Charles Munch conducts Beethoven

Some of the most expert playing here comes in the Beethoven Symphonies, in which strings demonstrate effortless synchronisation and winds pass phrases between one another seamlessly....[Munch]... — BBC Music Magazine, July 2011, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 7th Feb 2011
Catalogue No: ICAD5016
Label: ica classics
Series: Legacy

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Beethoven: The Creatures of Prometheus, Op. 43: excerpts

Sanders Theatre, Harvard University, 8 March 1960
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Charles Munch

Beethoven: Symphony No. 4 in B flat major, Op. 60

Sanders Theatre, Harvard University, 18 April 1961
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Charles Munch

Beethoven: Symphony No. 5 in C minor, Op. 67

Sanders Theatre, Harvard University 3 November 1959
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Charles Munch

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Access to the publicly broadcast BSO concerts from this era has been extremely difficult even for researchers. This series of DVDs will make these performances available for the first time since they were broadcast. Munch launched the BSO into television in 1955. He was an immensely popular conductor and well suited to being filmed.

This material represents some of the earliest televised concerts with the Boston Symphony and Charles Munch, and has been restored using the greatest care and state-of-the-art techniques. It is of exceptional musical interest and historical value.

This performance of extracts from The Creatures of Prometheus is a rare one, Munch having only conducted the ballet at the BSO in one season (four performances in total).

In addition to the overture, Munch added two further movements from the ballet, which are not performed as frequently. According to Richard Dyer, Munch’s performance of the Fourth Symphony is both fiery and fun, gracious and exhilarating. The fifth symphony perfectly encompasses Munch’s exuberance and panache.

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Sound format: LCPM mono

Picture format: 4:3

Running time: 83’

Subtitles: n/a

Menu languages: English

Booklet languages: E/F/G

Region code: 0

Territory Restrictions: None

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July 2011

Some of the most expert playing here comes in the Beethoven Symphonies, in which strings demonstrate effortless synchronisation and winds pass phrases between one another seamlessly....[Munch] seems perpetually engaged and is liable to break into a grin or ecstatic grimace at any moment.

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