alphabetical index of composers

INTRODUCTION

While not one of the backbones of musical culture as it is in Germany, the symphony in France is an essential component of its compositional achievement. The number of French symphonies that are members of that exclusive club known as "the basic repertoire" is few but since the advent of the 19th century, French composers have produced a steady flow of important works in this pinnacle of orchestral genres. It is the aim of this discography to document all the recordings of French symphonies that have been issued on CDs and LPs.
The composers included in this discography are those born in or who came to live in France and wrote Symphonies from the beginning of the 19th century to the present that have been recorded.. A chronological structure has been used in order to show the progression of symphonic works from the early nineteenth century up to our own time. This chronology is based on the birth year of the composer rather than the year a symphony was written. A composer index is placed first so the reader can immediately go to any particular composer. As in the previous discographies in this series, no attempt has been made to list every release of every recording of each work. There have just been too many reissues, especially from the major labels, to make this feasible for many recordings. Instead, what are listed is the most current issue the author has located and the earliest release (if any on LP or CD) of that particular recording. In general, multi-disc compendium releases are omitted unless they contain a unique recording or the sole modern reissue of a previously released performance.
The entry for each composer consists of two sections. First there is a compact biographical paragraph that notes some essential information such as place of birth, higher musical education (including schools and prominent teachers), subsequent musical careers in addition to composing, details of other symphonies that have not been recorded and selective lists of other works for orchestra. Compositional styles are not discussed in these paragraphs and readers are referred to the bibliography where various reference books that cover this subject are listed.
The second part of each composer entry consists of lists of his or her symphonies that have been recorded and the various recordings of each work. Symphony is defined here as any work the composer has designated as such in its title including works called "sinfonia" or "sinfonietta." The works can be for full orchestra, chamber orchestra, strings, winds, brass or chorus and orchestra. For every symphony that has them, the opus number, key signature and title are noted and the year of composition is stated for all. The entries of the symphonies that have had multiple recordings are listed alphabetically by the conductor's name. (The one exception to this is Lalo's "Symphonie Espagnole" where the violinist takes predcence over the conductor because of the nature of the work.) Each listing of a recording consists of the following components (if known): (1) Performers (in this order if all are involved - conductor, soloists, choral group, orchestra), (2) Other works on the recording. (3) Label and catalogue number and year of issue and (4) If the recording is a reissue, the original LP or CD release and its year of issue. Please note that the performers listed are for the entry work and not necessarily for the works that it is coupled with. Also, in most instances when an entry work is included in a large collection (especially if most of the other works are not related to the discography's subject) the list of couplings is not given but replaced by the title of the collection.

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The symphony arrived in France during the eighteenth century. It came at a time when French music was almost entirely dominated by the opera. Gradually, however, instrumental music began to find its place after the composer André Danican Philidor had established concerts for this purpose at the Palace of the Tuilleries. Orchestral by French and foreign composers were conducted by such distinguished musician as Jean-Philippe Rameau and Anton Stamitz. The introduction of the Symphonies of Franz Joseph Haydn onto the Parisian musical scene was extremely influential and pointed the way for the symphony to become an important component of French music.
This discography commences with the last Symphony written by the Flemish-born composer François-Joseph Gossec as it is the first 19th century French Symphony that has been recorded. With the exception of the very personal Symphonies of Berlioz, the first half of the19th century was not a particularly fruitful time for this genre. Things picked up after mid-century with Gounod and Bizet and by the century's last two decades the golden age of French symphonism had arrived as exemplified by Franck's Symphony in D minor, Chausson's Symphony in B-flat, Dukas' Symphony in C and Saint-Saëns' "Organ" Symphony. This was followed by an early 20th century afterglow best represented by d'Indy, Ropartz, Magnard, Roussel and Honegger and an eventual decline in the composition of symphonies with only Messiaen's "Turangalîla-Symphonie" and the pair written by Dutilleux as the only later 20th century symphonies showing any signs of permanence in the concert hall.
Yet, as the pages ahead will demonstrate, there is a rich legacy of French symphonies that has been represented on recordings. There are also a substantial number of French symphonies that remain unknown, many of them, perhaps, rightly so. However, until the listening public gets a chance to hear them we will never know what we are missing. The author's personal French symphonies want-to-hear list is as follows:

Tony Aubin (1907-1981): Symphonies Nos. 1 and 2
Leon Boellmann (1862-1897): Symphony in F major
Francis Casadesus (1870-1954): Symphonie Scandinave and Symphony in E
Cecile Chaminade (1857-1944): Symphonie Lyrique "Les Amazones"
Jean-Michel Damase (b. 1928): Symphony
Gabriel Fauré (1845-1924): Symphony in D minor
Lucien Haudebert (1877-1963): Symphonie Bretonne
Vincent d'Indy (1851-1931): Jean Hunyade Symphonie
Paul Ladmirault (1877-1944): Symphony in C major
Paul Pierné (1874-1952): Symphonies Nos. 1 and 2
Henriette Puig-Roget (1910-1992): Sinfonia Andorrana
Henri Rabaud (1873-1949): Symphonies Nos. 1 and 2
Henri Tomasi (1901-1971): Symphony in C major and Symphonie du Tiers-Monde
Charles-Marie Widor (1944-1937): Symphonies Nos. 1 and 2
Georges Witkowski (1867-1943: Symphonies Nos. 1 and 2

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

I have received a lot of help in preparing this discography. First of all, Rob Barnett of MusicWeb helped eliminate a lot of errors by proofreading the entire work. I am very grateful to him as well as to Len Mullenger who has kindly hosted and prepared my Discographies for the MusicWeb International website and has patiently instructed me on the use of a software program that has made it easier for me get my work ready for the internet. Finally, the following people have given me some important information that I could not find on my own and I just want to express my sincere gratitude: Paul Brooks of the Barbirolli Society, Paul Snook, Chris Howell and Hubert Culot.

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Please note that all recordings listed are CDs unless specifically designated as LPs.
Finally, as this book is published online it can always be a work in progress as the author has the ability to amend the work when necessary with very little difficulty. A work of this type is bound to contain errors and omissions as so much material has been gathered from so many diverse sources. Therefore, I ask anyone who reads this book and finds such errors or omissions to please let me know at the email address below. I would be very grateful indeed.

The composers included in this discography are covered chronologically by the composers’ year of birth in order to show a progression of influences from one generation to the next. Their names are listed alphabetically in the following index and to go directly to a specific composer just click on their names.

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© 2009-11 MICHAEL HERMAN

COMPOSER INDEX

Bacri, Nicolas
Ballif, Claude
Bancquart, Alain
Barraud, Henry
Benjamin, Jean-Marie
Berlioz, Hector
Bizet, Georges
Casadesus, Robert
Castérède, Jacques
Chailley, Jacques
Chamouard, Philippe
Charpentier, Jacques
Chausson, Ernest
Cherubini, Luigi
Collet, Henri
Constant, Marius
Dalbavie, Marc-André
Daniel-Lesur, Jean-Yves
Debussy, Claude
Decoust, Michel
Dondeyne, Désiré
Dukas, Paul
Dupont, Jacques
Dupré, Marcel
Dutilleux, Henri
Emmanuel, Maurice
Escaich, Thierry
Farrenc, Louise
Fauré, Gabriel
Ferroud, Pierre-Octave
Françaix, Jean
Franck, César
Gaubert, Philippe
Godard, Benjamin
Gossec, François-Joseph
Gotkovsky, Ida
Gounod, Charles
Gouvy, Louis Théodore
Guilmant, Alexandre
Hérold, Louis Ferdinand
Honegger, Arthur
Ibert, Jacques
d'Indy, Vincent
Jolivet, André
Jorrand, André
Koechlin, Charles
Koering, René
Krotenberg, Alain
Lalo, Édouard
Lancen, Serge
Landowski, Marcel
Langevin, Claude
Lazzari, Sylvio
Le Flem, Paul
Leibowitz, René
Lemeland, Aubert
Le Penven, Jef
Lühl, Enguebrand-Friedrich
Magnard, Albéric
Martinon, Jean
Méhul, Étienne
Messager, André
Messiaen, Olivier
Migot, Georges
Milhaud, Darius
Nigg, Serge
Onslow, Georges
Paray, Paul
Pécou, Thierry
Poirier, Pierick
Poulenc, Francis
Ramette, Yves
Ravel, Maurice
Reyer, Ernest
Rivier, Jean
Ropartz, Joseph Guy
Roussel, Albert
Saint-Saëns, Camille
Sauguet, Henri
Schmitt, Florent
Tanguy, Éric
Tansman, Alexandre
Tournemire, Charles
Vierne, Louis
Widor, Charles-Marie
Wissmer, Pierre
Wolff, Jean Claude

FRANÇOIS-JOSEPH GOSSEC
(1734-1829)

Born in Vergnies, in Hainaut (France then, now Belgium). Moving to Paris in 1751, he became a student of the great French baroque composer Jean-Philippe Rameau. He worked as conductor and soon began turning out the first of what would eventually be his more than 50 Symphonies. As a conductor he helped promote the revival of instrumental music in a France that was almost totally dominated by opera though he also composed operas himself that were quite successful. He was the director of the École Royale de Chant an institution that evolved into the Paris Conservatory and became a Membre de l'Académie des Beaux-Arts. Listed below are recordings of the only Gossec Symphony composed in the 19th century.

Symphonie à 17 Parties in F major (1809)

Werner Erhardt/Concerto Köln
( + Symphonies, Op. 6 No. 3, Op. 13 No. 3 and Mirza: Symphonie Concertante)
CAPRICCIO CAP 67073 (2003)

Wolf-Dieter Hauschild/Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana
( + Grande Messe des Morts)
NAXOS 8554750-51 (2 CDs) (2001)

Jacques Houtmann/Orchestre Symphonique de Liège
( + Symphonies, Op. 5 No. 1 and Op. 6 No. 5)
MUSIQUE EN WALLONIE MW 4 (LP) (1971)

LUIGI CHERUBINI
(1760-1842)

Born in Florence. His musicial education (initially by his father) as well as his composing began at a very early age. His formal training in composition came from Bartolomeo and Alessandro Felici and Giuseppe Sarti. From 1796 onwards Paris became his place of residence and his brilliant career placed him in the forefront of French musical life. His operas were particularly important in their day and influenced an entire generation of French opera composers. He became the head of the Paris Conservatory and was honored by his adoptive homeland as a Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur and as Membre de l'Académie des Beaux-Arts. His only Symphony, strongly influenced by Mozart and Haydn, had been forgotten for more than a century until its revival in 1935.

Symphony in D major (1815)

John Avison/CBC Vancouver Chamber Orchestra
( + Cimarosa: Giannina e Bernardone Overture and Grétry: Jugement de Midas Overture)
CBC RADIO CANADA SM 165 (non-commercial LP) (1971)

Piero Bellugi/San Remo Symphony Orchestra
( + Medea Overture, Faniska Overture and Lodoïska Overture)
NAXOS 8.557908 (2007)

Wilfried Boettcher/New Philharmonia Orchestra
( + Weber: Symphony No. 1)
PHILIPS 6500 154 (LP) (1972)

Anshel Brusilov/Philadelphia Chamber Orchestra
( + Haydn: Symphony No. 60)
RCA VICTOR LSC-3088 (LP) (1969)

Guido Cantelli/NBC Symphony Orchestra (rec. 1952)
( + Schumann: Symphony No. 4 and Schubert: Symphony No. 2)
AS DISC 615 (1990)

Sergiu Celibidache/Teatro La Fenice di Venezia Orchestra (rec. 1965)
( + Back: Intrada and Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhinbition)
ORIGINALS ORISH 857 (c. 1995)

Karl Etti/Österreichischer Rundfunk. Symphonie-Orchester
CLASSICAL EXCELLENCE CE 11021 (LP) (1978)

Gabriele Ferro/Cappella Coloniensis
( + Dirge on the Death of Joseph Haydn)
PHOENIX 175PHOENIX (2009)

Howard Griffiths/Zurich Chamber Orchestra
( + Il Giulio Sabino Overture and Lodoïska Overture)
CPO 999521-2 (1998)

Sir Charles Mackerras/London Symphony Orchestra (rec. 1969)
( + Respighi: The Birds, Trittico Botticelliano and Busoni: Lustspielouvertüre)
CARLTON BBC RADIO CLASSICS 15656 9137-2 (1996)

Alessandro Pinzauti/Camerata Strumentale Città di Prato
( + Overture in G major and Deux Journées Overture)
PRATO DRCD00 (2005)

Jišrí Ptášcník/Prague Chamber Orchesrtra
( + Requiem Mass No.2 and Medea Overture)
SUPRAPHON SU 2429-2 011 (2000)
(original LP release: SUPRAPHON 1 10 0568) (1969)

Donato Renzetti/Orchestra della Toscana
( + Medea Overture, Ifigenia in Aulide Overture and La Crescendo Overture)
EUROMUSICA 2110-221 (1991)

Gerard Schwarz/Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra
( + Rossini: Grand'Overtura Obbligata)
NONESUCH D-79023 (LP) (1982)

Arturo Toscanini/NBC Symphony Orchestra
( + Medea Overture, Anacreon Overture, Ali Baba Overture, Cimarosa: Il Matrimonio Segreto Overture and Il Matrimonio per Raggiro Overture)
RCA GOLD SEAL GD 60278-2 (1992)
(original LP release: HMV ALP 1106/RCA VICTOR LM-1745) (1953)

Carlo Zecchi/Vienna Symphony Orchestra
( + Weber: Symphony No. 2)
EPIC LC-3402 (LP) (1957)

ETIENNE MÉHUL
(1763-1817)

Born in Givet, Ardennes. He studied music with the German organist Wilhelm Hansen and the Alsation composer-harsichordist Jean-Frédéric Edelmann. He achieved great fame with his many opreas, ballets and instrumental works and became a member of the Légion d'Honneur in 1804.

Symphony No. 1 in G minor (1808/09)

Rolf Kleinert/Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra
( + Schubert: Symphony No. 6)
URANIA ULS 5158 CD (1988)
(original LP release: URANIA 7109) (1954)

Marc Minkowski/Les Musiciens du Louvre
( + Symphony No. 2)
APEX 0927495352 (2006)
(original CD release: ERATO 2292.45026-2) (1990)

Jorge Rotter/Rhenish Philharmonic Orchestra
( + Symphony No. 2)
NAXOS 8.555402 (2001)
(original CD release: MARCO POLO 8.223139) (1992)

Michel Swierczewski/Gulbenkian Foundation Symphony Orchestra Lisbon
( + Symphonies Nos. 2, 3 and 4, Le Jeune Henri Overture and Le Trésor Supposé Overture)
NIMBUS NI 5184-5 (2 CDs) (1992)

Symphony No. 2 in D major (1808/09)

Sir Thomas Beecham/BBC Symphony Orchestra (rec. 1956)
( + Boccherini - Overture in D, R. Strauss: Rosenkavalier Suite,Vaughan
Williams: Flourish for a Coronation, Mozart: 2 Concert Arias, God Save the King and excerpts from: Delius: Iremelin, Mozart: Thamos and La Clemenza di Tito)
DISCOCORP (THE SIR THOMAS BEECHAM SOCIETY) WSA 521-2 (2 LPs)

Marc Minkowski/Les Musiciens du Louvre
( + Symphony No.1)
APEX 0927495352 (2006)
(original CD release: ERATO 2292.45026-2) (1990)

Fernand Oubradous/Association des Concerts de Chambre de Paris
( + Fischer: Suite No. 8 and Le Duc: Symphony in D)
PATHÉ DTX 249 (LP) (1959)

Jorge Rotter/Rhenish Philharmonic Orchestra
( + Symphony No. 1)
NAXOS 8.555402 (2001)
(original CD release: MARCO POLO 8.223139) (1992)

Michel Swierczewski/Gulbenkian Foundation Symphony Orchestra Lisbon
( + Symphonies Nos. 1, 3 and 4, Le Jeune Henri Overture and Le Trésor Supposé Overture)
NIMBUS NI 5184-5 (2 CDs) (1992)

Symphony No. 3 in C major (1809)

Michel Swierczewski/Gulbenkian Foundation Symphony Orchestra Lisbon
( + Symphonies Nos. 1, 2 and 4, Le Jeune Henri Overture and Le Trésor Supposé Overture)
NIMBUS NI 5184-5 (2 CDs) (1992)

Symphony No. 4 in E major (1810)

Michel Swierczewski/Gulbenkian Foundation Symphony Orchestra Lisbon
( + Symphonies Nos. 1, 2, and 3 , Le Jeune Henri Overture and Le Trésor Supposé Overture)
NIMBUS NI 5184-5 (2 CDs) (1992)

GEORGES ONSLOW
(1784-1853)

Born in Clermont-Ferrand he was descended from English nobility. He studied piano in London with Johann-Baptist Cramer, Jan Ladislav Dussek and Nicolas-Joseph Hüllemandel and composition in Paris with Anton Reicha. In addition to the Symphonies, he wrote several operas but his real success was achieved in the composition of numerous chamber and instrumental works.

Symphony No. 1 in A major, Op. 41 (c. 1831)

Johannes Goritzki/Hannover Radio Philharmonic Orchestra
( + Symphony No. 3)
CPO 999747-2 (2004)

Symphony No. 2 in D major, Op. 42 (c. 1831)

Johannes Goritzki/Hannover Radio Philharmonic Orchestra
( + Symphony No. 4)
CPO 999738-2 (2002)

Jean-François Leger Leger/Hradec Kralove Philharmonic Orchestra
( + Symphony No. 4)
LIGIA DIGITAL 0301036 (1995)

Symphony No. 3 in F minor

Johannes Goritzki/Hannover Radio Philharmonic Orchestra
( + Symphony No. 1)
CPO 999747-2 (2004)

Symphony No. 4 in G major, Op. 71 (1846)

Johannes Goritzki/Hannover Radio Philharmonic Orchestra
( + Symphony No. 4)
CPO 999738-2 (2002)

Jean-François Leger/Hradec Kralove Philharmonic Orchestra
( + Symphony No. 2)
LIGIA DIGITAL 0301036 (1995)

LOUIS FERDINAND HÉROLD
(1791-1833)

Born in Paris. Taught initially by his father, who had been a pupil of C.P.E. Bach, he went on to study at the Paris Conservatory where his teachers included Louis Adam, Charles-Simon Catel and Etienne Méhul. Although his life was short he had a very distinguished career as a composer of operas some of which are revived to this day. The Overture to the opera "Zampa" has always been a pops and band concert mainstay. His instrumental output was mostly limited to works for the piano.

Symphony No. 1 in C Major (1813)

Wolf-Dieter Hauschild/Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana
( + Symphony No. 2, Zampa Overture and Le Pré aux Clercs Overture)
DYNAMIC CDS 282 (1999)

Symphony No. 2 in D Major (1815)

Wolf-Dieter Hauschild/Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana
( + Symphony No. 1, Zampa Overture and Le Pré aux Clercs Overture)
DYNAMIC CDS 282 (1999)

HECTOR BERLIOZ
(1803-1869)

Born in La Côte-Saint-André, Isère. As a child, he learned to play several instruments from his father, a doctor who was an amateur musician. He had private musical lessons from Jean François Le Sueur before entering the Paris Conservatory where Le Sueur and Anton Reicha were his composition and counterpoint teachers. He went on to become one of France's greatest composers whose music pushed composition in revolutionary directions. In addition to the symphonies, his large-scale masterpieces were the opera "Les Troyens" and the choral works "La Damnation de Faust," "L'Enfance du Christ" and
the requiem "Grand Messe des Morts." With the exception of his various overtures, there are very few other orchestral works by Berlioz.

Symphonie Fantastique, Op. 14 (1830, rev. 1831)

Claudio Abbado/Chicago Symphony Orchestra
(+ Roman Carnival Overture)
DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON 474165-2 (2003)
(original LP release: DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON 410 895-1 GH) (1984)

Ernest Ansermet/Orchestre de la Suisse-Romande
( + Corsair Overture)
DECCA SXL 6343 (LP) (1968)

Ernest Ansermet/Orchestre de la Suisse-Romande (rec. 1968)
( + Liszt: Battle of the Huns and Wagner: Faust Overture)
CASCAVELLE VEL 3143 (2010)

Ataulfo Argenta/Orchestre de la Société du Conservatoire Paris Orchestre de la Société du Conservatoire Paris
(included in collection: "Original Masters - Ataúlfo Argenta - Complete Decca Recordings 1953-1957)
DECCA 4757747 (5 CDs) (2006)
(original LP release: DECCA SXL 2009/LONDON CS -6025) (1958)

Raffi Armenian/Orchestre du Conservatoire de Musique du Québec
( + Champagne: Hercule et Omphale and Wagner: Tristan und Isolde - Prelude and Liebestod)
QUEBEC EOQ 19809-3 (LP) (1983)

Joseph Balzer/Berlin Symphony Orchestra (pseudonyms)
ROYALE 1325 (LP) (1952)

Sir John Barbirolli/Hallé Orchestra (rec. 1947)
( + Fauré: Shylock - Nocturne and Wagner: Die Meistersinger - Suite)
DUTTON LABORATORIES CDEA 5504 (1998)

Sir John Barbirolli/Hallé Orchestra (rec. 1959)
( + The Damnation de Faust - Orchestral Excerpts and Roman Carnival Overture)
EMI PHOENIXA 763762-2 (1991)
(original LP release: PYE COLLECTOR GSGC 14005) (1964)

Sir John Barbirolli/Hallé Orchestra (rec. 1969)
(+ Debussy: La Mer)
HUNT PRODUCTIONS HUNTCD 731 (1990)

Daniel Barenboim/Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
CBS MASTERWORKS SMK 39859 (1984)

Daniel Barenboim/Chicago Symphony Orchestra
( + De Lisle/Berlioz: La Marseillaise})
APEX 2564678707 (2010)
(original CD release: TELDEC 3984 23710-2) (1996)

Daniel Barenboim/Orchestre de Paris
DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON 2531 092 (LP) (1979)

Enrique Bátiz/Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
( + Roman Carnival Overture and Corsair Overture)
ASV CD RSN 3045 (2005)
(original CD release: ASV CDDCA 590) (1988)

Serge Baudo/Orchestre des Jeunesses Musicales de France
CLUB NATIONAL DU DISQUE CND 26 (LP) (1957)

Sir Thomas Beecham/Orchestre National de la Radiodiffusion Française
( + Corsair Overtures, Les Troyens - Royal Hunt and Storm and Trojan March)
EMI MASTERS 9187092 (2011)
(original LP release: HMV ASD 399) (1959)

Eduard van Beinum/Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra (rec. 1946)
( + Schubert: Symphony No. 8 and Beethhoven: Creatures of Prometheus Overture)
DUTTON LABORATORIES CDK1208 (2000)

Eduard van Beinum/Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
( + Damnation of Faust - Orchestral Excerpts and Les Troyens - Trojan March)
(included in collection: "Original Masters - Eduard van Beinum - Complete Decca Recordings 1948-1953)
DECCA 473110-2 (5 CDs) (2003)
(original LP release: DECCA LXT 2642/LONDON LL-489) (1951)

Leonard Bernstein/The Jeunesses Musicales World Orchestra
FEDERATION INTERNATIONAL JEUNESSES MUSICALES OMJM 74 (LP) (1979)

Leonard Bernstein/ORTF National Orchestra
( + Beatrice and Benedict Overture, Roman Carnival Overture and Corsair Overture)
EMI CLASSICS CDM 7 64630-2 (1993)
(original LP release: HMV ASD 3397) (1976)

Leonard Bernstein/New York Philharmonic (rec. 1963)
( + Symphonie Fantastique - excerpts from the 1968 recording )
SONY SMK 60968 (1999)

Leonard Bernstein/New York Philharmonic (rec. 1968)
( + Benvenuto Cellini Overture, Roman Carnival Overture and Damnation de Faust - Rákóczy March)
SONY ROYAL EDITION 47525 (1992)
(original LP release : CBS 61910 /COLUMBIA MS-6607)

Gary Bertini/Budesjugend Orchestra
DEUTSCHE HARMONIA MUNDI HM 810 (LP) (1986)

Gary Bertini/Cologne Radio Symphony Orchestra
( + Roman Carnaval Overture and Benvenuto Cellini Overture)
CAPRICCIO SACD 71094 (2006)

Pierre Boulez/Cleveland Orchestra
( + Tristia)
DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON 453432-2 (1996)

Pierre Boulez/London Symphony Orchestra
( + Roman Carnaval Overture, Benvenuto Cellini Overture, Beatrice and Benedict Overture, Lélio, Nuits d'Éte, Les Troyens - Royal Hunt and Storm, Sicilienne and La Mort de Cléopâtre)
SONY SM3K 64103 (3 CDs) (1994)
(original release: CBS 77226/CBS 32B10010) (2 LPs) (1968)

Semyon Bychkov/Orchestre de Paris
PHILIPS 438 939-2 (1993)

Sylvain Cambreling/Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra
( + Ravel: Le Tombeau de Couperin)
EXTON OVCX-00055 (2010)

Jean-Claude Casadesus/Lille National Orchestra
HARMONIA MUNDI MUSIQUE D'ABORD HMA 195072 (1993)
(original LP release : HARMONIA MUNDI 10072) (1981)

Sergiu Celibidache/Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra (rec. 1970)
( + Dvorák: Slavonic Dances)
ENTERPRISE DOCUMENTS SERIES ENTLV 965

Sergiu Celibidache/Orchestra Sinfonica di Torino della Radiotelevisione Italiana (rec. 1968)
FREQUENZ CD 041.021

Sergiu Celibidache/Orchestra Sinfonica di Torino della Radiotelevisione Italiana (rec. 1969)
( + Roméo et Juliette: Part II)
HUNT CDLSMH 34037
(original LP release ? : FONIT CETRA CTT 111)

Zuohuang Chen/National Symphony Orchestra of China
PHILIPS 456 647-2 (1997)

Myung-Whun Chung/Bastille Opera Orchestra
(+ Dutilleux: Métaboles )
DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON 445 878-2 (1993)

André Cluytens/Cologne Radio Symphony Orchestra (rec. 1955)
( + Roman Carnival Overture)
ARCHIPEL ARPCD 0290 (2006)

André Cluytens/Czech Philharmonic Orchestra (rec. 1955)
(included in collection: " The Prague Spring Festival")
ANDANTE AN2150 (4 CDs) (2004)

André Cluytens/Orchestre de la Société du Conservatoire Paris (rec. 1964)
(included in collection: "Great Conductors Of The 20th Century - André Cluytens")
EMI CLASSICS 75106-2 (2 CDs) (2002)

André Cluytens/ORTF National Orchestra
( + Roméo and Juliette: Orchestral Excerpts)
TESTAMENT SBT 1234 (2002)
(original LP release: COLUMBIA CX 1439/ANGEL 35448) (1957)

André Cluytens/Philharmonia Orchestra
( + Roméo and Juliette: Orchestral Excerpts and Damnation of Faust - Orchestral Excerpts)
SERAPHIM 69020-2 (1995)
(original LP release COLUMBIA 33CX 1673) (1959)

James Conlon/Orchestre National de France (1990)
ERATO ECD 88028 (1984)

Sir Andrew Davis/BBC Symphony Orchestra
BBC MUSIC MAGAZINE MM 113 (1993)

Sir Colin Davis/Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
PHILIPS 464 692-2 (2001)
(original LP release: PHILIPS 6500 774) (1974)

Sir Colin Davis/London Symphony Orchestra
(+ Roman Carnival Overture)
PHILIPS DUO 442 290-2 (1994)
(original LP release: PHILIPS SAL 3441) (1964)

Sir Colin Davis/London Symphony Orchestra
LSO LIVE LSO 0007 (2001)

Sir Colin Davis/Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
PHILIPS 432 151-2 (1992)

Pierre Dervaux/Orchestre des Concerts Colonne
EMI 253557-2
(original LP release: DUCRETET THOMSON CC503) (1962)

Christoph von Dohnányi/ Cleveland Orchestra
( + Weber/Berlioz: Invitation to the Dance)
DECCA 430201-2 (1991)

Antal Dorati/Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
MERCURY MG 50024 (LP) (1955)

Charles Dutoit/ Montreal Symphony Orchestra
( + Harold en Italie, Roméo and Juliette: Orchestral Excerpts, Les Troyens - Royal Hunt and Storm and Damnation of Faust - Rákóczy March)
DECCA DOUBLE DECCA 455361-2 (2 CDs) (1997)
(original CD release: DECCA 414203-2) (1985)

Christoph Eschenbach/Orchestre de Paris
NAÏVE V4932 (2002)

János Ferencsik/Hungarian State Symphony Orchestra
HUNGARITON SLPX 12 713-2 (LP) (1984)

Louis Fourestier/Cento Soli Orchestra
OMEGA 91009/RECORD SOCIETY RSS 8 (LP) (1958)

Jean Fournet/Orchestre de l'Ile-de-France
CÉRESTE CER 75007 (LP) (1979)

Jean Fournet/Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra
( + Franck: Symphony in D minor and Saint-Saëns: Symphony No. 3)
DENON CO 17009/10 (2 CDs) (1998)
(original CD release: DENON 38C377-7087) (1984)

Massimo Freccia/ Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
( + R. Strauss: Don Juan)
CHESKY CD 88 (1993)
(original release: in collection "Best Loved Symphonies"
READER'S DIGEST RDA 65 {10 LPs}) (c. 1962)
(original general LP release: QUINTESSENCE PMC 7057) (1968)

Louis Frémaux/London Symphony Orchestra
COLLINS CLASSICS 1001-2 (1989)

Louis Frémaux/Orchestre National Opéra Monte-Carlo
ERATO STE 50015 (LP) (1960)

Oskar Fried/USSR State Symphony Orcheatra (rec. 1937)
( + Saint-Saëns: Danse Macabre)
DANTE LYS 280 (1999)
(original LP release: MELODIYA D31239-40) (1971)

Louis de Froment/Luxembourg Radio Television Symphony Orchestra
( + Damnation of Faust - Rákóczy March)
BRENTWOOD ESSENTIAL CLASSICS BCCD 506 (1999)
(original LP release : CBS (France) 51023) (1962)

John Eliot Gardiner/Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique
PHILIPS 434402-2 (1993)

Valery Gergiev/Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
( + La Mort de Cléopâtre)
PHILIPS 475 095-2 (2003)

Vladimir Golschmann/Vienna State Opera Orchestra
( + Mussorgsky: Night on the Bare Mountain)
VANGUARD SVC104 (1998)
(original LP release: AMADEO AVRS 12056/VANGUARD SRV-120SD) (1961)

Sir Eugene Goossens/London Symphony Orchestra
EVEREST EVD 9017 (1995)
(original LP release: EVEREST SDBR 3037) (1959)

Ernest Graf/Vienna Opera Orchestra (rec. 1960)
PWK CLASSICS PWK 1129 (CD) (1989)

Bernard Haitink/Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
DECCA 436 511-2 (1992)
(original LP release : DECCA SXL 6938) (1979)

Junichi Hirokami/Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
( + Poulenc: Les Biches)
RLPO LIVE RLCD 202 (2000)

Jascha Horenstein/Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra (rec. 1963)
( + Gluck: Iphigenie in Aulis Overture and Weber: Oberon Overture)
HUNT CDGI 744

Jos van Immerseel/Anima Eterna
ZIG ZAG TERRITOIRES ZZT 100101 (2010)

Eliahu Inbal/ Radio Sinfonie-Orchester Frankfurt
( + Harold en Italie, The Damnation of Faust, Roméo et Juliette, L'Enfance du Christ, Te Deum and Requiem)
BRILLIANT CLASSICS 99999 (11 CDs) (2003)
(original CD release: DENON CO-73208) (1989)

Marek Janowski/Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra
( + King Lear Overture)
PENTATONE CLASSICS SACD PTC 5186338 (2010)

Arvid Jansons/Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra
WESTMINSTER GOLD WG-8350 (LP) (1976)
(original LP release : MELODIYA S0755/6) (1963)

Arvid Jansons/Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra (rec. 1971)
ECLIPSE 1309 (1997)

Mariss Jansons/Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
( + Roman Carnival Overture)
EMI ENCORE 585041-2 (2003)
(original CD release: EMI CLASSICS CDC 7 54479-2) (1991)

Paavo Järvi/Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra
( + Roméo et Juliette - Scène d'Amour)
TELARC CD 80578 (2001)

Jansug Kakhidze/Georgian Symphony Orchestra
MELODIYA MEL 46079-2 (1994)
(original LP release : MELODIYA S10 29567) (1983)

Herbert von Karajan/Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
( + Damnation of Faust - Orchestral Excerpts)
DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON MUSIKFEST 429511-2 (1990)
(original LP release: DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON SLPM 138964) (1965)

Herbert von Karajan/Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON GALLERIA 463080-2 (1999)
(original LP release: DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON 2530 597) (1976)

Herbert von Karajan/Philharmonia Orchestra
( + Mozart: Symphony No. 39, Beethoven: Symphony No. 5, Schubert: Symphony No. 8, Brahms: Symphony No. 1 and Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4)
URANIA URN22304 (3 CDs) (2005)
(original LP release: COLUMBIA CX 1206/ANGEL 35202) (1954)

Vasilli Kazandjiev/Sofia Symphony Orchestra
( + Beatrice and Benedict Overture)
LASERLIGHT (1995)

Herbert Kegel/Dresden Philharmonic Orchestra (rec. 1984)
(included in collection: "Legendary Recordings of Herbert Kegel")
BERLIN CLASSICS 2332 (15 CDs) (2006)
(original LP release: ETERNA 827 931) (1984)

Rudolf Kempe/Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra (rec. 1959)
( + Roman Carnival Overture)
TESTAMENT SBT 1272 (2002)
(original LP release: HMV SXLP 20088) (1966)

Otto Klemperer/ Philharmonia Orchestra
( + Humperdinck: Hansel and Gretel - Overture and Dream Pantomime)
EMI CLASSICS 67034-2 (1999)
(original LP release: COLUMBIA SAX 2537/ANGEL S-36196) (1964)

Ken-Ichiro Kobayashi/Arnhem Philharmonic Orchestra
( + Les Francs-Juges Overture)
EXTON EXCL-00002 (2007)

Ken-Ichiro Kobayashi/Hungarian State Symphony Orchestra
EXTON OVCL-00242 (2006)

Ken-Ichiro Kobayashi/Japan Philharmonic Orchestra (rec. 1993)
EXTON EXCL-00015 (2000)

Varujan Kojian/Utah Symphony Orchestra
REFERENCE RECORDINGS REF 11 (1989)
(original release: REFERENCE RECORDINGS RR-11 {2 LPs}) (1982)

Zden·k Košler/Czech Philharmonic Orchestra
SUPRAPHON C377772 (1985)

Zden·k Košler/Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra
OPUS 91 10 0211 (LP) (1972)

Serge Koussevitzky/Boston Symphony Orchestra (rec. 1943)
AS DISC AS552 (c. 1990)

Emmanuel Krivine/ Orchestre National de Lyon
( + Les Troyens - Royal Hunt and Storm)
DENON CO-78902 (1994)

Rafael Kubelik/Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra (rec. 1981)
( + Corsair Overture)
ORFEO D'OR C 499991 (1999)

