Boston Symphony Orchestra
The Boston Symphony Orchestra is one of the most prominent U.S. symphonic ensembles, with deep roots in the Germanic practices that formed the model for American orchestral culture. The orchestra's catalogue of recordings on the RCA Victor label in the middle of the 20th century, artistically ambitious and sonically top-notch thanks to the ambiance of Boston's magnificent Symphony Hall, continue to set a standard. The Boston Symphony Orchestra was formed in 1881 with principal support from banker Henry Lee Higginson, who also spearheaded the construction of Symphony Hall and its opening in 1900. Its membership consisted largely of German-trained musician, and its first conductor, George Henschel, was a friend of Brahms. Subsequent conductors were German or, in the case of Arthur Nikisch, Hungarian. Especially important was Karl Muck, a former conductor of the Berlin Court Opera (now the Berlin State Opera), who led the orchestra from 1906 to 1908, and again from 1912 to 1918 after the leadership of Max Fiedler in the interim. Muck stepped down and was held in an internment camp in Georgia after espousing pro-German sympathies during World War I. But beginning with Pierre Monteux in 1919, the Boston Symphony boasted a series of internationally renowned and non-German conductors. Monteux was French; Serge Koussevitsky, who led the orchestra from 1924 to 1949, was Russian and a towering figure who commissioned numerous modern works and led the world premieres of Stravinsky's Symphony of Psalms and Bartók's Concerto for Orchestra, among many other now-standard works, and founded the annual Tanglewood Music Festival and its associated talent-development classes, with the BSO in residence. Koussevitsky was succeeded by Alsatian-French Charles Münch (1949-1963) and the Austrian-Jewish Erich Leinsdorf, whose RCA recordings were central to collections in the LP era in the U.S. Leinsdorf was succeeded for several years by the ailing William Steinberg and in 1973 by Japanese-born Seiji Ozawa, whose leadership was artistically controversial but long, and also marked by significant recordings, mostly on the Deutsche Grammophon label. Another conductor with an operatic background, James Levine, followed Ozawa in 2002; he stepped down due to ill health and Latvian conductor Andris Nelsons, who had taken on Mahler's vast Symphony No. 8 ("Symphony of a Thousand") as an emergency replacement for Levine, was named conductor. His contract has been extended through 2022, and he has led the orchestra in new recordings with Deutsche Grammophon, including a live cycle of the symphonies of Dmitri Shostakovich. A notable feature of the orchestra's musical life is the existence of the Boston Pops light music orchestra, with personnel drawn from the ranks of the BSO; under conductor Arthur Fiedler (son of Max), that group attained unprecedented popularity on American radio and television as well as in live concerts. The Boston Symphony Orchestra has also been heard on the scores of two films by director Steven Spielberg, Schindler's List and Saving Private Ryan, with the scores' composer, John Williams, as conductor.
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Sibelius: Symphonies Nos. 3, 6 & 7
Boston Symphony Orchestra, Sir Colin Davis
Classique - Paru chez Decca Music Group Ltd. le 1 janv. 1991
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Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade, Op. 35; Capriccio espagnol, Op. 34
Joseph Silverstein, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Seiji Ozawa, Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, Neeme Järvi
Classique - Paru chez Deutsche Grammophon (DG) le 1 janv. 2000
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Boston Symphony Orchestra: Brahms & Fauré
Classique - Paru chez UME - Global Clearing House le 18 juil. 2023
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Basic Richard Strauss
Classique - Paru chez Deutsche Grammophon (DG) le 1 janv. 1994
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Boston Symphony Orchestra - Tchaikovsky, Dvořák & Stravinsky
Classique - Paru chez Warner Classics le 4 mars 2022
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Leonid Kogan, Vol. 1: Brahms & Mozart Violin Concertos (Live)
Announcer, 1958 - Boston Symphony Hall, Leonid Kogan, Pierre Monteux, Dimitri Mitropoulos, Boston Symphony Orchestra, New York Philharmonic
Classique - Paru chez DOREMI le 8 avr. 2008
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Claudio Arrau plays Beethoven Piano Concertos
Claudio Arrau, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Charles Munch, Pierre Monteux
Classique - Paru chez West Hill Radio Archives le 12 nov. 2012
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Gubaidulina : Offertorium - Hommage à T.S. Eliot
Gidon Kremer, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Charles Dutoit
Classique - Paru chez Deutsche Grammophon (DG) le 1 janv. 1989
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Debussy: La damoiselle élue - Berlioz: Les nuits d'été (Mono Version)
Victoria de los Angeles, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Charles Munch
Classique - Paru chez BNF Collection le 1 janv. 1955
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Prokofiev: Peter and the Wolf / Sibelius: Symphony No. 2 (Koussevitzky) (1950)
Eleanor Roosevelt, Serge Koussevitzky, Boston Symphony Orchestra
Classique - Paru chez Naxos le 29 juil. 2008
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Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 in D Minor, Op. 125 "Choral"
Classique - Paru chez Archipel le 11 févr. 2022
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Dukas: L'apprenti sorcier - Saint-Saëns: Le rouet d'Omphale & Ravel: Ma mère l'oye (Mono Version)
Charles Munch, Boston Symphony Orchestra
Divers - Paru chez BNF Collection le 1 janv. 1959
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Felix Mendelsohnn; Symphonies (Conducted by Charles Munch)
Musique symphonique - Paru chez Maxel le 20 oct. 2021
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Ravel: Boléro & Mother Goose Suite (Mono Version)
Serge Koussevitzky, Boston Symphony Orchestra
Divers - Paru chez BNF Collection le 1 janv. 1960
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Tchaikovsky, Prokofiev & Shostakovich: Orchestral Works
Boston Symphony Orchestra, Serge Koussevitzky
Classique - Paru chez Biddulph Recordings le 1 janv. 1999
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Roger Sessions: When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd
Classique - Paru chez New World Records le 1 janv. 1977
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Bartók: Concerto for Orchestra; The Miraculous Mandarin
Seiji Ozawa, Boston Symphony Orchestra
Classique - Paru chez Decca Music Group Ltd. le 1 avr. 1995
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Boston Symphony Orchestra: Gounod, Offenbach & Fauré
Boston Symphony Orchestra, Seiji Ozawa
Classique - Paru chez UME - Global Clearing House le 19 mars 2024
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Shostakovich: Symphonies Nos. 9 & 5 (Live) [Remastered 2022]
Boston Symphony Orchestra, Sergei Koussevitzky
Classique - Paru chez Archipel le 4 nov. 2022
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Koussevitzky conducts Rachmaninov and Mussorgsky
Boston Symphony Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Vladimir Horowitz, Sergei Koussevitzky
Classique - Paru chez Archipel le 10 sept. 2021
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Mendelssohn: Symphonie No. 4 "Italienne" (Mono Version)
Serge Koussevitzky, Boston Symphony Orchestra
Divers - Paru chez BNF Collection le 1 janv. 1952
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo