and brought it to its ultimate maturity...
  
  : Brandenburg Concertos
  Brandenburg concertos
  The Brandenburg concertos by Johann Sebastian Bach are a collection of six instrumental works presented by Bach to Christian Ludwig, margrave of Brandenburg-Schwedt, in 1721 . They are widely regarded as among the finest musical compositions of the Baroque era...
  
  No.1 - 6, BWV1046-1051
• 1957 Barber
  Samuel Barber
  Samuel Osborne Barber II was an American composer of orchestral, opera, choral, and piano music. His Adagio for Strings is his most popular composition and widely considered a masterpiece of modern classical music...
  
  : Medea's Meditation and Dance of Vengeance, Op. 23a
• 1957 Barber: Adagio for Strings, Op. 11
• 1957 Beethoven: Symphony No. 3
  Symphony No. 3 (Beethoven)
  Ludwig van Beethoven's Symphony No. 3 in E flat major , also known as the Eroica , is a landmark musical work marking the full arrival of the composer's "middle-period," a series of unprecedented large scale works of emotional depth and structural rigor.The symphony is widely regarded as a mature...
  
   in E-Flat Major, Op. 55
• 1957 Bloch
  Ernst Bloch
  Ernst Bloch was a German Marxist philosopher.Bloch was influenced by both Hegel and Marx and, as he always confessed, by novelist Karl May. He was also interested in music and art . He established friendships with Georg Lukács, Bertolt Brecht, Kurt Weill and Theodor W. Adorno...
  
  : Schelomo Cellist: Gregor Piatigorsky
  Gregor Piatigorsky
  Gregor Piatigorsky was a Russian-born American cellist.-Early life:...
  
  
• 1957 Debussy: Images pour orchestre
• 1957 Dukas
  Paul Dukas
  Paul Abraham Dukas was a French composer, critic, scholar and teacher. A studious man, of retiring personality, he was intensely self-critical, and he abandoned and destroyed many of his compositions...
  
  : The Sorcerer's Apprentice
• 1957 Elgar
  Edward Elgar
  Sir Edward William Elgar, 1st Baronet OM, GCVO was an English composer, many of whose works have entered the British and international classical concert repertoire. Among his best-known compositions are orchestral works including the Enigma Variations, the Pomp and Circumstance Marches, concertos...
  
  : Introduction and Allegro for Strings, Op. 47
• 1957 Franck
  César Franck
  César-Auguste-Jean-Guillaume-Hubert Franck was a composer, pianist, organist, and music teacher who worked in Paris during his adult life....
  
  : Symphony in D Minor
• 1957 Mendelssohn
  Felix Mendelssohn
  Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Barthóldy , use the form 'Mendelssohn' and not 'Mendelssohn Bartholdy'. The Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians gives ' Felix Mendelssohn' as the entry, with 'Mendelssohn' used in the body text...
  
  : Symphony No. 3
  Symphony No. 3 (Mendelssohn)
  The Symphony No. 3 in A minor, Op. 56, known as the Scottish Symphony, is a work by Felix Mendelssohn. It is thought that a painting on a Scottish trip made by Mendelssohn had inspired the 33-year-old composer, especially the opening theme of the first movement.The emotional scope of the work is...
  
  
• 1957 Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 5
  Symphony No. 5 (Mendelssohn)
  The Symphony No. 5 in D major/D minor, Op. 107, called the Reformation Symphony, was composed by Felix Mendelssohn in 1830 in honor of the 300th anniversary of the Presentation of the Augsburg Confession. This Confession was a key document of Lutheranism and its Presentation to Emperor Charles V in...
  
  
• 1957 Prokofiev
  Sergei Prokofiev
  Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev was a Russian composer, pianist and conductor who mastered numerous musical genres and is regarded as one of the major composers of the 20th century...
  
  : Piano Concerto No. 2 in G Minor, Op. 16 Pianist: Nicole Henriot-Schweitzer
• 1957 Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet - excerpts, Op. 64a/b and Op. 101
• 1957 Rachmaninoff
  Sergei Rachmaninoff
  Sergei Vasilievich Rachmaninoff was a Russian composer, pianist, and conductor. Rachmaninoff is widely considered one of the finest pianists of his day and, as a composer, one of the last great representatives of Romanticism in Russian classical music...
  
  : Piano Concerto No. 3 in D Minor, Op. 30 Pianist: Byron Janis
• 1957 Saint-Saëns
  Camille Saint-Saëns
  Charles-Camille Saint-Saëns was a French Late-Romantic composer, organist, conductor, and pianist. He is known especially for The Carnival of the Animals, Danse macabre, Samson and Delilah, Piano Concerto No. 2, Cello Concerto No. 1, Havanaise, Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso, and his Symphony...
  
  : Omphale's Spinning Wheel, Op. 31
• 1957 Tchaikovsky: Serenade for Strings, Op. 48
• 1957 Walton
  William Walton
  Sir William Turner Walton OM was an English composer. During a sixty-year career, he wrote music in several classical genres and styles, from film scores to opera...
  
  : Cello Concerto Cellist: Gregor Piatigorsky
  Gregor Piatigorsky
  Gregor Piatigorsky was a Russian-born American cellist.-Early life:...
  
  
• 1957 Wagner
  Richard Wagner
  Wilhelm Richard Wagner was a German composer, conductor, theatre director, philosopher, music theorist, poet, essayist and writer primarily known for his operas...
  
  : Götterdämmerung - Brunhilde's Immolation Soloist: Eileen Farrell
• 1957 Wagner: Götterdämmerung - Siegfried's Rhine Journey
• 1957 Wagner: Tannhäuser - Overture and Bacchanale (Paris Version)
• 1957 Wagner: Tristan and Isolde - Prelude and Liebestod Soloist: Eileen Farrell
• 1957 Wagner: Die Walküre - The Magic Fire Music
• 1958 Beethoven: Symphony No. 8
  Symphony No. 8 (Beethoven)
  Symphony No. 8 in F Major, Op. 93 is a symphony in four movements composed by Ludwig van Beethoven in 1812. Beethoven fondly referred to it as "my little Symphony in F," distinguishing it from his Sixth Symphony, a longer work also in F....
  
   in F Major, Op. 93
• 1958 Berlioz: Beatrice et Benedict Overture
• 1958 Berlioz: Le carnaval romain Overture, Op. 9
• 1958 Berlioz: Le corsaire Overture, Op. 21
• 1954 Berlioz: Harold in Italy, Op. 16, Violist: William Primrose
• 1958 Easley Blackwood
  Easley Blackwood Jr.
  Easley Blackwood, , is a professor of music, a concert pianist, a composer of music, some using unusual tunings, and the author of books on music theory, including his research into the properties of microtonal tunings and traditional harmony.Blackwood was born in Indianapolis, Indiana...
  
  : Symphony No. 1
• 1958 Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 1 in D Minor, Op. 15 Pianist: Gary Graffman
  Gary Graffman
  Gary Graffman is an American classical pianist, teacher of piano and music administrator.Graffman was born in New York City to Russian-Jewish parents. Having started piano at age 3, Graffman entered the Curtis Institute of Music at age 7 in 1936 as a piano student of Isabelle Vengerova...
  
  
• 1958 d'Indy
  Vincent d'Indy
  Vincent d'Indy was a French composer and teacher.-Life:Paul Marie Théodore Vincent d'Indy was born in Paris into an aristocratic family of royalist and Catholic persuasion. He had piano lessons from an early age from his paternal grandmother, who passed him on to Antoine François Marmontel and...
  
  : Symphonie sur un chant montagnard français
  Symphonie sur un chant montagnard français
  The Symphony on a French Mountain Air , Op. 25, written in 1886 by Vincent d'Indy, is virtually the only work by the composer that still receives regular performances today....
  
   (Symphony on a French Mountain Air) Pianist: Nicole Henriot-Schweitzer (the Conductor's niece)
• 1958 Alexei Haieff: Symphony No. 2
• 1958 Mahler
  Gustav Mahler
  Gustav Mahler was a late-Romantic Austrian composer and one of the leading conductors of his generation. He was born in the village of Kalischt, Bohemia, in what was then Austria-Hungary, now Kaliště in the Czech Republic...
  
  : Kindertotenlieder Soloist: Maureen Forrester
• 1958 Mahler: Songs of the Wayfarer Soloist: Maureen Forrester
• 1958 Ravel: Mother Goose Suite
• 1958 Ravel: Piano Concerto in G Major Pianist: Nicole Henriot-Schweitzer
• 1958 Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 4
  Symphony No. 4 (Mendelssohn)
  The Symphony No. 4 in A major, Op. 90, commonly known as the Italian, is an orchestral symphony written by German composer Felix Mendelssohn ....
  
  
• 1958 Schubert: Symphony No. 9
  Symphony No. 9 (Schubert)
  The Symphony No. 9 in C major, D. 944, known as the Great , is the final symphony completed by Franz Schubert. Nicknamed The Great C major originally to distinguish it from his Symphony No...
  
  , D 944 The Great
• 1958 Beethoven: Symphony No. 9
  Symphony No. 9 (Beethoven)
  The Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125, is the final complete symphony of Ludwig van Beethoven. Completed in 1824, the symphony is one of the best known works of the Western classical repertoire, and has been adapted for use as the European Anthem...
  
   in D Minor, Op. 125 The Choral with the New England Conservatory Chorus and soloists Leontyne Price
  Leontyne Price
  Mary Violet Leontyne Price is an American soprano. Born and raised in the Deep South, she rose to international acclaim in the 1950s and 1960s, and was one of the first African Americans to become a leading artist at the Metropolitan Opera.One critic characterized Price's voice as "vibrant",...
  
  , Maureen Forrester
  Maureen Forrester
  Maureen Kathleen Stewart Forrester, was a Canadian operatic contralto.-Life and career:Maureen Forrester was born and grew up in a poor section of Montreal, Quebec. She was one of four children to Thomas Forrester, a Scottish cabinetmaker, and his Irish-born wife, the former May Arnold. She...
  
  , David Poleri, and Giorgio Tozzi
  Giorgio Tozzi
  Giorgio Tozzi was for many years a leading bass with the Metropolitan Opera, as well as playing lead roles in nearly every major opera house worldwide.-Career:Tozzi was born George John Tozzi in Chicago, Illinois...
  