Adrian Leaper/Gran Canaria Philharmonic Orchestra
ARTE NOVA 74321 46492-2 (1996)

Pierre-Michel Le Conte/Orchestre Du Théâtre National De L'Opéra De Paris
GUILDE INTERNATIONALE DU DISQUE MMS 2122 (LP) (C. 1955)

René Leibowitz/Vienna State Opera Orchestra (rec. 1957)
( + Roméo et Juliette)
DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON (WESTMINSTER SERIES) DG 471242-2 (2001)
(original LP release: WESTMINSTER WST 14046) (1958)

James Levine/Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
( + Les Troyens - Royal Hunt and Storm)
DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON 431624-2 (1992)

Ling Tung/Philharmonia Orchestra
ENIGMA K 53593 (LP) (1979)

Alain Lombard/Orchestre Philharmonique de Strasbourg
( + Benvenuto Cellini Overture and Roman Carnival Overture)
ERATO BONSAI 2292-450752 (1993)
(original LP release : ERATO STU 70 800) (1982)

James Loughran/Hallé Orchestra
( + Roman Carnaval Overture, Corsair Overture and Beatrice and Benedict Overture)
CLASSICS FOR PLEASURE 575562-2 (2002)
(original LP release: CLASSICS FOR PLEASURE CFP 40281) (1978)

Fabio Luisi/Sinfonieorchester des Mitteldeutschen Rundfunks
GIB MUSIC 079182 (1997)

Lorin Maazel/Cleveland Orchestra
CBS MASTERWORKS MAESTRO CD 42607 (1987)
(original LP release: CBS 76 652/COLUMBIA M 35867) (1981)

Lorin Maazel/Cleveland Orchestra
( + Tchaikovsky: Nutcracker Suite)
TELARC TLC 60650 (2004)
(original CD release: TELARC CD-80976) (1982)

Lorin Maazel/Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra (rec. 1963)
( + R.Strauss: Till Eulenspiegel and Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 1)
ORFEO D'OR C821102B (2 CDs) (2010)

Zden·k Macal/Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra
KOSS 1005 (1993)

Zden·k Macal/New Jersey Symphony Orchestra
( + Roméo et Juliette - Scène d'Amour)
DELOS DE 3229 (1998)

Sir Charles Mackerras/Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
( + Roman Carnival Overture)
MEMBRAN INTERNATIONAL 222813 (2008)
(original LP release: RPO/TRING INTERNATIONAL TRPD 012 (1994))

Jahni Mardjani/Georgian Festival Orchestra
( + Rimsky-Korsakov: Capriccio Espagnole)
SONY INFINITY 66170 (1994)

Igor Markevitch/Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON CENTENARY COLLECTION 459 015-2 (1998)
(+ Mussorgsky : Pictures at an Exhibition)
(original LP release: DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON DGM 18167/ US DECCA DL 9783) (1953)

Igor Markevitch/Lamoureux Concerts Orchestra
( + Cherubini: Anacreon Overture, Auber: La Muette de Portici and Masaniello Overtures)
DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON ORIGINALS 447406-2 (1995)
(original LP release: DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON SLPM 138712) (1962)

Igor Markevitch/RIAS Symphonie-Orchester Berlin (rec. 1952)
( + Satie: Parade)
URANIA 202 (2002)

Jean Martinon/Orchestre National de l'ORTF
(+ Lélio)
EMI ROUGE ET NOIR 585124-2 (2 CDs) (1997)
(original LP release : HMV ASD 2945/ANGEL S-37138) (1973)

Zubin Mehta/London Philharmonic Orchestra
( + Roman Carnival Overture and Beatrice and Benedict Overture)
APEX 8573895332 (2001)
(original CD release : TELDEC 4509-90855-2 (1994)

Zubin Mehta/New York Philharmonic
DECCA 400046-2 (1982)
(original LP release : DECCA SXDL 7512) (1980)

Sir Yehudi Menuhin/Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
( + Roman Carnival Overture)
VIRGIN CLASSICS VIRGO CDR 562486-2 (2004)
(original CD release: VIRGIN VJ 561100-2) (1993)

Marc Minkowski/Mahler Chamber Orchestra and Les Musiciens du Louvre (members)
( + Herminie)
DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON 474209-2 (2003)

Dimitri Mitropoulos/New York Philharmonic Orchestra
( + Mussorgsky: Night on Bald Mountain)
SONY MPK 45 685 (1990)
(original US LP release : COLUMBIA ML-5188/MS-6030) (1957)

Dimitri Mitropoulos/New York Philharmonic Orchestra (rec. 1957)
( + Schoenberg: Verklärte Nacht)
URANIA URN 22342 (2008)

Pierre Monteux/Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra (rec. 1962)
( + Roman Carnival Overture, Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 1 and Stravinsky: Firebird Suite)
TAHRA TAH 541-542 (2 CDs) (2004)

Pierre Monteux/Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra (rec. 1948)
( + Brahms: Tragic Overture, Sibelius: Violin Concerto and Stravinsky: Petrushka)
TAHRA TAH 175-178 (2 CDs) (1997)

Pierre Monteux/Hamburg Radio Symphony Orchestra
( + Beethoven: Symphonies Nos. 2 and 4, Mozart: Symphonies Nos. 35 and 39, Rimsky-Korsakov: Capriccio Espagnol, Mussorgsky: A Night on Bare Mountain. Borodin: Polovtsian Dances, Tchaikovsky: Romeo and Juliet, Wagner: Flying Dutchman Overture and Tristan and Isolde - Prelude)
SCRIBENDUM SC 013 (4 CDs) (2001)
(original LP release: GUILDE INTERNATIONALE DU DISQUE/CONCERT HALL SMS 2357 (LP) (1964)

Pierre Monteux/Paris Symphony Orchestra (rec. 1931)
( + Benvenuto Cellini Overture, Les Troyens - Prelude, Chabrier: Le Roi Malgré Lui - Fête Polonaise and Coppola: Interlude Dramatique)
PEARL GEMMCD 9012 (1993)

Pierre Monteux/San Francisco Symphony Orchestra (rec. 1945)
RCA MONTEUX EDITION (VOL. 2) 09026-61894-2 (1994)

Pierre Monteux/San Francisco Symphony Orchestra
RCA LM-1131/HMV ALP 1137 (LP) (1951)

Pierre Monteux/Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
( + Roméo et Juliette - Scène d'Amour)
BELART 461 054-2 (1997)
(original LP release: RCA SB 2090/RCA LSC 2362) (1960)

Yevgeny Mravinsky/Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra (rec. 1960)
( + Ravel: Bolero and Pavane for a Dead Princess)
RUSSIAN DISC (THE MRAVINSKY COLLECTION) RD CD 10 906 (1995)

Charles Munch/Boston Symphony Orchestra
( + Roméo et Juliette: Scène d'Amour)
RCA VICTOR LIVING STEREO 09026 68979-2 (1998)
(original LP release: RCA LM-1900/HMV ALP1384) (1954)

Charles Munch/Boston Symphony Orchestra
( + Roméo et Juliette, Requiem, Harold en Italie, L'Enfance du Christ, Les Nuits d'Été, The Damnation of Faust, Roman Carnaval Overture, Benvenuto Cellini Overture, Beatrice and Benedict Overture, Corsair Overture and Les Troyens - Royal Hunt and Storm)
RCA RED SEAL 82876-603932 (10 CDs) (2004)
(original LP release: (RCA RED SEAL RB 6521/RCA LSC-2608) (1962)

Charles Munch/Hungarian Radio and Television Orchestra (rec. 1966)
PHILIPS ELOQUENCE 476796-2 (2005)
(original LP release: HUNGAROTON SLPX 11 842) (1976)

Charles Munch/Orchestre de Paris
CLASSICS FOR PLEASURE CDCFP 4696 (1995)
(original LP release: HMV ASD 2342/ANGEL 36517) (1968)

Charles Munch/Orchestre National de l'ORTF (rec. 1949)
( + Brahms: Violin Concerto, Beethoven: Symphony No. 7, Minuet of Congratulation and Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto - rehearsal, first movement)
TAHRA TAH 528-529 (2004)
(from COLUMBIA 78s)

Charles Munch/Orchestre National de l'ORTF (rec. 1963)
( + Corsair Overture and Benvenuto Cellini Overture)
MONTAIGNE (AUVIDIS) MUN2011 (1988)

Riccardo Muti/Philadelphia Orchestra
( + Roméo et Juliette)
EMI CLASSICS 0979572 (2 CDs) (2011)
(original CD release: EMI CLASSICS CDC 7 47278-2) (1985)

Yannick Nézet-Séguin/Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra
( + La mort de Cléopâtre)
BIS CD-1800 (2011)

Leonid Nikolayev/Moscow Conservatory Orchestra
( + J. Strauss II: Die Fledermaus Overture and J.S. Bach: 2 Piano Concerto)
MELODIYA S 10 18565 (LP) (1980)

Sir Roger Norrington/London Classical Players
( + Les Francs-Juges Overture)
VIRGIN CLASSICS 363286-2 (2006)
(original CD release: EMI REFLEXE CDC 7 49541-2) (1988)

Sir Roger Norrington/Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart
( + Les Francs-Juges Overture)
HÄNSSLER CLASSIC HAN 93103 (2004)

Eugene Ormandy/Philadelphia Orchestra
COLUMBIA ML-4467/PHILIPS L 01159 (LP) (1951)

Eugene Ormandy/Philadelphia Orchestra
( + Dukas : The Sorcerer's Apprentice and Mussogsky : Night on Bald Mountain)
SONY ESSENTIAL CLASSICS SBK 89833 (2002)
(original LP release : COLUMBIA MS-6268) (1961)

Eugene Ormandy/Philadelphia Orchestra
( + Ibert: Escales and De Lisle/Berlioz: La Marseilaise)
RCA VICTOR RED SEAL 38049 (1990'S?)
(original LP release: RCA RED SEAL ARL1-2674 (1978)

Avi Ostrowsky/BRTN Philharmonic Orchestra
KOCH DISCOVER INTERNATIONAL DICD 920473-920474 (1998)

Willem van Otterloo/Residente Orchestra (Hague Philharmonic Orchestra)
(included in collection: "Willem Van Otterloo and The Residentie Orkest -
The Original Recordings 1950-1960")
CHALLENGE CLASSICS CC 72142 (13 CDs) (2007)
(original LP release: PHILIPS 83860/EPIC BC-1068) (1959)

Willem van Otterloo/Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
(included in collection: "Berliner Philharmoniker Rediscovered")
PHILIPS 4429128-2 (4 CDs) (2007)
(original LP release: PHILIPS ABL 3019/EPIC LC-1305) (1953)

Willem van Otterloo/Sydney Symphony
(included in collection: "Sydney Symphony - 75th Anniversary Collection - Recording Heritage")
ABC CLASSICS 476 5957 (5 CDs) (2007)
(original LP release: RCA (Australia) VCS-7500) (2 LPs) (1974)

Seiji Ozawa/Boston Symphony Orchestra
( + Roméo et Juliette - Scène d'Amour)
DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON GALLERIA 431169-2 (1990)
(original LP release: DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON 2530 358) (1973)

Seiji Ozawa/Toronto Symphony Orchestra
CBS ODYSSEY MBK 44801 (1991)
(original release : COLUMBIA M2L 356 {2 LPs}) (1967)

Carlos Païta/London Symphony Orchestra
LODIA LO-CD777 (1985)
(original LP release: LODIA LO 777) (1978)

Paul Paray/Detroit Symphony Orchestra
(+ Roman Carnival Overture, Corsair Overture, Les Troyens - Trojan March and Damnation of Faust - Rákóczy March)
MERCURY LIVING PRESENCE 434 328-2 (1993)
(original LP release: MERCURY AMS 16055/SR 90254) (1960)

Paul Paray/Orchestre des Concerts Colonne
VOX PL 6950 (LP) (1951)

Jonel Perlea/Bamberg Symphony Orchestra
VOX ALLEGRETTO ACD 8012 (1993)
(original LP release: VOX STPL 511090) (1960)

Michel Plasson/Orchestre du Capitole de Toulouse
( + Harold en Italie, Roman Carnival Overture, Waverley Overture, Benvenuto Cellini Overture and Corsair Overture)
EMI CLASSICS 371467-2 (2 CDS) (2006)
(original CD release: EMI CDC 754010-2 (1989)

Georges Prêtre/Boston Symphony Orchestra
( + Roman Carnival Overture and Corsair Overture)
RCA SILVER SEAL 60478-2 (1988)
(original LP release: RCA LSC-3096) (1969)

Georges Prêtre/Vienna Symphony Orchestra
TELDEC CD 8 43300 (1987)

André Previn/London Symphony Orchestra
(+ Requiem)
EMI CLASSICS GEMINI 264299-2 (2 CDs) (2009)
(original LP release: HMV ASD 3496/ANGEL S-37485) (1979)

André Previn/Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
(+ Corsair Overture)
RPO RECORDS CDRPO 7016 (1991)

Nathan Rakhlin/Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra
( + Wagner Siegfried Idyll)
MELODIYA D01440-2 (2 LPs) (1953)

Sir Simon Rattle/Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
( + La Mort de Cléopâtre)
EMI CLASSICS 2162240 (2008)

Rolf Reuter/Berlin Comic Opera Orchestra
BERLIN CLASSICS 492 109 (1990)

Artur Rodzinski/Cleveland Orchestra (rec. 1940)
US COLUMBIA ENTRÉ RL 3059 (LP) (c. 1955)

François-Xavier Roth/Les Siècles
ACTES SUD ASM02 (2010)

Gennadi Rozhdestvensky/Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra (rec. 1971)
BBC LEGENDS BBCL 4163-2 (2005)
(original CD release: CARLTON BBC RADIO CLASSICS BBCRD 9117) (1995)

Gennadi Rozhdestvensky/Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra
MELODIYA S01549-50/MELODIYA/ANGEL SR-40054 (LP) (1967)

Gennady Rozhdestvensky/Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra
( + Corsair Overture)
CHANDOS CHAN 9052 (1992)

Gennady Rozhdestvensky/USSR Ministry of Culture Symphony Orchestra
( + Saint-Saens: Cello Concerto No. 1)
RUSSIAN REVELATION RV 10062 (1988)

Rico Saccani/Budapest Philharmonic Orchestra
BPO LIVE 012 (2003)

Esa-Pekka Salonen/Philharmonia Orchestra
( + Beethoven: Leonore Overture No. 2)
SIGNUM SIGCD 193 (2010)

Hermann Scherchen/London Symphony Orchestra
(included in collection "Hermann Scherchen - the Nixa Recordings")
TAHRA TAH 413-416 (4 CDs) (2006)
(original LP release: NIXA NLP 908/WESTMINSTER WL 5268) (1953)

Georges Sébastian/RIAS Symphony Orchestra
REMINGTON 199-176 (LP) (1953)

Constantin Silvestri/Orchestre des Concerts du Société du Conservatoire
HMV SXLP 20036 (LP) (1961)

Stanislaw Skrowaczewski/London Symphony Orchestra
CHANDOS CHAN 8727 (1989)

Stanislaw Skrowaczewski/Saarbrucken Radio Symphony Orchestra
( + Roméo et Juliette - Scène d'Amour)
OEHMS OEH 319 (2004)

Sir Georg Solti/Chicago Symphony Orchestra
( + Les Francs-Juges Overture)
DECCA ELOQUENCE 460 504-2 (2002)
(original LP release : DECCA SXL 6571/LONDON CS 6790) (1972)

Sir Georg Solti/Chicago Symphony Orchestra
(+ Liszt : Les Préludes)
DECCA 436 839-2 (1992)

Marc Soustrot/Pays du Loire Philharmonic Orchestra
FORLANE FF 063 (1994)

Pinchas Steinberg/Czecho-Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra
NAXOS 8.550093 (1998)

Leopold Stokowski/New Philharmonia Orchestra (rec. 1968)
( + Scriabin: Poem of Ecstasy)
BBC LEGENDS BBCL 4018-2 (1999)

Leopold Stokowski/New Philharmonia Orchestra
(included in collection: "Original Masters - Leopold Stokowski")
DECCA 475 145-2 (5 CDs) (2003)
(original LP release : DECCA PHASE 4 PFS 4160/LONDON PHASE 4 SPC 21031) (1968)

Hans Swarowsky/Süddeutsche Philharmonie Stuttgart (rec. 1960's ?)
ARIOLA ARIA 880 177-910 (1990)

Eugen Szenkar/NW German Radio Symphony Orchestra (rec. 1950)
( + Handel: Concerto Grosso, Op. 6, No. 12)
TAHRA 423 (2001)

Yoav Talmi/San Diego Symphony Orchestra
NAXOS 8.553597 (2001)

Yuri Temirkanov/Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
( + Corsair Overture and Beatrice and Benedict Overture)
RCA 09026 61203-2 (1992)

Michael Tilson Thomas/San Francisco Symphony Orchestra
( + Lélio - excerpts)
RCA CLASSIC LIBRARY 8287660859-2 (2004)
(original CD release: RCA 0902668930-2) (1998)

Michael Tilson Thomas/San Francisco Symphony Orchestra
AVIE 82193600332 (2010)

André Vandernoot/Belgian RTBF Orchestra
WEITBLICK SSS 0001-2 (1987)

André Vandernoot/Orchestre de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire
( + Waverley Overture and Roman Carnival Overture)
REDISCOVERY RD071 (2003)
COMMAND CLASSICS CC 33-11009 SD (LP) (1961)

Lajos Vasady-Balogh/Postas Symphony Orchestra (rec. 1960)
HUNGAROTON SHLX 90052 (LP) (1972)

Hans Wallat/Junge Deutsche Philharmonie
RBM 3054 (LP) (1977)

Alfred Wallenstein/Virtuoso Symphony of London
AUDIO FIDELITY FCS 50003 (LP) (1959)

Bruno Walter/NBC Symphony Orchestra (rec. 1939)
(+ Ravel : Rhapsodie Espagnole)
ARBITER 133 (2002)

Bruno Walter/New York Philharmonic Orchestra (rec. 1954)
( + Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis and Debussy: Prélude à l'Après-Midi d'un Faune)
URANIA URN 22398 (2009)

Bruno Walter/Orchestre de la Société du Conservatoire Paris (rec. 1939)
( + Ravel: Concerto for Piano Left Hand)
CLASSICA D'ORO 1039 (2001)
(original LP release: RCA CAMDEN 281) (c. 1952)

Felix Weingartner/London Symphony Orchestra (rec. 1925)
(+ Wagner: Siegfried Idyll)
GRAMMOFONO 2000 78 850 (1999)

Richard Williams/London Symphony Orchestra
CARLTON CLASSICS IMP CD870 (1987)

Carlo Zecchi/Czech Philharmonic Orchestra
SUPRAPHON 111103-2 (1990)
(original LP release : SUPRAPHON SUA-ST 50103) (1980)

David Zinman/Baltimore Symphony Orchestra
( + Les Francs-Juges Overture and Roman Carnival Overture)
TELARC CD-80271 (1991)

Grande Symphonie Funèbre et Triomphale, Op. 15 (1840)

François Boulanger/Orchestre d’Harmonie de la Garde Republicaine Orchester
AUVIDIS VALOIS V 4836 (1998)

Col. John R. Bourgeois/University of Maryland Chorus/United States Marine Band
( + Les Francs-Juges Overture)
MARK MASTERS 3053 (1999)

Sir Colin Davis
Orchestra/Ensemble: John Alldis Choir/London Symphony Orchestra
( + Requiem)
DECCA THE ORIGINALS 4757765-2 (2 CDs) (2006)
(original LP release: PHILIPS SAL 3788/PHILIPS 802913) (1970)

Désiré Dondeyne/Chorale Populaire de Paris/Musique des Gardiens de la Paix de Paris
( + La Mort de Cléopâtre, Benvenuto Cellini Overture, Roman Carnival Overture, Corsair Overture, Les Francs-Juges Overture and Les Troyens: Suite)
APEX 2564621832 (2 CDs) (2005)
(original LP release: ERATO STU STU 70493/WESTMINSTER WST-14066) (1959)

Désiré Dondeyne/Orchestre d'Harmonie des Gardiens de la Paix
( + Schmitt: Dionysiaques, Koechlin: Quelques Chorals pour des Fêtes Populaires and Fauré: Chant Funéraire)
CALLIOPE CAL 6859 (1987)
(original LP release: CALLIOPE CAL 1859) (1976)

Charles Dutoit/Montreal Symphony Orchestra Chorus/Montreal Symphony Orchestra
( + Roméo et Juliette)
DECCA 417302-2 (2 CDs) (1986)

Christoph Eschenbach/Czech Philharmonic Orchestra
( + La Mort de Cléopâtre)
SUPRAPHON CO-72435 (1988)

Philippe Ferro/Choeur Colonne/Orchestre d'Harmonie des Gardiens de la Paix de la Préfecture de Police de Paris
( + Scène Héroïque de la Révolution Grecque: Finale)
CALLIOPE CAL 9327 (2003)

Ernest Graf/Vienna Chamber Chorus and Brass Ensemble/Vienna State Opera Orchestra
URANIA X-100 (LP) (c. 1956)

Timothy Reynish/Royal Northern College of Music Wind Orchestra
( + Schmitt: Dionysiaques, Saint-Saëns: Orient et Occident, Bozza: Children's Overture and Milhaud: Suite Française)
CHANDOS CHAN 9897 (2000)

Fritz Straub/Kölnischer Chor/Great Symphonic Brass Orchestra of Cologne and String Orchestra of Cologne
NIXA LLP 8040/LYRICHORD LL-40 (LP) (c. 1955)

John Wallace/Leeds Festival Chorus/The Wallace Collection
NIMBUS NI 5175 (1989)

Harold en Italie (Symphony), Op. 16 (1834)

Daniel Barenboim/Pinchas Zuckerman (viola)/Orchestre de Paris
COLUMBIA M-34541 (LP) (1977)

Sir Thomas Beecham/William Primrose (viola)/Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (rec. 1951)
( + Grétry: Zemire et Azor - Pantomime, Méhul: Timoléon Overture, Le Trésor Supposé Overture. La Chasse de Jeune Henri Overture and Massenet: The Last Sleep of the Virgin)
SONY BEECHAM SMK 91167(2003)
(original LP release: COLUMBIA CX 1019/COLUMBIA ML- 4542) (1952)

Sir Thomas Beecham/Frederick Riddle (viola)/Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (rec. 1956)
( + King Lear Overture, Corsair Overture and Les Troyens - Trojan March)
BBC LEGENDS BBCL 4065-2 (2001)

Leonard Bernstein/Donald McInnes (viola)/ORTF National Orchestra
( + Benvenuto Cellini Overture and Les Francs-Juges Overture)
EMI CLASSICS STUDIO PLUS 64745-2 (1993)
(original LP release: HMV ASD 3389/ANGEL S-37413) (1976)

Leonard Bernstein/William Lincer (viola)/New York Philharmonic
( + La Mort de Cléopâtre)
SONY SMK 60696 (1999)
(original LP release: CBS SBRG 72112/COLUMBIA MS-6358(1963)

Sylvain Cambreling/Jean-Eric Soucy (viola)/SWR Symphony Orchestra
( + Orchestral Highlights from The Damnation of Faust and Les Troyens)
HÄNSSLER HAEN 93241 (2009)

Myung Whun Chung/Laurent Verney (viola)/Orchestre de la Bastille
( + Benvenuto Cellini Overture, Corsair Overture and Roman Carnival Overture)
DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON 4471022 (1996)

Sir Colin Davis/Nobuko Imai (viola)/London Symphony Orchestra
( + Symphonie Fantastique, Roman Carnival Overture, Corsair Overture and Symphonie Funèbre et Triomphale)
PHILIPS DUO 442290-2 (2 CDs) (1994)
(original LP release: PHILIPS 416431-2/PHILIPS 9500 026) (1975)

Sir Colin Davis/Tabea Zimmermann (viola)/London Symphony Orchestra
( + Les Troyens - Ballet Music)
LSO LIVE LSO0040 (2003)

Sir Colin Davis /Sir Yehudi Menuhin (viola)/Philharmonia Orchestra
( + Rêverie et Caprice)
CLASSICS FOR PLEASURE 521846-2 (2008)
(original LP release: HMV ASD 537/ANGEL S-36123) (1963)

Cyril Diederich/Bruno Pasquier (viola)/Montpellier Languedoc Roussillon Philharmonic Orchestra
( + Benvenuto Cellini Overture)
FORLANE UCD 16568 (1996)

Charles Dutoit/Pinchas Zukerman (viola)/Montreal Symphony Orchestra
( + Symphonie Fantastique, Roméo et Juliette: Orchestral Excerpts, Les Troyens - Royal Hunt and Storm and Damnation of Faust - Rákóczy March)
DECCA DOUBLE DECCA 455361-2 (2 CDs) (1997)
(original CD release: DECCA 421193 -2 ) (1988)

Vladimir Fedoseyev/Yuri Bashmet (viola)/USSR TV and Radio Orchestra
( + Chausson: Poème)
AUDIOPHILE CLASSICS APL 101.514 (1995)
(original LP release: MELODIYA S10 00693 (1981)

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau/Josef Suk (viola)/Czech Philharmonic Orchestra
( + Rêverie et Caprice)
SUPRAPHON 11 0708-2 (1990)
(original LP release: SUPRAPHON 410 2005/QUINTESSENCE PMC 7103) (1976)

Sir John Eliot Gardiner/Gérard Caussé (viola)/Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique
( + Tristia)
PHILIPS 446676-2 (1996)

Jean Fournet/Gérard Caussé (viola)/Teatro la Fenice Orchestra, Venice
MONDO MUSICA MFON 10124 (1999)

Milan Horvat/Stefano Passaggio(viola)/Zagreb Phillharmonic Orchestra
PHILIPS SGL 5850 (LP) (1966)

Eliahu Inbal/Yuri Bashmet (viola)/Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra
( + Symphonie Fantastique, Requiem, Romeo et Juliette, Te Deum, L'Enfance du Christ and The Damnation of Faust)
BRILLIANT CLASSICS 99999 (11 CDs) (2003)
(original CD release: DENON CO73207 (1989)

Frantisek Jílek/Lubomír Malý (viola)/Czech Philharmonic Orchestra
SUPRAPHON 38C37-7244 (1983)
(original LP release: PRO ARTE PAD 127) (1981)

Václav Jiracek/Ladisla Cerný(viola)/Czech Philharmonic Orchestra
SUPRAPHON LPV 221/EVEREST 3319 (LP) (c. 1955)

Serge Koussevitzky/William Primrose (viola)/Boston Symphony Orchestra (rec. 1944)
( + Walton: Viola Concerto and Casadesus: Viola Concerto)
NAXOS HISTORICAL 8.110316 (2005)
(original LP release: RCA VICTOR LCT-1146) (c.1955)

Onderj Lenard/Milan Telecky (viola)/Bratislava Radio Symphony Orchestra
( + Massenet: Scènes Pittoresques)
PLATINUM DISC PLDC 4492 (2000)
(original LP release: OPUS 9110 1145) (1982)

Alain Lombard/Claude Ducrocq (viola)/Orchestre Philharmonique de Strasbourg
ERATO STU 70833 (LP) (1974)

Lorin Maazel/Wolfram Christ (viola)/Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
( + Symphonie Fantastique, Benvenuto Cellini Overture, Le Corsaire Overture, Les Troyens - Royal Hunt and Storm, Roman Carnival Overture, Roméo et Juliette, Requiem, Te Deum, La The Damnation de Faust, Berlioz, Tristia, La Mort d'Ophélie and De Lisle/Berlioz: La Marseillaise)
DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON 474440-2 (10 CDs) (2003)
(original CD release: DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON 415109-2) (1985)

Lorin Maazel/Robert Vernon (viola)/Cleveland Orchestra
DECCA SXL 6873/LONDON CS7097(LP) (1977)

Igor Markevitch/Heinz Kirchner (viola)/Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
( + The Damnation of Faust)
DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON ORIGINALS 463673-2 (2 CDs) (2002)
(original LP release: HELIODOR 89545/DECCA DL-9841) (1957)

Zubin Mehta/Daniel Benyamini (viola)/Israel Philharmonic Orchestra
( + Bloch: Voice in the Wilderness)
DECCA ELOQUENCE 466 907-2 (2002)
(original LP release: DECCA SXL 6732/LONDON CS 6951) (1975)

Pierre Monteux/Klaas Boon (viola)/Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra (rec. 1963)
( + Roman Carnival Overture)
AUDIOPLILE APL 101.558
(original LP release: PAST MASTERS 37)

Rudolf Moralt/Günther Breitenbach (viola)/Vienna Symphony Orchestra
VOX PNL 6700 (LP) (1950)

Charles Munch/Joseph de Pasquale (viola)/Boston Symphony Orchestra (rec. 1954)
(included in collection: "A Treasury of French Music")
WEST HILL RADIO ARCHIVES WHRA 6027 (6 CDs) (2010)

Charles Munch/William Primrose (viola)/Boston Symphony Orchestra
( + Roméo et Juliette, Requiem, Symphonie Fantastique, L'Enfance du Christ, Les Nuits d'Été, The Damnation of Faust, Roman Carnaval Overture, Benvenuto Cellini Overture, Beatrice and Benedict Overture, Corsair Overture and Les Troyens - Royal Hunt and Storm)
RCA RED SEAL 82876-603932 (10 CDs) (2004)
(original LP release: (RCA RED SEAL SB 2016 /RCA LSC-2228) (1958)

David Oistrakh/Rudolf Barshai (viola)/Moscow Philarmonic Symphony Orchestra
( + Hindemith: Trauermusik)
MELODIYA/ANGEL R-40001 (LP) (1964/1967)
(original LP release: MELODIYA SUCD 10-00484) (1964)

David Oistrakh/Mikhail Tolpygo (viola)/USSR State Academic Symphony Orchestra (rec. 1972)
( + Bruch: Scottish Fantasy)
RUSSIAN RêveLATION RV 10051(1997)

Eugene Ormandy/Joseph de Pasquale (viola)/Philadelphia Orchestra
( + The Damnation of Faust: Orchestral Excerpts, Les Troyens: Trojan March and Royal Hunt and Storm)
SONY ESSENTIAL CLASSICS SBK 53 255 (1993)
(original LP release: COLUMBIA M-30116) (1970)

Michel Plasson/Gérard Caussé (viola)/Orchestre du Capitole de Toulous
( + Symphonie Fantastique, Roman Carnival Overture, Waverley Overture, Benvenuto Cellini Overture and Corsair Overture)
EMI CLASSICS 371467-2 (2 CDS) (2006)
(original CD release: EMI CDC 754237-2 (1991)

Georges Pretre/Walter Trampler (viola)/London Symphony Orchestra
LSC-3075 (LP) (1969)

Herman Scherchenn/Frederick Riddle (viola)London Philharmonic Orchestra
(included in collection "Hermann Scherchen - the Nixa Recordings")
TAHRA TAH 413-416 (4 CDs) (2006)
(original LP release: NIXA NLP 911/WESTMINSTER WL 5288) (1954)

Maxim Shostakovich/Bruno Giuranna (viola)/BBC Symphony Orchestra (rec. 1982)
( + Nuits d'Été and Jeune Pâtre Breton)
CARLTON BBC RADIO CLASSICS 1565691532 (1996)

Simon Streatfeild/Douglas McNabney (viola)/ Orchestre symphonique de Québec
CBC SM5047 (LP) (1985)

Yoav Talmi/Rivka Golani (viola)/San Diego Symphony Orchestra
( + Les Francs-Juges Overture and Rêverie et Caprice)
NAXOS 8.553034 (1996)

Arturo Toscanini/Carlton Cooley (viola)/NBC Symphony Orchestra (rec. 1953)
( + Roméo et Juliette: Orchestral Excerpt)
RCA VICTOR GOLD SEAL 60275-2-RG (1992)
(original LP release: HMV ALP 1438/RCA LM-1951) (1957)

Arturo Toscanini/William Primrose (viola)/NBC Symphony Orchestra (rec. 1946)
( + Les Francs Juges Overture, Roméo et Juliette: Scène d'Amour and Damnation of Faust - Rákóczy March)
MUSIC AND ARTS MACD 4614 (2003)

Roméo et Juliette (Dramatic Symphony), Op. 17 (1839)

Daniel Barenboim/Jules Bastin (bass), Francisco Araiza (tenor), Christa Ludwig (alto), Yvonne Minton (mezzo)/Orchestre de Paris Chorus/Orchestre de Paris
( + Franck: Le Chasseur Maudit, Redemption and Franck/Ropartz: Nocturne)
DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON GALLERIA 437244-2 (2 CDs) (1994)
(original release: DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON 2707 115) (2 LPs) (1980)

Pierre Boulez/Melanie Diener (soprano), Kenneth Tarver (tenor), Denis Sedov (bass)/Cleveland Orchestra Chorus/Cleveland Orchestra
( + Les Nuits d'Été)
DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON 474237-2 (2 CDs) (2003)

Sylvain Cambreling/Nadine Denize (mezzo), Piotr Beczala (tenor), Peter Lika (bass)/Europa Chorakademie/Southwest German Radio Symphony Orchestra
( + Messiaen: L'Ascension)
HÄNSSLER CLASSIC HAN 93005 (2 CDs) (2001)

Sir Colin Davis/Patricia Kern (mezzo)/Robert Tear (tenor)/John Shirley-Quirk (bass baritone)/John AlldisChoir/London Symphony Orchestra
PHILIPS 416283-2 (2 CD’s) (1988)
(original LP release: PHILIPS SAL 3595/PHILIPS PHS 2-909 (1968)

Sir Colin Davis/Daniela Barcellona (mezzo)/Kenneth Tarver (tenor)/Orlin Anatassov (bass)/London Symphony Chorus/London SymphonyoOrchestra
LSO LIVE LSO 0003 (2 CD's). 2000

Sir Colin Davis/Alastair Miles (bass), Thomas Moser (tenor), Olga Borodina (mezzo)/Bavarian Radio Chor/Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
( + Beatrice et Benedict Overture, King Lear Overture, Les Francs-Juges Overture, Waverley Overture and Corsair Overture)
NEWPORT CLASSICS 8802046 (2 CDs) (2011)
(original LP release: PHILIPS 442 134-2) (1996)

Charles Dutoit/Tom Krause (bass), Alberto Cupido (tenor), Florence Quivar (mezzo)/Montreal Tudor Vocal Ensemble Choir/Montreal Symphony Orchestra Chorus/ Montreal Symphony Orchestra
( + Symphonie Funèbre et Triomphale: Excerpt)
DECCA 417302-2 (2 CDs) (1986)

Emanuel Elenescu/Zenaida Pally (mezzo)/Valentin Teodorian (tenor)/Nicolae Florei (bass)/Romanian RTV Chorus/Romanian RTV Symphony Orchestra
ELECTRECORD ECE 0138/0139 (2 LPs) (1960's?)

