Charles Munch Conducts Romantic Favourites
Product Number: WHRA6017
Artist: Charles Munch; Boston Symphony Orchestra
Disc One: Schumann: Cello Concerto in A minor, Op.129 (12/6/57) Pierre Fournier, cello; Symphony No.4 in D minor, Op.120 (10/26/56); R. Strauss: Tod und Verklärung (Death and Transfiguration) (10/6/51); Disc Two: Brahms: Concerto for Violin, Cello and Orchestra A minor, Op.120 (4/13/56) Zino Francescatti, violin, Samuel Mayes, cello; Symphony No.2 in D, Op.73 (9/30/55)'; Disc Three: Brahms: Academic Festival Overture, Op.80 (12/6/57); Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No.1 in D minor, Op.15 (1/20/56) Rudolph Serkin, piano; Disc Four: Dvorák: Symphony No.9 in E minor, "From the New World", Op.95 (10/8/54); R. Strauss: Don Juan - Tone Poem after Lenau, Op.20 (9/30/55); Disc Five: R.Strauss: Orchestral Songs (11/12/54) All ersellen; Wiegenlied; Morgen; Ständchen - Irmgard Seefried, soprano; Ein Heldenleben, Op.40 (2/15/57) Richard Burgin, violin; Divertimento (after Couperin), Op.86 (7/26/53)[brief bits missing on original transcription discs]
Public performances with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, 1951-57.