  
• 1959 Berlioz: Benvenuto Cellini Overture, Op. 23
• 1959 Berlioz: Requiem
  Requiem (Berlioz)
  The Grande Messe des morts, Op. 5 by Hector Berlioz was composed in 1837. The Grande Messe des Morts is one of Berlioz's best-known works, with a tremendous orchestration of woodwind and brass instruments, including four antiphonal offstage brass ensembles placed at the corners of the concert stage...
  
  , Op. 5 with the New England Conservatory Chorus and Soloist: Léopold Simoneau
  Léopold Simoneau
  Léopold Simoneau, CC, CQ was a French-Canadian lyric tenor, one of the outstanding Mozarteans of his time. In 1959 he became the first recipient of the Calixa-Lavallée Award.-Life and career:...
  
  
• 1959 Berlioz: Les Troyens - Royal Hunt and Storm Music
• 1959 Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto
  Violin Concerto (Mendelssohn)
  Felix Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto in E minor, Op. 64 is his last large orchestral work. It forms an important part of the violin repertoire and is one of the most popular and most frequently performed violin concertos of all time...
  
   Violinist: Jascha Heifetz
• 1957 Prokofiev: Violin Concerto No. 2 in G Minor, Op. 63 Violinist: Jascha Heifetz
• 1959 Schumann
  Robert Schumann
  Robert Schumann, sometimes known as Robert Alexander Schumann, was a German composer, aesthete and influential music critic. He is regarded as one of the greatest and most representative composers of the Romantic era....
  
  : Symphony No. 1 in B-flat Major, Op. 38, Spring
• 1959 Schumann: Manfred Overture, Op. 115
• 1959 Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto
  Violin concerto
  A violin concerto is a concerto for solo violin and instrumental ensemble, customarily orchestra. Such works have been written since the Baroque period, when the solo concerto form was first developed, up through the present day...
  
   in D Major, Op.35 Violinist: Henryk Szeryng
  Henryk Szeryng
  Henryk Szeryng was a Polish violinist.-Early years:He was born in Żelazowa Wola, Poland on 22 September 1918 into a wealthy family....
  
  .
• 1959 Saint-Saëns: Symphony No. 3
  Symphony No. 3 (Saint-Saëns)
  The Symphony No. 3 in C minor, Op. 78, was completed by Camille Saint-Saëns in 1886 at what was probably the artistic zenith of his career. It is also popularly known as the "Organ Symphony", even though it is not a true symphony for organ, but simply an orchestral symphony where two sections out...
  
   Organist: Berj Zamkochian
  Berj Zamkochian
  Berj Zamkochian was an Armenian-American organist. He studied at the New England Conservatory of Music and eventually joined the faculty. In 1957, at the age of 27, he was appointed organist of the Boston Symphony Orchestra and Boston Pops Orchestra...
  
  
• 1959 Bach: Violin Concerto
  Violin concerto
  A violin concerto is a concerto for solo violin and instrumental ensemble, customarily orchestra. Such works have been written since the Baroque period, when the solo concerto form was first developed, up through the present day...
  
   No.1, BWV1041, Violinist: Jamie Laredo
• 1960 Beethoven: Creatures of Prometheus - Excerpts
• 1960 Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 1 in C Major, Op. 15 Pianist: Sviatoslav Richter
  Sviatoslav Richter
  Sviatoslav Teofilovich Richter was a Soviet pianist well known for the depth of his interpretations, virtuoso technique, and vast repertoire. He is widely considered one of the greatest pianists of the 20th century.-Childhood:...
  
  
• 1960 Chopin: Piano Concerto No. 1 in C Minor, Op. 11 Pianist: Gary Graffman
  Gary Graffman
  Gary Graffman is an American classical pianist, teacher of piano and music administrator.Graffman was born in New York City to Russian-Jewish parents. Having started piano at age 3, Graffman entered the Curtis Institute of Music at age 7 in 1936 as a piano student of Isabelle Vengerova...
  
  
• 1960 Dvořák
  Antonín Dvorák
  Antonín Leopold Dvořák was a Czech composer of late Romantic music, who employed the idioms of the folk music of Moravia and his native Bohemia. Dvořák’s own style is sometimes called "romantic-classicist synthesis". His works include symphonic, choral and chamber music, concerti, operas and many...
  
  : Cello Concerto in B Minor, Op. 104 Cellist: Gregor Piatigorsky
  Gregor Piatigorsky
  Gregor Piatigorsky was a Russian-born American cellist.-Early life:...
  
  
• 1960 Mendelssohn: Capriccio Brillant in B Minor, Op. 22 Pianist: Gary Graffman
  Gary Graffman
  Gary Graffman is an American classical pianist, teacher of piano and music administrator.Graffman was born in New York City to Russian-Jewish parents. Having started piano at age 3, Graffman entered the Curtis Institute of Music at age 7 in 1936 as a piano student of Isabelle Vengerova...
  
  
• 1960 Mendelssohn: Octet - Scherzo in E-flat Major, Op. 20, arranged for strings
• 1960 Milhaud
  Darius Milhaud
  Darius Milhaud was a French composer and teacher. He was a member of Les Six—also known as The Group of Six—and one of the most prolific composers of the 20th century. His compositions are influenced by jazz and make use of polytonality...
  
  : La Création du Monde Op. 81
• 1960 Milhaud: Suite Provençale Op. 152b
• 1960 Poulenc
  Francis Poulenc
  Francis Jean Marcel Poulenc was a French composer and a member of the French group Les six. He composed solo piano music, chamber music, oratorio, choral music, opera, ballet music, and orchestral music...
  
  : Concerto for Organ, Strings, and Timpani Organist: Berj Zamkochian
  Berj Zamkochian
  Berj Zamkochian was an Armenian-American organist. He studied at the New England Conservatory of Music and eventually joined the faculty. In 1957, at the age of 27, he was appointed organist of the Boston Symphony Orchestra and Boston Pops Orchestra...
  
   and Timpanist: Everett Firth
• 1960 Schubert: Symphony No. 2 in B-flat Major, D.125
• 1960 Stravinsky
  Igor Stravinsky
  Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky ; 6 April 1971) was a Russian, later naturalized French, and then naturalized American composer, pianist, and conductor....
  
   Jeu de cartes
  Jeu de cartes (ballet)
  Jeu de cartes is a ballet in three deals by Igor Stravinsky, composed in 1936–37, with the story by the composer in collaboration with M. Malaieff and choreography by George Balanchine...
  
  
• 1961 Berlioz: Romeo and Juliet
  Romeo and Juliet
  Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy written early in the career of playwright William Shakespeare about two young star-crossed lovers whose deaths ultimately unite their feuding families. It was among Shakespeare's most popular archetypal stories of young, teenage lovers.Romeo and Juliet belongs to a...
  
  , Op. 17 with the New England Conservatory Chorus and Soloists: Rosalind Elias, Cesare Valetti, and Giorgio Tozzi
• 1961 Dvořák: Symphony No. 8 in G Major, Op. 88
• 1961 Ravel: Daphnis et Chloé
  Daphnis et Chloé
  Daphnis et Chloé is a ballet with music by Maurice Ravel. Ravel described it as a "symphonie choréographique" . The scenario was adapted by Michel Fokine from an eponymous romance by the Greek writer Longus thought to date from around the 2nd century AD...
  
  , with the New England Conservatory Chorus
• 1961 Richard Strauss: Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks, Op. 28
• 1961 Tchaikovsky: Romeo and Juliet Fantasy Overture
• 1962 Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6 in B Minor, Op.74
• 1962 Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique
  Symphonie Fantastique
  Symphonie Fantastique: Épisode de la vie d'un Artiste...en cinq parties , Op. 14, is a program symphony written by the French composer Hector Berlioz in 1830. It is one of the most important and representative pieces of the early Romantic period, and is still very popular with concert audiences...
  
  
• 1962 Chausson
  Ernest Chausson
  Amédée-Ernest Chausson was a French romantic composer who died just as his career was beginning to flourish.-Life:Ernest Chausson was born in Paris into a prosperous bourgeois family...
  
  : Symphony
• 1962 Debussy
  Claude Debussy
  Claude-Achille Debussy was a French composer. Along with Maurice Ravel, he was one of the most prominent figures working within the field of impressionist music, though he himself intensely disliked the term when applied to his compositions...
  
  : Nocturnes - Nuages and Fetes
• 1962 Debussy: Printemps
• 1962 Debussy: Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune Flutist: Doriot Anthony Dwyer
  Doriot Anthony Dwyer
  Doriot Anthony Dwyer is an American flautist. She was the first woman to be awarded principal chair for a major U.S. orchestra. She was the principal flute for the Boston Symphony Orchestra from 1952 until 1990. She was second flute for the National Symphony Orchestra and the Los Angeles...
  
  
• 1962 Franck: Le Chasseur Maudit (The Accursed Hunter)
• 1962 Ravel: Bolero
• 1962 Ravel: La Valse
• 1962 Ravel: Pavane pour une Infante Defunte

• 19?? Schumann: Piano Concerto, Pianist: Van Cliburn (Never Issued)

Broadcasts of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra

Chicago Symphony Orchestra

The Chicago Symphony Orchestra is an American orchestra based in Chicago, Illinois. It is one of the five American orchestras commonly referred to as the "Big Five". Founded in 1891, the Symphony makes its home at Orchestra Hall in Chicago and plays a summer season at the Ravinia Festival...

 released by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra's From the Archives Series

• 1963 Rameau orchestrated by d'Indy
  Vincent d'Indy
  Vincent d'Indy was a French composer and teacher.-Life:Paul Marie Théodore Vincent d'Indy was born in Paris into an aristocratic family of royalist and Catholic persuasion. He had piano lessons from an early age from his paternal grandmother, who passed him on to Antoine François Marmontel and...
  
  : Dardanus Suite
• 1966 Roussel
  Albert Roussel
  Albert Charles Paul Marie Roussel was a French composer. He spent seven years as a midshipman, turned to music as an adult, and became one of the most prominent French composers of the interwar period...
  
  : Bacchus et Ariane, Suite No. 2
• 1967 Roussel: Symphony No. 3 in G Minor, Op. 42

Recording made with the Czech Philharmonic for Multisonic

• 1957 Honegger
  Arthur Honegger
  Arthur Honegger was a Swiss composer, who was born in France and lived a large part of his life in Paris. He was a member of Les six. His most frequently performed work is probably the orchestral work Pacific 231, which is interpreted as imitating the sound of a steam locomotive.-Biography:Born...
  