Lamberto Gardelli/Brigitte Fassbaender (mezzo)/Nicolai Gedda (tenor)/ John Shirley-Quirk (baritone)/Austrian Radio Chorus/Austrian Radio Symphony Orchestra
ORFEO C0687842 (2 CDs) (1994)

Sir John Eliot Gardiner/Catherine Robbin (mezzo)/Jean-Paul Fouchécourt (tenor)/Gilles Cachemaille (bass)/Monteverdi Choir/Orchestre Révolutionaire et Romantique
PHILIPS 454454-2 (2 CDs) (1998)

Eliahu Inbal/Nadine Denize (mezzo)Vinson Cole (tenor)/Robert Lloyd (bass)/Chorus and Radio Sinfonie-Orchester Frankfurt
( + Harold en Italie, The Damnation of Faust, Symphonie Fantastique, L'Enfance du Christ, Te Deum and Requiem)
BRILLIANT CLASSICS 99999 (11 CDs) (2003)
(original CD release: DENON CO 73210/11) (2 CDs) (1990)

James Levine/Anne Sofie von Otter (mezzo), Philip Langridge (tenor)/James Morris (bass baritone)/Berlin RIAS Chamber Chorus/Ernst Senff Chamber Choir/Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
( + Les Nuits d'Été)
DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON 427665-2 (2 CDs) (1990)

Alain Lombard/Nadine Denize (mezzo)/Rémy Corazza (tenor)/ Pierre Thau (bass)/Les Solistes et Choeurs de l'Opéra du Rhin/Orchestre Philharmonique de Strasbourg
ERATO STU 71083 (2 LPs) (1978)

Lorin Maazel/Maurane Aubéry-Luchini (mezzo)/Orchestra Sinfonica e Coro di Roma della RAI (rec. 1958)
( + J.S. Bach: Violin Concerto No. 1)
ANDROMEDA ANDRCD 9073 (2 CDs) (2010)

Lorin Maazel/Christa Ludwig (mezzo)/ Michel Sénéchal/( tenor)/Nicolai Ghiaurov (bass)/ Soloistes des Choeurs de l'O.R.T.F/ Vienna State Opera Chorus/Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
DECCA SET 570/1/LONDON OSA-12102 (2 LPs) (1973)

Pierre Monteux/Regina Resnik(mezzo)/André Turp (tenor)/ David Ward (bass)/London Symphony Chorus/London Symphony Orchestra
( + Symphonie Fantastique)
DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON (WESTMINSTER SERIES) DG 471242-2 (2 CDs) (2001)
(original release: WESTMINSTER 233 (2 LPs) (1962)

Charles Munch/Boston Symphony Orchestra/Giorgio Tozzi (bass), Rosalind Elias (mezzo), Cesare Valletti (tenor)/New England Conservatory Chorus/Boston Symphony Orchestra
( + Symphonie Fantastique, Requiem, Harold en Italie, L'Enfance du Christ, Les Nuits d'Été, The Damnation of Faust, Roman Carnaval Overture, Benvenuto Cellini Overture, Beatrice and Benedict Overture, Corsair Overture and Les Troyens - Royal Hunt and Storm)
RCA RED SEAL 82876-603932 (10 CDs) (2004)
(original release: RCA VICTOR LDS-6098) (2 LPs) (1962)

Charles Munch/Boston Symphony Orchestra/Margaret Roggero (mezzo)/ Leslie Chabay (tenor)/Yi-Kwei-Sze (bass)/Harvard Glee Club/Radcliffe Choral Society/Boston Symphony Orchestra
( + Brahms:Symphony No. 2)
ARCHIPEL ARPCD 0206 (2 CDs)
(original release: HMV ALP 1179/80/RCA VICTOR LM-9011 (2 LPs) (1955)

Riccardo Muti/Jessye Norman (mezzo)/John Aler (tenor)/Simon Estes (bass)/ Westminster Symphonic Choir/Philadelphia Orchestra
( + Symphonie Fantastique)
EMI CLASSICS 0979572 (2 CDs) (2008)
(original CD release: EMI CLASSICS CDS 7474378-2 ) (2 CDs) (1986)

Seiji Ozawa/Julia Hamari (alto)/Jean Dupouy (tenor)/José Van Dam (bass)/New England Conservatory Chorus/Boston Symphony Orchestra
( + Tchaikovsky: Romeo and Juliet)
DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON 423068-2 (2 CDs) (1990)
(original release: DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON 2707 089) (2 LPs) (1976)

Carlos Paita/soloists/Prague Festival Chorus/Prague Festival Orchestra (rec. 1978)
LODIA CP801 (2 CDs) (2011)

Arturo Toscanini/Gladys Swarthout (soprano)/John Garris (tenor)/Nicola Moscona (bass)/NBC Symphony Chorus/NBC Symphony Orchestra (rec. 1947)
( + The Damnation de Faust: Scene 7)
GUILD GHCD 2218/20 (3 CDs) (2004)
(original release: RCA VICTOR LM-7034) (2 LPs) (1959)

Roméo et Juliette (Dramatic Symphony), Op. 17 (1839): Orchestral Excerpts
(excerpts from complete recordings listed above are not included)

Leonard Bernstein/New York Philharmonic
( + Requiem and La Mort de Cléopâtre)
SONY CLASSICS "THE ROYAL BERNSTEIN EDITION" 2M2K 47526 (2CDs) (1992)
(original LP release: COLUMBIA MS-6170) (1960)

Sergiu Celibidache/Orchestra Sinfonica di Torino della RAI (rec. 1960)
( + Tchaikovsky: Romeo and Juliet and Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet - Excerpts)
FONIT CETRA EMOZIONI CDAR 2019 (1995)
(original LP release: FONIT CETRA LAR 10) (c. 1980)

Andre Cluytens/Orchestre du Théâtre National de l'Opéra
( + Symphonie Fantastique)
TESTAMENT SBT1234 (2002)
(original LP release: COLUMBIA 33CX 1544/ANGEL 35431 ) (1958)

Pierre Dervaux/Colonne Concerts Orchestra (La Reine Mab: Scherzo)
( + The Damnation of Faust - Orchestra Excerpts, Bizet: Jeux d'Enfants and Jolie Fille De Perth - Suite)
HMV SXLP 20047 (LP) (1962)

Antal Dorati/Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra (Scène d'Amour)
( + The Damnation of Faust - Orchestral Excerpts and Mendelssohn: Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage Overture)
EPIC BC-1094 (LP) (1960)

Antal Dorati/Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
( + Tchaikovsky: Romeo and Juliet)
QUINTESSENCE PMC-7045 (LP) (1975)
(original release in: "Treasury of Great Music" READER's DIGEST RDS 5020/31 (12 LPs) (1962)

Carlo Maria Giulini/Chicago Symphony Orchestra
( + Beethoven: Symphony No.7, Brahms: Symphony No.4, Bruckner: Symphony No.9, Mahler: Symphony No.1, . Stravinsky: The Firebird - Suite and Petrushka - Suite).
EMI 585974-2:: (4 CDs) (2004)
(original LP release: HMV ASD 2606/ANGEL S-36038 (1970)

Sir Hamilton Harty/London Philharmonic Orchestra (Roméo Seul and Grande Fête chez Capulet) (rec. 1933)
( + Beatrice and Benedict Overture, Corsair Overture, Roman Carnival Overture, Les Troyens: Trojan March and Hamlet: March Funèbre)
PEARL GEMMCD 9485 (1991)

Paavo Järvi/Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra (Scène d'Amour)
( + Symphonie Fantastique)
TELARC CD 80578 (2001)

Gotthold Ephraim.Lessing/Bamberg Symphony Orchestra (La Reine Mab: Scherzo)
( + Les Troyens - Ballet Music, Wagner: Rienzi Overture and Liszt: Mephisto Waltz)
MERCURY MG 10080 (LP) (1951)

Lorin Maazel/Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra (rec. 1957)
( + Tchaikovsky: Romeo and Juliet)
URANIA URA 330 (2007)
(original LP release: DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON SLPEM 138381) (1958)

Zden·k Macal/New Jersey Symphony Orchestra (Scène d'Amour)
( + Symphonie Fantastique)
DELOS DE 3229 (1998)

Dimitri Mitropoulos/New York Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra
( + Mahler: Symphony No. 6, Debussy: La Mer and R. Strauss: Salome - Dance of the 7 Veils)
EMI GREAT CONDUCTORS OF THE 20TH CENTURY 575471-2 (2 CDs) (2003)
(original LP release: COLUMBIA ML-4632) (1952)

Charles Munch/Orchestre de la Société du Conservatoire Paris
( + Benvenuto Cellini Overture, Corsair Overture and Les Troyens: Royal Hunt and Storm)
DECCA HISTORIC 433405-2 (1992)
(original LP release: DECCA LXT 2512/LONDON LL-3) (1950)

Willem van Otterloo/Lamoureux Concerts Orchestra (Roméo Seul and Grande Fête chez Capulet)
( + Benvenuto Cellini Overture, Roman Carnival Overture, Les Troyens: Trojan March and The Damnation of Faust: Orchestral Excerpts)
PHILIPS A 00191L/EPIC LC-3054 (LP) (c. 1956)

Seiji Ozawa/San Francisco Symphony Orchestra (Scène d'Amour)
( + Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet - excerpts and Tchaikovsky: Romeo and Juliet)
DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON 2530308 (LP) (1973)

Gabriel Pierné/Colonne Concerts Orchestra (rec. 1928)
( + Roman Carnival Overture, Symphonie Fantastique: 3 movements, Benvenuto Cellini Overture and Damnation of Faust--Danse des Sylphes)
DANTE LYS 287 (1997)

Robert Pikler/Sydney Symphony Orchestra (Scène d'Amour)
( + Beatrice and Benedict Overture, L'Enfance du Christ: The Flight into Egypt, Les Troyens: Royal Hunt and Strom and Hamlet: March Funèbre)
CHANDOS COLLECT CHAN 6587 (1992)
(original LP release:CHANDOS ABR 1059) (1982)

Stanislaw Skrowaczewski/Saarbrucken Radio Symphony Orchestra (Scène d'Amour
( + Symphonie Fantastique)
OEHMS OEH 319 (2004)

Hans Swarowky/Vienna Symphony Orchestra (Roméo Seul and Grande Fête chez Capulet)
( + Dukas: The Sorcerer's Apprentice)
MUSIC TREASURES OF THE WORLD MTW 23 (LP) (c. 1956)

Yoav Talmi/San Diego Symphony Orchestra
( + Les Troyens: Prelude and Royal Hunt and Storm)
NAXOS 8.553195 (1995)

Arturo Toscanini/NBC Symphony Orchestra (La Reine Mab: Scherzo)
( + Roman Carnival Overture, Bizet: Carmen - Excerpts, Debussy: La Mer, Ibéria, Prélude à l'Après-midi d'un Faun, Dukas: The Sorcerer's Apprentice, Ravel: Daphnis et Chloé Suite No. 2, Franck: Psyché et Eros, Saint-Saëns: Danse Macabre, Hérold: Zampa Ouverture)
and Thomas: Mignon Overture)
RCA VICTOR RED SEAL 74321 66924 2 (2 CDs) (1999)
(original LP release: RCA VICTOR LM-1019) (1951)

Arturo Toscanini/Philadelphia Orchestra (La Reine Mab: Scherzo) (rec. 1942)
(included in collection: "Toscanini - Complete Philadelphia Orchestra Recordings")
RCA VICTOR RED SEAL 702331 (3 CDs) (2006)
(original LP release: RCA CRMS 01900) {5 LPs) (1976)

Arturo Toscanini/NBC Symphony Orchestra (Scène d'Amour) (rec. 1941)
( + Les Francs Juges Overture, Harold en Italie and The Damnation of Faust - Rákóczy March)
MUSIC AND ARTS MACD 4614 (2003)

David Zinman/Baltimore Symphony Orchestra (Scène d'Amour)
( + Benvenuto Cellin Overture, The Damnation of Faust: Orchestral Excerpts, Corsair Overture, Les Troyens: Trojan March and Royal Hunt and Storm and De Lisle/Berlioz: La Marseillaise)
TELARC CD 80164 (1990)

LOUISE FARRENC
(1804-1875)

Born in Paris as Jeanne-Louise Dumont. She studied with Anton Reicha and married the flautist Aristide Farrenc.. Was an accomplished pianist and taught this instrument at the Paris Conservatory. Her other works include a Piano Concerto and 3 concert overtures for orchestra as well as a large amount of music for solo piano and other instruments.

Symphony no 1 in C minor, Op. 32 (1842)

Johannes Goritzki/NDR Hannover Radio Philharmonic Orchestra
( + Symphony No. 3)
CPO 9996032 (1998)

Stefan Sanderling/Orchestre de Bretagne
( + Symphonies Nos. 2 and 3)
PIERRE VERANY PV 700030 (2 CDs) (2001)

Symphony No. 2 in D major, Op. 35 (1845)

Johannes Goritzki/NDR Hannover Radio Philharmonic Orchestra
( + Overtures Nos. 1 and 2)
CPO 9998202 (2004)

Stefan Sanderling/Orchestre de Bretagne
( + Symphonies Nos. 1 and 3)
PIERRE VERANY PV 700030 (2 CDs) (2001)

Symphony no 3 in G minor, Op. 36 (1847)

Johannes Goritzki/NDR Hannover Radio Philharmonic Orchestra
( + Symphony No. 1)
CPO 9996032 (1998)

Stefan Sanderling/Orchestre de Bretagne
( + Symphonies Nos.1 and 2)
PIERRE VERANY PV 700030 (2 CDs) (2001)

CHARLES GOUNOD
(1818-1893)

Born in St. Cloud. His first teacher of music was his mother and he went on to the Paris Conservatory where he studied under Jaalévy, Jean François Le Sueur and Ferdinando Paër. He achieved immortality with his operas "Faust" and "Roméo et Juliette" and wrote several other operas and large-scale sacred choral works. Besides these Symphonies, he wrote little else of signifigance for orchestra (only the "Marche Funèbre pour une Marionette" is ever revived) or other non-vocal genres.

Symphony No. 1 in D major (1855)

Patrick Gallois/Sinfonia Finlandia Jyväskylä
( + Symphony No. 1)
NAXOS 8.557463 (2006)

Christopher Hogwood/St. Paul Chamber Orchestra
( + Petite Symphonie and Bizet: L'Arlésienne - Excerpts)
DECCA 430231-2 (1991)

Robert Irving/New York City Ballet Orchestra
( + Bizet: Symphony in C)
KAPP 9039-S (LP) (1960)

Franz Lamprecht/Târgu Mure? Philharmonic Orchestra
( + Symphony No. 2)
ELECTRECORD ELC 173 (1995)

John Lubbock/Orchestra of St. John's Smith Square
( + Symphony No. 2)
ASV CDDCA 981 (1996)

Sir Neville Marriner/Academy of St. Martin in the Fields
( + Symphony No. 2 and Faust: Ballet Music)
PHILIPS 462125- (1999)

Hervé Niquet/Beethoven Academy
( + Symphony No. 2)
TIMPANI 1C1102 (2006)

Michel Plasson/Orchestre du Capitole de Toulouse
( + Symphony No. 2)
EMI CDM 7 63949-2 (1991)
(original LP release: HMV GREENSLEEVES ESD 7093/ANGEL S-37726) (1980)

Symphony No. 2 in E flat major (c. 1856)

Patrick Gallois/Sinfonia Finlandia Jyväskylä
( + Symphony No. 2)
NAXOS 8.557463 (2006)

Franz Lamprecht/Târgu Mure? Philharmonic Orchestra
( + Symphony No. 1)
ELECTRECORD ELC 173 (1995)

John Lubbock/Orchestra of St. John's Smith Square
( + Symphony No. 1)
ASV CDDCA981 (1996)

Igor Markevitch/Orchestre des Concerts Lamoureux
(included in collection "Igor Markevitch - Un Véritable Artiste")
DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON ORIGINAL MASTERS 474400-2 (9 CDs) (2003)
(original LP release: DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON LPM 18469/DECCA GOLD LABEL DL-9982) (1958)

Sir Neville Marriner/Academy of St. Martin in the Fields
( + Symphony No. 1 and Faust: Ballet Music)
PHILIPS 462125- (1999)

Hervé Niquet
( + Symphony No. 1)
TIMPANI 1C1102 (2006)

Jean-Louis Petit/Cluj-Napoca Philharmonic Orchestra
ARION ARN 38480 (LP) (1978)

Michel Plasson/Orchestre du Capitole de Toulouse
( + Symphony No.1)
EMI CDM 7 63949-2 (1991)
(original LP release: HMV GREENSLEEVES ESD 7093/ANGEL S-37726) (1980)

Petite Symphonie in E flat major for 9 Wind Instruments (1888)

Eric Arbiter,.E. Scott Brubaker, Richard Stoltzman, et. al.
( + Mozart: Serenade No. 11)
MARLBORO RECORDING SOCIETY MRS 8 (LP) (c. 1975 )

Athena Ensemble
( + Poulenc: Sextet and Ibert: Trois Pieces BRêves)
CHANDOS COLLECT CHAN 6543 (1991)
(original LP release: RCA RL 25278) (1979)

Sir John Barbirolli/Hallé Orchestra
( + Messe de Sainte Cecile)
EMI ENCORE 574730-2 (2001)
(original LP release: PYE GOLDEN GUINEA GSGC 2037) (1959)

Bastiaan Blomhert/Amsterdam Blazers Ensemble
( + Poulenc: L'Histoire de Babar, le Petit Éléphant and Françaix: Dances for Orchestra Nos. 1 -7)
STH 19275 (1995)

Maurice Bourgue/Maurice Bourgue Wind Ensemble (rec. 1975)
( + Saint-Saëns: Oboe Sonata, Clarinet Sonata, Bassoon Sonata, Cello Sonatas Nos. 1 and 2, Violin Sonatas Nos. 1 and 2, Cavatine for Trombone, Romance for Cello, Mélodies (8) du Japon and D'Indy: Danses pour 7 Instruments à Vent)
CALLIOPE 3817/19 (3 CDs) (2005)
(original LP release: CALLIOPE CAL1827 (1978)/NONESUCH H-71382) (1980)

Alexander Brezina/Munich Wind Academy
( + Dvořák: Serenade for Winds)
ORFEO 51831 (1992)
(original LP release: ORFEO C 051 831 A) (1983)

Boris Brott/CBC Toronto Chamber Ensemble
( + Ravel, Maurice: Sonatina, Debussy: Estampes and Beethoven: Octet)
RADIO-CANADA INTERNATIONAL RM-184 (LP) (c.1960)

Boris Brott/Northern Sinfonia Orchestra
( + Dvořák: Serenade for Winds)
MACE MCS 9065 (LP) (1967)

Edo De Waart/Netherlands Wind Ensemble
( + Dvořák: Serenade for Winds and Schubert: Minuet and Finale)
PHILIPS 6570 163 (LP) (1971)

Victor Desarzens/Winterthur Symphony Orchestra
( + Liszt: Tasso)
CONCERT HALL SOCIETY CHS F.2 (LP) (c. 1952)

Barry Faldner/Sinfonia Orchestra of Chicago
( + Debussy:Symphony, Milhaud: Chamber Symphonies Nos. 1, 2, 3 and 5)
KOCH INTERNATIONAL CLASSICS 3-7067-2 H1 (1992)

Fidelio Ensemble
( + D'Indy: Chanson et Danses, Bizet: Jeux d'Enfants and Carmen Suite)
GALLO GLL 674 (1995)

Lawrence Dale Harper/Wisconsin Wind Orchestra
( + Jacob: Old Wine in New Bottles, Kurka: Good Soldier Schweik - Suite and Hahn: Le Bal de Beatrice d'Este)
MARK MASTERS 3882 (2001)

Christopher Hogwood/St. Paul Chamber Orchestra
( + Symphony No. 1 and Bizet: L'Arlésienne - Excerpts)
DECCA 430231-2 (1991)

M. Mériot/ L'Harmonie de Chambre de la Police Nationale
( + Mozart: Serenade No. 11)
CORELIA CC77925 (LP) (1977)

Gerard Oskamp/Norwegian Winds
( + Dvořák: Serenade for Winds, Mendelssohn: Notturno and Enescu: Dixtuor
VICTORIA VCD 1909 (1996)

Pierre Poulteau/L'Ensemble d'Instruments à Vent Pierre Poulteau
( + Schubert: Eine Kleine Trauermusik and Minuet and Finale)
DECCA LXT 5172/LONDON LL 1407 (LP) (1950)

Michael Schønwandt/Collegium Musicum Kopenhagen
( + Mozart: Serenade No. 10)
RONDO RCD 8370 (2001)

Jiri Stárek/RIAS-Sinfonietta
( + Godard: Suite de Trois Morceaux and Offenbach: Serenade)
SCHWANN MUSICA MUNDI VMS 2055 (LP) (1977)

Pierre Stöll/ members of the Rhineland Philharmonic
( + Langevin: Europa Symphony)
RBM RECORDS RBM 3067 (1979)

Josef Strobl/Bavarian Radio Wind Ensemble
( + Cimarosa: Il Matrimonio Segreto Overture and Donizetti: Sinfonia Concertante)
MERCURY MG 10033 (LP) (c. 1952)

František Vajnar/Collegium Musicum Pragense
( + D'Indy Chanson et Dances and Gouvy: Petite Suite Gauloise)
SUPRAPHON 1411 2844 (LP) (1981)

Ulysse Waterlot/Waterloo Chamber Orchestra
( + Donjon: Offertoire, Génin: Carnival of Venice, Godard: Suite de Morceaux - Idylle, Scènes Écossaises - Excerpts, Gaubert: Divertissement Grec and Berlioz: L'Enfance du Christ - Trio)
NAXOS 8.555954 (2003)

Jan Olav Wedin/Stockholm Chamber Ensemble
( + Mozart: Serenade No.12, Beethoven: Rondino, Roman: Sinfonia No. 20, Telemann: Concerto for 2 Violas and Strings and Schubert: Rosamunde - Incidental Music)
BIS CD-186 (1995)

LOUIS THÉODORE GOUVY
(1819-1898)

Born in Goffontaine, Alsace (then under Prussian rule), to Francophone parents. Unable to attend the Paris Conservatory, he studied music privately in both Paris and Berlin, a prominent teacher being Antoine Elwart. He composed prolifically in various genres with the majority of his output being for instrumental forces. This preference eventually made him resettle in Germany as the French were much more interested in works for the voice, particularly operas. He wrote a total of 7 Symphonies, mostly during the 1850's. The unrecorded ones are Nos. 1 in E-flat, Op. 9, 2 in F, Op. 12 , 4 in D minor, Op. 25, 6 in G, Op. 58, "Symphonie Brève" (1880's) and 7 in G minor, Op. 87 (1893) and also a Sinfonietta, Op. 80 (1886).

Symphony No. 2 in F major, Op. 12 (1850's)

Thomas Kalb/Württembergische Philharmonie Reutlingen
( + Paraphrases Symphoniques and Fantaisie Symphonique)
STERLING CDS 1087-2 (2010)

Symphony No. 3 in C major, Op. 20 (1850's)

Jacques Mercier/Deutsche Radio Philharmonie Saarbrücken Kaiserslautern
( + Symphony No. 5)
CPO 777379-2 (2009)

Symphony No. 5 in B flat major, Op. 30 (1850's)

Jacques Mercier/Deutsche Radio Philharmonie Saarbrücken Kaiserslautern
( + Symphony No. 3)
CPO 777379-2 (2009)

Symphony No. 6 in G minor, Op. 87 "Symphonie Brève - Variations et Rondo pour Orchestre" (1880's)

Jacques Mercier/Deutsche Radio Philharmonie Saarbrücken Kaiserslautern
( + Sinfonietta)
CPO 777380-2 (2009)

Sinfonietta in D major, Op. 80 (1886)

Jacques Mercier/Deutsche Radio Philharmonie Saarbrücken Kaiserslautern
( + Symphony No. 6)
CPO 777380-2 (2009)

CÉSAR FRANCK
(1822-1890)

Born in Liège, Belgium. A child prodigy, he moved to Paris with his family in 1835 and he entered the Paris Conservatory two years later where his teachers were Pierre-Joseph-Guillaume Zimmermann, François Benoist and Aimé-Ambroise-Simon Leborne. After a brief return to Belgium, he settled permanently in Paris in 1843 and became one of the leading figures in French music. As an eminent organist and teacher, he tutored at the Paris Conservatory a host of future important composers including D'Indy, Chausson, Ropartz and Pierné. He composed in various genres ranging from opera to solo instrumental works. His other major orchestral works were the Symphonic Variations for Piano and Orchestra and the symphonic poems "Psyché" (with chorus), "Les Djinns", "Les Éolides" and "Le Chausseur Maudit." His Symphony in D minor served as the model for numerous symphonies that followed in its wake and gave the symphonic form a prominence in France that it did not possess previously.

Symphony in D minor (1886-8)

Maurice Abravanel/Utah Symphony
WESTMINSTER WST 14062 (LP) (1962)

Yuri Ahronovitch/Vienna Symphony Orchestra (rec. 1985)
( + Respighi: Pines of Rome by Ottorino )
PROFIL 8011 (2007)

Kazuyoshi Akiyama/Vancouver Symphony Orchestra
( + Berlioz: King Lear Overture)
CBC SMCD 5033 (1986)

Jonas Alber/Brunswick State Orchestra
( + Le Chausseur Maudit)
COVIELLO COV 30406 (2005)

Antonio de Almeida/Moscow Symphony Orchestra
( + Saint-Saëns : Symphony no 3)
AMADIS 7141 (1997)

Karel Ančerl/Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra (rec. 1970)
(included in collection: "Anthology Of The Royal Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Vol 4 1970-80")
RCO LIVE 6004 (14 CDs) (2007)

Franz Andre/Belgian National Radio Orchestra
TELEFUNKEN LGX 66030 (LP) (1954)

Ernest Ansermet/Orchestre de la Suisse Romande
( + Saint-Saëns : Symphony no 3)
DECCA WEEKEND CLASSICS 4330182 (1991)
(original LP release: DECCA SXL 2291/LONDON CS 6222) (1962)

Vladimir Ashkenazy/Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra
( + Psyché and Les Djinns)
DECCA 425432-2 (1990)

Joseph Balzer/Berlin Symphony Orchestra (pseudonyms)
ROYALE 1288 (LP) (1952)

Sir John Barbirolli/Czech Philharmonic Orchestra
( + Dussek: 2 Piano Concerto)
SUPRAPHON SU 37792 (2004)
(original LP release: SUPRAPHON SUAST 50438) (1962)
(original US LP release: CROSSROADS 22 16 0128) (1967)

Sir John Barbirolli/New York Philharmonic (rec. 1939)
( + Berlioz: Benvenuto Cellini Overture, Griffes: The White Peacock, Debussy: Iberia, Castelnuovo-Tedesco: King John Overture, Brahms: Double Concerto, Corelli / Barbiroll: Concerto Grosso, Benjamin: Overture to an Italian Comedy and Mahler: Symphony No.5 - Adagietto)
GUILD HISTORICAL GHCD 233031 (2 CDs) (2007)

Daniel Barenboim/Orchestre de Paris
( + Psyché)
BRILLIANT CLASSICS 94079 (2010)
(original LP release: DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON 2530 707) (1976)

Pierre Bartholomée/Orchestre symphonique de Liège
( + Lekeu: Adagio for Strings)
RICERCAR RIC 009017 (1988)

Sir Thomas Beecham/London Philharmonic Orchestra (rec. 1940)
( + Haydn: Symphonies Nos. 93 and 104 and Brahms: Symphony No. 2)
DUTTON LABORATORIES 2CDAX 2003 (2 CDs) (1994)
(from COLUMBIA 78s)

Sir Thomas Beecham/Orchestre National de l'ORTF
HMV ALP 1686 (LP) (1957)

Sir Thomas Beecham/Orchestre National de l'ORTF
( + Lalo: Symphony in G minor and Fauré: Pavane)
EMI GREAT ARTISTS OF THE CENTURY 62949-2 (2005)
(original LP release: HMV ASD 458/CAPITOL SG 7157) (1959)

Roberto Benzi/Arnhem Philharmonic Orchestra
( + Le Chasseur Maudit and Les Éolides)
NAXOS 8.553631 (1997)

Roberto Benzi/Orchestre de Bordeaux Aquitaine
CALLIOPE CAL 1864 (LP) (1978)

Paavo Berglund/Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
( + Symphonic Variations)
HMV ASD 3308 (LP) (1977)

Leonard Bernstein/New York Philharmonic
( + Fauré: Ballade, Chausson: Poème and Ravel Tzigane)
SONY BERNSTEIN ROYAL EDITION SMK 47548 (1992)
(original LP release: COLUMBIA MASTERWORKS MS-6072) (1959)

Leonard Bernstein/ORTF National Orchestra
( + Roussel: Symphony No. 3)
DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON MASTERS 445512-2 (1995)
(original LP release: DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON 2532 050) (1982)

Sir Adrian Boult/London Orchestra Society (RCA Victor Symphony Orchestra)
( + Le Chasseur Maudit, Psyché and Symphonic Variations)
CHESKY RECORDS CD 87 (1993)
(original LP release in set "Music of the World's Great Composers"READER's DIGEST (12 LPs) (1960)
(original general LP release: RCA GOLD SEAL GL 25004) (1976)

Semyon Bychkov/Orchestre de Paris
( + Bizet: Symphony in C)
PHILIPS 4320962 (1992)

Guido Cantelli/NBC Symphony Orchestra (rec. 1954)
( + Haydn: Symphony No.93, Mussorgsky/Ravel: Pictures at an Exhibition and Hindemith: Mathis der Maler)
(original LP release: HMV ALP 1219/RCA VICTOR LM-1852 (1955)

Sergiu Celibidache/Orchestra Sinfonica della RAI Torino (rec. 1957)
( + Tchaikovsky: Romeo and Juliet)
DYNAMIC IDI6611 (2011)

Sergiu Celibidache/Orchestre National de l'ORTF (rec. c. 1975)
( + Respighi: Pines of Rome)
ARTISTS LIVE FED 034 (1993)

Sergiu Celibidache/Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra (rec. 1967)
( + Dvorák: Cello Concerto, Hindemith: Mathis der Maler,
Sibelius: Symphonies Nos. 2 and 5, #2 in D Major, Op. 43
Symphony #5 in E Flat Major, R. Strauss: Till Eulenspiegel, Don Juan and Shostakovich: Symphony No. #9)
DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON 469069-2 (4 CDs) (1999)

Riccardo Chailly/Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
( + Symphonic Variations)
DECCA 417487-2 (1986)

Willy Claes/Orchestre Symphonique de la RTBF
( + Uy: Sinfonia Belgica)
AUTOGRAPHE 148.008 (1990)

André Cluytens/Orchestra della Radio Svizzera Italiana (rec. 1965)
( + Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 4)
ERMITAGE ERM 155 (1995)

André Cluytens/ORTF National Orchestra
( + Symphonic Variations and D'Indy: Symphonie sur un Chant Montagnard Français
TESTAMENT SBT 1237 (2002)
(original LP release: COLUMBIA 33CX 1064/ANGEL 35029 (1953 )

Sergiu Comissiona/Houston Symphony Orchestra
( + Saint-Saëns: Symphony No. 3)
SILVERLINE 284207 (2005)
(original LP release: VANGUARD VA 25016) (1982)

Francesco D'Avalos/Philharmonia Orchestra
( + Chausson: Symphony in B flat)
ASV CDDCA 708 (1990)

Sir Andrew Davis/New Philharmonia Orchestra
( + Symphonic Variations)
CBS ODYSSEY MBK 46276 (1990)
(original LP release: CBS M 34506) (1976)

Victor De Sabata/New York Philharmonic (rec. 1950)
( + Verdi:Requiem, I Vespri Siciliani Overture and Dukas: The Sorcerer's Apprentice)
URANIA RM11930 (2 CDs) (2006)

Edo De Waart/Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
PHILIPS 9500 605 (LP) (1979)

Roger Désormière/Paris Philharmonic Orchestra (Orchestre de la Société du Conservatoire Paris?)
CHANT DU MONDE LDX-A 8027/SUPRAPHON LPV 75 (LP) (c. 1954)

Antal Dorati/Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
( + Symphonic Variations)
TURNABOUT TV-S 34663 (LP) (1976)

Charles Dutoit/Montreal Symphony Orchestra
( + Symphonie sur un Chant Montagnard Français)
DECCA 430278-2 (1991)

Oivin Fjeldstad/Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra
RCA CAMDEN CAS 498 (LP) (c, 1958)

Claus Peter Flor/Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
( + Symphonic Variations)
RCA RED SEAL 60146-2 (1990)

Louis Fourestier/Orchestre des Cento Soli
( + Symphonic Variations)
CLUB FRANÇAIS DU DISQUE 76 (LP) (c. 1958)

Jean Fournet/Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra
( + Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique and Saint-Saëns: Symphony No. 3)
DENON CO 17009/10 (2 CDs) (1998)

Wilhelm Furtwängler/Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra (rec. 1945)
( + Ravel: Daphnis et Chloé - Suite No. 2
DANTE LYS DANTE LYS 124 (1996)
(original LP release: VOX PL 7230) (1952)

Wilhelm Furtwängler/Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
( + Schumann: Symphony No. 1)
DECCA 417287-2 (1986)
(original LP release DECCA LXT 2905/LONDON LL 967 (1954))

Jean-Yves Gaudin/Tbilisi Symphony Orchestra
( + Le Chasseur Maudit)
HIGH DEFINITION CLASSICS HDC 15 (2001)

José-André Gendille/Mans Symphony Orchestra
( + Rédemption)
SKARBO SK 3931 (1993)

Carlo Maria Giulini/Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
( + Psyché et Eros )
DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON 419605-2 (1987)

Carlo Maria Giulini/Philharmonia Orchestra
( + Psyché et Eros, Bizet: Jeux d'Enfants and Ravel: Ma mère l'Oye -Suite)
EMI CLASSICS 58033-2 (2005)
(original LP release: COLUMBIA 33CX.1599/ANGEL S-35641(1959)

Carlo Maria Giulini/Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
( + Symphonic Variations)
SONY SK 58958 (1994)

Walter Goehr/Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra
MUSICAL MASTERPIECE SOCIETY MMS-589 (LP) (c. 1952 )

Vladimir Golschmann/St. Louis Symphony Orchestra
( + Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5)
EMI CLASSICS 66557-2 (1997)
(original LP release: CAPITOL P-8221) (1954).

