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Short description This edition contains Pierre Monteux's s for Decca, Philips, Westminster and Decca/RCA between 1956 and 1963. For the first time, this comprehensive edition reflects the entire breadth of his repertoire and documents the freshness of his music-making as well as his loyalty to the score. In his long and highly successful career, he took on numerous leading positions in the Ballet Russes (1911-14), the Metropolitan Opera (1917-19), as well as for the Boston Symphony Orchestra (1919-24), the Amsterdam Concertgebouw Orchestra (1924-34), the Orchestre Symphonique de Paris (1929-38), the San Francisco Symphony (1929-38) 1936—52 ) and finally the London Symphony Orchestra (1961 until his death in 1963). In addition to formative s such as Beethoven's symphony cycle, Stravinsky's ballet suites and other great moments of the orchestral repertoire, this edition contains rare rehearsal s by the conductor, which document the care he invested in his preparation, how much respect he paid to the orchestral musicians and what high demands he placed on them. “Pierre Monteux: Complete Decca s” offers a contemporary return to the musical values of an outstanding conductor. Review “His s, on the other hand, which show him as an immensely subtle interpreter, not least in the field of Berlioz, Stravinsky, Debussy and Ravel's music, are mostly almost forgotten. Monteux, who debuted as a conductor at the age of 15 and appeared with 12-year-old Alfred Cortot, did not just caprate himself on all the composers whose works he premiered. These include Stravinsky's “Le sacre du printemps” and “Petrushka”, as well as Ravel's “Daphnis et Chloé”, all of which he recorded again between 1956 and 1963 for the labels Decca, Philips and Westminster. His completely unfalsified approach to the symphonies of Haydn, Beethoven, Brahms and Sibelius, which is also based on French clarté, is equally reflected in the s with the London Symphony Orchestra, the Wiener Philharmoniker and the Amsterdam Concertgebouw Orchestra, among others. This box is therefore an overdue memory of a great conductor.” Guido Fischer, Rondo