  : Symphony No. 2

Recording made with the Czech Philharmonic for Praga

• 1957 Franck
  César Franck
  César-Auguste-Jean-Guillaume-Hubert Franck was a composer, pianist, organist, and music teacher who worked in Paris during his adult life....
  
  : Symphony in D minor

Recording made with freelance orchestra of London musicians for HMV

HMV

His Master's Voice is a trademark in the music business, and for many years was the name of a large record label. The name was coined in 1899 as the title of a painting of the dog Nipper listening to a wind-up gramophone...

 

• 1935 Saint-Saëns
  Camille Saint-Saëns
  Charles-Camille Saint-Saëns was a French Late-Romantic composer, organist, conductor, and pianist. He is known especially for The Carnival of the Animals, Danse macabre, Samson and Delilah, Piano Concerto No. 2, Cello Concerto No. 1, Havanaise, Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso, and his Symphony...
  
  : Piano Concerto No. 4 in C Minor, Op. 44 Pianist: Alfred Cortot
  Alfred Cortot
  Alfred Denis Cortot was a Franco-Swiss pianist and conductor. He is one of the most renowned 20th-century classical musicians, especially valued for his poetic insight in Romantic period piano works, particularly those of Chopin and Schumann.-Early life and education:Born in Nyon, Vaud, in the...
  
  

Recording made with freelance orchestra of Paris musicians for HMV

HMV

His Master's Voice is a trademark in the music business, and for many years was the name of a large record label. The name was coined in 1899 as the title of a painting of the dog Nipper listening to a wind-up gramophone...

• 1941 Georg M. Hoffman: Meine Seele Ruhmt und Priest Soloist: Pierre Bernac
  Pierre Bernac
  Pierre Bernac was a French baritone.Born Pierre Bertin in Paris on January 12, 1899, he studied with Reinhold von Wahrlich in Salzburg. he came to music relatively late and gave his first recital in 1921....
  
  
• 19?? Vivaldi
  Antonio Vivaldi
  Antonio Lucio Vivaldi , nicknamed because of his red hair, was an Italian Baroque composer, priest, and virtuoso violinist, born in Venice. Vivaldi is recognized as one of the greatest Baroque composers, and his influence during his lifetime was widespread over Europe...
  
   orchestrated by Dandelot: Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 3, No. 9, Violinist: D. Soriano
• 19?? Mozart
  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart , baptismal name Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart , was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical era. He composed over 600 works, many acknowledged as pinnacles of symphonic, concertante, chamber, piano, operatic, and choral music...
  
  : Violin Concerto No. 7 in D major, K. 217a, Violinist: D. Soriano

Recording made with the Hungarian Radio and Television Orchestra for Philips

Philips

Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V. , more commonly known as Philips, is a multinational Dutch electronics company....

• 1966 Berlioz
  Hector Berlioz
  Hector Berlioz was a French Romantic composer, best known for his compositions Symphonie fantastique and Grande messe des morts . Berlioz made significant contributions to the modern orchestra with his Treatise on Instrumentation. He specified huge orchestral forces for some of his works; as a...
  
  : Symphonie Fantastique
  Symphonie Fantastique
  Symphonie Fantastique: Épisode de la vie d'un Artiste...en cinq parties , Op. 14, is a program symphony written by the French composer Hector Berlioz in 1830. It is one of the most important and representative pieces of the early Romantic period, and is still very popular with concert audiences...
  
  

Recordings made with London Philharmonic for Decca

• 1947 Roussel
  Albert Roussel
  Albert Charles Paul Marie Roussel was a French composer. He spent seven years as a midshipman, turned to music as an adult, and became one of the most prominent French composers of the interwar period...
  
  : The Spider's Banquet
• 1947 Roussel: Suite in F Op. 33
• 1947 Bizet
  Georges Bizet
  Georges Bizet formally Alexandre César Léopold Bizet, was a French composer, mainly of operas. In a career cut short by his early death, he achieved few successes before his final work, Carmen, became one of the most popular and frequently performed works in the entire opera repertory.During a...
  
  : Symphony in C
  Symphony in C (Bizet)
  The Symphony in C is an early work by the French composer Georges Bizet. According to Grove's Dictionary, the symphony "reveals an extraordinarily accomplished talent for an 17-year-old student, in melodic invention, thematic handling and orchestration." Bizet started work on the symphony on 29...
  
  
• 1947 Bizet: Jolie Fille de Perth - Danse bohèmienne

Broadcast of the NBC Symphony released by Memories, same as Music & Arts set

• 1954 Debussy
  Claude Debussy
  Claude-Achille Debussy was a French composer. Along with Maurice Ravel, he was one of the most prominent figures working within the field of impressionist music, though he himself intensely disliked the term when applied to his compositions...
  
  : Ibéria
• 1954 Ravel
  Maurice Ravel
  Joseph-Maurice Ravel was a French composer known especially for his melodies, orchestral and instrumental textures and effects...
  
  : Le Tombeau de Couperin
• 1954 Roussel
  Albert Roussel
  Albert Charles Paul Marie Roussel was a French composer. He spent seven years as a midshipman, turned to music as an adult, and became one of the most prominent French composers of the interwar period...
  
  : Bacchus et Ariane, Suite No. 2

Broadcast of the NBC Symphony released by Music & Arts, same as Memories set

• 1954 Debussy
  Claude Debussy
  Claude-Achille Debussy was a French composer. Along with Maurice Ravel, he was one of the most prominent figures working within the field of impressionist music, though he himself intensely disliked the term when applied to his compositions...
  
  : Iberia
• 1954 Ravel
  Maurice Ravel
  Joseph-Maurice Ravel was a French composer known especially for his melodies, orchestral and instrumental textures and effects...
  
  : Le Tombeau de Couperin
• 1954 Roussel
  Albert Roussel
  Albert Charles Paul Marie Roussel was a French composer. He spent seven years as a midshipman, turned to music as an adult, and became one of the most prominent French composers of the interwar period...
  
  : Bacchus et Ariane, Suite No. 2

Recordings made with the New Philharmonia Orchestra

Philharmonia Orchestra

The Philharmonia Orchestra is one of the leading orchestras in Great Britain, based in London. Since 1995, it has been based in the Royal Festival Hall. In Britain it is also the resident orchestra at De Montfort Hall, Leicester and the Corn Exchange, Bedford, as well as The Anvil, Basingstoke...

 for Decca

• 1966 Offenbach
  Jacques Offenbach
  Jacques Offenbach was a Prussian-born French composer, cellist and impresario. He is remembered for his nearly 100 operettas of the 1850s–1870s and his uncompleted opera The Tales of Hoffmann. He was a powerful influence on later composers of the operetta genre, particularly Johann Strauss, Jr....
  
  , arranged by Manuel Rosenthal: Gaîté Parisienne
• 1966 Bizet
  Georges Bizet
  Georges Bizet formally Alexandre César Léopold Bizet, was a French composer, mainly of operas. In a career cut short by his early death, he achieved few successes before his final work, Carmen, became one of the most popular and frequently performed works in the entire opera repertory.During a...
  
  : L'Arlésienne Suite
• 1966 Bizet: Carmen Suite
• 1967 Respighi
  Ottorino Respighi
  Ottorino Respighi was an Italian composer, musicologist and conductor. He is best known for his orchestral "Roman trilogy": Fountains of Rome ; Pines of Rome ; and Roman Festivals...
  
  : Fontane di Roma
• 1967 Respighi: Pini di Roma

Recordings made with the New York Philharmonic

New York Philharmonic

The New York Philharmonic is a symphony orchestra based in New York City in the United States. It is one of the American orchestras commonly referred to as the "Big Five"...

 for Columbia Records

• 1947 Saint-Saëns
  Camille Saint-Saëns
  Charles-Camille Saint-Saëns was a French Late-Romantic composer, organist, conductor, and pianist. He is known especially for The Carnival of the Animals, Danse macabre, Samson and Delilah, Piano Concerto No. 2, Cello Concerto No. 1, Havanaise, Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso, and his Symphony...
  
  : Symphony No. 3
  Symphony No. 3 (Saint-Saëns)
  The Symphony No. 3 in C minor, Op. 78, was completed by Camille Saint-Saëns in 1886 at what was probably the artistic zenith of his career. It is also popularly known as the "Organ Symphony", even though it is not a true symphony for organ, but simply an orchestral symphony where two sections out...
  
  . Soloist: E. Niels-Berger
• 1948 d'Indy
  Vincent d'Indy
  Vincent d'Indy was a French composer and teacher.-Life:Paul Marie Théodore Vincent d'Indy was born in Paris into an aristocratic family of royalist and Catholic persuasion. He had piano lessons from an early age from his paternal grandmother, who passed him on to Antoine François Marmontel and...
  
  : Symphonie sur un chant montagnard français
  Symphonie sur un chant montagnard français
  The Symphony on a French Mountain Air , Op. 25, written in 1886 by Vincent d'Indy, is virtually the only work by the composer that still receives regular performances today....
  
   Pianist: Robert Casadesus
  Robert Casadesus
  Robert Casadesus was a renowned 20th-century French pianist and composer. He was the most prominent member of a famous musical family, being the nephew of Henri Casadesus and Marius Casadesus, husband of Gaby Casadesus, and father of Jean Casadesus.-Biography:Robert Casadesus was born in Paris...
  
  
• 1948 Mozart
  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart , baptismal name Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart , was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical era. He composed over 600 works, many acknowledged as pinnacles of symphonic, concertante, chamber, piano, operatic, and choral music...
  
  : Piano Concerto No. 21 in C Major, KV 467 Pianist: Robert Casadesus
  Robert Casadesus
  Robert Casadesus was a renowned 20th-century French pianist and composer. He was the most prominent member of a famous musical family, being the nephew of Henri Casadesus and Marius Casadesus, husband of Gaby Casadesus, and father of Jean Casadesus.-Biography:Robert Casadesus was born in Paris...
  
  

Broadcast of the New York Philharmonic issued by LYS

• 1948 Chabrier
  Emmanuel Chabrier
  Emmanuel Chabrier was a French Romantic composer and pianist. Although known primarily for two of his orchestral works, España and Joyeuse marche, he left an important corpus of operas , songs, and piano music as well...
  
