DVD Video, Charles Munch (conductor)
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Special offer. Charles Munch conducts Wagner, Franck & Fauré
Boston Symphony Orchestra, Charles Munch
Munch was noted for his performances of French music and the [Franck] is treasure indeed...searing, warm-blooded and slightly brisker than Monteux's benchmark recording made the same year with... — More…
Awards:
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Gramophone Awards, 2011, Shortlisted - DVD Performance
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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]... — More…
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Pierre Monteux & Charles Munch: Chicago Symphony Orchestra Historic Telecasts
Charles Munch, Pierre Monteux
Munch's Valses nobles is one of the very finest accounts of the piece we have heard...perfectly paced, much more relaxed than we hear nowadays and with plenty of time for the artists to breathe.... — More…
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he conveys a natural, relaxed, humane demeanour that justifies the nature of his physical activity...he shows himself to be a musician with both considerable expressive range and a direct, unaffected... — More…
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Special offer. Boston Symphony Orchestra & Charles Munch play Mendelssohn
Boston Symphony Orchestra, Charles Munch
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Berlioz: L'Enfance du Christ, Op. 25
Florence Kopleff (Marie), Theodor Uppman (Joseph), John McCollum (Narrator/Centurion), Donald Gramm (Polydorus/Herod/Father)
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Charles Munch
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Exhilarating performances of Mozart's Linz and Prague Symphonies and a splendid Handel Water Music, all from 1959-60. Occasional picture fuzziness. — More…
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Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique
Marilyn Horne (mezzo)
Orchestre de Radio-Canada, Orchestre Symphonique de Montreal, Charles Munch, Pierre Hetu