Heinrich Heller/NorthGerman Philharmonic Orchestra
CLASSICS CLUB X 3012 (LP)

Philippe Herreweghe/Orchestre des Champs-ÉDANTE LYSées
( + Fauré: Requiem)
HARMONIA MUNDI HMC 901771 (2002)

Marek Janowski/Orchestre de la Suisse Romande
( + Chausson: Symphony in B flat)
PENTATONE PTC 5186 078 (2006)

Arvid Jansons/USSR Radio Symphony Orchestra
MELODIYA D06576/7 (LP) (1960)

Eugen Jochum/Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra (rec. 1973)
(included in collection: "Eugen Jochum Centenary, Volume 3")
TAHRA 474/77 (4 CDs) (2002)

Armin Jordan/Orchestre de la Suisse Romande
( + Rédemption)
ERATO NUM 75364 (1988)

Vakhtang Jordania/Russian Federal Symphony Orchestra
( + Dukas: The Sorcerer's Apprentice, Ravel:Daphnis et Chloé - Suite No. 2, Ravel/Perna: Prelude in A minor and Menuet sur le Nom d'Haydn )
ANGELOK CD-7753 (2006)

Herbert von Karajan/Orchestre de Paris
( + Le Chasseur Maudit and Symphonic Variations)
EMI STUDIO CDM 64747-2 (1987)
(original LP release: HMV ASD 2552/ANGEL S-36729 (1970)

Jacek Kaspszyk/Philhamonia Orchestra
( + Symphonic Variations and Le chausseur Maudit)
COLLINS CLASSICS 1158-2 (1991)

Vasil Kazandzhiev/Sofia Symphony Orchestra
( + Psyché)
CAPRICCIO 10 555 (1995)

Otto Klemperer/New Philharmonia Orchestra
( + Schumann: Symphony No. 1)
EMI CLASSICS 66824-2 (2000)
(original LP release: COLUMBIA SAX 5276ANGEL S-36416(1967)

Ken-Ichiro Kobayashi/Czech Philharmonic Orchestra
( + Liszt: Les Préludes)
EXTON OVCL-00320 (2008)

Kiril Kondrashin/Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra
( + Rimsky-Korsakov: Russian Easter Overture)
BR KLASSIK ARCHIVE 900704 (2010)
(original LP release: PHILIPS 6514 119 ) (1982)

Zdenek Košler/Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra
OPUS 91100662 (LP) (1970's)

Emmanuel Krivine/Orchestre National de Lyon
( + Psyché)
DENON CO 75199 (1993)

Louis Langrée/Liège Philharmonic Orchestra
( + Chausson: Symphony in B flat)
ACCORD 4768069 (2005)

Jan Latham-Koenig/Orchestra Philharmonique de Strasbourg
( + Psyché)
AVIE AV 0003 (2002)

Fritz Lehmann/Bamberg Symphony Orchestra
DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON LPM 18188/DECCA DL 9887 (LP) (1957)

Erich Leinsdorf/Robin Hood Dell Orchestra
RCA VICTOR BLUEBIRD LBC 1001 (LP) (1952)

Raymond Leppard/Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
( + Les Éolides and Le chausseur Maudit)
TRING INTERNATIONAL O70 (1995)

Andrew Litton/Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
( + Rédemption and Symphonic Variations)
VIRGIN CLASSICS 91331-2 (2007)

Alain Lombard/Orchestre Nationaal Bordeaux-Acquitaine
( + Les Djinns and Symphonic Variations)
AUVIDIS VALOIS V 4764 (1995)

Alain Lombard/Orchestra Philharmonique de Strasbourg
ERATO STU 71019.(LP) (1977)

Jesús López-Cobos/Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra
( + Le chausseur Maudit)
TELARC CD 80247 (1990)

Peter Lücker/Savaria Symphony Orchestra
HUNGARATON HCD 31289 (1989)

Lorin Maazel/Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra
( + Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 5)
DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON THE ORIGINAL 449 720-2 (1996)
(original LP release: DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON SLPM 138693) (1961)

Lorin Maazel/Cleveland Orchestra
( + Symphonic Variations)
LONDON CS 7044.(1977)

Cristian Mandeal/George Enescu Philharmonic Orchestra
ELECTRECORD ST-ECE 2340 (LP) (1970's)

Dimiter Manolov/Sofia State Philharmonic Orchestra
BALKANTON BCA 1926 (LP) (1960's)

Jean Martinon/Orchestre National de l'ORTF
( + Symphonic Variations and Prelude, Choral et Fugue)
ERATO ORIGINALS 5050466606624 (2009)
(original LP release: ERATO STU 70510) (1969)

Kurt Masur/New York Philharmonic
( + Les Éolides)
APEX 0927413722 (2001)
(original CD release: TELDEC 9031-74863-2) (1992)

Zubin Mehta/Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
( + Saint-Saëns: Symphony No. 3)
TELDEC 4509-98416-2 (1997)

Willem Mengelberg/Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra (rec. 1940)
( + R. Strauss: Don Juan, op. 20)
(included in collection: "Anthology of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Volume I (1935-1950)")
Q DISC 97017 (13 CDs) (2003)

Wojciech Michniewski/Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra
MUZA SX 1649 (LP) (1981)

Dimitri Mitropoulos/Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra (rec. 1945)
( + Chausson: Symphony in B flat)
DANTE LYS 253 (1999)
(original LP release: COLUMBIA ENTRÉ RL 3006 (LP) (1952)

Pierre Monteux/Chicago Symphony Orchestra
( + Stravinsky: Pétrouchka)
RCA LIVING STEREO 82876 67897-2 (2005)
(original LP release: RCA VICTOR SB 6631/RCA VICTOR LSC-2514 (1961)

Pierre Monteux/French National Orchestra (rec. 1958)
(included in collection: "Pierre Monteux In France 1952-58")
MUSIC AND ARTS PROGRAMS OF AMERICA CD 1182 (8 CDs) (2006)

Pierre Monteux/San Francisco Symphony Orchestra (rec. 1941)
(reissued on LP under pseudonym "Worldwide Symphony Orchestra")
RCA CAMDEN CAL-107 (LP) (1955)

Pierre Monteux/San Francisco Symphony Orchestra (rec. 1950)
( + Debussy: Images pour Orchestre)
PREISER RECORDS PR 90563 (2003)
RCA VICTOR LM 1065 (1950)/HMV ALP 1019 (1953)

Pierre Monteux/Standard Symphony Orchestra (pseudonym for the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra?) (rec. 1946)
(included in collection: "Sunday Evenings With Pierre Monteux - California 1941-52")
MUSIC AND ARTS PROGRAMS OF AMERICA CD 1192 (13 CDs) (2007)

Charles Munch/Boston Symphony Orchestra (rec. 1957)
(included in collection: "A Treasury of French Music")
WEST HILL RADIO ARCHIVES WHRA 6027 (6 CDs) (2010)

Charles Munch/Boston Symphony Orchestra
( + Symphonic Variations and Le Chausseur Maudit)
RCA RED SEAL CLASSICS LIBRARY 8287-665833-2 (2005)
(original LP release: RCA RB 16036/RCA VICTOR LSC-2131) (1958)

Charles Munch/Czech Philharmonic Orchestra (rec. 1957)
( + Ferroud: Symphony in A)
PRAGA PR 250083 (1995 )

Charles Munch/Orchestre de la Société du Conservatoire Paris (rec. 1946)
( + D'Indy: Fervaal - Prelude and Saint-Saëns: Le Rouet d'Omphale)
DANTE LYS 409 (1998)
(original LP release: DECCA LXT 2692/LONDON LL 464) (1951)

Charles Munch/Orchestre National de France (rec. 1967)
( + Fauré: Pelléas et Mélisande)
AUVIDIS VALOIS 4829 (1997)

Charles Munch/Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra (rec. 1966)
ACCORD ACC 140069 (LP) (1983)
(original LP release: CONCERT HALL SMSA 2519)

Riccardo Muti/Philadelphia Orchestra
( + Le Chausseur Maudit)
SERAPHIM 73556-2 (1999)
(original LP release: HMV ASD 4175/ANGEL S-37889) (1983)

Günter Neuhold/Royal Flanders Philharmonic Orchestra
( + Prelude, Choral et Fugue)
NAXOS 8.550155 (1989)

Yannick Nézet-Séguin/Orchestre Métropolitain
( + Schmitt: La Tragédie de Salomé)
ATMA CLASSIQUE ACD22647 (2011)

Eugene Ormandy/NDR Symphony Orchestra (rec. 1963)
( + R. Strauss: Don Juan op.20 and Beethoven: Leonore Overture No. 3)
LIVING STAGE LS 1080 (2003)

Eugene Ormandy/Philadelphia Orchestra
PHILIPS A 01641 R/COLUMBIA ML-4939 (LP) (1953)

Eugene Ormandy/Philadelphia Orchestra
SONY ESSENTIAL CLASSICS SBK 60287 (1998)
( + Symphonic Variations and Piece Heroïque)
CBS BRG 72031/COLUMBIA MS- 5697 (1962)

Tadaaki Otaka /BBC National Orchestra of Wales
( + Chausson: Poème de l'Amour et de la Mer)
BBC MUSIC MAGAZINE MM96 (2000)

Willem van Otterloo/Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
( + Symphonic Variations, Les Éolides, Violin Sonata, Panis Angelicus, Chorale No. 2, Prelude, Chorale and Fugue and Organ Pieces Nos. 2 and 3)
PHILIPS DUO 442296-2 (2 CDs) (1994)
(original LP release: PHILIPS 6566 008) (1964)

Willem van Otterloo/Hague Philharmonic Orchestra
CHALLENGE CLASSICS CC72383 (7CDs) (2011)
(original LP release:PHILIPS S 04011L/EPIC LC-3019) (1953)

Seiji Ozawa/Boston Symphony Orchestra
( + Poulenc: Organ Concerto)
DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON 437827-2 (1994)

Paul Paray/Detroit Symphony Orchestra
MERCURY MG-50023/MERCURY MRL 2511 (LP) (1953)

Paul ParayDetroit Symphony Orchestra
( + Rachmaninoff: Symphony no 2)
MERCURY LIVING PRESENCE 434368-2 (1996)
(original LP release: MERCURY SR-90285/MERCURY AMS 16115) (1960)

Michel Plasson/Toulouse Capitole Orchestra
( + Symphonic Variations, Piano Quintet, Violin Sonata and Prelude, Chorale and Fugue)
EMI CLASSICS GEMINI 381783-2 (2 CDs) (2007)
(original CD release: EMI CLASSICS 747547-2) (1986)

Alexander Rahbari/Brussels BRTN Philharmonic Orchestra
( + Symphonic Variations)
KOCH DISCOVER 920434 (1996)

Edouard van Remoortel/Vienna Pro Musica Symphony Orchestra
( + Symphonic Variations)
VOX: STPL 512.290 (1962)

Artur Rodzinski/New York Philharmonic Orchestra (rec. 1945)
( + Dvorák: Cello Concerto)
IRON NEEDLE 1338 (2001)

Artur Rodzinski/Vienna State Opera Orchestra
( + Le Chasseur Maudit)
WESTMINSTER WL 5311 (LP) (1954)

Marcello Rota/Ateš Bárta (organ)/Czech National Symphony Orchestra
( + Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique)
VICTOR (Japan) VICC 60680 (2008)

Kurt Sanderling/Dresden Staatskapelle
( + Symphonic Variations, Bizet: Symphony in C and Saint-Saëns: Symphony no 3)
BERLIN CLASSICS 149362 (2 CDs) (2006)
(original LP release: DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON 135036) (1965)

Constantin Silvestri/Philharmonia Orchestra
HMV ASD 408 (LP) (1961)

Leopold Stokowski/Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra (Hilversum) (rec. 1970)
(included in collection: " Original Masters - Leopold Stokowski")
DECCA ORIGINAL MASTERS 475145-2 (5 CDs) (2003)
(original LP release: DECCA PHASE 4 PFS 4218/LONDON PHASE4 SPC 21061 (1971

Leopold Stokowski/Philadelphia Orchestra (rec. 1927)
(included in collection: " Leopold Stokowski And The Philadelphia Orchestra ")
MUSIC AND ARTS PROGRAMS OF AMERICA 1173 (4 CDS) (2006)
(original LP release: LEOPOLD STOKOWSKI SOCIETY LSSA 3)

Yevgeny Svetlanov/USSR State Symphony Orchestra
( + Saint-Saëns: Symphony No. 3)
SCRIBENDUM SC 035 (2004)
(original LP release: MELODIYA S 10 19549) (1983)

Hans Swarowsky/Süddeutsche Philharmonie
( + Symphonic Variations)
POINT CLASSICS 267154 (1994)

Hans Swarowsky/Vienna Festival Symphony Orchestra.
WORLD RECORDS T 23 (LP) (c. 1958)

Carla Maria Tarditi/Colonne Concerts Orchestre
( + Roussel: Psalm LXXX)
CYBELIA CY 855 (1989)

Yan Pascal Tortelier/BBC Philharmonic Orchestra
( + Symphonic Variations and Les Éolides)
CHANDOS CHAN 9875 (2001)

Arturo Toscanini/NBC Symphony Orchestra (rec. 1940)
( + Psyché et Eros, Rédemption and Les Éolides)
MUSIC AND ARTS ARTURO TOSCANINI RECORDINGS ATRA-274 (c 1985)

Arturo Toscanini/NBC Symphony Orchestra (rec. 1940 and 1946)
( + Saint-Saëns: Symphony No. 3)
RCA VICTOR GOLD SEAL 60320-2 (1992)

Arturo Toscanini/NBC Symphony Orchestra (rec. 1946)
( + Debussy: Marche Écossaise, Meyerbeer: Dinorah Overture, Roussel: Le Festin de l'Araignée)
DELL'ARTE CDDA9021(1990)

Räto Tschupp/Nuremberg Symphony Orchestra
PRIMAPHON K 1017 (LP) (1970's?)

Hans Wolf/Austrian Symphony Orchestra (pseudonym for Artur Rodzinski?)
REMINGTON RLP-199-36 (LP) (1951)

Albert Wolff/Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra
( + Berlioz: Benvenuto Cellini Overture and Honegger: Pastorale d'Été)
ARTE-SYMFONIA 3 (LP) (1950's?)

ÉDOUARD LALO
(1823-1892)

Born in Lille. He studied initially at the Lille Conservatory and later studied violin at the Paris Conservatory with François Antoine Habeneck and composition privately with Joseph Crèvecoeur. At first, he made his musical living as a violinist and teacher but composing would become increasingly important. He composed in various genres and his opera "Le Roi d'Ys" holds a small place on the fringes of the repertoire as does his ballet "Namouna." However, he is most often represented by his various concertos for stringed instruments including his so-called "Symphonie Espagnole." His other major orchestral works were 2 additional unpublished symphonies (no longer extant), Divertissement, Piano Concerto, Cello Concerto, Violin Concerto and Concerto Russe for Violin and Orchestra.

Symphony in G minor (1886)

Antonio De Almeida/Monte-Carlo National Opera Orchestra
( + Norwegian Rhapsody and Le Roi d'Ys Overture)
PHILIPS 432278-2 (1991)
(original LP release: PHILIPS 6500 927 (1975)

Giancarlo Andretta/Basel Symphony Orchestra
( + Norwegian Rhapsody, Scherzo and Divertissement)
CPO 999296-2 (1996 )

Nikos Athinäos/Frankfurt ausser dem Oder Philharmonic Orchestra
( + Piano Concerto, Romance-Sérénade and Scherzo)
SIGNUM SIGX 6600 (1996)

Kees Bakels/Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra
( + Cello Concerto and Namouna - Ballet Music)
BIS CD-1296 (2006)

Sir Thomas Beecham/ORTF National Orchestra
( + Franck: Symphony in D minor and Fauré: Pavane)
EMI GREAT ARTISTS OF THE CENTURY 62949-2 (2005)
(original LP release: HMV ASD 388/CAPITOL SG 7237) (1961)

Yondani Butt/Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
( + Norwegian Rhapsody, Scherzo and Le Roi d'Ys Overture)
ASV CDDCA 709 (1990)

Jean-Pierre Haeck/Liège Philharmonic Orchestra
( + Cello Concerto and Le Roi d'Ys Overture)
CYPRÈS CYP 7608 (2003)

Georges Sebastian/Orchestre des Concerts Colonne
( + Norwegian Rhapsody)
URANIA A-7142 (LP) (1953)

Symphonie Espagnole for Violin and Orchestra, Op. 21 (1873)

Salvatore Accardo (violin)/Herbert Albert/Orchestre des Concerts Pasdeloup
( + Rimsky-Korsakov: Capriccio Espagnole)
VEGA 10.261/CLASSICS CLUB X.531 (LP) (c. 1970)

Pierre Amoyal (violin)/Paul Paray/Monte-Carlo National Opera Orchestra
( + Cello Concerto)
APEX 229245087-2 (2002)
(original LP release: ERATO STU 70771) (1973)

Joshua Bell (violin)/Charles Dutoit/Montreal Symphony Orchestra
( + Saint-Saëns: Violin Concerto for Violin No. 3, Introduction et Rondo Capriccioso, Massenet: Thaïs - Meditation, Sarasate: Zigeunerweisen, Chausson:Poème, Ysaÿe: Caprice and Ravel: Tzigane)
DECCA 4756706-2 (2 CDs) (2005)
(original CD release: DECCA 425501-2) (1989)

Marat Bisengaliev (violin)/Johannes Wildner/Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra
( + Saint-Saëns: Havanaise, Sarasate: Zigeunerweisen and Ravel: Tzigane)
NAXOS 8.550494 (1994)

Alfredo Campoli (violin)/Eduard van Beinum/London Philharmonic Orchestra
(include in collection: "Edward van Beinum : The Decca Recordings 1948-1953")
DECCA ORIGINAL MASTERS 473110-2 (5 CDs) (2003)
(original LP release: DECCA LXT 2801/LONDON LL-763) (1954)

Alfredo Campoli (violin)/George Szell/New York Philharmonic Orchestra (rec. 1953)
(included in collection: "The Art of George Szell: Volume 2)
WEST HILL RADIO ARCHIVES WHRA 6019 (4 CDs) (2008)

Sarah Chang (violin)/Charles Dutoit/Royal Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
( + Vieuxtemps Violin Concerto No. 5)
EMI CLASSICS CDC 55292-2 (1995)

Chee-Yun (violin)/Jésus López-Cobos/London Philharmonic Orchestra
( + Saint-Saëns: Violin Concerto No. 3)
DENON CO 18017 (1996)

Kyung-Wha Chung (violin)/Charles Dutoit/Montreal Symphony Orchestra
( + Vieuxtemps: Violin Concerto No. 5 and Ravel: Tzigane)
DECCA 460007-2 (1998)
(original LP release: DECCA SXDL 7527/LONDON LDR 71029) (1981)

Roland Daugareil (violin)/Alain Lombard/Orchestre National Bordeaux-Aquitaine
( + Chausson:Poème)
FORLANE FRL 16723 (1994)

Augustin Dumay (violin)/Michel Plasson /Orchestre du Capitole de Toulouse
( + Violin Concerto)
EMI CLASSICS CDC 749833-2(1989)

Misha Elman (violin)/Vladimir Golschmann/ Vienna State Opera Orchestra
( + Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto, Saint-Saëns: Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso, Sarasate: Zigeunerweisen, Khachaturian: Violin Concerto, Massenet: Thaïs - Meditation, Cui: Orientale, Beethoven: Minuet in G, Chopin: Nocturne op.9 No.2, Gossec: Gavotte, Achron: Hebrew Melody and Elman Eili Eili)
VANGUARD ARCHIVES ATMCD 1656 (2 CDs) (2006)
(original LP release: PHILIPS GL 57595/VANGUARD VSD 2047) (1959)

Christian Ferras (violin)/René Klopfenstein/Monte-Carlo National Opera Orchestra
( + Namouna: Suite No. 1)
CONCERT HALL SMSA 2675 (LP)

Christian Ferras (violin)/Walter Susskind/Philharmonia Orchestra
(included in collection: "Les Introuvables de Christian Ferras")
EMI 574872-2 (5 CDs) (2002)
HMV ASD 314/ANGEL S-35769 (LP) (1959)

Eugene Fodor (violin)/Guido Lamell /Kiev National Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra
( + Sibelius: Violin Concerto)
GRAZIOSO RECORDS 61501 (2002)

Zino Francescatti (violin)/André Cluytens/Columbia Symphony Orchestra (rec. 1945-6)
( + encore pieces by Schumann, Shostakovich, Wieniawski, J.S. Bach, and Tartini)
PEARL GEMM 9250 (1997)

Zino Francescatti (violin)/Dimitri Mitropoulos/New York Philharmonic (rec. 1957)
( + Brahms: Violin Concerto)
CBS/SONY (Japan) CSCR 8454 (1991)
(original LP release: COLUMBIA MS-6201) (1961)

Bronislaw Gimpel (violin)/Fritz Rieger/Munich Philharmonic Orchestra
DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON LPEM 19071 (1957)

Eduard Grach (violin)/Dmitri Kitayenko/USSR State Symphony Orchestra
MELODIYA S10-06837-8 (LP) (1976)

Tatiana Grindenko (violin)/Yuri Temirkanov/USSR State SO (rec. 1970)
( + Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto)
MULTISONIC 31 0239-2 (1996)

Arthur Grumiaux (violin)/Jean Fournet/Orchestre des Concerts Lamoureux
(included in collection: "Arthur Grumiaux - Historic Philips Recordings 1953-1962")
PHILIPS ORIGINAL MASTERS 473 104-2 (5 CDs) (2004)
(original LP release: PHILIPS A 00228L/EPIC LC-3082) (1955)

Arthur Grumiaux (violin)/Manuel Rosenthal/Lamoureux Concerts Association Orchestra
( + Saint-Saëns: Havanaise, Introduction et Rondo Capriccioso, Chausson:Poème and Ravel: Tzigane)
PHILIPS ELOQUENCE 462 579-2 (1999)
(original LP release: PHILIPS 6570 192/PHILIPS PHC 9140) (1964)

Ida Haendel (violin)/Karel An· erl/Czech Philharmonic Orchestra
( + K. A. Hartmann: Concerto Funebre and Ravel: Tzigane)
SUPRAPHON SU 3677-2 (2003)
(original LP release: SUPRAPHON SUA 50615) (1964)

Jascha Heifetz (violin)/William Steinberg/RCA Victor Symphony Orchestra (rec. 1951)
( + Saint-Saëns: Havanaise, Introduction et Rondo Capriccioso, Sarasate: Zigeunerweisen, Chausson:Poème, Ravel: Tzigane, Tchaikovsk: Sérénade Mélancolique and Wieniawski: Violin Concerto No.2)
NAXOS HISTORICAL 8.111363 (2011)
(original LP release: HMV BLP 1029/RCA LM-1782 (1953)

Jascha Heifetz (violin)/Walter Susskind/Philharmonia Orchestra (rec. 1950)
( + Beethoven: Romances Nos.1 and 2 in F and Chausson: Poème)
TESTAMENT SBT 1216 (2001)

Yvonne Heurtevant (violin)/anonymous conductor/Niederösterreichisches Tonkünstlerorchester (pseudonym for Lola Bobescu?)
PLYMOUTH P-12-46 (1955)

Yuzuko Horigome (violin)/Marco Guidarini/Orchestre Philharmonique de Nice
( + Concerto Russe)
TALENT 12316528 (2010)

Bronislaw Huberman (violin)/George Szell/Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra (rec. 1937)
( + Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto)
OPUS KURA OPK 2007(2002)

Min Jin (violin)/Barry Wordsworth/London Symphony Orchestra
( + Kroll: Banjo and Fiddle, Prokofiev : Violin Sonata, Op. 115, Sarasate: Concert Fantasy and Tárrega Recuerdos de la Alhambra)
CLAUDIO CD CB5256-2 (2002)

Jean-Jacques Kantorow (violin)/Kees Bakels/Granada City Orchestra
( + Violin Concerto and Fantaisie Norvegiènne)
BIS CD-1680 (2009)

Mark Kaplan (violin) /Lawrence Foster/Barcelona Symphony Orchestra
( + Manén: Concierto Espagnol)
KOCH INTERNATIONAL CLASSICS 3-7531-2 (2002)

Leonid Kogan (violin)/Charles Bruck/Orchestre de la Société du Conservatoire Paris
( + Paganini: Violin Concerto No. 1)
TESTAMENT SBT 1226 (2002)
(original LP release: COLUMBIA (FRANCE) FCX 403/ANGEL 35503 (1955)

Leonid Kogan (violin)/Kiril Kondrashin/Philharmonia Orchestra
( + Beethoven: Violin Concerto, Brahms: Violin Concerto, Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto and Sérénade Mélancolique)
EMI CLASSICS 67732-2 (2 CDs) (1993)
(original LP release: COLUMBIA/SAX 2329/ANGEL S-35721) (1960)

Konstanty Kulka (violin)/Kazimierz Kord/Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Krakow
( + Saint-Saëns: Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso)
TELEFUNKEN 6.41027 (LP) (1970) 43115

Tasmin Little (violin)/Vernon Handley/Royal Scottish National Orchestra
( + Bruch: Scottish Fantasy)
CLASSICS FOR PLEASURE 575802-2 (2002)
(original CD release: EMI EMINENCE CDEMX 2277) (1997)

Ferdinand Meisel (violin)/Walter Schartner/Berlin Symphony Orchestra
( + Rimsky-Korsakov: Capriccio Espagnole)
URANIA UR-RS 7-13 (LP) (1954)

Sir Yehudi Menuhin (violin)/ Jean Fournet/Orchestre des Concerts Colonne (rec. 1946)
RCA VICTOR LM 1011/VOIX DE SON MAITRE VSM FALP-107 (LP) (1948)

Sir Yehudi Menuhin (violin)/Sir Eugene Goosens/Philharmonia Orchestra
(included in collection: "Yehudi Menuhin - The Violinist")
EMI 585562-2 (10 CDs) (2003)
(original LP release: HMV ASD 290/CAPITOL SG-7108) (1958)

Sir Yehudi Menuhin (violin)/Pierre Monteux/San Francisco Symphony Orchestra (rec. 1945)
( + Bartók: Violin Concerto No. 2 and Elgar: Salut d'Amour)
RCA GOLD SEAL 09026-61395-2 (1994)

Sir Yehudi Menuhin (violin)/Georges Enescu/Orchestre de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire (rec. 1933)
( + Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto and Chausson: Poème)
NAXOS HISTORICAL 8.110967 (2002)

Henri Merckel (violin)/Piero Coppola/Pasdeloup Concert Association Orchestra (rec. 1932)
( + Concerto Russe - Intermezzo, Saint-Saëns: Violin Concerto No. 3 and Dance Macabre)
MUSIC AND ARTS PROGRAMS OF AMERICA CD-1178 (2006)

Anne Akiko Meyers (violin)/Jesus López-Cobos/Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
( + Bruch: Scottish Fantasy)
RCA VICTOR RED SEAL 09026-60942-2 (1992)

Nathan Milstein (violin)/André Cluytens/ORTF National Orchestra (rec. 1955)*
( + Beethoven: Violin Concerto, Brahms: Violin Concerto, Bruch: Violin Concerto No. 1 and J.S. Bach: Violin Concerto, BWV1041)
MUSIC AND ARTS CD-1168 (2 CDs) (2005)

Nathan Milstein (violin)/Vladimir Golschmann/St. Louis Symphony Orchestra
( + Gounod: Faust - Ballet Music, Bizet: Carmen Suites Nos. 1 and 2 and Falla: El Sombrero de Tres Picos - Dances)
EMI CLASSICS 665522 (1997)
(original LP release: CAPITOL P-8303) (1955)

Nathan Milstein (violin)/Paul Kletzki/North German Radio Symphony Orchestra (rec. 1955)
( + Brahms: Violin Concerto)
CLAVES 50-2708 (2007)

Nathan Milstein (violin)/Eugene Ormandy/Philadelphia Orchestra (rec. 1944-5)
( + Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto and Bruch: Violin Concerto No. 1)
PEARL GEMM 9259 (1997) (from

Shlomo Mintz (violin)/Zubin Mehta/Israel Philharmonic Orchestra
( + Saint-Saëns: Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso and Vieuxtemps: Violin Concerto No. 5)
BRILLIANT CLASSICS 94070 (2010)
(original CD release: DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON 427676-2) (1991).

Leticia Moreno (violin)/José Luis Temes/Spanish National Youth Orchestra
( + Rimsky-Korsakov : Capriccio Espagnol, Berio: Quattro Versioni Originali, Guridi: Diez Melodías Vascas, Gómez: 6 Poemas Líricos, Toldrá: Vistas al Mar and Rodríguez Albert: 5 Pieces for Piano andChamber Orchestra)
VERSO VRS 2033 (2 CDs) (2006)

Anne-Sophie Mutter (violin)/ Seiji Ozawa/ ORTF National Orchestra
( + Sarasate: Zigeunerweisen and Massenet - Thaïs - Meditation)
EMI ENCORE 74737-2 (2002)
(original CD release: EMI CLASSICS CDC 7 47318-2) (1985)

Ricardo Odnoposoff (violin)/Walter Goehr/Utrecht Symphony Orchestra
( + Chausson: Concerto for Piano, Violin and String Quartet)
DORON DRC 4006 (2000)
(original LP release: MUSICAL MASTERWORKS SOCIETY) (1951)

David Oistrakh (violin)/Alexander Gauk/USSR State Symphony Orchestra
FIDELIO ATL 4020 (LP) DELTA TQD 3002

David Oistrakh (violin)/Kiril Kondrashin/USSR State Radio Symphony Orchestra (rec. 1948)
(included in collection: "Historic Russian Archives - Oistrakh Plays Violin Concertos")
BRILLIANT CLASSICS (10 CDs) (2005)
(original LP release: COLOSSEUM CRLP 179) (c. 1955)

David Oistrakh (violin)/Jean Martinon/ Philharmonia Orchestra
( + Prokofiev: Violin Concerto No. 1, Tchaikovsky: Valse-Scherzo, Debussy: Clair de Lune, Falla: Jota and Zarzycki: Mazurka)
TESTAMENT SBT 1116 (1997)
(original LP release: COLUMBIA 33CX 1246/ANGEL 35205) (1955)

Igor Oistrakh (violin)/David Oistrakh/USSR State Radio Symphony Orchestra
CHANT DU MONDE LDX 78412 (LP) (c. 1965)
(original LP release: MELODIYA S0649-50) (1963)

Julian Olevsky (violin)/Julius Rudel/Vienna State Opera Orchestra
( + Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto and Hebrides Overture)
MCA MCAD 80100 (1998)
(original LP release: WESTMINSTER WST-14121) (1959)/HMV CONCERT CLASSICS XLP 20052) (1964)

Frédéric Pelassy (violin)/Zbynek Müller/Slovak National Philharmonic, Kosice
( + Th. Dubois: Violin Concerto)
BNL112964 (2011)

Itzhak Perlman (violin)/Daniel Barenboim/Orchestre de Paris
( + Berlioz: Rêverie et Caprice and Saint-Saëns: Violin Concerto)
DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON MASTERS 445549-2 (1993)
(original LP release: DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON 2532 011) (1981)

Itzhak Perlman (violin)/André Previn/London Symphony Orchestra
( + Sibelius: Violin Concerto and Ravel: Tzigane)
RCA VICTOR GOLD SEAL 07863 56520-2 (1993)
(original LP release: RCA RED SEAL SB 6800/RCA RED SEAL LSC-3073) (1969)

Ruth Posselt (violin)/Charles Munch/Boston Symphony Orchestra (rec. 1953)
(included in collection: "Charles Munch in Boston. The Early Years")
WEST HILL RADIO ARCHIVES WHRA 6015 (7 CDs) (2008)

Gerard Poulet (violin)/Vladimir Valek/Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra
( + Concerto Russe)
PRAGA 250062 (1994)

Vadim Repin (violin)/Kent Nagano/London Symphony Orchestra
( + Chausson:Poème and Ravel: Tzigane)
ERATO 3984-27314-2 (1998)

Ruggiero Ricci (violin)/Ernest Ansermet /Orchestre de la Suisse Romande
(included in collection "Original Masters - Ruggiero Ricci")
DECCA 475105-2 (5 CDs) (2003)
(original LP release: DECCA SXL 2155/LONDON CS 6134) (1959)

Ruggiero Ricci (violin)/James Hoffman/SFO Symphony Orchestra
( + Mozart: Violin Concerto No. 3)
ONE-ELEVEN URS-91040 (1991)

Ruggiero Ricci (violin)/Matthias Kuntsch/Bochum Symphony Orchestra
(included in collection "The Art Of Ruggiero Ricci")
VOX BOX CD5X 3611 (5 CDs) (2004)
(original release: VOX BOX QSVBX5150 {3 LPs}) (1978)

Aaron Rosand (violin)/Sverre Brulund/Norwegian Radio Orchestra (rec. 1980)
( + Sinding: Suite in Olden Style, Saint-Saëns: Havanaise, Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso, Egge: Violin Concero, Tchaikovsky: Sérénade Mélancolique, Sibelius: Humoresque No. 1, Sarasate: Zigeuenerweise and Bull: The Herdmaiden's Sunday)
VAI VAIA 1240-2 (2 CDs) (2005)

Aaron Rosand (violin)/Tibor Szöke/ Southwest German Radio Symphony Orchestra
( + Sibelius: Humoresques, Tchaikovsky: Sérénade Mélancolique, Berlioz: Rêverie et Caprice , Saint-Saëns: Violin Concerto No. 3, Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso, Havanaise, Chausson: Poème and Ravel: Tzigane)
VOX BOX CDX 5116 (2 CDs) (1996)
(original LP release: VOX STPL 511590) (1961)

Juan Carlos Rybin (violin)/Anatoly Zatin/Moscow Festival Symphony Orchestra
( + Rimsky-Korsakov: Capriccio Espagnol and Sarasate: Zigeunerweisen)
VENETIAN CLASSICS (2000)

Mariko Senju (violin)/Sir Charles Groves/Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
( + Saint-Saëns: Violin Concerto No. 3)
VICTOR (Japan) VICC 18 (1990)

Isaac Stern (violin)/Eugene Ormandy/Philadelphia Orchestra
(included in collection: "Isaac Stern Collection - The Early Concerto Recordings Volume 2")
SONY SM3K 45956 (3 CDs) (1991)
(original LP release: COLUMBIA ML-5097) (1956)

Isaac Stern (violin)/Eugene Ormandy/Philadelphia Orchestra
( + Bruch: Violin Concerto No. 1)
SONY CLASSICS 700817 (2006)
(original LP release: CBS 72612/COLUMBIA MS-7003) (1967)

Jan Suterman (violin)/ CarlForrester/ Portland Philharmonic Orchestra (pseudonyms?)
OPUS TW 818 (LP)

Miklós Szenthelyi (violin)/Ervin Lukacs/Hungarian State Orchestra
( + D'Indy: Symphonie sur un Chant Montagnard Français)
HARMONIA MUNDI WHITE LABEL HRC106 (1988)
(original LP release: HUNGAROTON SLPX-11826) (1976)

Henryk Szeryng (violin)/Walter Hendl/Chicago Symphony Orchestra
RCA RED SEAL SB.2120/RCA RED SEAL LSC-2456 (LP) (1961)

Henryk Szeryng (violin)/Edouard van Remoortel/Monte-Carlo National Opera Orchestra
( + Ravel: Tzigane)
PHILIPS 6500 195 (LP) (191)

Christian Tetzlaff (violin)/Libor Pešek/Czech Philharmonic Orchestra
( + Dvorák: Violin Concerto)
VIRGIN 545022-2561 (1993)

Jacques Thibaud (violin)/Ernest Ansermet/Orchestre de la Suisse Romande (rec. 1941)
(included in collection: "Jacques Thibaud - The Complete Solo Recordings 1929-36")
APR (APPIAN) 6003 (2 CDs) (2006)

Jacques Thibaud (violin)/Ataulfo Argenta/Spanish National Orchestra (rec. 1951)
(included in collection: L'Art de Jacques Thibaud")
CASCAVELLE VEL 3068 (4 CDs) (2004)

Jacques Thibaud (violin)/Jean Martinon/Belgian National Radio Symphony Orchestra (rec. 1953)
( + Saint-Saëns: Violin Concerto No. 1, Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso and Chausson: Poème)
APR (APPIAN) 5644 (2004)

Jacques Thibaud (violin)/Leopold Stokowski/New York Philharmonic (rec. 1947)
( + Griffes: The White Peacock and Siegmeister: Symphony No. 1)
DISCO ARCHIVIA 211 (c. 2000)
(original LP release: RECITAL RECORDS IGI 339) (1974)

Jacques Thibaud (violin)/Winifred Zillig/Hessian Radio Orchestra, Frankfurt (rec. 1951)
( + Beethoven: Violin Concerto, Mozart: Violin Concerto No. 4 and Franck: Violin Sonata)
TAHRA TAH 499-500 (2 CDs) (2003)

Yan-Pascal Tortelier (violin)/Louis Frémaux/City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
( + Cello Concerto)
EMI CDM 7 6945-2 (1988)
(original LP release: HMV ASD 3209) (1976)

Maxim Vengerov (violin)/ Antonio Pappano/Philharmonia Orchestra
( + Saint-Saëns: Violin Concerto No. 3 and Ravel: Tzigane)
EMI CLASSICS 57593-2 (2003)

Ion Voicu (violin)/George Georgescu/Romanian State Symphony Orchestra
( + Wieniawski: Violin Concerto No. 2 and Mozart: Violin Concerto No. 3)
ELECTRECORD EDC 352 (2004)
(original LP release: ELECTRECORD ECD 73) (c. 1965)

Chee-Yun (violin)/ Jésus Lopez Cobos/London Philharmonic Orchestra
( + Saint-Saëns: Violin Concerto No. 3)
DENON CO 18017 (1996)

Howard Zhang (violin)/Takuo Yuasa/Nicolaus Esterházy Sinfonia
( + Saint-Saëns: Havanaise, Ravel: Tzigane, Sarasate: Zigeunerweisen and Carmen Fantasy)
NAXOS 8.555093 (2003)

Pinchas Zukerman (violin)/Zubin Mehta/Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra
( + Bruch: Violin Concerto No. 1 and Vieuxtemps: Violin Concerto No. 5)
SONY ESSENTIAL CLASSICS SBK 48274 (1993)
(original LP release: COLUMBIA MASTERWORKS M-35132) (1978)

ERNEST REYER
(1823-1909)

Born in Marseilles. He had some musical training in Marseilles and Algiers before studying with his aunt, Louise Farrenc, in Paris. He was an ardent admirer and imitator of Richard Wagner and thus primarily wrote only operas the most famous popular being "Sigurd" and "Salammbô." In fact, the work listed here, depite its title, is essentially an opera as well.

