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【CD1】 ベートーヴェン:1序曲「献呈式」、2交響曲第5番、3「プロメテウスの創造物」アダージョ、4「フィデリオ」序曲、5「レオノーレ」序曲第3番 【CD2】 モーツァルト:1「ドン・ジョヴァンニ」序曲、2交響曲第35番「ハフナー」、3ピアノ協奏曲第12番~第2、3楽章、4「魔笛」序曲、5「後宮からの逃走」序曲、6グルック:「アウリドのイフィゲニア」序曲、7ハイドン:交響曲第88番 【CD3】 R.シュトラウス:1ドン・ファン、2死と変容、3ティル・オイレンシュピーゲルの愉快ないたずら、4「ばらの騎士」組曲 【CD4】 ワーグナー:1「パルシファル」~前奏曲と聖金曜日の音楽、2「マイスタージンガー」第1幕前奏曲、3「マイスタージンガー」~師弟たちの踊りと名歌手の入場、4「さまよえるオランダ人」序曲、5「トリスタンとイゾルデ」~前奏曲と愛の死 【CD5】 ワーグナー:1「ワルキューレ」~ヴォータンの別れと魔の炎の音楽、2「ジークフリート」~森のささやき、3「神々の黄昏」~ジークフリート、ラインへの旅、4「リエンツィ」序曲、リスト:5交響詩「前奏曲」、6ハンガリー狂詩曲第2番 【CD6】 ベルリオーズ:1「ローマの謝肉祭」序曲、2「トロヤヌス」前奏曲、3「キリストの幼時」より「エジプトへの逃避」序曲(2本のフルートとハープによるトリオ)、4「ファウストの劫罰」より「鬼火」、「妖精の踊り」、ハンガリー行進曲、5「ロメオとジュリエット」より「序曲」、「ロメオ独り」、「カプレの祭り」、「愛の場面」、6序曲「海賊」 【CD7】 メンデルスゾーン:1「フィンガルの洞窟」序曲、2交響曲第4番 イ長調「イタリア」、3「ルイ・ブラス」序曲 4チャイコフスキー:幻想序曲「ロメオとジュリエット」 5ブラームス:ワルツ集(ヘルツ編;管弦楽版) より第1,2,11,14,15番 【CD8】 1ロッシーニ:「アルジェのイタリア女」序曲 ブラームス:2交響曲第1番~第2楽章、3悲劇的序曲 4トマ:「ミニョン」序曲、5デュカス:交響詩「魔法使いの弟子」、 6メシアン:キリストの昇天、7シベリウス:悲しきワルツ、 8ウェーバー:「オイリアンテ」序曲、9スーザ:星条旗よ永遠なれ 【CD9】 1ボロディン:「イーゴリ公」だったん人の踊り、 リムスキー=コルサコフ:2「クリスマス・イヴ」組曲、3「ロシアの復活祭」序曲、4スペイン奇想曲、 5グラズノフ:バレエの情景、 6ラフマニノフ:交響曲第2番~第2、3楽章 【CD10】 フランク:1前奏曲、コラールとフーガ(ピエルネ編;管弦楽版)、2交響詩「贖罪」、3「プシシェ」組曲、4交響曲 ニ短調 【CD11】 1グレトリー:「セファールとクロシス」、2ニコライ:「ウィンザーの陽気な女房」序曲、3マスネ:「フェードル」序曲、4ファリャ:「三角帽子」組曲、5ロッシーニ:「ウィリアム・テル」序曲、6ワーグナー:「タンホイザー」序曲、7レスピーギ:「ローマの噴水」 【CD12】 1ベートーヴェン
Product Description
Is this ever a generous sampling of Pierre Monteux and the San Francisco Symphony! Music and Arts' Sunday Evenings with Pierre Monteux collects broadcast performances from Monteux's lengthy engagement with the Standard Hour program, heard on NBC's Pacific Radio Network from 1941 to 1952. This show aired on Sunday evenings, sponsored by Standard Oil (the predecessor to Chevron), and it featured West Coast orchestras exclusively. Monteux was heard in San Francisco during the winter and spring, and in summer and fall, another orchestra (usually the Los Angeles Philharmonic) was heard in his stead. There was a strict rule about timing; each work played had to be 20 minutes or less, but no more. Although this constraint prevented longer works, such as would be expected in the concert hall, from being programmed, it did afford Monteux flexibility in programming short pieces of a greater variety than that observed on his concurrent RCA Victor studio recordings, which are heavily weighted toward French and Russian literature. The length of this set is nearly equal to that of BMG's huge Pierre Monteux Edition issued in 1994 at 14 discs; this is in 10 discs and runs nearly a 1,000 minutes. Whole discs within the collection are given over to Beethoven, Richard Strauss, Berlioz, Franck, and nearly two for Wagner performances. Also included is a Haydn Symphony No. 88, George Whitefield Chadwick's Jubilee, Rimsky-Korsakov's Christmas Eve Suite, Messiaen's L'Ascension, and several other rare works, including many that Monteux did not commercially record. There was a prior incarnation of this set issued in 1997 at only 10 discs; this one adds the discs Lollipops and Monteux as Accompanist to concert artists such as Lili Kraus and Shura Cherkassky, and Finale, which is a grab bag of stuff. It is here where one will find the Chadwick, a Mozart "Jupiter" Symphony, and an aria from Franco Alfano's Risurrezione sung by radio and early television mainstay Dorothy Warenskjold. The sound, taken from transcription discs in the library of the Pierre Monteux School in Hancock, ME, is mono in its entirety and somewhat limited even by the standards in place, say, by 1953. However, the transfers are all very clean and first-rate -- there is little to no source disc related noise among all 13 discs included. There is a noticeable improvement in the sound from mid-1950 on, as Standard Oil petitioned successfully -- the only sponsor that cared enough to do so -- against NBC to replace its company-made "ribbon" microphones with more responsive Altec Lansing models. Overall, compared to RCA Victor's typically bright, brittle, and distorted studio recordings from San Francisco, the recordings in this set are at least comparable to, and at times better than, Monteux's commercial recordings of the same period. This is a lot of Monteux, but there are considerable rewards -- the sheer looseness and spontaneity of his montage of bleeding chunks from Act III of Die Meistersinger is joyful and tremendously exciting orchestral music-making. If the Monteux Edition on BMG and Decca's Original Masters set (seven discs) are not enough Monteux for you, then Music and Arts' Sunday Evenings with Pierre Monteux is the next logical step. However, if you missed those other sets, then this may well be the best place to start. Of the three sets just mentioned, this one by far has the best liner notes, written by longtime San Francisco-based critic Arthur Bloomfield. ~ Uncle Dave Lewis , Rovi