  : Bourrée fantasque
  Bourrée fantasque
  Bourrée fantasque is a piece of music for solo piano by Emmanuel Chabrier , being one of his last major completed works.-Background:...
  
  
• 1948 d'Indy
  Vincent d'Indy
  Vincent d'Indy was a French composer and teacher.-Life:Paul Marie Théodore Vincent d'Indy was born in Paris into an aristocratic family of royalist and Catholic persuasion. He had piano lessons from an early age from his paternal grandmother, who passed him on to Antoine François Marmontel and...
  
  : Symphonie sur un chant montagnard français
  Symphonie sur un chant montagnard français
  The Symphony on a French Mountain Air , Op. 25, written in 1886 by Vincent d'Indy, is virtually the only work by the composer that still receives regular performances today....
  
   Pianist: Robert Casadesus
  Robert Casadesus
  Robert Casadesus was a renowned 20th-century French pianist and composer. He was the most prominent member of a famous musical family, being the nephew of Henri Casadesus and Marius Casadesus, husband of Gaby Casadesus, and father of Jean Casadesus.-Biography:Robert Casadesus was born in Paris...
  
  
• 1948 Liszt
  Franz Liszt
  Franz Liszt ; ), was a 19th-century Hungarian composer, pianist, conductor, and teacher.Liszt became renowned in Europe during the nineteenth century for his virtuosic skill as a pianist. He was said by his contemporaries to have been the most technically advanced pianist of his age...
  
  : Piano Concerto No. 2 Pianist: Robert Casadesus
  Robert Casadesus
  Robert Casadesus was a renowned 20th-century French pianist and composer. He was the most prominent member of a famous musical family, being the nephew of Henri Casadesus and Marius Casadesus, husband of Gaby Casadesus, and father of Jean Casadesus.-Biography:Robert Casadesus was born in Paris...
  
  
• 1948 Mozart
  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart , baptismal name Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart , was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical era. He composed over 600 works, many acknowledged as pinnacles of symphonic, concertante, chamber, piano, operatic, and choral music...
  
  : Symphony No. 35 in D Major Haffner

Broadcasts of the New York Philharmonic released by Music & Arts

• 1949 Chausson
  Ernest Chausson
  Amédée-Ernest Chausson was a French romantic composer who died just as his career was beginning to flourish.-Life:Ernest Chausson was born in Paris into a prosperous bourgeois family...
  
  : Poème Violinist: Ginette Neveu
  Ginette Neveu
  Ginette Neveu was a French violinist.-Biography:Born in Paris into a musical family, Ginette Neveu became a violinist and her brother Jean-Paul Neveu a classical pianist. She was also the grandniece of composer Charles-Marie Widor...
  
  
• 1949 Ravel
  Maurice Ravel
  Joseph-Maurice Ravel was a French composer known especially for his melodies, orchestral and instrumental textures and effects...
  
  : Daphnis & Chloé, Suite No. 2
• 1949 Ravel: Tzigane Violinist: Ginette Neveu
  Ginette Neveu
  Ginette Neveu was a French violinist.-Biography:Born in Paris into a musical family, Ginette Neveu became a violinist and her brother Jean-Paul Neveu a classical pianist. She was also the grandniece of composer Charles-Marie Widor...
  
  

Recordings made with the Orchestre de l'Association des Concerts Lamoureux

Lamoureux Orchestra

The Orchestre Lamoureux officially known as the Société des Nouveaux-Concerts and also known as the Concerts Lamoureux) is an orchestral concert society which once gave weekly concerts by its own orchestra, founded in Paris by Charles Lamoureux in 1881...

 for Erato

Erato Records

Erato Records is a record label founded in 1953 to promote French classical music. In 1992 it became part of Warner Bros. Records. In 1999 Erato launched a subsidiary Detour Records....

 

• 1965 Dutilleux
  Henri Dutilleux
  Henri Dutilleux is one of the most important French composers of the second half of the 20th century, producing work in the tradition of Maurice Ravel, Claude Debussy, and Albert Roussel, but in a style distinctly his own...
  
  : Symphony No. 2, Le double
• 1965 Lalo
  Édouard Lalo
  Édouard-Victoire-Antoine Lalo was a French composer.-Biography:Lalo was born in Lille , in northernmost France. He attended that city's music conservatory in his youth. Then, beginning at age 16, Lalo studied at the Paris Conservatoire under Berlioz's old enemy François Antoine Habeneck...
  
  : Cello Concerto in D Minor Cellist: André Navarra
  André Navarra
  André-Nicolas Navarra was a French cellist and cello teacher.-Early life:...
  
  
• 1965 Roussel
  Albert Roussel
  Albert Charles Paul Marie Roussel was a French composer. He spent seven years as a midshipman, turned to music as an adult, and became one of the most prominent French composers of the interwar period...
  
  : Suite in F Major, Op. 33
• 1965 Roussel: Symphony No. 3 in G Minor, Op. 42
• 1965 Roussel: Symphony No. 4 in A Major, Op. 53
• 1965 Saint-Saëns
  Camille Saint-Saëns
  Charles-Camille Saint-Saëns was a French Late-Romantic composer, organist, conductor, and pianist. He is known especially for The Carnival of the Animals, Danse macabre, Samson and Delilah, Piano Concerto No. 2, Cello Concerto No. 1, Havanaise, Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso, and his Symphony...
  
  : Cello Concerto No. 1 in A Minor, Op. 33 Cellist: André Navarra
  André Navarra
  André-Nicolas Navarra was a French cellist and cello teacher.-Early life:...
  
  

Recordings (Live) made with the Orchestre de Paris

Orchestre de Paris

The Orchestre de Paris is a French orchestra based in Paris. The orchestra performs most of its concerts at the Salle Pleyel.-History:In 1967, following the dissolution of the Orchestre de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire, conductor Charles Munch was called on by the Minister of Culture,...

 on Altus

• 1967 Berlioz
  Hector Berlioz
  Hector Berlioz was a French Romantic composer, best known for his compositions Symphonie fantastique and Grande messe des morts . Berlioz made significant contributions to the modern orchestra with his Treatise on Instrumentation. He specified huge orchestral forces for some of his works; as a...
  
  : Symphonie Fantastique
  Symphonie Fantastique
  Symphonie Fantastique: Épisode de la vie d'un Artiste...en cinq parties , Op. 14, is a program symphony written by the French composer Hector Berlioz in 1830. It is one of the most important and representative pieces of the early Romantic period, and is still very popular with concert audiences...
  
  
• 1967 Debussy
  Claude Debussy
  Claude-Achille Debussy was a French composer. Along with Maurice Ravel, he was one of the most prominent figures working within the field of impressionist music, though he himself intensely disliked the term when applied to his compositions...
  
  : "La Mer"

Recordings made with the Orchestre de Paris

Orchestre de Paris

The Orchestre de Paris is a French orchestra based in Paris. The orchestra performs most of its concerts at the Salle Pleyel.-History:In 1967, following the dissolution of the Orchestre de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire, conductor Charles Munch was called on by the Minister of Culture,...

 for EMI/Angel

• 1967 Berlioz
  Hector Berlioz
  Hector Berlioz was a French Romantic composer, best known for his compositions Symphonie fantastique and Grande messe des morts . Berlioz made significant contributions to the modern orchestra with his Treatise on Instrumentation. He specified huge orchestral forces for some of his works; as a...
  
  : Symphonie Fantastique
  Symphonie Fantastique
  Symphonie Fantastique: Épisode de la vie d'un Artiste...en cinq parties , Op. 14, is a program symphony written by the French composer Hector Berlioz in 1830. It is one of the most important and representative pieces of the early Romantic period, and is still very popular with concert audiences...
  
  
• 1967 Brahms
  Johannes Brahms
  Johannes Brahms was a German composer and pianist, and one of the leading musicians of the Romantic period. Born in Hamburg, Brahms spent much of his professional life in Vienna, Austria, where he was a leader of the musical scene...
  
  : Symphony No. 1 in C Minor, Op. 68
• 1967 Honegger
  Arthur Honegger
  Arthur Honegger was a Swiss composer, who was born in France and lived a large part of his life in Paris. He was a member of Les six. His most frequently performed work is probably the orchestral work Pacific 231, which is interpreted as imitating the sound of a steam locomotive.-Biography:Born...
  
  : Symphony No. 2
• 1967 Ravel
  Maurice Ravel
  Joseph-Maurice Ravel was a French composer known especially for his melodies, orchestral and instrumental textures and effects...
  
  : Bolero
• 1967 Ravel: Daphnis et Chloé
  Daphnis et Chloé
  Daphnis et Chloé is a ballet with music by Maurice Ravel. Ravel described it as a "symphonie choréographique" . The scenario was adapted by Michel Fokine from an eponymous romance by the Greek writer Longus thought to date from around the 2nd century AD...
  
   Suite No. 2
• 1968 Ravel: Pavane pour une Infante Defunte
• 1968 Ravel: Piano Concerto in G Major Pianist: Nicole Henriot-Schweitzer
• 1968 Ravel: Rapsodie Espagnole

Recordings made with the Orchestre national de France for Auvidis-Valois, previously issued on Disques Montaigne*

• 1962 Debussy
  Claude Debussy
  Claude-Achille Debussy was a French composer. Along with Maurice Ravel, he was one of the most prominent figures working within the field of impressionist music, though he himself intensely disliked the term when applied to his compositions...
  
  : La Mer*
• 1962 Debussy: Iberia*
• 1962 Debussy: Fantasy for Piano and Orchestra Pianist: Nicole Henriot-Schweitzer*
• 1962 Dutilleux
  Henri Dutilleux
  Henri Dutilleux is one of the most important French composers of the second half of the 20th century, producing work in the tradition of Maurice Ravel, Claude Debussy, and Albert Roussel, but in a style distinctly his own...
  
  : Symphony No. 2Le Double*
• 1962 Honegger
  Arthur Honegger
  Arthur Honegger was a Swiss composer, who was born in France and lived a large part of his life in Paris. He was a member of Les six. His most frequently performed work is probably the orchestral work Pacific 231, which is interpreted as imitating the sound of a steam locomotive.-Biography:Born...
  