Le Sélem (The Greeting), Symphonie Orientale en Cinq Mouvements (1850)

Guido Maria Guida/Gertrud Ottenthal (soprano)/Bruno Lazzaretti (tenor)/Wolfgang Glashot (baritone)/Choir of St. Hedwig's Cathedral Berlin/Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra
( + excerpts from: Bizet: The Pearl Fishers and R. Strauss: Salome)
CAPRICCIO 10 380 (1991)

CAMILLE SAINT-SAËNS
(1835-1921)

Born in Paris. Taught the piano by his great-aunt Charlotte Masson, he began his composing career at the age of 7. He studied at the Paris Conservatory where his teachers included François Benoist for organ and Jacques Fromental Halévy for composition. During a long life he produced an enormous amount of works in practically all genres from grand opera to works for solo instruments. His vast orchestral output includes, in addition to the Symphonies, 5 Piano Concertos, 3 Violin Concertos, 2 Cello Concertos, Suites, Symphonic Poems, Concert Overtures and a number of additional works for soloists and orchestra. He was often quoted as saying that he produced music as an apple tree produced apples.

Symphony in A major (c. 1850)

Jean Martinon/Orchestre National de l'ORTF
( + Symphoies in F, Nos. 1, 2 and 3)
EMI CLASSICS 631804-2 (2 CDs) (2010)
(original LP release: HMV ASD 3138/ANGEL S-37089)) (1975)

Symphony No. 1 in E flat major, Op. 2 (1853)

Ivan Anguélov/Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra
( + Bizet: Roma)
ARTE NOVA 74321 80795-2 (2001)

Catherine Comet/Grand Rapids Symphony
( + Symphony No. 2)
KOSS KC-2217 (1997)

Louis de Froment/Luxembourg RTV Symphony Orchestra
( + Symphonies Nos. 2 and 3, Le Rouet d'Omphale, Marche Heröique; La Jeunesse d'Hercule, Danse Macabre and Phaéton)
VOX BOX QSVBX-5144) (3 LPs) (1977)
(also released separately as TURNABOUT TVS 37117)

Eliahu Inbal/Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra
( + Symphony No. 2)
PENTATONE PTC 5186157 (2005)
(original LP release: PHILIPS 9500 0790 (1976)

Yoel Levi/Orchestre National d`Ile de France
( + Symphonies Nos. 2 and 3, Le Rouet d'Omphale, Phaéton, Danse Macabre and Marche Héroique)
CASCAVELLE VEL3136 (2 CDs) (2010)

Jean Martinon/Orchestre National de l'ORTF
( + Symphoies in A, F, Nos. 2 and 3)
EMI CLASSICS 631804-2 (2 CDs) (2010)
(original LP release: HMV ASD 2946/ANGEL S-36995) (1971)

Georges Prêtre/Vienna Symphony Orchestra
( + Symphony No. 2, Piano Concerto No. 4, La Jeunesse d'Hercule and Le Rouet d'Omphale)
WARNER ULTIMA 24236 (2 CDs) (1998)
(original CD release: ERATO 2292-45695-2) (1991)

Symphony in F major "Urbs Roma" (1856)

Jean-Jacques Kantorow/Tapiola Sinfonietta
( + Symphony No. 2 and Africa)
BIS CD-790 (1997)

Jean Martinon/Orchestre National de l'ORTF
( + Symphoies in A, Nos. 1, 2 and 3)
EMI CLASSICS 631804-2 (2 CDs) (2010)
(original LP release: HMV ASD 3138/ANGEL S-37089)) (1975)

Symphony No. 2 in A minor, Op. 55 (1859)

Yondani Butt/London Symphony Orchestra
( + Phaéton and Suite Algérienne)
ASV CDDCA 599 (1987)

Nicolas Chalvin/Orchestre de Bretagne
( + Cello Concerto No. 2 and Suite, Op. 49)
TIMPANI 1C1116 (2006)

Catherine Comet/Grand Rapids Symphony
( + Symphony No. 2)
KOSS KC-2217 (1997)

John Foster/Beckenham Orchestra
( + 4 Poems for Flute and Strings)
RARE RECORDED EDITIONS SRRE 131 (LP) (1975)

Louis de Froment/Luxembourg RTV Symphony Orchestra
( + Symphony No. 3 and Henry VIII: Ballet Music)
VOX ALLEGRETTO ACD 8171 (1994)
(original release: VOX BOX QSVBX-5144) {3 LPs}) (1977)

Eliahu Inbal/Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra
( + Symphony No. 2)
PENTATONE 5186157
(original LP release: PHILIPS 9500 0790 (1976)

Jean-Jacques Kantorow/Tapiola Sinfonietta
( + Symphony in F and Africa)
BIS CD-790 (1997)

Rolf Kleinert/Berlin Symphony Orchestra
( + Cello Concerto No. 1)
URANIA URLP 7143 (LP) (1955)

Yoel Levi/Orchestre National d`Ile de France
( + Symphonies Nos. 1 and 3, Le Rouet d'Omphale, Phaéton, Danse Macabre and Marche Héroique)
CASCAVELLE VEL3136 (2 CDs) (2010)

Jean Martinon/Orchestre National de l'ORTF
( + Symphoies in A, F, Nos. 1 and 3)
EMI CLASSICS 631804-2 (2 CDs) (2010)
(original LP release: HMV ASD 2946/ANGEL S-36995) (1971)

Georges Prêtre/Vienna Symphony Orchestra
( + Symphony No. 3)
WARNER MAESTRO 2564-696599 (2008)
(original CD release: ERATO 2292-45695-2) (1991)

Yan Pascal Tortelier/Ulster Orchestra
( + Symphony No. 3)
CHANDOS CHAN 8822 (1990)

Hans-Jürgen Walther/Hamburg Philharmonia
( + Carnival of the Animals)
ROYALE 1631 (LP) (c. 1955)

Ronald Zollman/Basel Symphony Orchestra
( + Ouverture de Fête, Phaéton and La Foi: Tableaux Symphoniques)
PAN CLASSICS 510078 (1995)

Symphony No. 3 in C minor, Op. 78 "Organ" (1886)

Maurice Abravanel/Alexander Schreiner (organ)/Utah Symphony Orchestra
WESTMINSTER WST-14004 (LP) (1959)

Antonio de Almeida/Moscow Symphony Orchestra
( + Franck: Symphony in D minor)
AMADIS 7141 (1997)

Marin Alsop/David Goode (organ)/BBC Philharmonic Orchestra
( + Piano Concerto No. 2)
BBC MUSIC MAGAZINE MM90 (1999)

Ernest Ansermet/Pierre Segond (organ)/Orchestre de la Suisse Romande
( + Le Rouet d’Omphale, Danse Macabre, Chabrier: Marche Joyeuse and España)
DECCA ELOQUENCE 480 008-2 (2009)
(original LP release: DECCA SXL 6027/LONDON CS 6331 ) (1963)

Christian Badea/Michael Murray (organ)/Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
( + Phaéton)
TELARC CD 80274 (1991)

Daniel Barenboim/Gaston Litaize (organ)/Chicago Symphony Orchestra
( + Danse Macabre, Samson et Dalila:Bacchanale and Le Déluge: Prelude)
DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON 474612-2 (2003)
(original LP release: DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON 2530 619) (1976)

Enrique Bátiz/Noel Rawsthorne (organ)/London Philharmonic Orchestra
( + Carnival of the Animals, Danse Macabre and Wedding Cake)
ASV CDDCA 665 (1991)
(original LP release: ASV DCA 524) (1984)

Serge Baudo/Jane Parker-Smith (organ)/London Philharmonic Orchestra
( + soloi organ works by Grison, Widor and Jongen)
CLASSICS FOR PLEASURE CFP 573512-2 (1999)
(original LP release: EMI EMINENCE EMX 412012-1) (1983)

Roberto Benzi/Feike Asma (organ)/Hague Philharmonic Orchestra
PHILIPS 6570 149/VOX STPL-512970 (LP) (1973

Leonard Bernstein/Leonard Raver (organ)/New York Philharmonic
( + Piano Concerto No. 4 and Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso)
SONY ESSENTIAL CLASSICS SMK 47608 (1993)
(original LP release: COLUMBIA M-34573) (1978)

Ernest Bour/Maurice Duruflé (organ)/Orchestre des Champs-Elysées
DUCRÉTET-THOMSON 93072 (LP) (1955)

Myung-Whun Chung/Michael Matthes (organ)/Orchestre de l'Opéra Bastille
( + Messiaen: L'Ascension)
DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON 435854-2 (1993)

André Cluytens/Henriette Puig-Roget (organ)/Orchestre de la Société du Conservatoire Paris
( + Fauré: Requiem)
TESTAMENT SBT 1240 (2002)
(original LP release: COLUMBIA CX 1413) (1957)

Sergiu Comissiona/Frederick Minger(organ)/Baltimore Symphony Orchestra
( + Franck: Symphony in D minor)
SILVERLINE 284207 (2005)
(original LP release: VANGUARD VA 25008) (1981)

Piero Coppola/Alex Cellier (organ)Orchestre de la Societe des Concerts du Conservatoire (rec. 1930)
( + Ravel: Vales Nobles et Sentimentales, Ravel: Boleéro and Honegger: Pacifi 231)
KOCH INTERNATIONAL 3-7702-H1 (1992)

Edo de Waart/Daniel Chorzempa (organ)/Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra
( + Danse Macabre, Phaéton, Le Rouet d'Omphale, Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso and Marche Militaire Française)
UNIVERSAL 000173602-2 (2004)
(original LP release: PHILIPS 9500 306) (1977)

Edo De Waart/Jean Guillou (organ)/San Francisco Symphony Orchestra
( + Bizet: Symphony in C and Jeux d'Enfants)
PHILIPS ELOQUENCE 476741-2 (2007)
(original CD release: PHILIPS 412 619-2) (1985)

James DePreist/Hans Fagius (organ)/Royal Stockholm Symphony Orchestra
( + Danse Macabre, Samson et Dalila: Bacchanale and Rapsodie Bretonne)
BIS CD-555 (1994)

Charles Dutoit/Peter Hurford (organ)/Montreal Symphony Orchestra
( + Poulenc Organ Concerto)
DECCA THE ORIGINALS 4757728 (2006)
(original LP release DECCA SXDL 75909/LONDON LDR 71090) (1982)

Christoph Eschenbach/Edgar Krapp (organ)/ Bamberger Symphoniker
( + Franck: 3 Chorales)
EURODISC CD 610509 (1988)

Christoph Eschenbach/Olivier Latry (organ)/Philadelphia Orchestra
( + Poulenc Organ Concerto and Barber: Toccata Festiva)
ONDINE ODE 1094-5 (2007)

Claus Peter Flor/Joachim Dalitz (organ)/Berlin Symphony Orchestra
( + Symphonic Variations, Bizet: Symphony in C and Saint-Saëns: Symphony no 3)
BERLIN CLASSICS 149362 (2 CDs) (2008)

Jean Fournet/Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra
( + Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique and Franck: Symphony in D minor)
DENON CO 17009/10 (2 CDs) (1998)

Louis Frémaux/Christopher Robinson (organ)/City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
( + Danse Macabre, Carnival of the Animals, in G minor, Samson et Dalila: Bacchanale and Allegro Appassionato)
CLASSICS FOR PLEASURE 82233-2 (2007)
(original LP release: COLUMBIA STUDIO 2 TWO 404/KLAVIER KS 526) (1973)

Louis de Froment/Luxembourg RTV Symphony Orchestra
( + Symphony No. 2 and Henry VIII: Ballet Music)
VOX ALLEGRETTO ACD 8171 (1994)
(original LP release: TURNABOUT QTV-S 34600) (1975)

Stephen Gunzenhauser/Imrich Szabo (organ)/Czecho-Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra
( + Le Rouet d'Omphales and Samson et Dalila: Bacchanale)
NAXOS 8.550138 (1993)

Yazaki Hikotarou/Tokyo City Philharmonic Orchestra
( + Roussel: Bachus et Ariane)
EXTON OVCL-00318 (2008)

Marek Janowski/Jean-Louis Gil (organ)/Nouvel Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France
( + La Jeunesse d'Hercule)
HARMONIA MUNDI HMC 905197 (1988)

Maris Jansons/Wayne Marshall (organ)/Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra
( + Violin Concerto No. 3)
EMI CLASSICS CDC 55184-2 (1994)

Paavo Järvi/Orchestre de Paris
( + Roma and Jeux d'Enfants)
VIRGIN CLASSICS 6286130 (2010)

Herbert von Karajan/Pierre Cochereau (organ)/Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
( + Ravel: Boléro, Pavane pour une Infante Défunte, Rapsodie Espagnole, Daphnis et Chloe - Suite No. 2, Debussy: Prelude a l'Après-midi d'unFaune and La Mer)
DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON KARAJAN EDITION 474278-2 (2 CDs) (2003)
(original LP release: DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON 2532 045) (1982)

Kenichiro Kobayashi/Aleš Bárta (organ)/Czech Philharmonic Orchestra
( + Danse Macabre)
CANYON CLASSICS PCCL - 00363 (2004)

Emanuel Krivine/Michael Matthes (organ)/Orchestre National de Lyon
( + Danse Macabre, Phaéton and Le Rouet d'Omphale)
DENON CO 75024 (1993)

Yoel Levi/Orchestre National d`Ile de France
( + Symphonies Nos. 1 and 2, Le Rouet d'Omphale, Phaéton, Danse Macabre and Marche Héroique)
CASCAVELLE VEL3136 (2 CDs) (2010)

James Levine/Simon Preston (organ)/Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
( + Dukas: The Sorcerer's Apprentice)
DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON 4196172 (1990)

Andrew Litton/Ian Tracey (organ)/Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
( + Berlioz: Roman Carnival Overture, Chabrier: España, Marche Joyeuse and Ravel: Rapsodie Espagnole)
CLASSICS FOR PLEASURE 587025-2 (2005)
(original CD release: EMI EMINENCE CD-EMX9511) (1988)

Peter Maag/Daniel Chorzempa (organ)/Berne Symphony Orchestra
IMP IMP 2010/MCA CLASSICS MCAD-5933 (1986)

Lorin Maazel/Anthony Newman (organ)/Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra
( + Danse Macabre, Phaéton and Samson et Dalila: Bacchanale)
SONY CLASSICAL SK 53979 (1996)

Fuat Mansurov/Rubin Abdullin (organ)/Tartarstan State Symphony Orchestra
( + Carnival of the Animals, La Princesse Jaune Overture, Henry VIII: Danse de la Gitane and Samson et Dalila: Bacchanale)
VISTA VERA VVCD-96009 (2007)

Jean Martinon/Bernard Gavoty (organ)/Orchestre National de l'ORTF
( + Symphoies in A, F, Nos. 1 and 2)
EMI CLASSICS 631804-2 (2 CDs) (2010)
(original LP release: HMV ASD 3674/ANGEL S-37122) (1976 )

Jean Martinon/Marie-Claire Alain (organ)/Orchestre Philharmonique de l'ORTF
( + Danse Macabre and Le Rouet d'Omphale)
ERATO ORIGINALS 504665564-2 (2009)
(original LP release: ERATO STU 70631) (1966)

Eduardo Mata/Jean Guillou (organ)/Dallas Symphony Orchestra
( + Jongen: Symphonie Concertante)
DORIAN RECORDINGS DOR-90200 (1994)

Zubin Mehta/Daniel Chorzempa (organ)/Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
( + Franck: Symphony in D minor)
TELDEC 4509-98416-2 (1997)

Zubin Mehta/Anita Priest (organ)/Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra
( + Piano Concerto No. 2, Violin Concerto No. 3, Samson et Dalila: Mon Coeur s'ouvre a ta Voix and Bacchanale, Danse Macabre, Introduction et Rondo Capriccioso, Carnaval of the Animals and Havanaise)
DECCA DOUBLE DECCA 444552-2 (2 CDs) (1995)
(original LP release: DECCA SXL 6482/LONDON CS 6680) (1971)

Jorge Mester/Hector Olivera (organ)/Pasadena Symphony Orchestra
( + R. Strauss:Also sprach Zarathustra)
NEWPORT CLASSIC NCD 10010 (1999)

Rudolf Moralt/Kurt. Rapf (organ)/Salzburg Radio Symphony Orchestra
SUMMIT SUM 5051 (LP) (1978)

Charles Munch/E. Power Biggs (organ)/Boston Symphony Orchestra (rec. 1954)
(included in collection: "Charles Munch in Boston. The Early Years")
WEST HILL RADIO ARCHIVES WHRA 6015 (7 CDs) (2008)

Charles Munch/Berj Zamkochian (organ)/Boston Symphony Orchestra
( + Ibert: Escales and Debussy: La Mer)
RCA VICTOR LIVING STEREO 09026-61500-2 (1993)
(original LP release: RCA VICTOR LSC-2341) (1960)

Charles Munch/Edouard Nies-Berge (organ)/New York Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra
COLUMBIA 33CX 1116 (1953)/COLUMBIA MASTERWORKS ML-4120 (LP) (1950)

Yannick Nézet-Séguin/Philippe Bélanger (organ)/Grand Montreal Metropolitan Orchestra
( + solo organ works by Guilmant, Vierne and Widor)
ATMA CLASSIQUE SACD2 2331 (2006)

Eugene Ormandy/E. Power Biggs (organ)/Philadelphia Orchestra
COLUMBIA ML-5212 (LP) (1957)

Eugene Ormandy/E. Power Biggs (organ)/Philadelphia Orchestra
( + Carnival of the Animals, Samson et Dalila: Bacchanale, Marche Militaire Française and Danse Macabre)
SONY ESSENTIAL CLASSICS SBK 47655 (1991)
(original LP release: COLUMBIA MS-6469/CBS 72132 (1963)

Eugene Ormandy/Virgil Fox (organ)/Philadelphia Orchestra
( + Samson et Dalila - Bacchanale, Danse Macabre and Dukas: The Sorcerer's Apprentice)
RCA VICTOR 62562 (1994)
(original LP release: RCA RED SEAL ARL1-0484) (1974)

Eugene Ormandy/Michael Murray (organ)/Philadelphia Orchestra
TELARC CD 80051 (1990)
(original LP release: TELARC 10051 (1980)

Willem van Otterloo/Feike Asma (organ)/Residentie Orchestra (Hague Philharmonic)
(included in collection: "Willem van Otterloo: The Original Recordings 1951-1966")
CHALLENGE CLASSICS CC72383 (7CDs) (2011)
(original LP release: PHILIPS NBR 6021/EPIC LC-3077) (1953)

Seiji Ozawa/Philippe Lefebvre (organ)/Orchestre National de l'ORTF
( + Phaéton and Le Rouet d'Omphale)
SERAPHIM 73430-2 (1999)
(original CD release: EMI CDC 7 47477-2) (1987)I

Paul Paray/Marcel Dupré (organ)/Detroit Symphony Orchestra
( + Paray: Messe de Jeanne d'Arc)
MERCURY LIVING PRESENCE 432 719-2 (1991)
(original LP release: MERCURY SR 90012) (1958)

Jean-Paul Penin/ André Isoir (organ)/Hungarian Symphony Orchestra
( + Liszt: Faust Symphony)
L'EMPREINTE DIGITALE ED 13103/4 (2 CDs) (1999)

Michel Plasson/Matthias Eisenberg (organ)/Orchestre du Capitole de Toulouse
( + Cyprès et Lauriers)
EMI CLASSICS 5 56362-2 (1997)

Georges Prêtre/Marie-Claire Alain (organ)/Vienna Symphony Orchestra
( + Symphony No. 2)
WARNER MAESTRO 2564-696599 (2008)
(original CD release: ERATO 2292-45695-2) (1991)

Georges Prêtre/Maurice Duruflé (organ)/Orchestre de la Société du Conservatoire Paris
( + Carnival of the Animals and Poulenc: The Model Animals)
EMI ENCORE 5 74753-2 (2002)
CLASSICS FOR PLEASURE CFP 40053/ ANGEL S-35924 (1964)

Bystrik Režucha/Ivan Sokol (organ)/Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra
PRO ARTE 83257 (1990)

Pascal Rophé/Olivier Latry (organ)/Liège Philharmonic Orchestra
( + Jongen: Symphonie Concertante)
CYPRÈS CYP7610 (2007)

Marcello Rota/Ateš Bárta (organ)/Czech National Symphony Orchestra
( + Franck: Symphony in D minor)
VICTOR (Japan) VICC 60680 (2008)

François-Xavier Roth/Daniel Roth (organ)/Les Sieècles
( + Piano Concerto No. 4)
ACTES SUD ASM04 (2010)

Ino Savini/Janáček Philharmonic Orchestra (rec. 1972)
( + Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade)
ARKADIA GI 771.1 (1995)

Daniel Schweizer/Ulrich Meldau (organ)/Zürich Symphony Orchestra
( + Prelude and Fugue, Guilmant: Fantaisie, Marche fantaisie and Finale alla Schumann sur un Noël Languedocien)
MOTETTE CD 40231(1998)

Geoffrey Simon/James O'Donnell (organ)/London Philharmonic Orchestra
( + Requiem and La Princesse Jaune Overture)
CALA CACD 1032 (2002)
(original CD release:CALA CACD 10160 (1993)

Marc Soustrot/François-Henri Houbart (organ)/Orchestre Philharmonique des Pays de Loire
FORLANE UCD 16520 (1990)

Yevgeny Svetlanov/USSR State Symphony Orchestra (rec. 1982)
( + Franck: Symphony in D minor)
SCRIBENDUM SC 035 (2004)

Hans Swarovsky/Franz Eibner (organ)/Vienna Philharmusica Symphony
SAGA XID 5283/URANIA US 5105 (LP) (1958)

Loris Tjeknavorian/Noel Rawsthorne (organ)/Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
( + Carnival of the Animals and. Danse Macabre)
REGIS RRC 1262 (2007)
(original LP release: CHALFONT SDG 312) (1980)

Yan Pascal Tortelier/Ulster Orchestra
( + Symphony No. 2)
CHANDOS CHAN 8822 (1990)

Arturo Toscanini/George Crook (organ)/NBC Symphony Orchestra (rec. 1952)
( + Franck:: Symphony in D minor)
RCA VICTOR GOLD SEAL 60320-2 (1992)
(original LP release: HMV ALP 1296/RCA VICTOR LM-1874) (1955)

Vladimir Válek/Jan Hora (organ)/Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra
( + Suite Algérienne)
SUPRAPHON 11 0971-2 (1986)

Johannes Wildner/Christian Schmitt (organ)/Saarbrücken Radio Symphony Orchestra
( + Barber: Toccata Festiva and R. Strauss: Festival Prelude)
AUDITE 92506 (2003)

Djong Victorin Yu/ Nicolas Kynaston (organ) /Philharmonia Orchestra
( + Carnival of the Animals and Cyprès et Lauriers)
IMP MASTERS 30366 00012 CD (1998)

ALEXANDRE GUILMANT
(1837-1911)

Born in Boulogne. There he studied organ with his father, Jean-Baptiste Guilmant, and harmony with Gustave Carulli before going to Brussels for further organ training under Jacques Lemmens. His musical career centered around the organ in the triple capacities of performer, composer and teacher. He was one of the co-founders of the Schola Cantorum and taught his instrument at the Paris Conservatory. Naturally his compositional catalogue consists mostly of works for the organ but there are some vocal works as well.

Symphony No. 1 in D minor for Organ and Orchestra, Op. 42 (1874)

Nicholas Braithwaite/Simon Preston (organ)/Adelaide Symphony Orchestra
( + Poulenc: Organ Concerto and Dupré: Organ Concerto)
ABC CLASSICS 8.770008 (1990)

Volker Hempfling/Paul Wisskirchen (organ)/Cologne Gürzenich Orchestra
( + Marche Élégiaque and Organ Sonata No. 8)
MOTETTE CD 40101 (1989)

Jerzy Katlewicz/Marek Kudlicki (organ)/Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Cracow
( + Rheinberger: Organ Concerto No. 2)
MUZA SX 2389 (LP) (1987)

Olaf Koch/Franz Hauk (organ)/Ingolstadt Philharmonic
( + Allegro, Marche Fantaisie, Méditation sur le Stabat Mater, Final alla Schumann, Boëllmann: Fantaisie Dialoguée and Fétis: Fantaisie-Symphonique)
GUILD GMCD 7215 (2001)
(original CD release: CARLTON IMP 303670109-2) (1996)
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Yan Pascal Tortelier/Ian Tracey (organ)/BBC Philharmonic Orchestra
( + Poulenc: Organ Concerto and Widor: Organ Symphony No. 5)
CHANDOS CHAN 9271 (1994)

Sebastian Weigle/Edgar Krapp (organ)/Bamberg Symphony Orchestra
( + Symphony No. 2)
ARTS MUSIC 47662 (2004)


Symphony No. 2 in A major for Organ and Orchestra, Op. 91 (1906)

Vladimir Fedoseyev/Edgar Krapp (organ)/Bamberg Symphony Orchestra
( + Symphony No. 1)
ARTS MUSIC 47662 (2004)

Alfredo Ibarra/Franz Hauk (organ)/Ingolstadt Philharmonic
( + Marche Funèbre and Saint-Saëns: Romance for Piano, Violin and Organ)
GUILD GMCD 7187 (2000)

Yan Pascal Tortelier/Ian Tracey (organ)/BBC Philharmonic Orchestra
( + Widor: Symphony for Organ and Orchestra No. 3 and Franck: Chorale No. 2)
CHANDOS CHAN ) 9785 (2000)

GEORGES BIZET
(1838-1875)

Born in Paris into a highly musical family. His musical gifts were recognized very early on and he entered the Paris Conservatory at the age of 9. There he was taught by Antoine- François Marmontel, Pierre-Joseph-Guillaume Zimmermann, François Benoist and and Jacques Fromental Halévy. The last named was his composition teacher who later became his father-in-law. Bizet's abbreviated life did not deny him immortality as he composed the most famous and often performed of French operas, "Carmen" as well as several other operas such as "Les Pêcheurs de Perles" and the incidental music to the play "L'Arlésienne" from which 2 suites have always been mainstays of the orchestral repertoire. His Symphony in C major, written when he was 17, lay unperformed in the archives of the Paris Conservatory until 1933 and has since become one of the most performed of French symphonies.

Symphony No. 1 in C major (1855)

Jean Allain/Paris Conservatoire 0rchestre
MERIT M 200-19/REMINGTON 199-31(LP) (1952)

Ernest Ansermet/Orchestre de la Suisse Romande
( + Patrie Overture)
DECCA LXT 5030/LONDON LL 1186 (LP) (1954)

Ernest Ansermet/Orchestre de la Suisse Romande
( + Jeux d'Enfants and La Jolie Fille de Perth : Suite)
DECCA SXL 2275/LONDON CS 6208 (1961)

Daniel Barenboim/Orchestre de Paris
( + Jolie Fille de Perth: Suite and Patrie Overture)
HMV ASD 3277 (LP) (1976)

Enrique Bátiz/Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
( + Roma, L'Arlésienne Suites Nos. 1 and 2, Carmen Suites Nos. 1 and 2, The Pearl Fishers: Prelude, Patrie Overture, La Jolie Fille de Perth: Suite and Jeux d'Enfants
BRILLIANT CLASSICS 99786 (3 CDs) (2002)
(original CD release: ASV CD DCA 696) (1990)

Sir Thomas Beecham/French National Radio Symphony Orchestra
( + L’Arlésienne Suites 1 & 2)
EMI GREAT RECORDINGS OF THE CENTURYCDM 567231-2 (2000)
(original LP release: HMV ASD 388/CAPITOL SG 7237) (1961)

Roberto Benzi/London Symphony Orchestra
( + Jeux d'Enfants, La Jolie Fille de Perth : Suite, Carmen: Suites 1 & 2, L’Arlésienne Suites 1 & 2, Variations Chromatiques, Chanson d’Avril, Pearl Fishers: Au Fond du Temple Saint, Carmen: Arias and Agnus Dei)
PHILIPS DUO 442 272-2 (2 CDs) (1994)
(original LP release: PHILIPS SGL 5851/PHILIPS WORLD SERIES PHC 9086) (1966)

Leonard Bernstein/New York Philharmonic
( + Offenbach: Gaîté Parisienne, Orphée aux Enfers Overture and Suppé: The Beautiful Galatea Overture)
SONY CLASSICAL SMK 61830 (1999)
(original LP release: CBS 61071/COLUMBIA MS-7159 (1968)

Semyon Bychkov/Orchestre de Paris
( + Franck: Symphony in D minor)
PHILIPS 4320962 (1992)

Sergiu Celibidache/Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra (rec. 1953)
( + Mendelssohn : Symphoniey No. 4)
ARCHIPEL ARPCD 0140 (2003)

André Cluytens/ORTF National Orchestra
( + L'Arlésienne Suites Nos. 1 and 2 and Patrie Overture)
TESTAMENT SBT 1235 (2002)
(original LP release: COLUMBIA 33CX 1173/ANGEL 35119) (1954)

Jacques Delacôte/Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
( + L'Arlésienne Suites Nos. 1 and 2)
TRING INTERNATIONAL TRP 049 (1995)

Veronika Dudarova/USSR Radio Symphony Orchestra
( + Roma)
CHANT DU MONDE LDC 278 844 (1988)
(original LP release: MELODIYA S 10 17911) (1982)

Charles Dutoit/Montreal Symphony Orchestra
( + L'Arlésienne Suites Nos. 1 and 2, Carmen Suites Nos. 1 and 2, Patrie Overture, La Jolie Fille de Perth: Suite and Overture in a minor/A major)
DECCA DOUBLE DECCA 475190- 2 (2 CDs) (2002)

Louis Frémaux/City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
( + Roma)
EMI STUDIO 769643-2 (1988)
( original LP release: HMV ASD 3039/KLAVIER KS 546) (1975)

Lamberto Gardelli/Munich Radio Symphony Orchestra
( + Roma)
ORFEO C 184 891 A (1989)

Sir John Eliot Gardiner/ Orchestre de l'Opéra de Lyon
( + L'Arlésienne - Original Version)
ERATO 229245298-2 (1988)

Sir Alexander Gibson/Orchestre de la Suisse Romande
( + L'Arlésienne Suites Nos. 1 and 2)
DECCA SXL 6530/LONDON TREASURY STS-15174(1968)

Leopold Hager/Mozarteum-Orchester
( + Carmen Suites Nos. 1 and 2)
PWK CLASSICS PWK 1101 (1988)

Bernard Haitink/Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
( + Jeux d'Enfants and Saint-Saëns: Symphony No. 3)
PHILIPS ELOQUENCE 476741-2 (2007)
(original LP release: PHILIPS 9500 443) (1979)

Richard Hickox/City of London Sinfonia
( + Fauré: Pavane, Ravel: Le Tombeau de Couperin and Ibert: Divertissement)
VIRGIN CLASSICS VC 7 90765-2 (1989)

Paul Hupperts/Utrecht Municipal Orchestra
MUSICAL MASTERPIECE SOCIETYMMS 11 (LP) (1956)

Robert Irving/New York City Ballet Orchestra
( + Gounod: Symphony No. 1)
KAPP KCL 9039 (LP) (1960)

Paavo Järvi/Orchestre de Paris
( + Jeux d`Enfants and Roma)
VIRGIN CLASSICS 6286130 (2010)

Dirk Joeres/West German Sinfonia
( + L'Arlésienne Suites Nos. 1 and 2 and Jeux d'Enfants
REGIS RRC 1191 (2004)

Donald Johanos/New Zealand Symphony Orchestra
( + La Jolie Fille de Perth: Bohemian Scenes and Jeux d'Enfants)
NAXOS 8.553027 (1996)

Richard Kapp/Philharmonia Virtuosi
( + Offenbach: La Vie Parisienne Overture, Franck: Symphonic Variations, Chabrier: Habañera and Fauré: Ballade)
ESS.A.Y RECORDINGS ESSCD 1094 (2005)

Zden·k Košler/Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra (rec. 1977)
( + Carmen: Suites - excerpts)
OPUS 9151 0590 (1998)

Emmanuel Krivine/Orchestre National de Lyon
( + L'Arlésienne Suites Nos. 1 and 2)
DENON CO-75471 (1994)

Fritz Lehmann/Bamberg Symphony Orchestra
( + Stravinsky: Pulcinella Suite)
DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON DGM 18324/DECCA GOLD LABEL DL 9901 (LP) (1957)

