COMPLETE RECORDINGS ON WARNER CLASSICS

Charles Munch - The Complete Warner Classics These 13CDs containing Munch s entire Warner Classics catalogue comprise recordings made between i) 1935 and 1949 (CD7-13) and ii) 1965 and 1968 ((the year of the conductor s death CD1-6). ü The repertoire on the 13 CDs is wide-ranging - from the Baroque era to the mid-20th century (Bach and Vivaldi to Dutilleux and Jolivet) and from core repertoire to rarities. ü The 78 RPM era recordings find here their first original complete edition and they include numerous official premieres on CD. ü Roussel s Suite in F recoreded for Erato is released here for the first time on CD ü The Berlioz Symphonie fantastique with the Orchestre de Paris was recorded a few days before the first concert of the orchestra: the first notes ever played by the Orchestre de Paris. Jean-Charles Hoffelé in his note for the boxset sums up Munch s style thus: quot.. his frenetic rhythms his enormously varied palette of intense colours.. his unerring feeling for a crescendo all the subtle accents and phrasing that make his performances speak directly to the audience and above all an irrepressible sense of movement..quot;.