  : Symphony No. 1*
• 1962 Honegger: Le Chant de Nigamon
• 1962 Honegger: Pastorale d'été
  Pastorale d'été (Honegger)
  Pastorale d’été, H. 31 , is a short symphonic poem for chamber orchestra by Arthur Honegger. It was inspired by Honegger's vacation in the Swiss alps above Bern in 1920. It takes about seven or eight minutes to play....
  
  
• 1962 Roussel
  Albert Roussel
  Albert Charles Paul Marie Roussel was a French composer. He spent seven years as a midshipman, turned to music as an adult, and became one of the most prominent French composers of the interwar period...
  
  : Bacchus et Ariane, Suite No. 2*
• 1963 Beethoven
  Ludwig van Beethoven
  Ludwig van Beethoven was a German composer and pianist. A crucial figure in the transition between the Classical and Romantic eras in Western art music, he remains one of the most famous and influential composers of all time.Born in Bonn, then the capital of the Electorate of Cologne and part of...
  
  : Symphony No. 7 in A Major, Op. 92
• 1963 Beethoven: Consecration of the House Overture, Op. 124
• 1963 Berlioz
  Hector Berlioz
  Hector Berlioz was a French Romantic composer, best known for his compositions Symphonie fantastique and Grande messe des morts . Berlioz made significant contributions to the modern orchestra with his Treatise on Instrumentation. He specified huge orchestral forces for some of his works; as a...
  
  : Symphonie fantastique
  Symphonie Fantastique
  Symphonie Fantastique: Épisode de la vie d'un Artiste...en cinq parties , Op. 14, is a program symphony written by the French composer Hector Berlioz in 1830. It is one of the most important and representative pieces of the early Romantic period, and is still very popular with concert audiences...
  
  
• 1964 Beethoven: Symphony No. 4 in B-flat Major, Op. 60
• 1964 Honegger: Symphony No. 2
• 1964 Honegger: Symphony No. 5, Di tre Re
• 1964 Roussel
  Albert Roussel
  Albert Charles Paul Marie Roussel was a French composer. He spent seven years as a midshipman, turned to music as an adult, and became one of the most prominent French composers of the interwar period...
  
  : Symphony No. 3 in G Minor, Op. 42
• 1964 Sibelius
  Jean Sibelius
  Jean Sibelius was a Finnish composer of the later Romantic period whose music played an important role in the formation of the Finnish national identity. His mastery of the orchestra has been described as "prodigious."...
  
  : Lemminkäinen Suite (The Swan of Tuonela, Lemminkäinen's Return), Op. 22
• 1965 Brahms
  Johannes Brahms
  Johannes Brahms was a German composer and pianist, and one of the leading musicians of the Romantic period. Born in Hamburg, Brahms spent much of his professional life in Vienna, Austria, where he was a leader of the musical scene...
  
  : Symphony No. 2 in D Major, Op. 73
• 1966 Berlioz
  Hector Berlioz
  Hector Berlioz was a French Romantic composer, best known for his compositions Symphonie fantastique and Grande messe des morts . Berlioz made significant contributions to the modern orchestra with his Treatise on Instrumentation. He specified huge orchestral forces for some of his works; as a...
  
  : Benvenuto Cellini Overture, Op. 23
• 1966 Fauré
  Gabriel Fauré
  Gabriel Urbain Fauré was a French composer, organist, pianist and teacher. He was one of the foremost French composers of his generation, and his musical style influenced many 20th century composers...
  
  : Pelléas et Mélisande Suite Op. 80
• 1966 Roussel: Symphony No. 4 in A Major, Op. 53
• 1966 Roussel: Bacchus et Ariane, Suite No. 2
• 1966 Schumann
  Robert Schumann
  Robert Schumann, sometimes known as Robert Alexander Schumann, was a German composer, aesthete and influential music critic. He is regarded as one of the greatest and most representative composers of the Romantic era....
  
  : Symphony No. 4 in D Major, Op. 120
• 1967 Berlioz: Le corsaire Overture, Op. 21
• 1967 Franck
  César Franck
  César-Auguste-Jean-Guillaume-Hubert Franck was a composer, pianist, organist, and music teacher who worked in Paris during his adult life....
  
  : Symphony in D Minor

Broadcast made with the Orchestre national de France for Cascavelle

• 1953 Berlioz
  Hector Berlioz
  Hector Berlioz was a French Romantic composer, best known for his compositions Symphonie fantastique and Grande messe des morts . Berlioz made significant contributions to the modern orchestra with his Treatise on Instrumentation. He specified huge orchestral forces for some of his works; as a...
  
  : Roméo et Juliette Op. 17., Soloists: Irma Kolassi, Joseph Peyron, Lucien Lovano with National Orchestra Chorus of Radio France

Broadcasts of the Orchestre national de France for Euromuses

• 1958 Schmitt
  Florent Schmitt
  Florent Schmitt was a French composer.-Early life:A Lorrainer, born in Meurthe-et-Moselle, Schmitt originally took music lessons in Nancy with the local composer Gustave Sandré. Subsequently he entered the Paris Conservatoire. There he studied with Gabriel Fauré, Jules Massenet, Théodore Dubois,...
  
  : Symphony No. 2
• 1962 Debussy
  Claude Debussy
  Claude-Achille Debussy was a French composer. Along with Maurice Ravel, he was one of the most prominent figures working within the field of impressionist music, though he himself intensely disliked the term when applied to his compositions...
  
  : Fantasy for Piano and Orchestra, Pianist: Nicole Henriot-Schweitzer

Recordings made with the Orchestre national de France for HMV

HMV

His Master's Voice is a trademark in the music business, and for many years was the name of a large record label. The name was coined in 1899 as the title of a painting of the dog Nipper listening to a wind-up gramophone...

 

• 1949 Berlioz
  Hector Berlioz
  Hector Berlioz was a French Romantic composer, best known for his compositions Symphonie fantastique and Grande messe des morts . Berlioz made significant contributions to the modern orchestra with his Treatise on Instrumentation. He specified huge orchestral forces for some of his works; as a...
  
  : Symphonie Fantastique
  Symphonie Fantastique
  Symphonie Fantastique: Épisode de la vie d'un Artiste...en cinq parties , Op. 14, is a program symphony written by the French composer Hector Berlioz in 1830. It is one of the most important and representative pieces of the early Romantic period, and is still very popular with concert audiences...
  
  
• 1957 Schumann
  Robert Schumann
  Robert Schumann, sometimes known as Robert Alexander Schumann, was a German composer, aesthete and influential music critic. He is regarded as one of the greatest and most representative composers of the Romantic era....
  
  : Piano Concerto, Pianist: Samson François

Recordings made with the Orchestre national de l'O.R.T.F. for Accord

• 1961 Barraud
  Henry Barraud
  Henry Barraud was a French composer.He was born in Bordeaux. He was a student of Louis Aubert at the Conservatoire de Paris, but in 1927 failed to graduate, apparently because of his refusal to follow orthodox methods...
  
  : Symphony No. 3
• 1961 Roussel
  Albert Roussel
  Albert Charles Paul Marie Roussel was a French composer. He spent seven years as a midshipman, turned to music as an adult, and became one of the most prominent French composers of the interwar period...
  
  : Bacchus et Ariane, Suite No. 2
• 1962 Debussy
  Claude Debussy
  Claude-Achille Debussy was a French composer. Along with Maurice Ravel, he was one of the most prominent figures working within the field of impressionist music, though he himself intensely disliked the term when applied to his compositions...
  
  : Ibéria
• 1962 Debussy: La mer
• 1962 Debussy: Trois Nocturnes

Recordings made with the Orchestre national de l'O.R.T.F. for Erato

Erato Records

Erato Records is a record label founded in 1953 to promote French classical music. In 1992 it became part of Warner Bros. Records. In 1999 Erato launched a subsidiary Detour Records....

 

• 1967 Dutilleux
  Henri Dutilleux
  Henri Dutilleux is one of the most important French composers of the second half of the 20th century, producing work in the tradition of Maurice Ravel, Claude Debussy, and Albert Roussel, but in a style distinctly his own...
  
  : Métaboles
• 1967 Honegger
  Arthur Honegger
  Arthur Honegger was a Swiss composer, who was born in France and lived a large part of his life in Paris. He was a member of Les six. His most frequently performed work is probably the orchestral work Pacific 231, which is interpreted as imitating the sound of a steam locomotive.-Biography:Born...
  
  : Symphony No. 4 Deliciae basiliensis
• 196? Roussel
  Albert Roussel
  Albert Charles Paul Marie Roussel was a French composer. He spent seven years as a midshipman, turned to music as an adult, and became one of the most prominent French composers of the interwar period...
  
  : Suite in F Op. 33

Broadcast made with the Orchestre national de l'O.R.T.F. for Music & Arts

• 1951 Saint-Saëns
  Camille Saint-Saëns
  Charles-Camille Saint-Saëns was a French Late-Romantic composer, organist, conductor, and pianist. He is known especially for The Carnival of the Animals, Danse macabre, Samson and Delilah, Piano Concerto No. 2, Cello Concerto No. 1, Havanaise, Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso, and his Symphony...
  
  : Violin Concerto No. 3 in B minor, Op. 61, Violinist: Zino Francescatti

Recordings made with the Orchestre national de l'O.R.T.F. for Turnabout(?)

• 1966 Albéniz
  Isaac Albéniz
  Isaac Manuel Francisco Albéniz y Pascual was a Spanish Catalan pianist and composer best known for his piano works based on folk music idioms .-Life:Born in Camprodon, province of Girona, to Ángel Albéniz and his wife Dolors Pascual, Albéniz...
  
  : Iberia
• 1966 Debussy
  Claude Debussy
  Claude-Achille Debussy was a French composer. Along with Maurice Ravel, he was one of the most prominent figures working within the field of impressionist music, though he himself intensely disliked the term when applied to his compositions...
  
  : Iberia
• 1966 Debussy: La Mer
• 1967 Bizet
  Georges Bizet
  Georges Bizet formally Alexandre César Léopold Bizet, was a French composer, mainly of operas. In a career cut short by his early death, he achieved few successes before his final work, Carmen, became one of the most popular and frequently performed works in the entire opera repertory.During a...
  