René Leibowitz/Orchestre Radio-Symphonique de Paris
( + Schubert: Symphony No. 1)
OCEANIC 33 (LP) (1956)

Alain Lombard/Orchestre Philharmonique de Strasbourg (1976)
( + L'Arlésienne Suites Nos. 1 and 2)
APEX 256462082-2 (2005)
(original LP release: ERATO STU 70964) (1976)

Jesús López-Cobos/Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra
( + Carmen Suite No. 1 and L'Arlésienne Suite No. 1)
TELARC CD 80224 (1990)

Othmar Maga/Nuremberg Symphony Orchestra
( + Jeux d'Enfants)
I GRANDI MUSICISTI IGMSC 140 (LP)

Jean-Baptiste Mari/Orchestre de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire, Paris
( + Pierné: Harp Concertstück, Ramuntcho - Suite and Chabrier: Bourrée Fantasque)
MANDALA 4805 (1993)
(original LP release: TEPPAZ 30 518) (1961)

Sir Neville Marriner/Academy of St. Martin in the Fields
( + Prokofiev: Symphony No. 1 and Stravinsky: Pulcinella Suite)
DECCA JUBILEE 417734-2 (1987)
(original CD release: ARGO ZRG 719) (1973)

Sir Neville Marriner/Academy of St. Martin in the Fields (1992)
( + L'Arlésienne Suites Nos. 1 and 2)
EMI CLASSICS GEMINI 517649-2 (2 CDs) (200, Carmen Suites Nos. i and 2 and Jolie Fille de Perth: Suite)
(original CD release: EMI CLASSICS CDC 555118-2) (1994)

Jean Martinon/Chicago Symphony Orchestra
( + Mendelssohn: Midsummer Night's Dream - Suite)
RCA VICTROLA VICS-1628 (LP) (1971)

Jean Martinon/ORTF National Orchestra
( + Jolie Fille de Perth: Suite, Jeux d'Enfants, Lalo: Cello Concerto, Namouna - Suites and Rapsodie Norvegienne)
DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON DOUBLE 437371 (2 CDs) (1995)
(original LP release: DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON

Eduardo Mata/National Arts Centre Orchestra of Canada
( + Mozart: Divertimenti, K. 251)
RCA RED SEAL XRC1-4689 (LP) (1983)

Dimitri Mitropoulos/New York Philharmonic Orchestra (rec. 1953)
( + Chausson: Symphony in B flat and Debussy: Ibéria)
AS DISC AS 617 (1990)

Christoph Mueller/Sinfonietta Wetzikon
( + Schoeck: Violin Conceo and Mendelssohn: Hebrides Overture)
SWISS PAN SP 51.704 (2002)

Charles Munch/Orchestre National de l'ORTF
EMI GREAT CONDUCTORS OF THE 20TH CENTURY 5 75477-2 ( 2002)
(original LP release: CONCERT HALL SMSA 2495/NONESUCH H-71183) (1967)

Charles Munch/London Philharmonic Orchestra (rec. 1947)
DECCA LPS 118 (LP) (c. 1951)

Charles Munch/Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
( + L'Arlésienne Suites Nos. 1 and 2)
PROFIL PH 04090 (2005)
(original release: in 12 LP collection "Treasury of Great Music" READER'S DIGEST RD15-K) (1964)
(original general LP release: QUINTESSENCE PMC 7048) (1977)

Anton Nanut/Ljubljana Radio Symphony Orchestra
( + Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 4 and Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage Overture)
STRADIVARI CLASSICS SCD 6025 (1988)

Eugene Ormandy/Philadelphia Orchestra
( + Prokofiev: Symphony No. 1 and Weinberger: Schwanda - Polka and Fugue)
COLUMBIA ML-5289 (LP) (1958)

Eugene Ormandy/Philadelphia Orchestra
( + L'Arlésienne Suite No. 1)
RCA ARL 1-3640 (LP) (1980)

Orpheus Chamber Orchestra
( + Prokofiev: Symphony No. 1 and Britten: Simple Symphony)
DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON 423624-2 (1989)

Seiji Ozawa/Orchestre National de France
( + Patrie Overture, Jeux d'Enfants and Carmen SuiteNo. 1)
EMI ENCORE 86089-2 (2005)
(original LP release: HMV ASD 1433339-1/ANGEL DS-37928) (1983)

Mark Paverman/Sverdlovsk Philharmonic Orchestra
MELODIYA S01273-4 (LP) (1966)

Michel Plasson/Orchestre du Capitole de Toulouse
( + Roma, Patrie Overture, L'Arlesienne: Incidental Music and Suite No. 1, Carmen: Suite No. 1, Jeux d'Enfants, Overture in A, Marche Funèbre and Les Quatre Coins)
EMI TRIPLES 509414-2 (3 CDs) (2008)
(original CD release: EMI CLASSICS CDC 555057-2) (1994)

Josep Pons/Granada City Orchestra
( + L'Arlésienne Suites Nos. 1 and 2)
HARMONIA MUNDI MUSIQUE D'ABORD HMA 1951675 (2007)
(original CD release: HARMONIA MUNDI HMC 901675) (2000)

Georges Prêtre/Bamberger Symphoniker
( + Carmen Suites Nos. 1 and 2)
EURODISC 610521 (1987)

Georges Prêtre/Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra
( + Ravel: Daphnis et Chloé Suite No. 2 and La Valse)
HÄNSSLER CLASSIC HAN 93013 (2001)

Artur Rodzinski/New York Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra (rec. 1945)
COLUMBIA ML-2051 (LP) (c. 1950)

François-Xavier Roth/Siècles
( + Jeux d'Enfants and Chabrier: Suite Pastorale)
MIRARE MIR 036 (2004)

Max Rudolf/Cincinatti Symphony Orchestra
( + Roussel: Suite in F and D'Indy: Istar Variations)
DECCA DL 710162 (LP) (1969)

Jukka-Pekka Saraste/Scottish Chamber Orchestra( + Ravel: Ma Mère l’oye ; Pavane pour une Infante)
VIRGIN CLASSICS VC 7 90744-2 (1989)

Marc Soustrot/Orchestre Philharmonique des Pays de la Loire
( + La Jolie Fille de Perth: Suite, Offenbach: La Vie Parisienne: Overture, Le Voyage dans la Lune: Overture, La Périchole: Overtureand La Fille du Tambour-Major: Overture)
PIERRE VERANY PV 791021 (1991)

Leopold Stokowski/Leopold Stokowski Orchestra
( + L'Arlésienne Suites Nos. 1 and 2 and Debussy/Caplet: Children's Corner Suite )
CALA CACD 0548 (2008)
(original LP release: HMV ALP 1181/RCA VICTOR LM-1706) (1952)

Leopold Stokowski/New York City Symphony Orchestra (rec. 1947)
( + L'Arlésienne Suites Nos. 1 and 2 and Messiaen: L'Ascension)
ARCHIPEL ARPCD 0242 (2004)

Leopold Stokowski/National Philharmonic Orchestra
( + Mendelssohn: Midsummer Night's Dream: Suite and Smetana: The Moldau)
SONY ESSENTIAL CLASSICS SBK 48264 (1992)
(original LP release: COLUMBIA M-34567) (1978)

Otmar Suitner/Dresden Staatskapelle
( + Weber: Symphony No. 1)
BERLIN CLASSICS 003247-2 (1995)
(original LP release: ETERNA LP 8 26 342) (1973)

Hugh Wolff/Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra
( + Prokofiev: Symphony No. 1 and Haydn: Symphony No. 1)
TELDEC 9031-77309-2 (1993)

Emmanuel Young/London Symphony Orchestra
( + Jeux d'Enfants)
PARLOPHONE PMC 1045/CAPITOL P18018. (LP) (1956)

Roma (Symphony in C major or Suite No. 3) (1860-68, rev. 1871)

Leon Barzin/New York City Ballet Orchestra
( + Chabrier: Gwendoline Overture, Bourrée fantasque, Marche Joyeuse and Le Roi Malgré Lui - Fête Polonaise)
VOX PL-9320 (LP) (1955)

Joseph Berendt/Philharmonic Orchestra(pseudonyms)
ALLEGRO ELITE 3051 (LP) (c. 1955)

Enrique Bátiz/Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
( + Symphony in C, L'Arlésienne Suites Nos. 1 and 2, Carmen Suites Nos. 1 and 2, The Pearl Fishers: Prelude, Patrie Overture, La Jolie Fille de Perth: Suite and Jeux d'Enfants
BRILLIANT CLASSICS 99786 (3 CDs) (2002)
(original CD release: ASV CD DCA 696) (1990)

Jean-Claude Casadesus/Orchestre National De Lille
( + Clovis et Clotilde)
APEX 092748995-2 (2003)
(original CD release: ERATO MUSIFRANCE 229245016-2) (1990)

Louis Frémaux/City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
( + Symphony in C)
EMI STUDIO 769643-2 (1988)
(original LP release: HMV ASD 3039/KLAVIER KS 546) (1975)

Lamberto Gardelli/Munich Radio Symphony Orchestra
( + Symphony in C)
ORFEO C 184 891 A (1989)

Hans Haber/Vienna Volkspera Orchestra (pseudonyms?)
SUMMIT SUM 6007 (LP) (1982)

Fred Hausdoerfer/Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra
CONCERT HALL SOCIETY H 13 (LP) (c. 1953)

Paavo Järvi/Orchestre de Paris
( + Symphony in C and Jeux d'Enfants)
VIRGIN CLASSICS 6286130 (2010)

John Lanchberry/Melbourne Symphony Orchestra
( + L`Arlésienne Suite No. 1, The Fair Maid of Perth Suite and Patrie Overture)
ABC CLASSICS ABC 4763520 (2011)

Fuat Mansurian/Moscow Symphony Orchestra (rec. 1978)
( + Symphony in C)
CHANT DU MONDE LDC 278 844 (1988)

Michel Plasson/Orchestre du Capitole de Toulouse
( + Symphony in C, Patrie Overture, L'Arlesienne: Incidental Music and Suite No. 1, Carmen: Suite No. 1, Jeux d'Enfants, Overture in A, Marche Funèbre and Les Quatre Coins)
EMI TRIPLES 509414-2 (3 CDs) (2008)
(original CD release: EMI CLASSICS CDC 555057-2) (1994)

Jindř ich Rohan/Prague Symphony Orchestra
SUPRAPHON 1110 2428 (1979)

CHARLES-MARIE WIDOR
(1844-1937)

Born in Lyons, the son of an organist/organ builder. In Brussels, he studied organ with Jacques Lemmens and composition with François-Josef Fétis. He made his living as an organist holding several important positions especially at Saint-Sulpice in Paris where he served from 1871 to 1934. He taught both organ and composition at the Paris Conservatory and was elected a member of the Académie des Beaux -Arts). His major works include 2 purely orchestral Symphonies (1870, 1886) as well as the 4 listed below for organ and orchestra, 2 Piano Concertos and a Cello Concerto. His most performed works are a series of 10 Symphonies for solo organ (1876-1900).

Symphony for Organ and Orchestra in G minor, Op. 42 (1882)

Alfredo Ibarra/Franz Hauk (organ)/Philharmonia Ingolstadt
( + Jongen: Alleluja, Hymne and Parker: Organ Concerto)
GUILD GMCD 7182 (2000)

Daniel Schweizer/Ulrich Meldau (organ)/Zurich Symphony Orchestra
( + solo organ pieces)
MOTETTE CD 40071 (1987)

Stefan Solyom/Christian Schmitt (organ)/Bamberg Symphony Orchestra
( + Sinfonia Sacra)
CPO SACD 777443-2 (2010)


Symphony No. 3 for Organ and Orchestra, Op. 69 (1894)

Volker Hempfling/Paul Wisskirchen (organ)/Philharmonia Hungarica
( + Sinfonia Sacra)
MOTETTE CD 40241(1998)

Yan Pascal Tortelier/Ian Tracey (organ)/BBC Philharmonic Orchestra
( + Guilmant: Symphony No. 2 and Franck: Chorale No. 2)
CHANDOS CHAN ) 9785 (2000)

Sinfonia Sacra for Organ and Orchestra, Op. 81 (1908)

Volker Hempfling/Paul Wisskirchen (organ)/Philharmonia Hungarica
( + Symphony No. 3)
MOTETTE CD 40071 (1987)

Stefan Solyom/Christian Schmitt (organ)/Bavarian State Philharmonic
( + Symphony, Op. 42)
CPO SACD 777443-2 (2010)

Symphonie Antique for Soloist, Chorus, Orchestra and Organ, Op. 83 (1911)

Volker Hempfling/Paul Wisskirchen (organ)/Cologne Gürzenich Choir/Altenberg Cathedral Singers/Pilsen Radio Orchestra
( + Mass)
MOTETTE CD 40181 (1996)

GABRIEL FAURÉ
(1845-1924)

Born in Pamiers, Ariège. His first teacher was Louis Niedermeyer but it was Saint-Saëns who gave him the bulk of his compositional grounding. He enjoyed long and distinguished careers as both composer and teacher whose roster of eminent students included Ravel, Koechlin, Florent Schmitt and Nadia Boulanger. His catalogue of compositions was vast and included everything from opera to solo instrumental works with a particular aptitude for chamber and choral music. The orchestral music that keeps his name in the active repertoire are the suites "Masques et Bergamasques.," "Pélleas et Mélisande" and "Dolly" as well as a Pavane and the Ballade for Piano and Orchestra. The piece listed here was from a 3 movement work variously entitled "Première Symphonie" or "Suite d'Orchestre." His lesser-known but larger scale works include an unpublished Symphony in D minor (1886) and a Violin Concerto.

Allegro Symphonique (from an unfinished Symphony No. 1) (1873)

José-André Gendille/Orchestre Symphonique de Mans
( + Messager: Symphony in A and Franck: Symphonic Variations)
SKARBO SK 3921 (1992)

BENJAMIN GODARD
(1849-1895)

Born in Paris. He studied the violin with Richard Hammer and Henri Vieuxtemps and composition at the Paris Conservatory with Napoléon Henri Reber. He composed operas, orchestral, chamber, instrumental and vocal works. The Berceuse from his opera "Jocelyn" has kept his name alive. He also wrote: Symphonie Dramatique for Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra, Op.39 "Le Tasse," (1878), Symphony (1880), Symphonie-Ballet, Op. 60 (1882), Symphonie Gothique, Op. 23 (1883), and Symphonie Légendaire, Op. 100 (1886).

Symphonie Orientale, Op. 84 (1884)

Martin Yates/Royal Scottish National Orchestrra
( + Piano Concerto No. 1 and Introduction et Allegro for Piano and Orchestra)
DUTTON EPOCH CDLX 7274 (2011)

VINCENT D'INDY
(1851-1931)

Born in Paris. As a child prodigy, he studied the piano with Louis Diémer and Antoine-François Marmontel and harmony with Albert Lavignac but initially taught himself composition by studying the scores of his great predecessors as well as various textbooks. Later on he became a pupil of César Franck at the Paris Conservatory. His own academic career was highlighted by his co-founding with Alexandre Guilmant and Charles Bourdes of the Schola Cantorem where he became director and went on to teach composition to, among many others, Erik Satie, Albert Roussel, Albéric Magnard, Arthur Honegger, Darius Milhaud and Joseph Canteloube. He composed operas, chamber, instrumental, vocal and a significant number of large orchestral works that have been well-represented on recordings. Only one of his Symphonies, the early "Jean Hunyade" (1875) has not yet been recorded. Some other orchestral works include "Jour d'Eté à la Montagne," the symphonic trilogy "Wallenstein," "Tableaux de Voyages," "Poème des Rivages," "Istar Variations" and "Diptyque Méditerranéen."

Symphony No. 1 in A major "Symphonie Italienne" (1870-72)

Lionel Bringuier/Orchestre de Bretagne
( + Concerto for Piano, Flute, Cello and Strings)
TIMPANI 1C112 (2007)

Rumon Gamba/Iceland Symphony Orchestra
( + Poème des Rivages)
CHANDOS CHAN 10660 (2011)

Symphony No. 2 in B flat major, Op. 57 (1902-3)

James De Preist/Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo
( + Souvenirs)
KOCH INTERNATIONAL CLASSICS 3-7280-2H1 (1995)

Rumon Gamba/Iceland Symphony Orchestra
( + Tableaux de Voyage and Karadec Suite)
CHANDOS CHAN 10514 (2009)

Pierre Monteux/San Francisco Symphony Orchestra (rec. 1942)
( + Symphonie sur un Chant Montagnard Français and Fervaal: Prelude)
RCA VICTOR GOLD SEAL 09026-61888-2 (1994)
(original LP release: RCA VICTOR LCT-1125) (1953)

Michel Plasson/Orchestre de Capitole de Toulouse
( + Symphonie sur un Chant Montagnard Français )
EMI CDM 7 63952-2 (1991)
(original LP release: EMI C 06973100) (1982)

Symphony No. 3, Op. 70 "Sinfonia Brevis de Bello Gallico" (1916-18)

Rumon Gamba/Iceland Symphony Orchestra
( + Choral Varié, Istar Variations and Diptyque Méditerranéen)
CHANDOS CHAN 10585 (2010)

Theodor Guschlbauer/Orchestre Philharmonique de Strasbourg
( + Saugefleurie and Souvenirs)
AUVIDIS VALOIS V 4686 (1993)

Symphonie sur un Chant Montagnard Français for Piano and Orchestra, Op. 25 "Symphonie Cévenole" (1886)

Antonio de Almeida/François-Joël Thiollier (piano)/National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland
( + Franck: Symphonic Variations and Fauré: Ballade)
NAXOS 8.550754 (1994)

Ernest Ansermaet/Robert Casadesus (piano)/Orchestre de la Suisse Romande (rec. 1955)
( + Magnard: Symphony No. 3)
CASCAVELLE VEL 3128 (2010)

Serge Baudo/Aldo Ciccolini (piano)/Orchestre de Paris
( + Symphony No. 2)
EMI CDM 7 63952-2 (1991)
(original LP release: HMV ASD 3480) (1976)/SERAPHIM S-60371) (1982)

Ernest Bour/Daniel Wayenberg (pno)/Orchestre National de l'ORTF
( + Jour d'Été à la Montagne)
DUCRETET-THOMSON DTL 93069 (LP) (c. 1955)

Hélène Boschi (piano)/Karel Scheina/Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra
SUPRAPHON LPM 90 (LP) (c. 1958)

Paul Capolongo/Marie-Françoise Bucquet (piano)/Orchestre National de l'Opéra de Monte-Carlo
( + Dukas: The Sorcerer's Apprentice, Polyeucte Overture and La Péri))
PHILIPS 454127-2 (1997)
(original LP release: PHILIPS 6500 077) (1972)

André Cluytens/Aldo Ciccolini (piano)/Orchestre de la Société du Conservatoire Paris
( + Franck: Symphony in D minor and Symphonic Variations)
TESTAMENT SBT 1237 (2002)
(original LP release: COLUMBIA 33CX 1190/ANGEL 35104 (1954)

Charles Dutoit/Jean-Yves Thibaudet (piano)/Montreal Symphony Orchestra
( + Franck: Symphony in D minor)
DECCA 430 278-2 (1991)

Anatole Fistoulari/Fabienne Jacquinot (piano)/Westminster Symphony Orchestra
( + Saint-Saëns: Piano Concerto No. 5)
PARLOPHONE PMC 1015/MGM 3068 (LP) (1953)

Jean Fournet/Jean Doyen (piano)/Orchestre des Concerts Lamoureux
( + Saint-Saëns: Piano Concerto No .2)
PHILIPS N 00 823L/EPIC 3LC-3096 (LP) (1955)

Paul Freeman/Joela Jones (piano)/Westphalian Symphony Orchestra
( + Poulenc: Aubade)
ORION ORS 74139 (LP) (1974)

Philippe Gaubert/Marguerite Long (piano)/Orchestre de la Société du Conservatoire Paris (rec. 1934)
(included in collection "L'Art De Marguerite Long")
CASCAVELLE VEL 3067 (4 CDs) (2004)

Sir Eugene Goossens/Grant Johannesen (piano)/London Symphony Orchestra
( + Fauré: Fantaisie and Saint-Saëns: Wedding Cake)
HMV CLP 1255/CAPITOL G-7132 (LP) (1959)

Marek Janowski/Catherine Collard (piano)/Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France
( + Jour d'Été à la Montagne)
APEX 092749809-2 (2003)
(original CD release: ERATO MUSIFRANCE 229245821-2) (1992)

Sebastian Lang-Lessing/Duncan Gifford (piano)/Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra
( + Saint-Saëns: Piano Concerto No. 5 and Franck: Les Djinns)
ABC CLASSICS ABC 4761928 (2005)

Peter Maag/Michel Block (piano)/Berne Symphony Orchestra
( + Martinů: Rhapsody-Concerto)
CONIFER CDCF 146 (1987)

Pierre Monteux/Maxim Schapiro (piano)/San Francisco Symphony Orchestra (rec. 1942)
( + Symphony No. 2 and Fervaal: Prelude)
RCA VICTOR GOLD SEAL 09026-61888-2 (1994)

Pierre Monteux/Nicole Henriot-Schweitzer (piano)/Boston Symphony Orchestra (rec. 1958)
(included in collection: "Pierre Monteux - Ten Stereo Concerts from the 1958 and 1959 Seasons")
WEST HILL RADIO ARCHIVES WHRA6034 (11 CDs) (2010)

Charles Munch/Robert Casadesus (piano)/New York Philharmonic-SymphonyOrchestra (rec. 1948)
( + Liszt: Piano Concerto No. 2))
DANTE LYS 543 (1999)
(original LP release: COLUMBIA ML-4298) (1950)

Charles Munch/Nicole Henriot-Schweitzer (piano)/Boston Symphony Orchestra (rec. 1958)
(included in collection: "A Treasury of French Music")
WEST HILL RADIO ARCHIVES WHRA 6027 (6 CDs) (2010)

Charles Munch/Nicole Henriot-Schweitzer (piano)/Boston Symphony Orchestra
( + Berlioz: Harold en Italie)
RCA VICTOR GOLD SEAL 09026-62582-2 (1994)
(original LP release: RCA VICTOR RED SEAL LSC-2271) (1959)

Eugene Ormandy/Robert Casadesus (piano)/Philadelphia Orchestra
( + Franck: Symphonic Variations and Casadesus: 3 Piano Concerto)
SONY MASTERWORKS PORTRAIT MPK 46730 (1991)
(original LP release: COLUMBIA MS-6070) (1959)

Tamás Pal/Gabriella Torma (piano)/Budapest Philharmonic Orchestra
( + Lalo: Symphonie Espagnole)
HARMONIA MUNDI WHITE LABEL HRC106 (1988)
(original LP release: HUNGAROTON SLPX-11789) (1977)

Paul Paray/Marguerite Long (piano)/Orchestre des Colonne Concerts (rec. 1934)
(included in collection: " Paul Paray: Les Années Parisiennes 1932-1949")
DANTE LYS 540-542 (3 CDs) (2000)

Mendi Rodan/Pnina Salzman (piano)/Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra
( + Saint-Saëns: Piano Concerto No. 5, Bartók: Piano Concerto No. 3, Chopin: Andante Spianato et Grand Polonaise Brillante, Ben-Haim: Piano Concerto and Lavry: Piano Concerto)
DOREMI RECORDS DHR 7840-1 (2 CDs) (2005)

Karel Šejna/Héláene Boschi (piano)/Czech Philharmonic Orchestra
SUPRAPHON LPM 90 (LP) (c. 1955)

José Serebrier/Valerie Traficante (piano)/Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
( + Saint-Saëns: Piano Concerto No. 2 and Fauré: Ballade)
CARLTON CLASSICS IMP 670078-2 (1993)

Albert Wolff/Jeanne-Marie Darré (piano)/Orchestre des Concerts Lamoureux (rec. 1932)
(included in collection: "Un Panorama de la Musique Symphonique Française")
TIMPANI 4C4024 (4 CDs) (2002)

ANDRÉ MESSAGER
(1853-1929)

Born in Montluçon, Allier. He studied at the Ecole Niedermeyer in Paris where Camille Saint-Saëns was his composition teacher with additional instruction from Gabriel Fauré and Eugène Gigout. In addition to composing, he was very active as a conductor and organist. As a composer he was basically a man of the theater writing ballets, operas and operettas. He is most famous for the ballet "Les Deux Pigeons" and the operetta "Veronique." His few other orchestral works include a "Suite Funabulesque" and "Impressions Orientals."

Symphony in A major (1876)

José-André Gendille/Orchestre Symphonique de Mans
( + Fauré: Allegro Symphonique and Franck: Symphonic Variations)
SKARBO SK 3921 (1992)

ERNEST CHAUSSON
(1855-1899)

Born in Paris. He studied under Jules Massenet at the Paris Conservatory but also took private composition lessons with César Franck. Coming from a wealthy family, he could devote his musical activities completely to composing. Like many other French compsers of his generation, he fell under the spell of Richard Wagner as evidenced by his opera "Le Roi Arthus." His early death cut off a major French voice but he did complete a small group of important chamber works as well as the orchestral works "Poème" for Violin and Orchestra, "Poème de l'Amour et de la Mer" for Soprano and Orchestra and the symphonic poems "Viviane" and "Soir de Fête." Sketches exist of a Second Symphony that he was working on at the time of his death.

Symphony in B flat major, Op. 20 (1890)

Ernest Ansermet/Orchestre de la Suisse Romande
( + Fauré: Pelléas et Mélisande, Masques et Bergamasques and Pénélope: Prelude)
DECCA 433715-2 (1992)
(original LP release: DECCA SXL 6362/LONDON CS 6540) (1968)

Piero Coppola/Orchestre de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire Paris (rec. 1934)
( + Reyer: Sigurd Overture, Fauré: Shylock, Pierné: Harp Concertstück and Aubert: Habanera )
LYS LYS 411 (1998)

Francesco D'Avalos/Philharmonia Orchestra
( + Franck: Symphony in D minor)
ASV CDDCA 708 (1990)

Robert Denzler/Orchestre de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire Paris
( + Berlioz: Benvenuto Cellini Overture)
DECCA LXT 5244/LONDON CS 6119 (LP) (1958)

Charles Dutoit/Montreal Symphony Orchestra
( + Poème, Piano Quartet; Concerto for Violin, Piano and String Quartet and Poème de l'Amour et de la Mer)
DECCA DOUBLE DECCA 4756528- (2 CDs) (2008)
(original CD release: DECCA 458010-2) (2000)

Jean Fournet/Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra
( + Fauré: Pélleas et Mélisande, Honegger: Pastorale d'Été, Rugby and Pacific 231)
REGIS RRC 1328 (2010)
(original CD release: DENON CO3675) (1990)

Jean Fournet/Orchestre des Concerts Pasdeloup
( + Franck: Redemption: Symphonic Interlude)
PHILIPS NBR 6018/EPIC LC-3067 (LP) (c. 1955)

Marek Janowski/Orchestre de la Suisse Romande
( + Franck: Symphony in D minor)
PENTATONE PTC 5186 078 (2006)

Marek Janowski/Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France
( + Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique, Roman Carnival Overture and Bizet: Symphony in C)
VIRGIN CLASSICS 7243 5 61513-2 (2 CDs) (1998)

Armin Jordan/ Basle Symphony Orchestra
( + Viviane)
APEX 092749518-2 (2003)
(original LP release: ERATO 229245554-2) (1986)

Jérôme Kaltenbach/Nancy Symphony Orchestra
( + Viviane and Poème)
NAXOS 8.553652 (1998)

Zden·k Košler/Czech Philharmonic Orchestra
( + Roussel: Le Festin de l'Araignée)
SUPRAPHON 33CO 1472 (1987)
(original LP release: SUPRAPHON 1110 3404) (1984)

Louis Langrée/Liège Philharmonic Orchestra
( + Franck: Symphony in D minor)
ACCORD 4768069 (2005)

Dimiter Manolov/Sofia State Philharmonic Orchestra
( + Poème)
BALKANTON BCA 1967 (LP) (1960's)

Eduardo Mata/Dallas Symphony Orchestra
( + Ibert: Escales and Divertissement)
DORIAN DOR 90181 (1994)

Dimitri Mitropoulos/Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra (rec. 1946)
( + Lalo: Le Roi d'Ys Overture, Weber: Jubel Overture, Schumann: Symphony No. 2, Chopin: Piano Concerto No. 1, Etude No. 12, Nocturne No. 13, Mazurka No. 25, Waltz E minor, Polonaise No. 6 and Rossini: Barber of Seville - Largo al Factotum)
NICKSON NN 1008-9 (2 CDs) (1996)
(original LP release: COLUMBIA ML 4141) [1949]

Pierre Monteux/San Francisco Symphony Orchestra
( + Chabrier: Fête Polonaise)
RCA VICTOR GOLD SEAL 09026-61899-2 (1995)
(original LP release: RCA VICTOR LM-1181 (1950)

Charles Munch/Boston Symphony Orchestra
( + Poème and Saint-Saëns: Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso)
RCA VICTOR GOLD SEAL GD69683-2 (1991)
(original LP release: RCA RED SEAL RB 6528/RCA VICTOR LSC-2647) (1962)

Paul Paray/Detroit Symphony Orchestra
( + Lalo: Le Roi d'Ys Overture, Namouna - Suite No. 1 and Barraud: Offrande a Une Ombre)
MERCURY LIVING PRESENCE 434 389-2 (1997)
(original LP release: MERCURY MMA 11111/MERCURY SR 90017) (1958)

Michel Plasson/Orchestre du Capitole de Toulouse
( + Viviane and Soir de Fête)
EMI CDM 764686-2 (1987)
(original LP release: EMI (France) 2C 069-14086/SERAPHIM S-60310) (1978)

Michael Schønwandt/Royal Flemish Philharmonic Orchestra
( + Soir de Fête and Poème de l'Amour et de la Mer)
TALENT DOM 292997 (2009)

José Serebrier/Orchestre Symphonique de la RTBF
( + Soir de Fête and La Tempête: 2 scenes)
CHANDOS CHAN 8369 (1984)

Frederick Stock/Chicago Symphony Orchestra (rec. 1941)
( + Saint-Saëns: Cello Concerto No. 1)
DANTE LYS 103 (1996)
(original LP release: RCA VICTOR BLUEBIRD LBC 1056) (1955)

Marc Soustrot/Orchestre des Pays de la Loire
( + Fauré: Pelléas et Mélisande and Pénélope: Prelude)
PIERRE VERANY PV 792051 (1992)

Yan Pascal Tortelier/BBC Symphony Orchestra
( + Viviane, Soir de Fête and La Tempête)
CHANDOS CHAN 9965 (1999)

SYLVIO LAZZARI
(1857-1944)

Born in Bozen, Austria-Hungary (now Bolzano, Italy). He became a naturalized French citizen after studying at the Paris Conservatory under César Franck and Ernest Guiraud. He composed in many genres and was well known in his lifetime especially for his operas. His other orchestral works include "Rapsodie Espagnole," "Tableau Symphonique d'Après Verlaine" and the symphonic poems "Ophélie" and "Effet de Nuit."

Symphony in E flat major (1907)

Adriano/Moscow Symphony Orchestra
( + Tableaux Maritimes)
NAXOS 8.223853 (1996)

CLAUDE DEBUSSY
(1862-1918)

Born in Saint-Germain-en-Laye (Parisian suburbs). Entering the Paris Conservatory at the age of 10, he studied piano with Antoine-François Marmontel and harmony under Albert Lavignac with a few lessons from César Franck and Ernest Guiraud. Travels across Europe under the patronage of Mme. Nazhdeza von Meck landed him in Moscow where he became acquainted with the music of Tchaikovsky and Mussorgsky. Visits to Bayreuth exposed him to the music of Richard Wagner and visiting gamelan musicians from Java left an enduring impression. His musical career blossomed early and steadily and he became, according to most opinions, the pre-eminent French composer excelling in all genres from his opera "Pelleas et Melisande" to his sui generis body of piano music. His orchestral masterpieces include "Prélude à l'Après-midi d'un Faune," "La Mer," "Trois Nocturnes" and "Images pour Orchestre" The work listed below is Debussy's only work called a "symphony" though some consider "La Mer" a symphony in all but name.

Symphony in B minor for Piano 4-Hands (orch. B. Faldner) (1880)

Barry Faldner/Sinfonia Orchestra of Chicago (orch. B. Faldner, c. 1990)
( + Gounod: Petite Symphonie, Milhaud: Chamber Symphonies Nos. 1, 2, 3 and 5)
KOCH INTERNATIONAL CLASSICS 3-7067-2 H1 (1992)

Jun Märkl/Orchestre National de Lyon
( + Suite Bergamasque, Petite Suite, En blanc et Noir and Printemps)
NAXOS 8.572583 (2011)

MAURICE EMMANUEL
(1862-1938)

Born in Bar-sur-Aube in Northeastern France. He studied at the Paris Conservatory where his teachers were Augustin Savard, Théodore Dubois, Léo Delibes and Louis-Albert Bourgault-Decoudray. He had further compositional training by Ernest Guiraud but went on to specialize in musical history and made his career as a teacher at various schools culmininating in a professorship at the Paris Conservatory. His catalogue was not extensive but included opera, chamber and piano music and a few other less significant orchestral pieces beyond the Symphonies such as the "Poème du Rhône."

Symphony No. 1 in A major, Op. 18 (1919)

James Lockhart/Rhenish Philharmonic Orchestra
( + Symphony No. 2 and Poème du Rhône)
MARCO POLO 8.223507 (1993)

Emmanuel Villaume/Slovene Philharmonic Orchestra
( + Symphony No. 2 and Ouverture pour un Conte Gai)
TIMPANI 1C1189 (2011)

Symphony No. 2 in A, Op. 25 "Bretonne" (1930-1)

Jean Doussard/Orchestre Philharmonique de l'ORTF
( + Poulenc: 2 Piano Concerto)
BARCLAY INÉDITS 995 035 (LP) (1973)

James Lockhart/Rhenish Philharmonic Orchestra
( + Symphony No. 1 and Poème du Rhône)
MARCO POLO 8.223507 (1993)

Emmanuel Villaume/Slovene Philharmonic Orchestra
( + Symphony No. 1 and Ouverture pour un Conte Gai)
TIMPANI 1C1189 (2011)

JOSEPH GUY ROPARTZ
(1864-1955)

Born in Guincamp, Côtes-du-Nord, Brittany. He studied with Théodore Dubois and Jules Massenet at the Paris Conservatory and had lessons in organ and composition with César Franck who was his main influence. He made his living as a conductor and became the director of the Academy of Nancy and later the Strasbourg Conservatory. He wrote an opera, ballets, incidental music and a vast body of works for orchestra, chamber groups, solo instruments and voice. Some of his other orchestral works are the symphonic poems "La Cloche des Morts," "Les Landes," "La Chasse de Prince Arthur," the suite "Dimanche Breton" and a Concerto for Orchestra.

