monteux conducts the LONDON SYMPHONY Debussy Prelude Ravel Pavane DECCA / ALTO
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monteux conducts the LONDON SYMPHONY
Debussy Prélude À L'Après-Midi D'Un Faune / Nocturnes Ravel Rapsodie Espagnole / Pavane Pour Une Infante Défunte DECCA/Alto SXL.2312
Tracklist
A1 Prélude À L'Après-Midi D'Un Faune Nocturnes A2a 1. Nuages A2b 2. FêtesRapsodie Espagnole B1a 1. Prélude À La Nuit B1b 2. Malangueña B1c 3. Habanera B1d 4. Feria B2 Pavane Pour Une Infante Défunte
- Composed By – Debussy* (tracks: A1, A2), Ravel* (tracks: B1, B2)
- Conductor – Pierre Monteux
- Liner Notes – Erik Smith
- Orchestra – The London Symphony Orchestra
Notes
© The Decca Record Co. Ltd., 1962• 180 g Virgin Vinyl
• High Quality Pressing
• Audiophile Mastering
On labels:
Exclusively manufactured for Alto High-Fidelity and FMS Fenn Music Service GmbH
First cat. no. on cover, second and third on labels
Barcode and Other Identifiers
- Barcode (on shrink wrap): 4260019710345
- Matrix / Runout (runout stamped side A): ZAL 5431
- Matrix / Runout (runout stamped side B): ZAL 5432
(Web review)
The original 1960s Decca recordings sound quite well for their age, offering clarity, spaciousness, and wide dynamics. Monteux’s sensitive, colorful performances reveal his deep immersion in the Debussyian idiom. He’s not so incisive as Charles Munch in Images, offering instead a more relaxed interpretation that revels in Ibéria’s Spanish coloring, while Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun passes by like a serene interlude.
Nuages also flows effortlessly and unrushed, allowing for Debussy’s tangy harmonies to fully emerge, and Fêtes sparkles with vibrant energy. Monteux does these first two Nocturnes so well that you wish he’d recorded the remaining Sirènes movement. (Munch also did not, neither did Bernstein. Was it out of fashion at the time? Then someone should have told Ansermet.)
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