  : Jeux d'Enfants
• 1967 Bizet: Patrie Overture
• 1967 Bizet: Symphony in C
  Symphony in C (Bizet)
  The Symphony in C is an early work by the French composer Georges Bizet. According to Grove's Dictionary, the symphony "reveals an extraordinarily accomplished talent for an 17-year-old student, in melodic invention, thematic handling and orchestration." Bizet started work on the symphony on 29...
  
  
• 1967 Borodin
  Alexander Borodin
  Alexander Porfiryevich Borodin was a Russian Romantic composer and chemist of Georgian–Russian parentage. He was a member of the group of composers called The Five , who were dedicated to producing a specifically Russian kind of art music...
  
  : In the Steppes of Central Asia
• 1967 Mussorgsky
  Modest Mussorgsky
  Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky was a Russian composer, one of the group known as 'The Five'. He was an innovator of Russian music in the romantic period...
  
  : Khovanchina - Introduction and Persian Dance
• 1967 Rimsky-Korsakov
  Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
  Nikolai Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov was a Russian composer, and a member of the group of composers known as The Five.The Five, also known as The Mighty Handful or The Mighty Coterie, refers to a circle of composers who met in Saint Petersburg, Russia, in the years 1856–1870: Mily Balakirev , César...
  
  : Golden Cockerel
• 1967 Rimsky-Korsakov: Russian Easter Festival Overture

Broadcast of the Orchestre Philharmonique de la R.T.F. for Euromuses

• 1962 Roussel
  Albert Roussel
  Albert Charles Paul Marie Roussel was a French composer. He spent seven years as a midshipman, turned to music as an adult, and became one of the most prominent French composers of the interwar period...
  
  : Suite in F, op. 33

Recordings made with the Orchestre de la Societe des Concerts du Conservatoire

Orchestre de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire

The Orchestre de la Société des concerts du Conservatoire was a symphony orchestra established in Paris in 1828. It gave its first concert on 9 March 1828 with music by Beethoven, Rossini, Meifreid, Rode and Cherubini....

 for Decca

• 1946 Berlioz
  Hector Berlioz
  Hector Berlioz was a French Romantic composer, best known for his compositions Symphonie fantastique and Grande messe des morts . Berlioz made significant contributions to the modern orchestra with his Treatise on Instrumentation. He specified huge orchestral forces for some of his works; as a...
  
  : Benvenuto Cellini Overture, Op. 23
• 1946 Fauré
  Gabriel Fauré
  Gabriel Urbain Fauré was a French composer, organist, pianist and teacher. He was one of the foremost French composers of his generation, and his musical style influenced many 20th century composers...
  
  : Pavane, Op. 50
• 1946 Franck
  César Franck
  César-Auguste-Jean-Guillaume-Hubert Franck was a composer, pianist, organist, and music teacher who worked in Paris during his adult life....
  
  : Symphonic Variations, with Eileen Joyce
• 1946 Franck: Symphony in D Minor
• 1946 Ravel
  Maurice Ravel
  Joseph-Maurice Ravel was a French composer known especially for his melodies, orchestral and instrumental textures and effects...
  
  : Boléro
• 1946 Ravel: Daphnis and Chloe Suites 1 and 2
• 1946 Roussel
  Albert Roussel
  Albert Charles Paul Marie Roussel was a French composer. He spent seven years as a midshipman, turned to music as an adult, and became one of the most prominent French composers of the interwar period...
  
  : Petite Suite Op. 39
• 1946 Roussel: Suite in F
• 1946 Saint-Saëns
  Camille Saint-Saëns
  Charles-Camille Saint-Saëns was a French Late-Romantic composer, organist, conductor, and pianist. He is known especially for The Carnival of the Animals, Danse macabre, Samson and Delilah, Piano Concerto No. 2, Cello Concerto No. 1, Havanaise, Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso, and his Symphony...
  
  : Omphale's Spinning Wheel, Op. 31
• 1947 Beethoven
  Ludwig van Beethoven
  Ludwig van Beethoven was a German composer and pianist. A crucial figure in the transition between the Classical and Romantic eras in Western art music, he remains one of the most famous and influential composers of all time.Born in Bonn, then the capital of the Electorate of Cologne and part of...
  
  : Symphony No. 8 in F Major
• 1947 Debussy
  Claude Debussy
  Claude-Achille Debussy was a French composer. Along with Maurice Ravel, he was one of the most prominent figures working within the field of impressionist music, though he himself intensely disliked the term when applied to his compositions...
  
  : Ibéria
• 1947 Debussy: Berceuse héroïque
• 1947 d'Indy
  Vincent d'Indy
  Vincent d'Indy was a French composer and teacher.-Life:Paul Marie Théodore Vincent d'Indy was born in Paris into an aristocratic family of royalist and Catholic persuasion. He had piano lessons from an early age from his paternal grandmother, who passed him on to Antoine François Marmontel and...
  
  : Fervaal Prelude, Op. 40
• 1947 Fauré
  Gabriel Fauré
  Gabriel Urbain Fauré was a French composer, organist, pianist and teacher. He was one of the foremost French composers of his generation, and his musical style influenced many 20th century composers...
  
  : Pelléas et Mélisande Suite, Op. 80
• 1947 Mendelssohn
  Felix Mendelssohn
  Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Barthóldy , use the form 'Mendelssohn' and not 'Mendelssohn Bartholdy'. The Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians gives ' Felix Mendelssohn' as the entry, with 'Mendelssohn' used in the body text...
  
  : Symphony No. 5, "Reformation"
• 1947 Prokofiev
  Sergei Prokofiev
  Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev was a Russian composer, pianist and conductor who mastered numerous musical genres and is regarded as one of the major composers of the 20th century...
  
  : Symphony No. 1, Op. 25, Classical
• 1948 Berlioz: Le corsaire Overture, Op. 21
• 1948 Tchaikovsky
  Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
  Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (Russian: Пётр Ильи́ч Чайко́вский ; often "Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky" in English. His names are also transliterated "Piotr" or "Petr"; "Ilitsch", "Il'ich" or "Illyich"; and "Tschaikowski", "Tschaikowsky", "Chajkovskij"...
  
  : Symphony No. 6 in B Minor, Op.74
• 1949 Berlioz: Romeo and Juliet excerpts, Op. 9
• 1949 Berlioz: Les Troyens - Royal Hunt and Storm Music
• 1949 Ravel: Piano Concerto, Pianist: Nicole Henriot-Schweitzer

Recordings made with the Orchestre de la Societe des Concerts du Conservatoire for HMV

• 1939 Bloch
  Ernst Bloch
  Ernst Bloch was a German Marxist philosopher.Bloch was influenced by both Hegel and Marx and, as he always confessed, by novelist Karl May. He was also interested in music and art . He established friendships with Georg Lukács, Bertolt Brecht, Kurt Weill and Theodor W. Adorno...
  
  : Violin Concerto in A minor, Violinst: Joseph Szigeti
  Joseph Szigeti
  Joseph Szigeti was a Hungarian violinist.Born into a musical family, he spent his early childhood in a small town in Transylvania. He quickly proved himself to be a child prodigy on the violin, and moved to Budapest with his father to study with the renowned pedagogue Jenő Hubay...
  
  
• 1939 Ravel
  Maurice Ravel
  Joseph-Maurice Ravel was a French composer known especially for his melodies, orchestral and instrumental textures and effects...
  
  : Concerto for the Left Hand, Pianist: Alfred Cortot
  Alfred Cortot
  Alfred Denis Cortot was a Franco-Swiss pianist and conductor. He is one of the most renowned 20th-century classical musicians, especially valued for his poetic insight in Romantic period piano works, particularly those of Chopin and Schumann.-Early life and education:Born in Nyon, Vaud, in the...
  
  
• 1941 Delannoy
  Marcel Delannoy
  Marcel Delannoy was a French composer and critic. He wrote operas, ballets, orchestral works, vocal and chamber works, and film scores.-Life and career:...
  
  : La pantoufle de vair : Danse des négrillons et Apothéose (Grand Suite on the ballet, Cinderella) Violinst: Henri Merkel
• 1941 Delannoy: Sérénade concertante for Violin Violinst: Henri Merkel
• 1941 Gustave Samazeuilh: Nuit
• 1941 Samazeuilh: Rapsodia Portugesa Pianist: Marguerite Long
  Marguerite Long
  Marguerite Long was a French pianist and teacher.Marguerite Marie-Charlotte Long was born in Nîmes. She studied with Henri Fissot at the Paris Conservatoire, taking a premier prix in 1891, and privately with Antoine François Marmontel...
  
  
• 1941 Honegger
  Arthur Honegger
  Arthur Honegger was a Swiss composer, who was born in France and lived a large part of his life in Paris. He was a member of Les six. His most frequently performed work is probably the orchestral work Pacific 231, which is interpreted as imitating the sound of a steam locomotive.-Biography:Born...
  
  : La Danse des Morts with Jean-Louis Barrault, Odette Turba-Rabier, Charles Panzera and Elaine Schenneberg with chorus
• 1941 Mozart
  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart , baptismal name Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart , was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical era. He composed over 600 works, many acknowledged as pinnacles of symphonic, concertante, chamber, piano, operatic, and choral music...
  
  : Violin Concerto No. 5, K. 219, Violinist: Jacques Thibaud
  Jacques Thibaud
  Jacques Thibaud was a French violinist.Thibaud was born in Bordeaux and studied the violin with his father before entering the Paris Conservatoire at the age of thirteen. In 1896 he jointly won the conservatory's violin prize with Pierre Monteux...
  
  
• 1942 Debussy
  Claude Debussy
  Claude-Achille Debussy was a French composer. Along with Maurice Ravel, he was one of the most prominent figures working within the field of impressionist music, though he himself intensely disliked the term when applied to his compositions...
  
   La mer
  La mer
  "La mer" is French for "the sea", and is the name of:*La mer , an orchestral composition by Claude Debussy*La Mer , Champion racehorse*"La Mer" , a song by Charles Trenet, published in 1939 and first recorded by him in 1946...
  
  
• 1942 Honegger: Symphony No. 2
• 1942 Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 20, K. 466, Pianist: Jean Doyen
• 1942 Ravel
  Maurice Ravel
  Joseph-Maurice Ravel was a French composer known especially for his melodies, orchestral and instrumental textures and effects...
  