Symphony No. 1 in A minor "Sur un Choral Breton" (1895)

Sebastian Lang-Lessing/Orchestre Symphonique et Lyrique de Nancy
( + Symphony No. 4)
TIMPANI 1C1093 (2005)

Symphony No. 2 in F minor (1900)

Sebastian Lang-Lessing/Orchestre Symphonique et Lyrique de Nancy
( + Symphony No. 5)
TIMPANI 1C1097 (2006)

Symphony No. 3 in E major for Soloists, Choir and Orchestra (1906)

Michel Plasson/Françoise Pollet (soprano)/ Nathalie Stutzmann (mezzo)/Thierry Dran (tenor)/Frédéric Vassar (Bass)/Orféon Donostiarra/Orchestre du Capitole de Toulouse
EMI CDC 7 47558-2 (1985)

Symphony No. 4 in C major (1910)

Sebastian Lang-Lessing/Orchestre Symphonique et Lyrique de Nancy
( + Symphony No. 1)
TIMPANI 1C1093 (2005)

Symphony No. 5 in G major (1944)

Sebastian Lang-Lessing/Orchestre Symphonique et Lyrique de Nancy
( + Symphony No. 2)
TIMPANI 1C1097 (2006)

Petite Symphonie in E flat major (1943)

Pascal Verrot/Orchestre de Bretagne
( + Pastorales, Sons de Cloches, Sérenade Champêtre and Divertimento)
TIMPANI 1C1034 (1995)

PAUL DUKAS
(1865-1935)

Born in Paris. He attended the Paris Conservatory and was taught harmony by Théodore Dubois and composition by Ernest Guiraud. He worked as a music critic before securing a teaching position at the Paris Conservatory where he taught composition to Maurice Duruflé and Olivier Messiaen among many others. He did not compose prolifically and was extremely fastidious about which of his works he allowed to appear. His opera "Ariane et Barbe-Bleue" and ballet "La Péri" and especially his symphonic scherzo "L'Apprenti Sorcier" have kept his name alive. His remaining orchestral works are the Symphony and 3 Concert Overtures. It is believed that he had completed a Second Symphony but destroyed it shortly before his death.

Symphony in C major (1896)

Fabrice Bollon/Württemberg Philharmonic Orchestra
( + Goetz de Berlichingen Overture and Le Roi Lear Overture)
STERLING CDS-1074-2 (2008)

Lawrence Foster/ Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo
( + Fauré: Pelléas et Mélisande)
CLAVES CD50-9102 (1991)

Jean Fournet/Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra
( + The Sorcerer's Apprentice, La Péri and Fanfare for La Péri)
REGIS RRC1344 (2011)
(original CD release:DENON CO 75284) (1993)

Armin Jordan/Orchestre de la Suisse Romande
( + Fanfare to La Péri, La Péri and The Sorcerer's Apprentice)
APEX 0927 48725-2 (2006)
(original LP release: ERATO NUM 75175) (1985)

Jesús López Cobos/Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra
( + Fanfare to La Péri, La Péri and The Sorcerer's Apprentice)
TELARC CD-80515 (1995)

Jean Martinon/Orchestre National de l'ORTF
( + Ariane Et Barbe-Bleue: Prelude to Act III, La Péri and The Sorcerer's Apprentice)
EMI STUDIO CDM 7 63160-2 (1989)
(original LP release: HMV ASD 2953) (1975)

Laurent Petitgirard/Ljubljana Radio Symphony Orchestra
( + Fanfare to La Péri, La Péri and The Sorcerer's Apprentice)
AMG OSF 49007 (1992)

George Sebastian/Orchestre de l'Association des Concerts Colonne
NIXA ULP 9102/URANIA C-7102 (LP) (1953)

Leonard Slatkin/Orchestre National de l'ORTF
( + Fanfare to La Péri, La Péri and The Sorcerer's Apprentice)
RCA VICTOR RED SEAL 0902668802-2 (1999)

Yan Pascal Tortelier/BBC Philharmonic Orchestra
( + Polyeucte Overture)
CHANDOS CHAN 9225 (1994)

Weller, Walter/London Philharmonic Orchestra
( + The Sorcerer's Apprentice)
DECCA SXL 6770/LONDON CS 6995 (LP) (1975)

ALBÉRIC MAGNARD
(1865-1914)

Born in Paris to a wealthy literary family. He studied at the Paris Conservatory under Théodore Dubois and went to the classes of Jules Massenet but more significantly he was tutored in fugue and composition by Vincent d'Indy. In a brief life, shortened by a violent death during World War I, Magnard composed 3 operas, chamber and instrumental works and a handful of other orchestral works in addition to the 4 Symphonies. These are a "Suite dans le Style Ancien," "Overture," "Hymne à la Justice," "Hymn à Venus" and "Chant Funèbre."

Symphony No. 1 in C minor, Op. 4 (1890)

Jean Yves Ossonce/BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
( + Symphonies Nos. 2, 3 and 4)
HYPERION DYAD CDD22068 (2 CDs) (2009)
(original CD release: HYPERION CDA67030) (1998)

Michel Plasson/Orchestre du Capitole de Toulouse
( + Symphonies Nos. 2, 3 and 4, Chant Funèbre and Hymne à la Justice)
EMI 572364-2 (3 CDs) (1998)
(original CD release: EMI CDC 7 54015-2) (1990)

Thomas Sanderling/Malmö Symphony Orchestra
( + Symphony No. 3)
BIS CD-927 (1999)

Symphony No. 2 In E, Op. 6 (1893)

Jean Yves Ossonce/BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
( + Symphonies Nos. 1, 3 and 4)
HYPERION DYAD CDD22068 (2 CDs) (2009)
(original CD release: HYPERION CDA67030) (1998)

Michel Plasson/Orchestre du Capitole de Toulouse
( + Symphonies Nos. 1, 3 and 4, Chant Funèbre and Hymne à la Justice)
EMI 572364-2 (3 CDs) (1998)
(original CD release: EMI CDC 749080-2) (1988)

Thomas Sanderling/Malmö Symphony Orchestra
( + Symphony No. 4)
BIS CD-928 (2000)

Symphony No. 3 in B-flat minor, Op. 11 (1896)

Ernest Ansermet/Orchestre de la Suisse Romande
( + Liszt: Faust Symphony)
DECCA ELOQUENCE 442999-2 (2 CDs) (2008)
(original LP release: DECCA SXL 6395/LONDON CS 6615) (1969)

Ernest Ansermaet/Orchestre de la Suisse Romande (rec. 1968)
( + Symphonie sur un Chant Montagnard Français )
CASCAVELLE VEL 3128 (2010)

Jean Yves Ossonce/BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
( + Symphonies Nos. 1, 2 and 4)
HYPERION DYAD CDD22068 (2 CDs) (2009)
(original CD release: HYPERION CDA67040) (1998)

Michel Plasson/Orchestre du Capitole de Toulouse
( + Symphonies Nos. 1, 2 and 4, Chant Funèbre and Hymne à la Justice)
EMI 572364-2 (3 CDs) (1998)
(original CD release: EMI CDC 7 54015-2) (1990)

Thomas Sanderling/Malmö Symphony Orchestra
( + Symphony No. 1)
BIS CD-927 (1999)

Symphony No. 4 in C-sharp minor, Op. 21 (1913)

Jean Yves Ossonce/BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
( + Symphonies Nos. 1, 2 and 3 )
HYPERION DYAD CDD22068 (2 CDs) (2009)
(original CD release: HYPERION CDA67040) (1998)

Michel Plasson/Orchestre du Capitole de Toulouse
( + Symphonies Nos. 1, 2 and 3, Chant Funèbre and Hymne à la Justice)
EMI 572364-2 (3 CDs) (1998)
(original LP release: HMV ED 27 0150-1) (1983)

Thomas Sanderling/Malmö Symphony Orchestra
( + Symphony No. 2)
BIS CD-928 (2000)

CHARLES KOECHLIN
(1867-1950)

Born in Paris. At the Paris Conservatory his teachers were André Gédalge, Jules Massenet and Gabriel Fauré. He pursued multiple careers as composer, teacher and writer. With Maurice Ravel and Florent Schmitt he founded the Société Musicale Indépendente whose purpose was to promote the music of contemporary composers. He composed prolifically over his long life in various genres but his catalogue is heavily weighted with orchestral and chamber music. He wrote 2 numbered Symphonies (1911-16, 1943-4) and a "Symphonie d'Hymnes" (1936) that were based on earlier material and there is also an unfinished Symphony in A minor from the 1890's but his orchestral masterpiece is his series of symphonic poems based on Kipling's "Jungle Books."

The Seven Stars Symphony, Op. 132 (1933)

James Judd/Orchestra/ Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin
( + The Jungle Book, L'Andalouse dans Barcelone and 4 Interludes)
RCA RED SEAL 7432184596-2 (2 CDs) (2001)
(original CD release: RCA VICTOR 09026-68146-2) (1996)

Karel Melk/Eggenburg Symphony Orchestra
(? pseudonyms for Norman Del Mar/ London Philharmonic Orchestra)
ARIES LP-1610 (c. 1970)

Alexandre Myrat/Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo
( + Ballade)
EMI CLASSICS CDM 7 64369-2 (1992)
(original LP release: HMV ASD 173139-1/ANGEL DS-37940) (1983)

ALBERT ROUSSEL
(1869-1937)

Born in Toucoing, Département du Nord. After a naval career he began the serious study of music in his mid-twenties with Eugène Gigout before entering the Schola Cantorum for instruction by Vincent d'Indy who gave him a job on the staff. As instructor of counterpoint some of his pupils were Erik Satie, Paul Le Flem and Edgard Varèse. For the theatre his most important works are the opera "Padmâvatî," the ballets "Bacchus et Ariane, " "Le Festin de l'Araignée" and "Aenéas" and the incidental music to "Le Marchand de Sable qui Passe" while his other orchestral pieces include a Piano Concerto, Cello Concerto, Suite in F major, Concerto for Orchestra and "Rapsodie Flamande."

Symphony No. 1 in D minor, Op. 7 "Le Poème de la Forêt" (1904-6)

Fabrice Bollon/HET Symphony Orchestra Vlaanderen
( + Piano Concerto and Pour une Fête de Printemps)
CYPRÈS CYP 2620 (1998)

Stéphane Denève/Royal Scottish National Orchestra
( + Resurrection and Le Marchand de Sable qui Passe)
NAXOS 8.570323 (2009)

Charles Dutoit/Orchestre National de France
( + Symphony No. 3)
ERATO 229245253-2/ECD 88225 (1987)

Christoph Eschenbach/Orchestre de Paris
( + Symphony No. 4)
ONDINE ODE 1092-2 (2007)

Marek Janowski/Orchestre Philharmonique de l'ORTF
( + Symphonies Nos. 2, 3 and 4)
RCA VICTOR RED SEAL 09026-62511-2 (2 CDs) (1996)

Leif Segerstam/Rheinland-Pfalz State Philharmonic
( + Rapsodie Flamande and Ressurection)
CYBELIA CY 801 DS 813 (1986)

Symphony No. 2 in B-flat major, Op. 23 (1919-21)

Stéphane Denève/Royal Scottish National Orchestra
( + Suite in F and Pour une Fête de Printemps)
NAXOS 8.570529 (2008)

Pierre Dervaux/Orchestre des Concerts Colonne
( + Symphonies Nos. 3 and 4, Bacchus et Ariane and Le Festin de l'Araignée)
EMI CLASSICS 3 71487- 2 (2 CDs) (2007)
(original LP release: EMI (France) 2C069 73096) (1983)

Charles Dutoit/Orchestre National de France
( + Symphony No. 4)
ERATO 229245254-2/ECD 88226 (1987)

Christoph Eschenbach/Orchestre de Paris
( + Bacchus et Ariane)
ONDINE ODE 1065-2 (2006)

Marek Janowski/Orchestre Philharmonique de l'ORTF
( + Symphonies Nos. 1, 3 and 4)
RCA VICTOR RED SEAL 09026-62511-2 (2 CDs) (1996)

Jean Martinon/Orchestre National de l'ORTF
( + Le Festin de l'Araignée)
ERATO 256460577-2 (2003)
(original LP release: ERATO STU 70569) (1969)

Symphony No. 3 in G minor, Op. 42 (1929-30)

Ernest Ansermet/Orchestre de la Suisse Romande
( + Symphony No. 4 and Le Festin de l'Araignée)
DECCA OVATION 433719-2 (1992)
(original LP release: DECCA LXT 5234/LONDON LL 1495) (1957)

Roberto Benzi/Orchestre de Bordeaux Aquitaine
( + Bacchus et Ariane: Suite No. 2)
FORLANE UM 6529 (LP) (1985)

Leonard Bernstein/New York Philharmonic
( + Milhaud: Les Choéphores, Honegger: Rugby and Pacific 231)
SONY MASTERWORKS HERITAGE MHK 62352 (1996)
(original LP release: COLUMBIA MS-6582) (1964)

Leonard Bernstein/ORTF National Orchestra (rec. 1981)
( + Franck: Symphony in D minor)
DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON MASTERS 445512-2 (1995)

Ernest Borsamsky/Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra
( + Bacchus et Ariane)
URANIA URLP 7037 (LP) (1952)

Ernest Bour/Sinfonieorchester des Südwestfunks (rec. 1977)
( + Symphony No. 4 and Suite in F)
AUVIDIS ASTRÉE E7804 (1990)
(original LP release: SWF 55) (1977)

Pierre Boulez/New York Philharmonic
( + Ravel: Trois poèmes de Stéphane Mallarmé, Chansons Madécasses, Don Quichotte à Dulcinée and Cinq Melodies Populaires Grecques)
SONY CLASSICAL SMK 64107 (1995)
(original LP release: COLUMBIA M-34201) (1976)

André Cluytens/Orchestre de la Société du Conservatoire Paris
( + Symphony No. 4, Sinfonietta, Piano Concerto, Bacchus et Ariane, Le Festin de l'Araignée, Pour une Fête de Printemps and Résurrection)
EMI CLASSICS 687644-2 (2 CDs) (2010)
(original LP release: COLUMBIA SAX 5251/ANGEL S-36327) (1966)

Stéphane Denève/Royal Scottish National Orchestra
( + Bacchus et Ariane)
NAXOS 8.570245 (2007)

Charles Dutoit/Orchestre National de France
( + Symphony No. 1)
ERATO 2292452532 ECD 88225 (1987)

Christoph Eschenbach/Orchestre de Paris
( + Le Festin de l'Araignée)
ONDINE ODE 1107-2 (2008)

Marek Janowski/Orchestre Philharmonique de l'ORTF
( + Symphonies Nos. 1, 2 and 4)
RCA VICTOR RED SEAL 09026-62511-2 (2 CDs) (1996)

Neeme Järvi/Detroit Symphony Orchestra
( + Symphony No. 4, Sinfonietta and Bacchus et Ariane: Suite No. 2)
CHANDOS CLASSICS CHAN 10217X (2004)
(original CD release: CHANDOS CHAN 8996) (1991)

Raymond Leppard/BBC Northern Symphony Orchestra (rec. 1976)
( + Debussy: Images and Fauré: Ballade)
CARLTON BBC RADIO CLASSICS 156569136-2 (1995)

Charles Munch/Chicago Symphony Orchestra (rec. 1967)
(included in collection: "Chicago Symphony Orchestra in the Twentieth Century")
CHICAGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA CSOCD 0010 (10 CDs) (2000)

Charles Munch/Orchestre des Concerts Lamoureux
( + Symphony No. 4)
ELATUS 0927-46730-2 ( 2002)
(original LP release: ERATO STE 50256/EPIC BC-1318) (1966)

Charles Munch/Orchestre National de lO.R.T.F. (rec. 1964)
( + Symphony No. 4 and Bacchus et Ariane)
DISQUES MONTAIGNE MUN 2041 (1988)

Vaclav Neumann/Brno State Philharmonic Orchestra
( + Le Festin de l'Araignée)
SUPRAPHON 110681-2) (1993)
(original LP release: SUPRAPHON SUAST 50482) (1966)

Symphony No. 4 in A major, Op. 53 (1934)

Ernest Ansermet/Orchestre de la Suisse Romande
( + Symphony No. 3 and Le Festin de l'Araignée)
DECCA OVATION 433719-2 (1992)
(original LP release: DECCA LXT 5234/LONDON LL 1495) (1957)

Ernest Bour/Sinfonieorchester des Südwestfunks (rec. 1967)
( + Symphony No. 3 and Suite in F)
AUVIDIS ASTRÉE E7804 (1990)

André Cluytens/Orchestre de la Société du Conservatoire Paris
( + Symphony No. 3, Sinfonietta, Piano Concerto, Bacchus et Ariane, Le Festin de l'Araignée, Pour une Fête de Printemps and Résurrection)
EMI CLASSICS 687644-2 (2 CDs) (2010)
(original LP release: COLUMBIA SAX 5251/ANGEL S-36327) (1966)

Stephane Denève/Royal Scottish National Orchestra
( + Flemish Rhapsody, Petite Suite and Sinfonietta)
NAXOS 8.572135 (2010)

Charles Dutoit/Orchestre National de France
( + Symphony No. 2)
ERATO 229245254-2 ECD 88226 (1987)

Christoph Eschenbach/Orchestre de Paris
( + Symphony No. 1)
ONDINE ODE 1092-2 (2007)

Alexander Gauk/Moscow Television and Radio Symphony Orchestra (rec. 1956)
(included in collection: "Historical Russian Archives - Alexander Gauk Edition 2)
BRILLIANT CLASSICS 9146 (10 CDs) (2010)

Marek Janowski/Orchestre Philharmonique de l'ORTF
( + Symphonies Nos. 1, 2 and 3)
RCA VICTOR RED SEAL 09026-62511-2 (2 CDs) (1996)

Neeme Järvi/Detroit Symphony Orchestra
( + Symphony No. 3, Sinfonietta and Bacchus et Ariane: Suite No. 2)
CHANDOS CLASSICS CHAN 10217X (2004)
(original CD release: CHANDOS CHAN 9072) (1992)

Herbert von Karajan/Philharmonia Orchestra (rec. 1949)
( + Balakirev: Symphony No. 1)
EMI CLASSICS 566595-2 (1998)
(original LP release: HMV XLP 60003) (1981)

Charles Munch/Orchestre des Concerts Lamoureux
( + Symphony No. 3)
ELATUS 0927-46730-2 ( 2002)
(original LP release: ERATO STE 50256/EPIC BC-1318) (1966)

Charles Munch/Orchestre National de lO.R.T.F. (rec. 1966)
( + Symphony No. 3 and Bacchus et Ariane)
DISQUES MONTAIGNE MUN 2041 (1988)

Hermann Scherchen/Orchestre National de France (rec. 1953)
( + Haydn: Symphony No. 104, Beethoven: Symphony No. 2 and Mozart: Flute and Harp Concerto)
TAHRA 526-527 (2 CDs) (2004)

Georges Tzipine/Orchestre des Concerts Lamoureux
( + Suite in F)
COLUMBIA (France) FCX 413/CAPITOL CTL 7003 (LP) (1953 )

Pascal Verrot//Orchestre Symphonique du Québec
( + Le Festin de l'Araignée, Concert and Sinfonietta)
ANALEKTA AN 2 9911 (1993)

Sinfonietta for String Orchestra, Op. 52 (1934)

John Bath/Hastings Symphony Orchestra
( + Haydn: L"Isola Disabitata Overture and Delius: On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring)
ALLEGRO 4053 (LP) (c. 1955)

Alexander Brott/McGill Chamber Orchestra
( + Benda: Flute Concerto amd J.S. Bach: Suite No. 3 - Aria)
JANUS JAS-19012 (LP) (c. 1965)

Guido Cantelli/NBC Symphony Orchestra (rec. 1951)
( + Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition, Wagner: A Faust Overture, Siegfried's Rhine Journey, Berlioz: Damnation of Faust - Rakoczy March and Vivaldi: Concerto, op.3 No. 8)
GUILD HISTORICAL GHCD 2328 (2008)

André Cluytens/Orchestre de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire
( + Symphonies Nos. 3 and 4, Piano Concerto, Bacchus et Ariane, Le Festin de l'Araignée, Pour une Fête de Printemps and Résurrection)
EMI CLASSICS 687644-2 (2 CDs) (2010)
(original LP release: COLUMBIA SAX 2562/ANGEL S-36225) (1965)

Sergiu Comissiona/Ramat-Gan Chamber Orchestra
( + Stravinsky: Apollon Musagete)
CONCERT HALL SMSC 2295 (LP) (1962)

Stephane Denève/Royal Scottish National Orchestra
( + Flemish Rhapsody, Petite Suite and Symphony No. 4)
NAXOS 8.572135 (2010)

Aviva Einhorn/English Chamber Orchestra
( + Debussy: Petite Suite, Satie: Gymnopédies Nos. 1 and 3, Gnossienne No. 3 and . Poulenc: Deux Marches et un Intermède)
AURORA AUR 5065 (1988)
(original LP release: HNH RECORDS HNH 4027) (1977)

Philippe Entremont/Netherlands Chamber Orchestra
( + Milhaud: La création du monde, Honegger: Symphony No. 2 and Ibert: Divertissement)
VANGUARD 99083 (1995)

Louis De Froment/Paris String Orchestra
( + The Sandman and Bartók: Rumanian Folk Dances)
EDITIONS PHONOGRAPHIQUE PARISIENNES APG 115 (LP) (c. 1955)

I Musici
( + Frank Martin: Etudes for Strings, Nielsen: Little Suite, Hindemith: Trauermusik, Britten: Simple Symphony and Bartók: Romanian Folkdances)
PHILIPS SILVERLINE 426669-2 (1990)
(original LP release: PHILIPS SABL 216/PHILIPS PHS 900-198 (1962)

Neeme Järvi/Detroit Symphony Orchestra
( + Symphonies Nos. 3 and 4 and Bacchus et Ariane: Suite No. 2)
CHANDOS CLASSICS CHAN 10217X (2004)
(original CD release: CHANDOS CHAN 9072) (1992)

Paavo Järvi/Tapiola Sinfonietta
( + Poulenc: Sinfonietta, Jolivet: Flute Concerto and Ibert: Divertissement)
BIS CD-630 (1994)

Paul Manley/Primavera Chamber Orchestra
( + Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on Greensleeves, Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis, Elgar: Serenade for Strings, Sospiri and Debussy: Danses Sacrée et Profane)
COLLINS QUEST 3006-2 (1992)

Bruno Membrey/Walloon Flanders Instrumental Ensemble
( + Concerto for Small Orchestra, Cello Concertino and Testament de la Tante Caroline: Overture)
CYBELIA CY 817 (1988 )

Georges Octors/Orchestre Royal de Chambre de Wallonie
( + Honegger: Symphony No. 2, Bartók : Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta, Martin: Double Concerto for 2 String Orchestras, Piano and Timpani, Hindemith: The Four Temperaments and R.Strauss:
Metamorphosen)
CYPRÈS CYP 2607 (2 CDs) (1995)

Jean-François Paillard/Orchestre Jean-François Paillard
( + Honegger: Symphony No. 2 and Schmitt: Janiana Symphony)
ERATO STU 70280/MUSICAL HERITAGE SOCIETY MHS 805 (LP) (1967)

Karl Ristenpart/Saar Chamber Orchestra
( + Sérénade, Divertimento and Wind Quintet)
DISCOPHILES FRANÇAIS DF 148 (LP) (c. 1955)

Paul Sacher/Orchestre des Concerts Lamoureux
( + Petite Suite, Piano Concerto and Concerto for Small Orchestra)
PHILIPS A 00251L/EPIC LC-3129 (LP) (1955)

I Solisti di Zagreb
( + Grieg: Holberg Suite, Janacek: Suite for Strings and Martin·: Sextet)
IMP PCD 1004 (1992)

Paul Tortelier/London Chamber Orchestra
( + Martin: Petite Symphonie Concertante and Tortelier: Offrande)
UNICORN UNS 233 (LP) (1971)

Georges Tzipine/Orchestre de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire Paris
( + Psaume LXXX, Le Bardit des Francs and Pertite Suite)
COLUMBIA (France) FCX 413 (LP) (1955)

Pascal Verrot//Orchestre Symphonique du Québec
( + Le Festin de l'Araignée, Concert and Symphony No. 4)
ANALEKTA FLEUR DE LYS FL 2 3052 (1993)

Oldrich Vlček/Prague Virtuosi
( + Grieg: Holberg Suite, Elgar: Serenade for Strings and Respighi: Ancient Airs and Dances)
DISCOVER INTERNATIONAL DICD 920236 (1994)

FLORENT SCHMITT
(1870-1958)

Born in Blâmont, Meurthe-et-Moselle, Lorraine. After initial studies at the Nancy Conservatory, he entered the Paris Conservatory where his teachers were Théodore Dubois, Albert Lavignac, André Gédalge, Jules Massenet and Gabiel Fauré, the last two for composition. He was an academic (head of the Lyons Conservatory) and influential music critic but most of all a very prolific composer who produced music to the very end of his long life. His enormous catalogue does include some stage music notably ballets and incidental music but most of his work is for orchestra, chamber groups, solo instruments and voices. His most popular works are the suite from the ballet "La Tragédie de Salomé" and "Psaume XLVII" for Soprano, Chorus and Orchestra.

Symphonie Concertante for Piano and Orchestra, Op. 82 (1928-31)

Daniel Robertson/Huseyin Sermet (piano)/Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo
( + Rêves and Soirs)
AUVIDIS VALOIS V 4687 (1994)

Janiana Symphony for Strings, Op. 101 (1941)

Jean-François Paillard/Orchestre Jean-François Paillard
( + La Tragédie de Salomé, Psalm 47, Suite en Rocaille and Lied et Scherzo )
ERATO ULTIMA 8573 85636-2 (2 CDs) (2002)
(original LP release: ERATO STU 70280/MUSICAL HERITAGE SOCIETY MHS 805) (1967)

Symphony No. 2, Op. 137 (1958)

Charles Munch/Orchestre National de l'ORTF (rec. 1958)
( + Roussel: Suite in F and Debussy: Fantaisie)
EUROMUSES EURM 2009 (1991)

Leif Segerstam/Rhineland-Pfalz Philharmonic
( + Rêves, Danse d'Abisag and Haybeysee)
MARCO POLO 8.223689 (1994)

CHARLES TOURNEMIRE
(1870-1939)

Born in Bordeaux. He began his career as an organist at the age of 11. At the Paris Conservatory, his composition teachers were Charles-Marie Widor and César Franck and he also had lessons from Vincent d'Indy at the Schola Cantorum. He became organist at St. Clotilde in Paris, toured Europe as a recitalist and taught at the Paris Conservatory. He composed a vast amount of music ranging from operas to solo pieces for organ and piano. The 8 Symphonies constitute most of his orchestral output but there are also several other works including a "Poème" for Organ and Orchestra, "La Légende de Tristan et Iseult," "Triptyque" and "Trilogie." His name has mostly been kept alive by his liturgical masterpiece for his particular instrument, "L'Orgue Mystique."

Symphony No. 1 in A major, Op. 18 "Romantique" (1900)

Antonio de Almeida/Moscow Symphony Orchestra
( + Symphony No. 5)
MARCO POLO 8.223476 (1994)

Symphony No. 2 in B flat major, Op. 36 "Ouessant" (1908-9)

Antonio de Almeida/Moscow Symphony Orchestra
( + Symphony No. 4)
MARCO POLO 8.223478 (1994)

Symphony No. 3 in D major, Op. 43 "Moscow 1913" (1912-3)

Antonio de Almeida/Moscow Symphony Orchestra
( + Symphony No. 8)
MARCO POLO 8.223808 (1995)

Pierre Bartholomée/Orchestre Philharmonique de Liège de la Communauté Française
( + Symphony No. 7)
ADDA ADD 581202-3 (2 CDs) (1992)

Symphony No. 4, Op. 44 "Pages Symphoniques" (1912-3)

Antonio de Almeida/Moscow Symphony Orchestra
( + Symphony No. 2)
MARCO POLO 8.223478 (1994)

Symphony No. 5 in F minor, Op. 47 (1913-4)

Antonio de Almeida/Moscow Symphony Orchestra
( + Symphony No. 1)
MARCO POLO 8.223476 (1994)

Pierre Bartholomée/Orchestre Philharmonique de Liège de la Communauté Française
( + Symphony No. 8)
AUVIDIS VALOIS V 4793 (1998)

Symphony No. 6 for Tenor, Choir, Organ and Orchestra, Op. 48 (1915-8)

Pierre Bartholomée/Daniel Galvez-Vallejo (tenor)/Luc Ponet (organ)/Polyphonia Chorus/Namur Symphonic Chorus/Orchestre Philharmonique de Liège
AUVIDIS VALOIS V 4757 (2 CDs) (1995)

Symphony No. 7, Op. 49 "Les Danses de la Vie" ( 1918-22)

Antonio de Almeida/Moscow Symphony Orchestra
( + Symphony No. 8)
MARCO POLO 8.223877-78 (2 CDs) (1996)

Pierre Bartholomée/Orchestre Philharmonique de Liège de la Communauté Française
( + Symphony No. 3)
ADDA ADD 581202-3 (2 CDs) ( 1992)

Symphony No. 8, Op. 51 "Le Triomphe de la Mort" (1920-4)

Antonio de Almeida/Moscow Symphony Orchestra
( + Symphony No. 3)
MARCO POLO 8.223808 (1995)

Pierre Bartholomée/Orchestre Philharmonique de Liège de la Communauté Française
( + Symphony No. 5)
AUVIDIS VALOIS V 4793 (1998)

LOUIS VIERNE
(1870-1937)

Born in Poitiers. He was blind at birth but surgery as a child restored some of his sight. He received organ lessons from César Franck and then studied under Charles-Marie Widor at the Paris Conservatory and subsequently becoming his assistant at Saint-Sulpice. He later became organist at Notre Dame de Paris a post he held for the rest of his life. His catalogue contains works for orchestra, chamber groups, solo organ and piano and voice. His 6 Organ Symphonies are major contributions to that repertoire while his other orchestral works include the symphonic poem "Les Djinns" and a " Pièce Symphonique" for Organ and Orchestra.

Symphony in A minor, Op. 24 (1908)

Pierre Bartholomée/Orchestre Philharmonique de Liège
( + Poème for Piano and Orchestra)
TIMPANI 1C1127 (2008)
(original CD release: TIMPANI 1C1036) (1996)

Georges Tzipine/Orchestre Philharmonique de l'ORTF
( + Spleens et Détresses)
BARCLAY INÉDITS 995 002 (LP) (1970)

MAURICE RAVEL
(1875-1937)

Born in Ciboure, Basse-Pyrenées. He studied piano as a child and later was trained at the Paris Conservatory initially by Eugène Anthiôme and Charles de Bériot but later on more importantly in counterpoint by André Gédalge and composition by Gabriel Fauré. His musical career was devoted almost exclusively to composition and he excelled at whatever genre he worked in from opera and ballet to wonderful creations for orchestra, instrumental combinations, voice and, especially, the piano. Ravel wrote no symphonies but the ballet "Daphnis et Chloé" is listed here because Ravel called it a "Symphonie Choréographique." His larger orchestral works written for the concert hall are his Piano Concerto in G, Piano Concerto in D for the Left Hand, Rapsodie Espagnole and Boléro. Most of his other famous orchestral pieces are Ravel's own orchestrations of his piano works. Though his music is markedly different from that of Debussy, the two are considered the twin giants of French musical impressionism.

Daphnis et Chloé (Ballet in 3 Movements - Symphonie Choréographique) (1909-12)
(recordings of the complete score only)

Claudio Abbado/London Symphony Chorus/London Symphony Orchestra
( + Valses Nobles et Sentimentales)
DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON 469 354-2 (2002)
original CD release: DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON 427 679-2) (1989)

Ernest Ansermet/The Motet Choir of Geneva/Orchestre de la Suisse Romande
DECCA LXT.2775/LONDON LL-693 (LP) (1953)

Ernest Ansermet/Lausanne Radio Romande Chorus/Orchestre de la Suisse Romande (1966)
( + Boléro, Rapsodie Espagnole, La Valse, Ma Mère l'Oye, Pavane Pour une Infante Défunte, Alborada del Gracioso and Valses Nobles et Sentimentales)
DECCA DOUBLE DECCA 468564-2 (2 CDs) (2002)
(original LP release: DECCA SXL 6204/LONDON CS 6456) (1966)

Leonard Bernstein /Schola Cantorum Chorus/New York Philharmonic
( + Shéhérazade)
SONY CLASSICAL ROYAL BERNSTEIN EDITION SMK 47604 (1993)
(original LP release: COLUMBIA MS-6260) (1961)

Pierre Boulez/Camerata Singers/New York Philharmonic
CBS MK 33523 (1986)
(original LP release: CBS S 72975/COLUMBIA M33523) (1975)

Pierre Boulez/Rundfunkchor Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
( + La Valse)
DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON 447057-2 (1995)

Riccardo Chailly/Netherlands Radio Choir/Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
( + Debussy: Khamma)
DECCA 443934-2 (1995)

Myung-Whun Chung /Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France
DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON 4775706 (2006)

André Cluytens/Choeurs René Duclos/Orchestre de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire
( + Franck: Psyché)
TESTAMENT SBT 1128 (1998)
(original LP release: COLUMBIA 33CX 1832/ANGEL (1963)

Antal Dorati/Macalester College Choir of St. Paul/Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
MERCURY MG 50040 (LP) (1955)

Charles Dutoit/Montreal Symphony Orchestra Chorus/Montreal Symphony Orchestra
( + La Valse and Pavane Pour une Infante Défunte)
DECCA LEGENDS 458605-2 (1999)
(original LP release: DECCA SXDL 7526/LONDON LDR5 71028) (1981)

Rafael Frühbeck De Burgos/The Ambrosian Singers/New Philharmonia Orchestra
HMV ASD 2355/ANGEL S-36471 (LP) (1968)

Valery Gergiev/London Symphony Chorus/London Symphony Orchestra
( + Boléro and Pavane Pour une Infante Défunte)
LSO LIVE LSO0693 (2010)

Michael Gielen/Europa Chor Akademie/SWR Symphony Orchestra
ARTE NOVA 74321 63641-2 (1999)

Bernard Haitink/Tanglewood Festival Chorus/Boston Symphony Orchestra
PHILIPS 426260-2 (1990)

Bernard Haitink/Chicago Symphony Chorus /Chicago Symphony Orchestra
( + Poulenc: Gloria)
CSO RESOUND CSOR 901906 (2009)

Eliahu Inbal/Choeur et Orchestre National de France
DENON CO-1796 (1987)

Desiré-Émile Inghelbrecht/Choeurs de l' Orchestre de la Radiodiffusion Francaise/Orchestre du Théâtre des Champs-Élysées
( + Ma Mère l'Oye - Suite)
TESTAMENT SBT 1264 (2002)
(original LP release: DUCRETET THOMSON DTL 93048) (c. 1955)

Kiril Kondrashin/Netherlands Chamber Choir and Netherlands Vocal Ensemble/Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
( + Casella: Paganiniana)
PHILIPS 438281-2 (1993)
(original LP release: PHILIPS 412 071-1) (1984)

Yakov Kreizberg/Berlin Radio Chorus/Monte Carlo Philharmonic Orchestra
( + Debussy: Prélude à l'Après-midi d'un Faune)
OPMC CLASSICS OPMC002 (2011)

Yoel Levi/Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Chorus/Atlanta Symphony Orchestra
( + Pavane pour une Infante Défunte)
TELARC CD-80352 (1994)

James Levine/Konzertvereinigung Wiener Staatsopernchor/Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON 415 360-2 (1985)

Lorin Maazel/Cleveland Orchestra Chorus/Cleveland Orchestra
( + Fauré: Pélleas et Mélisande)
BELART 461343-2 (1997)
(original LP release: DECCA SXL 6703/LONDON CS 6898) (1974)

Jun Markl/MDR Rundfunkchor, Leipzig/Orchestre National de Lyon
( + Shéhérazade - Ouverture de Féerie)
NAXOS 8.570992 (2009)

Jean Martinon/Théâtre National de l'Opéra Chorus/Orchestre de Paris
( + Boléro, Ouverture de Féerie - Shéhérazade, Rapsodie Espagnole, Menuet Antique, La Valse, Ma Mère l'Oye, Le Tombeau de Couperin, Pavane Pour une Infante Défunte, Alborada del Gracioso, Une Barque sur l'Océan and Valses Nobles et Sentimentales)
EMI TRIPLES 500892-2 (3 CDs) (2007)
(original release: HMV SLS 5016 {5 LPs}/ANGEL S-37148) (1975 )

Eduardo Mata/ Dallas Symphony Chorus/Dallas Symphony Orchestra
CLASSICAL NAVIGATOR 7432129257-2
(original LP release: RCA RED SEAL RL 13458/RCA RED SEAL ARC1-3458) (1979)

Pierre Monteux/Royal Opera House Chorus/London Symphony Orchestra
( + Rapsodie Espagnole and Pavane Pour une Infante Défunte)
DECCA THE ORIGINALS 4757525 (2006)
(original LP release: DECCA SXL 2164/LONDON CS 6147) (1959)

Pierre Monteux/Toonkunstkoor Amsterdam/Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra (rec. 1955)
( + Shéhérazade)
MUSIC AND ARTS CD 812 (1996)

Charles Munch/New England Conservatory Chorus and Alumni Chorus/Boston Symphony Orchestra (rec. 1955)
( Roussel: Bacchus et Ariane: Suite No. 2)
RCA LIVING STEREO 09026-61846-2 (1993)
(original LP release: RCA VICTOR LM-1893) (1955) (LSC-1893, 1961)

Charles Munch/New England Conservatory Chorus/Boston Symphony
RCA VICTOR (Japan) BVCC-37323 (2002)
(original LP release: LSC 2568) (1961)

Kent Nagano/ London Symphony Chorus/London Symphony Orchestra
WARNER ELATUS 0927 46731-2 (2002)
(original CD release: ERATO 4509 91712-2 (1993),

Seiji Ozawa/Tanglewood Festival Chorus/Boston Symphony Orchestra
( + Valses Nobles et Sentimentales)
DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON ELOQUENCE 4768429 (2007)
(original LP release: DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON 2530 563 (1975)

Laurent Petitgerard/Bordeaux Opera Chorus/Orchestre National Bordeaux Aquitaine
NAXOS 8.570075 (2006)

André Previn/London Symphony Chorus/London Symphony Orchestra
EMI CLASSICS CDR 5 73034-2 (1998)
(original LP release: HMV ASD 4099/ANGEL DS 37868) (1982).