  : La valse
  La Valse
  La valse, un poème choréographique pour orchestre , is a work written by Maurice Ravel from February 1919 until 1920 ; it was conceived as a ballet but is now more often heard as a concert work...
  
  
• 1942 Ravel: Pavane for a Dead Princess
• 1942 Ravel: Concerto for the Left Hand, Pianist: Jacques Février
  Jacques Février
  Jacques Février was a French pianist and teacher.Jacques Février was born in Saint-Germain-en-Laye, the son of the composer Henry Février. He studied with Édouard Risler and Marguerite Long at the Paris Conservatoire, taking a premier prix in 1921...
  
  
• 1942 Tchaikovsky
  Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
  Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (Russian: Пётр Ильи́ч Чайко́вский ; often "Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky" in English. His names are also transliterated "Piotr" or "Petr"; "Ilitsch", "Il'ich" or "Illyich"; and "Tschaikowski", "Tschaikowsky", "Chajkovskij"...
  
  : Piano Concerto No. 1, Pianist: Kostia Kostantinov
• 1944 Beethoven
  Ludwig van Beethoven
  Ludwig van Beethoven was a German composer and pianist. A crucial figure in the transition between the Classical and Romantic eras in Western art music, he remains one of the most famous and influential composers of all time.Born in Bonn, then the capital of the Electorate of Cologne and part of...
  
  : Piano Concerto No. 5, Op. 73,The Emperor, Pianist: Marguerite Long
• 1946 Louis Aubert
  Louis Aubert
  Louis François Marie Aubert was a French composer.-Biography:Louis Aubert was a child prodigy. His parents, recognizing their son's musical talent, sent him to Paris to receive an education at an early age...
  
  : Habanera
• 1946 Chopin
  Frédéric Chopin
  Frédéric François Chopin was a Polish composer and virtuoso pianist. He is considered one of the great masters of Romantic music and has been called "the poet of the piano"....
  
   orchestrated by Louis Aubert
  Louis Aubert
  Louis François Marie Aubert was a French composer.-Biography:Louis Aubert was a child prodigy. His parents, recognizing their son's musical talent, sent him to Paris to receive an education at an early age...
  
  : La Nuit ensorcelée (Enchanted Night)
• 1946 Jolivet
  André Jolivet
  André Jolivet was a French composer. Known for his devotion to French culture and musical thought, Jolivet's music draws on his interest in acoustics and atonality as well as both ancient and modern influences in music, particularly on instruments used in ancient times...
  
  : Les Trois complaintes du soldat vaincu (Three Laments of the Defeated Soldier) Soloist: Pierre Bernac
  Pierre Bernac
  Pierre Bernac was a French baritone.Born Pierre Bertin in Paris on January 12, 1899, he studied with Reinhold von Wahrlich in Salzburg. he came to music relatively late and gave his first recital in 1921....
  
  

Recordings made with the Orchestre de la Societe des Concerts du Conservatoire for Oiseau-Lyre

• 1938 Haydn
  Joseph Haydn
  Franz Joseph Haydn , known as Joseph Haydn , was an Austrian composer, one of the most prolific and prominent composers of the Classical period. He is often called the "Father of the Symphony" and "Father of the String Quartet" because of his important contributions to these forms...
  
  : Sinfonia Concertante for Violin, Viola, Cello, Oboe and Basson

Recording made with the Paris Philharmonic for Polydor

• 1938 Ravel
  Maurice Ravel
  Joseph-Maurice Ravel was a French composer known especially for his melodies, orchestral and instrumental textures and effects...
  
  : Concerto for the Left Hand, Pianist: Jacqueline Blanchard
• 19?? Widor
  Charles-Marie Widor
  Charles-Marie Jean Albert Widor was a French organist, composer and teacher.-Life:Widor was born in Lyon, to a family of organ builders, and initially studied music there with his father, François-Charles Widor, titular organist of Saint-François-de-Sales from 1838 to 1889...
  
  : Fantasy for Piano and Orchestra, Pianist: M. Herrenschmidt

Recordings made with the Philadelphia Orchestra

Philadelphia Orchestra

The Philadelphia Orchestra is a symphony orchestra based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in the United States. One of the "Big Five" American orchestras, it was founded in 1900...

 for Columbia Records

Columbia Records

Columbia Records is an American record label, owned by Japan's Sony Music Entertainment, operating under the Columbia Music Group with Aware Records. It was founded in 1888, evolving from an earlier enterprise, the American Graphophone Company — successor to the Volta Graphophone Company...

 

• 1963 Berlioz
  Hector Berlioz
  Hector Berlioz was a French Romantic composer, best known for his compositions Symphonie fantastique and Grande messe des morts . Berlioz made significant contributions to the modern orchestra with his Treatise on Instrumentation. He specified huge orchestral forces for some of his works; as a...
  
  : La Damnation de Faust" - excerpts
• 1963 Fauré
  Gabriel Fauré
  Gabriel Urbain Fauré was a French composer, organist, pianist and teacher. He was one of the foremost French composers of his generation, and his musical style influenced many 20th century composers...
  
  : Pelléas et Mélisande Suite, Op. 80
• 1963 Ravel
  Maurice Ravel
  Joseph-Maurice Ravel was a French composer known especially for his melodies, orchestral and instrumental textures and effects...
  
  : Valses nobles et sentimentales

Broadcast of the Philadelphia Orchestra released on the Philadelphia Orchestra's Centennial Set

• 1963 Ravel
  Maurice Ravel
  Joseph-Maurice Ravel was a French composer known especially for his melodies, orchestral and instrumental textures and effects...
  
  : Daphnis et Chloé Suite No. 2

Recordings (Live) made with the Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra issued by Panton

Panton Records

Panton Records or PANTON was a Czechoslovakian and later Czech record label and music publishing house of the Czech Music Fund, founded in 1968.In Czechoslovakia it was one of the three major state-owned labels, the other two being Supraphon and Opus....

 

• 1967 Martinů
  Bohuslav Martinu
  Bohuslav Martinů was a prolific Czech composer of modern classical music. He was of Czech and Rumanian ancestry. Martinů wrote six symphonies, 15 operas, 14 ballet scores and a large body of orchestral, chamber, vocal and instrumental works. Martinů became a violinist in the Czech Philharmonic...
  
  : Symphony No. 6 Fantaisies Symphoniques

Broadcast of the RAI

RAI

RAI — Radiotelevisione italiana S.p.A. known until 1954 as Radio Audizioni Italiane, is the Italian state owned public service broadcaster controlled by the Ministry of Economic Development. Rai is the biggest television company in Italy...

 Symphony Orchestra released by Tahra

• 1951 Beethoven
  Ludwig van Beethoven
  Ludwig van Beethoven was a German composer and pianist. A crucial figure in the transition between the Classical and Romantic eras in Western art music, he remains one of the most famous and influential composers of all time.Born in Bonn, then the capital of the Electorate of Cologne and part of...
  
  : Symphony No. 6
  Symphony No. 6 (Beethoven)
  Symphony No. 6 in F major, Op. 68, also known as the Pastoral Symphony , is a symphony composed by Ludwig van Beethoven, and was completed in 1808...
  
   Pastorale
• 1951 Debussy
  Claude Debussy
  Claude-Achille Debussy was a French composer. Along with Maurice Ravel, he was one of the most prominent figures working within the field of impressionist music, though he himself intensely disliked the term when applied to his compositions...
  
  : La Mer

Recording made with the Rotterdam Philharmonic for Turnabout

Vox Records

VOX Records is a budget classical record label. The name is Latin for "voice."-History:Vox was founded in 1945, starting out with 78-rpm discs, specializing in licensed pressings of classical recordings made in Europe. It was one of the last major recording companies to adopt stereo recording,...

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• 1962 Franck
  César Franck
  César-Auguste-Jean-Guillaume-Hubert Franck was a composer, pianist, organist, and music teacher who worked in Paris during his adult life....
  
  : Symphony in D minor
• 1967 Beethoven
  Ludwig van Beethoven
  Ludwig van Beethoven was a German composer and pianist. A crucial figure in the transition between the Classical and Romantic eras in Western art music, he remains one of the most famous and influential composers of all time.Born in Bonn, then the capital of the Electorate of Cologne and part of...
  
  : Symphony No. 6
  Symphony No. 6 (Beethoven)
  Symphony No. 6 in F major, Op. 68, also known as the Pastoral Symphony , is a symphony composed by Ludwig van Beethoven, and was completed in 1808...
  
   Pastorale

Recording made with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra is a British orchestra based in London. It tours widely, and is sometimes referred to as "Britain's national orchestra"...

 for Reader's Digest

• 1963 Bizet
  Georges Bizet
  Georges Bizet formally Alexandre César Léopold Bizet, was a French composer, mainly of operas. In a career cut short by his early death, he achieved few successes before his final work, Carmen, became one of the most popular and frequently performed works in the entire opera repertory.During a...
  
  : Symphony in C
  Symphony in C (Bizet)
  The Symphony in C is an early work by the French composer Georges Bizet. According to Grove's Dictionary, the symphony "reveals an extraordinarily accomplished talent for an 17-year-old student, in melodic invention, thematic handling and orchestration." Bizet started work on the symphony on 29...
  
  
• 1963 Tchaikovsky
  Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
  Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (Russian: Пётр Ильи́ч Чайко́вский ; often "Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky" in English. His names are also transliterated "Piotr" or "Petr"; "Ilitsch", "Il'ich" or "Illyich"; and "Tschaikowski", "Tschaikowsky", "Chajkovskij"...
  
  : Francesca da Rimini
  Francesca da Rimini (Tchaikovsky)
  Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's symphonic poem Francesca da Rimini: Symphonic Fantasy after Dante, Op. 32, was composed in less than three weeks during his visit to Bayreuth in the autumn of 1876....
  
  , Op.32

Broadcast of the Symphony of the Air released by Music & Arts

• 1957 Debussy
  Claude Debussy
  Claude-Achille Debussy was a French composer. Along with Maurice Ravel, he was one of the most prominent figures working within the field of impressionist music, though he himself intensely disliked the term when applied to his compositions...
  
  : La Mer

Recordings Lacking Full Information

• 19?? Delannoy
  Marcel Delannoy
  Marcel Delannoy was a French composer and critic. He wrote operas, ballets, orchestral works, vocal and chamber works, and film scores.-Life and career:...
  
  : Sérénade Concertante for Violin & Orchestra, Violinist: Lola Bobesco, Orchestra:?, Malibran
• 19?? Delannoy: Grand Suite de La Pantoufle de Vair Danse de négrillons, Violinist: Lola Bobesco, Orchestra:?, Malibran

DVD with the Boston Symphony on ICA

• 1958 Claude Debussy
  Claude Debussy
  Claude-Achille Debussy was a French composer. Along with Maurice Ravel, he was one of the most prominent figures working within the field of impressionist music, though he himself intensely disliked the term when applied to his compositions...
  
  : La Mer
• 1958 Ravel
  Maurice Ravel
  Joseph-Maurice Ravel was a French composer known especially for his melodies, orchestral and instrumental textures and effects...
  
  : Mother Goose Suite
• 1959 Beethoven
  Ludwig van Beethoven
  Ludwig van Beethoven was a German composer and pianist. A crucial figure in the transition between the Classical and Romantic eras in Western art music, he remains one of the most famous and influential composers of all time.Born in Bonn, then the capital of the Electorate of Cologne and part of...
  
  : Symphony No. 5
  Symphony No. 5 (Beethoven)
  The Symphony No. 5 in C minor, Op. 67, was written by Ludwig van Beethoven in 1804–08. This symphony is one of the most popular and best-known compositions in all of classical music, and one of the most often played symphonies. It comprises four movements: an opening sonata, an andante, and a fast...
  
   in C minor, op. 67
• 1959 Fauré
  Gabriel Fauré
  Gabriel Urbain Fauré was a French composer, organist, pianist and teacher. He was one of the foremost French composers of his generation, and his musical style influenced many 20th century composers...
  
  : Pelléas et Mélisande Suite, Op. 80
• 1960 Beethoven
  Ludwig van Beethoven
  Ludwig van Beethoven was a German composer and pianist. A crucial figure in the transition between the Classical and Romantic eras in Western art music, he remains one of the most famous and influential composers of all time.Born in Bonn, then the capital of the Electorate of Cologne and part of...
  
  : Creatures of Prometheus, excerpts, op. 43
• 1960 Richard Wagner
  Richard Wagner
  Wilhelm Richard Wagner was a German composer, conductor, theatre director, philosopher, music theorist, poet, essayist and writer primarily known for his operas...
  
  : Die Meistersinger – Act III Excerpts
• 1961 Beethoven
  Ludwig van Beethoven
  Ludwig van Beethoven was a German composer and pianist. A crucial figure in the transition between the Classical and Romantic eras in Western art music, he remains one of the most famous and influential composers of all time.Born in Bonn, then the capital of the Electorate of Cologne and part of...
  
  : Symphony No. 4
  Symphony No. 4 (Beethoven)
  Symphony No. 4 in B Flat Major , is a symphony by Ludwig van Beethoven, written in the summer of 1806. It was premiered in March of 1807 at a private concert of the home of Prince Franz Joseph von Lobkowitz...
  
   in B flat major, op. 60
• 1961 Claude Debussy
  Claude Debussy
  Claude-Achille Debussy was a French composer. Along with Maurice Ravel, he was one of the most prominent figures working within the field of impressionist music, though he himself intensely disliked the term when applied to his compositions...
  
  : Ibéria
• 1961 Franck
  César Franck
  César-Auguste-Jean-Guillaume-Hubert Franck was a composer, pianist, organist, and music teacher who worked in Paris during his adult life....
  
  : Symphony in D Minor

DVD with the Boston Symphony on NHK

• 1960 Japanese National Anthem: Kimi Ga Yo
• 1960 Francis Scott Key
  Francis Scott Key
  Francis Scott Key was an American lawyer, author, and amateur poet, from Georgetown, who wrote the lyrics to the United States' national anthem, "The Star-Spangled Banner".-Life:...
  
  : Star Spangled Banner
• 1960 Beethoven
  Ludwig van Beethoven
  Ludwig van Beethoven was a German composer and pianist. A crucial figure in the transition between the Classical and Romantic eras in Western art music, he remains one of the most famous and influential composers of all time.Born in Bonn, then the capital of the Electorate of Cologne and part of...
  
  : Symphony No. 3
  Symphony No. 3 (Beethoven)
  Ludwig van Beethoven's Symphony No. 3 in E flat major , also known as the Eroica , is a landmark musical work marking the full arrival of the composer's "middle-period," a series of unprecedented large scale works of emotional depth and structural rigor.The symphony is widely regarded as a mature...
  
   in E-Flat Major, Op. 55
• 1960 Ravel
  Maurice Ravel
  Joseph-Maurice Ravel was a French composer known especially for his melodies, orchestral and instrumental textures and effects...
  
  : Daphnis et Chloé Suite No. 2

DVD with the Boston Symphony on VAI

• 1962 Berlioz
  Hector Berlioz
  Hector Berlioz was a French Romantic composer, best known for his compositions Symphonie fantastique and Grande messe des morts . Berlioz made significant contributions to the modern orchestra with his Treatise on Instrumentation. He specified huge orchestral forces for some of his works; as a...
  
  : Symphonie Fantastique
• 1962 Debussy
  Claude Debussy
  Claude-Achille Debussy was a French composer. Along with Maurice Ravel, he was one of the most prominent figures working within the field of impressionist music, though he himself intensely disliked the term when applied to his compositions...
  
  : La Mer
• 1962 Ravel
  Maurice Ravel
  Joseph-Maurice Ravel was a French composer known especially for his melodies, orchestral and instrumental textures and effects...
  
  : Daphnis et Chloé Suite No. 2
• 1966 Berlioz: L'Enfance du Christ with the Harvard Glee Club
  Harvard Glee Club
  The Harvard Glee Club is a 60-voice, all-male choral ensemble at Harvard University. Founded in 1858 in the tradition of English and American glee clubs, it is the oldest collegiate chorus in the US. The Glee Club is part of the Holden Choruses of Harvard University, which also include the...
  
   and Radcliffe Choral Society
  Radcliffe Choral Society
  The Radcliffe Choral Society is a 60-voice all-female choral ensemble at Harvard University. Founded in 1899, it is one of the country's oldest women's chorus and one of its most prominent collegiate choirs. With the all-male Harvard Glee Club and the mixed-voice Harvard-Radcliffe Collegium...
  
   and Soloists Donald Gramm
  Donald Gramm
  Donald Gramm was an American bass-baritone whose career was divided between opera and concert performances. His appearances were primarily limited to the United States, which at the time was unusual for an American singer...
  
  , Florence Kopleff
  Florence Kopleff
  Florence Kopleff is an American contralto.She was born in New York City.She began her career in 1941 when she was in her senior year of high school. She has been very active as a concert and oratorio singer, appearing and recording with many of the great conductors of her era, particularly as a...
  
  , Donald Meanders, John McCollum
  John McCollum
  John McCollum is an American tenor who had an active singing career in operas, concerts, and recitals during the 1950s through the 1970s. As an opera singer he performed with companies throughout North America, mostly working with second tier opera houses...
  
  , and Theodore Uppman

DVD with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra on VAI

• 1963 Berlioz
  Hector Berlioz
  Hector Berlioz was a French Romantic composer, best known for his compositions Symphonie fantastique and Grande messe des morts . Berlioz made significant contributions to the modern orchestra with his Treatise on Instrumentation. He specified huge orchestral forces for some of his works; as a...
  
  : Les Troyens - Royal Hunt and Storm Music
• 1963 Rameau orchestrated by d'Indy
  Vincent d'Indy
  Vincent d'Indy was a French composer and teacher.-Life:Paul Marie Théodore Vincent d'Indy was born in Paris into an aristocratic family of royalist and Catholic persuasion. He had piano lessons from an early age from his paternal grandmother, who passed him on to Antoine François Marmontel and...
  
  : Dardanus Suite
• 1963 Ravel
  Maurice Ravel
  Joseph-Maurice Ravel was a French composer known especially for his melodies, orchestral and instrumental textures and effects...
  
  : La Valse
• 1963 Ravel: Valses nobles et sentimentales

DVD with the Orchestre National de l'ORTF on EMI

• 1966 Brahms
  Johannes Brahms
  Johannes Brahms was a German composer and pianist, and one of the leading musicians of the Romantic period. Born in Hamburg, Brahms spent much of his professional life in Vienna, Austria, where he was a leader of the musical scene...
  
  : Symphony No. 1 in C Minor, Op. 68 (Movements II through IV only)
• 1966 Ravel
  Maurice Ravel
  Joseph-Maurice Ravel was a French composer known especially for his melodies, orchestral and instrumental textures and effects...
  
  : Daphnis et Chloé Suite No. 2

DVD with the Orchestre de Radio-Canada on VAI

• 1963 Berlioz
  Hector Berlioz
  Hector Berlioz was a French Romantic composer, best known for his compositions Symphonie fantastique and Grande messe des morts . Berlioz made significant contributions to the modern orchestra with his Treatise on Instrumentation. He specified huge orchestral forces for some of his works; as a...
  
  : Symphonie Fantastique

DVD The Art of Conducting Volume II on EMI

• 1957 Franck
  César Franck
  César-Auguste-Jean-Guillaume-Hubert Franck was a composer, pianist, organist, and music teacher who worked in Paris during his adult life....
  
  : Symphony in D Minor - excerpts with the Czech Philharmonic
• 1962 Berlioz
  Hector Berlioz
  Hector Berlioz was a French Romantic composer, best known for his compositions Symphonie fantastique and Grande messe des morts . Berlioz made significant contributions to the modern orchestra with his Treatise on Instrumentation. He specified huge orchestral forces for some of his works; as a...
  
  : Symphonie Fantastique - excerpts with Boston Symphony
• 1962 Debussy
  Claude Debussy
  Claude-Achille Debussy was a French composer. Along with Maurice Ravel, he was one of the most prominent figures working within the field of impressionist music, though he himself intensely disliked the term when applied to his compositions...
  
  : La Mer - excerpts with Boston Symphony
• 1962 Ravel
  Maurice Ravel
  Joseph-Maurice Ravel was a French composer known especially for his melodies, orchestral and instrumental textures and effects...
  
  : Daphnis et Chloé Suite No. 2 - excerpts with Boston Symphony
• 1966 Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique - excerpts with the Hungarian Radio and Television Orchestra