Sir Simon Rattle/City of Birmingham Symphony Chorus/City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
( + Boléro)
EMI CLASSICS 5 74750-2 (2001)
(original CD release: EMI CLASSICS CDC 7 54303-2) (1992)

Manuel Rosenthal/Choeurs de la Radiodiffusion Télévision Française /Orchestre du Théâtre National de l'Opéra de Paris
ACCORD 472303-2 (2002)
(original release: VEGA C30A196 {1 LP}/WESTMINSTER WST-204 {2 LPs}) (1959)

Gennady Rozhdestvensky/USSR Chorus/USSR Radio Symphony Orchestra
EURODISC ARIOLA 258.652 (1985)
(original LP release: MELODIYA SM02283-4) (1970)

Michael Schønwandt/ Berlin Radio Chorus/Berlin Symphony Orchestra
KONTRAPUNKT 32152 (1993)

Gerard Schwartz/ Seattle Symphony Chorale/Seattle Symphony Orchestra
( + Diamond: Elegy in memory of Maurice Ravel)
DELOS DE 3110 (1991)

Yan Pascal Tortelier/Renaissance Singers/Belfast Philharmonic Society/Ulster Orchestra
( + Debussy: Prélude à l'Après-midi d'un Faune)
CHANDOS CHAN 8893 (1991)

PHILIPPE GAUBERT
(1879 - 1941)

Born in Cahors, Lot Départment. He studied the flute with Paul Taffanel at first privately and then at Paris Conservatory and also had composition instructions from Charles Lenepveu and harmoniy lessons from Raoul Pugno and Xavier Leroux. He joined the staff of the Paris Conservatory and was highly-regarded as a flautist but achieved his greatest fame as a conductor and eventually became the music director of the orchestras of both the Paris Opera and the Paris Conservatory. He did not compose prolifically but did produce the opera "Naïla," several ballets and, for orchestra, the symphonic poems "Les Chants de la Mer" and "Au Pays Basques," Concerto for Orchestra and a Violin Concerto.

Symphony in F major (1935-6)

Marc Soustrot/Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg
( + Les Chants de la Mer and Concerto in F)
TIMPANI 1C1135 (2008)

PAUL LE FLEM
(1881-1984)

Born in Lézardrieux, Côtes-du-Nord, Brittany. He studied harmony at the Paris Conservatory under Albert Lavignac and completed his traininig with Vincent d'Indy and Albert Roussel at the Schola Cantorum succeeding to the latter's professorship at that institution.. Throughout his extremely long life, he pursued various music careers including conducting, music criticism and teaching. He composed operas, orchestral, chamber, instrumental and vocal music.His series of 4 Symphonies were written over the remarkable span of 63 years, the unrecorded Nos. 2 and 3 in 1956 and 1967 respectively. His other orchestral works were on a smaller scale and included a Concert Piece for Violin and Orchestra, a "Fantaisie" for Piano and Orchestra and the symphonic poems "Pour les Morts," "En Mer" and "La Voix du Large."

Symphony No. 1 in A major (1907)

Claude Schnitzler/Orchestre de Bretagne
( + La Magicienne de la Mer: 2 Interludes and Fantaisie for Piano and Orchestra)
TIMPANI 1C1123 (1994)

Symphony No. 4 (1971-2)

James Lockhart/Rhineland Philharmonic Orchestra
( + Pour les Morts and Septs Pièces Enfantines)
CYBELIA CY866 (1987)

HENRI COLLET
(1885-1951)

Born in Paris. He studied music initially in Paris with Henri Thibaud but continued his musical education in Spain with Federico Olmeda. An avid hispanophile, he moved to Spain and wrote extensively about its music and literature. He is most famous for coining the name "Les Six" to describe the group of composers that included Auric, Durey, Honegger, Milhaud, Poulenc and Tailleferre. His main musical activity was criticism but he composed a number of orchestral works with Spanish themes including the Symphony listed below as well as the symphonic poem "El Escorial," "Gitanerias" and "Rhapsodie Castillane" for Viola and Orchestra.

Sinfonie de l'Alhambra (1947)

Gary Brain/Real Orquesta Sinfónica de Sevilla
( + Concerto Flamenco)
CLAVES 50-9801 (1998)

MARCEL DUPRÉ
(1886-1971)

Born in Rouen the son of a church organist and his first teacher. He studied privately with Alexandre Guilmant before entering the Paris Conservatory for further instruction from Guilmant as well as Louis-Joseph Diemer and Louis Vierne. He achieved great fame in his triple musical career as organist, composer and teacher. He taught and eventually headed the Paris Conservatory and succeeded Widor as organist of St. Sulpice. Most of his compositions, including 2 Symphonies, were for solo organ but he wrote for other forces as well including chamber and choral works and a Concerto and "Cortège et Litanie" for Organ and Orchestra.

Symphony in G minor for Organ and Orchestra, Op. 25 (1928)

David Bowden/ Daniel Jay McKinley (organ)/Columbus Philharmonic Orchestra
( + Organ Concerto, Cortège et Litanie and Poème Héroïque)
NAXOS 8.553922 (2000)

Jahja Ling/Michael Murray (organ)/Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
( + Rheiberger: Oran Concerto No. 1)
TELARC CD-80136 (1990)

Daniel Schweizer/Ulrich Meldau (organ)/Zurich Symphony Orchestra
( + Deux Esquisses), Le Tombeau de Titelouze and Organ Symphony No. 1)
MOTETTE CD-40111 (1992)

Barry Wordsworth/Jeremy Filsell (organ)/BBC Concert Orchestra
( + Cortège et Litanie, Demessieux: Poème for Organ and Orchestra and Gilles : Symphony for Organ)
GUILD GMCD 7136 (2000)

PAUL PARAY
(1886-1979)

Born in Le Tréport, Seine-Maritime Département, Normandy. At the Paris Conservatory his teachers were Xavier Leroux, Georges Caussade, Charles Lenepveu and Paul Vidal. He is chiefly remembered as a brilliant conductor of the French repertoire whose work is preserved by the recordings he made late in life with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra. He did not compose prolifically but his Symphonies are supplemented by the ballet "`Artémis Troublée," the "Mass for the 500th Anniversary of the Death of Joan of Arc," a "Fantaisie" for Piano and Orchesrtra and several chamber works.

Symphony No. 1 in C major (1935)

Paul Paray/Orchestre Philharmonique de l'ORTF
( + Fauré: Pavane and Pierné: Cydalise et le Chèvre-pied - Suite No. 1)
CARTHAGÉNE 731886 (LP) (1984)

James Paul/Royal Scottish National Orchestra
( Joan of Arc Mass)
REFERENCE RECORDINGS RR-78CD (1999)

Eduard Perrone/Assumption Grotto Orchestra
( + Symphony No. 2 and Berceuse)
GROTTO PRODUCTIONS GP-0009 (2006)

Symphony No. 2 in A major "Le Tréport" (1940)

Paul Paray/Orchestre Philharmonique de l'ORTF
CARTHAGÉNE 731889 (LP) (1985)

Eduard Perrone/Assumption Grotto Orchestra
( + Symphony No.1 and Berceuse)
GROTTO PRODUCTIONS GP-0009 (2006)

Symphonie d'Archets (Symphony for Strings) (1944) (arr. from String Quartet, 1915-9)

Eduard Perrone/Assumption Grotto Orchestra
( + Artémis Troublée )
GROTTO PRODUCTIONS GP-0006 (2005)

JACQUES IBERT
(1890-1962)

Born in Paris. He studied at the Paris Conservatory with André Gédalge and Gabriel Fauré. In addition to composing he had a career as an administrator with his most important post being head of the Académie de France of Rome. He two most popular orchestral works are "Éscales" and "Divertissement" but his output was quite large including operas, ballets, film scores and much else for orchestra, chamber groups, solo instruments and voice. Some lesser-known orchestral pieces are his symphonic poem "Noel en Picardie," "Ballade de la Geôle de Reading" and the symphonic scherzo "Féerique."

Symphonie Marine (1931)

Louis Frémaux/City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
( + Divertissement, Bacchanale, Louisville Concerto, Bostoniana, Flute Concerto, Ouverture de Fête, Escales, Tropismes pour des Amours Imaginaires and Quatre Chansons de Don Quichotte)
EMI I 20th CENTURYCLASSICS 0946932(2 CDs) (2011)
(original LP release: HMV ASD 3176) (1976)

Yutaka Sado/Orchestre des Concerts Lamoureux
( + Divertissement, Escales and Ouverture de Fête)
NAXOS 8.554222 (2000)

Symphony No. 2 (1st movement) "Bostoniana" (1955-61)

Charles Dutoit/Montreal Symphony Orchestra
( + Escales, Flute Concerto, Suite Symphonique "Paris", Bacchanale, Louisville Concerto and Hommage à Mozart)
DECCA 440332-2 (1994)

Louis Frémaux/City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
( + Divertissement, Bacchanale, Louisville Concerto, Symphonie Marine, Flute Concerto, Ouverture de Fête, Escales,Tropismes pour des Amours Imaginaires and Quatre Chansons de Don Quichotte)
EMI CLASSICS GEMINI 517639-2 (2 CDs) (2008)
(original LP release: HMV ASD 3176) (1976)

Symphonie Concertante for Oboe and Strings (1949-9)

Jean-Walter Audoli/David Walter (oboe)/Ensemble Instrumental Jean-Walter Audoli
( + Capriccio, Le Jardinier de Samos and Suite Symphonique : "Paris")
ARION ARN 68117 (1990)

Richard Auldon Clark/Humbert Lucarelli (oboe)/Manhattan Chamber Orchestra
( + Divertissement, Concertino da Camera and Concerto for Cello and Winds)
NEWPORT CLASSIC NPO 85598 (1996)

Vladislav Czarnecki/Lajos Lencses (oboe)Suddeutsches Kammerorchester Pforzheim
( + Honegger: Concerto da Camera and Françaix: L'Horloge de Flore)
CPO 999193-2 (1992)

Paul Freeman/Pamela Pecha (oboe)/Czech National Symphony Orchestra
( + Suite Symphonique "Paris" and Françaix: L'Horloge de Flore)
KLEOS KL5104 (2000)

Jacques-Francis Manzone/Jacques Vandeville (oboe)/Orchestre Philarmonique de Nice
( + The Triumph of Chastity)
METROPOLE 2599006 (LP)(1979)

Fernand Oubradous/Pierre Pierlot (oboe)/Association des Concerts de Chambre de Paris
( + Trio for Violin, Cello and Harp)
PATHÉ DTX 167 (LP) (1956)

Zoltán Peskó/Hansjörg Schellenberger (oboe)/Franz Liszt Chamber Orchestra Budapest
( + Lutosławski: Concerto for Oboe, Harp and Orchestra and Martin: Dances)
CAMPANELLA MUSICA C 130045 (1996)

André Previn/John de Lancie (oboe)/London Symphony Orchestra
( + Françaix: L'Horloge de Flore, R. Strauss: Oboe Concerto and Satie: Gymnopédie No. 1)
BOSTON RECORDS 1045 (2002)
(original LP release: RCA RED SEAL SB 6721/RCA RED SEAL LSC-2945) (1967)

GEORGES MIGOT
(1891-1976)

Born in Levallois, near Paris. Taught the piano as a child, his teachers at the Paris Consevatory were Charles-Marie Widor, André Gedalge, Maurice Emmanuel, Vincent d'Indy, Eugène Gigout and Alexandre Guilmant. An artistic polymath, he excelled at painting and poetry as well as music. He composed prolifically in various genres but specialized in orchestral and chamber music. He wrote 13 numbered Symphonies between 1919 and 1967, a "Petite Symphonie" for Strings (1970), Piano Concerto and much else for orchestra.

Symphony No. 6 for String Orchestra (1944-51)

Roger Delage/Collegium Musicum de l'Universite de Strasbourg
( + Violin Sonata)
LUMEN LD 3.452 A (LP) (c. 1960)

ARTHUR HONEGGER
(1892-1955)

Born in Le Havre to Swiss parents. He spent most of his life in France but always kept his dual French-Swiss citizenship. His musical education began in Paris, continued at the Zurich Conservatory but culminated at the Paris Conservatory where he studied under Charles-Marie Widor, André Gedalge and Vincent d'Indy. He was associated with the group of young composers known as "Les Six" that helped foster modernism in French composition. He was a very prolific composer in practically every genre (including scores for movies and radio) and is most famous for his dramatic choral works such as "Le Roi David" and "Jeanne d'Arc au Bûcher" as well as his Symphonies and shorter orchestral works such as "Rugby" and "Pacific 231."

Symphony No. 1 in C major (1930)

Serge Baudo/Czech Philharmonic Orchestra
( + Symphonies Nos. 2, 3, 4 and 5, Pacific 231, Mouvement Symphoniques No. 3 and La Tempête: Prelude)
SUPRAPHON 11 1566-2 (2 CDs) (1993)
(original LP release: SUPRAPHON 4 10 1536) (1974)

Charles Dutoit/Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra
( + Symphonies Nos. 2, 3, 4 and 5, Pacific 231 and Rugby)
APEX 2564 62687-2 (2 CDs) (2006)
(original CD release:ERATO ECD 88171) (1986)

Fabio Luisi/Orchestre de la Suisse Romande
( + Symphonies Nos. 2, 3, 4 and 5, Pacific 231, Rugby, Pastorale d'Été and Mouvement Symphoniques No. 3)
CASCAVELLE RSR 6132 (3 CDs) (2001)

Charles Munch/Orchestre National de l'ORTF (rec. 1962)
( + Symphonies Nos. 2 and 3, Debussy: La Mer, Iberia and Roussel: Bacchus et Ariane)
LIVING STAGE LS1042 (2 CDs) (2003)

Vaclav Neumann/Czech Philharmonic Orchestra (rec. 1970)
( + La Tempête: Prelude, Piano Concertino, Rugby, Pacific 231, Mouvement Symphoniques No. 3 and Cello Concerto)
PRAGA PR250001 (1992)

Michel Plasson/Orchestre du Capitole du Toulouse
( + Symphonies Nos. 2, 3, 4 and 5 and Pacific 231)
EMI CLASSICS GEMINI 85516-2 (2 CDs) (2004)
(original release: EMI LA VOIX DE SON MAÎTRE 2C 167 16327-9 {3LPs}) (1979)

Gennadi Rozhdestvensky/U.S.S.R Ministry of Culture Symphony Orchestra
( + Symphony No. 5)
MELODIYA MCD 154 (1990)

Michel Tabachnik/Orchestre National de l'ORTF
( + Horace Victorieux and Mouvement Symphoniques No. 3)
BARCLAY INÉDITS 995 042 (LP) (1975)

Symphony No. 2 in D major for Strings and Trumpet (1941)

Ernest Ansermet/Orchestre de la Suisse Romande
( + Symphony No. 4 and Cantate de Noël)
DECCA ENTERPRISE 430350-2 (1991)
(original LP release: DECCA SXL 6003/LONDON OS 25320) (1962)

Serge Baudo/Czech Philharmonic Orchestra
( + Symphonies Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5, Pacific 231, Mouvement Symphoniques No. 3 and La Tempête: Prelude)
SUPRAPHON 11 1566-2 (2 CDs) (1993)
(original LP release: SUPRAPHON 50143) (1962)

Erich Bergel/Camerata Transylvania
( + R. Strauss: Metamorphosen)
BUDAPEST MUSIC CENTRE BMC CD012 (2002)

Ernest Bour/SWR Sinfonieorchester
( + Concerto da Camera)
DUCRETET THOMSON 320C142 (LP) (1957)

Charles Dutoit/Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra
( + Symphonies Nos. 1, 3, 4 and 5, Pacific 231 and Rugby)
APEX 2564 62687-2 (2 CDs) (2006)
(original CD release: ERATO ECD 88178) (1986)

Philippe Entremont/Netherlands Chamber Orchestra
( + Milhaud: La création du monde, Roussel: Sinfonietta and Ibert: Divertissement)
VANGUARD 99083 (1995)

Szymon Goldberg/Netherlands Chamber Orchestra (rec. 1976)
(included in collection: "Netherlands Chamber Orchestra 1955-1985")
RADIO NEDERLAND 85049-52 (4 non-commercial LPs) (1985)

Robert Hull/Rochester Chamber Orchestra
( + H. Johnson: Piano Concerto)
CONCERT HALL SOCIETY CHS 1189 (LP) (1953)

Mariss Jansons/Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra
( + Symphony No. 3 and Pacific 231)
EMI CLASSICS CDC 5 551222-2 (1994)

Herbert von Karajan/Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
( + Symphony No. 3 and Stravinsky: Concerto in D)
DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON THE ORIGINALS 447435-2 (1995)
(original LP release: DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON 2530 068) (1973)

Arnold Katz/Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra
MELODIYA S739-40 (LP) (1963)

Emmanuel Leducq-Barome/Baltic Chamber Orchesra of the St Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra
( + R. Strauss: Metamorphosen)
CALLIOPE CAL 9325 (2003)

Jesús López-Cobos/Lausanne Chamber Orchestra
( + Symphony No. 4, Pastorale d'Été, Prélude, Arioso et Fughette, R. Strauss, Metamorphosen, Capriccio - Sextet and Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme)
VIRGIN DE VIRGIN 56192-2 (2 CDs) (2001)
(original CD release: VIRGIN CLASSICS VC 7 91486-2) (1992)

Fabio Luisi/Orchestre de la Suisse Romande
( + Symphonies Nos. 1, 3, 4 and 5, Pacific 231, Rugby, Pastorale d'Été and Mouvement Symphoniques No. 3)
CASCAVELLE RSR 6132 (3 CDs) (2001)

Charles Munch/Boston Symphony Orchestra
( + Symphony No. 5, Milhaud: Suite Provençale and La Création du Monde)
RCA GOLD SEAL GD 60685 (1991)
(original LP release: RCA VICTOR LM 1868 (1955)

Charles Munch/Czech Philharmonic Orchestra (rec. 1957)
( + Milhaud: Symphony No. 10 and Music for Prague)
MULTISONIC 31 0022-2 (1990)

Charles Munch/Orchestre de la Société du Conservatoire Paris (rec. 1944)
( + La Danse des Morts and Jolivet: Les Trois Complaintes)
CASCAVELLE VEL:3060 (2003)
(original LP release: VOIX DE SON MAÎTRE FALP 453) (1954)

Charles Munch/Orchestre de Paris
( + Ravel: Bolero, Rapsodie Espagnole and Daphnis et Chloe: Suite No.2)
EMI GREAT RECORDINGS OF THE CENTURY 567595-2 (2001)
(original LP release: HMV ASD 2467 /ANGEL S-36585) (1969)

Charles Munch/Orchestre National de l'ORTF (rec. 1964)
( + Symphony No. 5, Pastorale d'Été and Le Chant de Nigamon)
DISQUES MONTAIGNE MUN 2051 (1989)

Georges Octors/Orchestre Royal de Chambre de Wallonie
( + Roussel: Sinfonietta, Bartók: Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta, Martin: Double Concerto for 2 String Orchestras, Piano and Timpani, Hindemith: The Four Temperaments and R.Strauss:
Metamorphosen)
CYPRÈS CYP 2607 (2 CDs) (1995)

Krzysztof Penderecki/Warsaw Symphony Orchestra
( + Prokofiev: Symphony No. 1 and Penderecki: Violia Concerto)
KOCH APERTO 86422 CD (1990)

Michel Plasson/Orchestre du Capitole du Toulouse
( + Symphonies Nos. 1, 3, 4 and 5 and Pacific 231)
EMI CLASSICS GEMINI 85516-2 (2 CDs) (2004)
(original release: EMI LA VOIX DE SON MAÎTRE 2C 167 16327-9 {3LPs}) (1979)

Gennady Rozhdestvensky/U.S.S.R. Ministry of Culture Symphony Orchestra
( + Phèdre: Suite and Napoléon: film score - excerpts)
MELODIYA/OLYMPIA MCD 212 (1988)

Claude Schnitzler/Orchestre de Bretagne
( + Symphony No. 4 and Pastorale d'Été)
CHAMADE CHCD 5644 (1998)

Gerard Schwartz/Seattle Symphony Orchestra
( + Webern: Langsamer Satz and R. Strauss: Metamorphosen)
DELOS DE-3121 (1994)

Daniel Schweizer/Zurich Symphony Orchestra
( + Symphony No. 4)
CYPRÈS CYP 1602 (1993)

Emmanuel Siffert/Swiss Chamber Orchestra
( + Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on a theme by Thomas Tallis and Martin: Polyptique)
GALL GLL 1127 (2004)

Izler Solomon/MGM String Orchestra
( + Rivier: Symphony No. 2)
MGM E3104 (LP) (1955)

Yuli Turovsky/I Musici de Montréal
( + Concerto da Camera and Prelude, Arioso et Fughette)
CHANDOS CHAN 8632 (1988)

David Zinman/Zürich Tonhalle Orchestra
( + Monopartita, Pacific 231, Rugby, Pastorale d'Été and Mouvement Symphoniques No. 3)
DECCA 455 352-2 (1999)

Symphony No. 3 "Symphonie Liturgique" (1945-6)

Ernest Ansermet/Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra (rec. 1964)
( + Brahms: Symphony No. 3)
ORFEO C202891B (1989)

Ernest Ansermet/Orchestre de la Suisse Romande
( + Symphony No. 4)
DECCA SXL 6394/LONDON CS 6616 (LP)(1969)

Serge Baudo/Czech Philharmonic Orchestra
( + Symphonies Nos. 1, 2, 4 and 5, Pacific 231, Mouvement Symphoniques No. 3 and La Tempête: Prelude)
SUPRAPHON 11 1566-2 (2 CDs) (1993)
(original LP release: SUPRAPHON SUA 50143) (1962)

Roman Brogli-Sacher/Lübeck Philharmonic Orchestr
( + R. Strauss: Metamorphosen and R. Liebermann: Furioso)
MUSICAPHON 56901 (2008)

André Cluytens/Orchestra Sinfonica della RAI di Torino (rec. 1962)
( + Debussy :L'Enfant Prodigue)
ARTS MUSIC 43059 (2005)

Robert Denzler/Orchestre de la Société du Conservatoire Paris
( + Chant de Joie)
DECCA LXT 5118/LONDON LL 1296 (LP) (1956)

Charles Dutoit/Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra
( + Symphonies Nos. 1, 2, 4 and 5, Pacific 231 and Rugby)
APEX 2564 62687-2 (2 CDs) (2006)
(original CD release: ERATO ECD 88045) (1984)

Louis de Froment/Orchestre de Chambre de Radio-Luxembourg (rec. 1981)
( + Milhaud: Suite Provençale and Symphony No. 8)
CITADEL CTD 88141 (2000)

Jean Fournet/Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra
( + Rugby, Pacific 231, Concerto da Camera and Pastorale d'Été)
DENON CO-78831 (1996)

Arthur Honegger/Orchestre Symphonique (rec. 1947)
( + Pacific 231, Rugby, and excerpts from vocal works))
ALPHA ALPHA 802 (2008)

Mariss Jansons/Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra
( + Symphony No. 2 and Pacific 231)
EMI CLASSICS CDC 5 551222-2 (1994)

Mariss Jansons/Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
( + Poulenc: Gloria)
RCO LIVE RCO 06003 (2006)

Neeme Järvi/Danish National Radio Symphony Orchestra
( + Symphony No.5 and Pacific 231)
CHANDOS CHAN 9176 (1994)

Herbert von Karajan/Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
( + Symphony No. 2 and Stravinsky: Concerto in D)
DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON THE ORIGINALS 447435-2 (1995)
(original LP release: DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON 2530 068) (1973)

Herbert von Karajan/Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
(included in set: "Salzburger Orchesterkonzerte 1957")
ORFEO D'OR C773084L (4 CDs) (2008)

Mario Klemens/Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra (rec. 1979)
( + Cris du Monde)
PRAGA PR 250000 (1992)

Fabio Luisi/Orchestre de la Suisse Romande
( + Symphonies Nos. 1, 2, 4 and 5, Pacific 231, Rugby, Pastorale d'Été and Mouvement Symphoniques No. 3)
CASCAVELLE RSR 6132 (3 CDs) (2001)

Sir Neville Marriner/Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart
( + Britten: Sinfonietta and Sinfonia da Requiem)
CAPRICCIO 10428 (1993)

Carl Melles/Österreichischer Rundfunk Symphonie-Orchester
( + Hindemith: Mathis der Maler)
POINT CLASSICS 267163-2 (1994)

Yevgeny Mravinsky/Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra (rec. 1965)
( + Hindemith: Die Harmonie der Welt)
MELODIYA MELCD 1000936 (2004)
(original LP release: MELODIYA SM02857-8) (1971)/MELODIYA HMV ASD 2964) (1974)

Charles Munch/Boston Symphony Orchestra (rec.1956)
( + Brahms: Symphony No. 2)
MULTISONIC 31 0025-2 (1991)

Michel Plasson/Orchestre du Capitole du Toulouse
( + Symphonies Nos. 1, 2, 4 and 5 and Pacific 231)
EMI CLASSICS GEMINI 85516-2 (2 CDs) (2004)
(original release: EMI LA VOIX DE SON MAÎTRE 2C 167 16327-9 {3LPs}) (1979)

Paul Sacher/Basle Symphony Orchestra
( + Horace Victorieux and Chant de Joie)
PAN 510053 (2003)

Robert Satanowski/Warsaw National Opera Orchestra
( + Ravel: Daphnis et Chlöe - Suite No. 2,Massenet:. Thais - Meditation and Debussy: Petite Suite)
OLYMPIA OCD 318 (1989)

Walter Stoschek/Dresden Philharmonic Orchestra
URANIA URLP 7090 (1953)

Simon Streatfield/Orchestre Symphonique de Québec
( + Messiaen: Les Offrandes Oubliées, Arseneault: Prélude à l'Infini and Nigg: Poème Symphonique)
REM ÉDITIONS REM 311197 (1993)

Georges Tzipine/Orchestre de la Société du Conservatoire Paris
( + Cantate De Noël)
COLUMBIA (France) FCX 336 (LP) (1955)

Takuo Yuasa/New Zealand Symphony Orchestra
( + Rugby, Mouvement Symphonique No. 3, Pacific 231 and Pastorale d'Été)
NAXOS 8.555974 (2004)

Symphony No. 4 in A major "Deliciae Basiliensis" (1946)

Ernest Ansermet/Orchestre de la Suisse Romande
( + Symphony No. 2 and Cantate de Noël)
DECCA ENTERPRISE 430350-2 (1991)

Serge Baudo/Czech Philharmonic Orchestra
( + Symphonies Nos. 1, 2, 3 and 5, Pacific 231, Mouvement Symphoniques No. 3 and La Tempête: Prelude)
SUPRAPHON 11 1566-2 (2 CDs) (1993)
(original LP release: SUPRAPHON 4 10 1536) (1974)

Charles Dutoit/Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra
( + Symphonies Nos. 1, 2, 3 and 5, Pacific 231 and Rugby)
APEX 2564 62687-2 (2 CDs) (2006)
(original CD release: ERATO ECD 88178) (1986)

Christopher Hogwood/Basel Chamber Orchestra
( + Martin·: Toccata e due Canzoni and Stravinsky: Concerto in D)
ARTE NOVA 7432186236-2 (2001)

Jesús López-Cobos/Lausanne Chamber Orchestra
( + Symphony No. 2, Pastorale d'Été, Prélude, Arioso et Fughette, R. Strauss, Metamorphosen, Capriccio - Sextet and Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme)
VIRGIN DE VIRGIN 56192-2 (2 CDs) (2001)
(original CD release: VIRGIN CLASSICS VC 7 91486-2) (1992)

Fabio Luisi/Orchestre de la Suisse Romande
( + Symphonies Nos. 1, 2, 3 and 5, Pacific 231, Rugby, Pastorale d'Été and Mouvement Symphoniques No. 3)
CASCAVELLE RSR 6132 (3 CDs) (2001)

Charles Munch/Orchestre National de l'O'R.T.F.
( + Dutilleux: Symphony No. 2 and Métaboles)
ERATO ANNIVERSARY 256460575-2 (2003)
(original LP release: ERATO STU 70400) (1967)

Michel Plasson/Orchestre du Capitole du Toulouse
( + Symphonies Nos. 1, 2, 3 and 5 and Pacific 231)
EMI CLASSICS GEMINI 85516-2 (2 CDs) (2004)
(original release: EMI LA VOIX DE SON MAÎTRE 2C 167 16327-9 {3LPs}) (1979)

Claude Schnitzler/Orchestre de Bretagne
( + Symphony No. 2 and Pastorale d'Été)
CHAMADE CHCD 5644 (1998)

Daniel Schweizer/Zurich Symphony Orchestra
( + Symphony No. 2)
CYPRÈS CYP 1602 (1993)

Tamás Vásáry/Bournemouth Sinfonietta
( + Pastorale d'Été, Prelude Arioso and Fughette and Piano Concertino)
CHANDOS CHAN 8993 (1991)

Georges Tzipine/Orchestre National de l'O.R.T.F
( + Mouvement Symphoniques No. 3).
COLUMBIA (France) FCX 337 (LP) (1955)

Symphony No. 5 in D major "Di Tre Re" (1951)

Ernest Ansermet/Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra (rec. 1951)
(included in set: "Vienna Philharmonic: 20th Century Music - Volume 1")
ANDANTE AN4080 (3 CDs) (2003)

Serge Baudo/Czech Philharmonic Orchestra
( + Symphonies Nos. 1, 2, 3 and 4, Pacific 231, Mouvement Symphoniques No. 3 and La Tempête: Prelude)
SUPRAPHON 11 1566-2 (2 CDs) (1993)
(original LP release: SUPRAPHON SUA 50516) (1963)

Charles Dutoit/Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra
( + Symphonies Nos. 1, 2, 3 and 4, Pacific 231 and Rugby)
APEX 2564 62687-2 (2 CDs) (2006)
(original CD release: ERATO ECD 88045) (1984)

Bernard Haitink/Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra (rec. 1974)
( + Roussel: Le Festin de l'Araignée and Poulenc: Les Biches)
Q DISC 97014 (1999)

Neeme Järvi/Danish National Radio Symphony Orchestra
( + Symphony No.3 and Pacific 231)
CHANDOS CHAN 9176 (1994)

Fabio Luisi/Orchestre de la Suisse Romande
( + Symphonies Nos. 1, 2, 3 and 4, Pacific 231, Rugby, Pastorale d'Été and Mouvement Symphoniques No. 3)
CASCAVELLE RSR 6132 (3 CDs) (2001)

Igor Markevitch/Orchestre des Concerts Lamoureux
( + Milhaud: Les Choéphores)
DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON THE ORIGINALS 449 748-2 (1997)
(original LP release: DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON LPM 18385/DECCA DL 9956) (1957)

Charles Munch/Boston Symphony Orchestra
( + Saint-Saëns: Symphony No.3, Ibert: Escales, D'Indy: Symphonie sur un Chant Montagnard Français, Franck: Symphony in D minor and Roussel: Bacchus et Ariane - Suite No. 2)
RCA RED SEAL 7432198715-2 (2 CDs) (2004)

Charles Munch/Orchestre National de l'ORTF (rec. 1964)
( + Symphony No. 2, Pastorale d'Été and Le Chant de Nigamon)
DISQUES MONTAIGNE MUN 2051 (1989)

Michel Plasson/Orchestre du Capitole du Toulouse
( + Symphonies Nos. 1, 2, 3 and 4 and Pacific 231)
EMI CLASSICS GEMINI 85516-2 (2 CDs) (2004)
(original release: EMI LA VOIX DE SON MAÎTRE 2C 167 16327-9 {3LPs}) (1979)

Gennadi Rozhdestvensky/U.S.S.R Ministry of Culture Symphony Orchestra
( + Symphony No. 1)
MELODIYA MCD 154 (1990)

Kurt Sanderling/Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra
MELODIYA D026043-4 (LP) (1969)

Horace Victorieux (Mimed Symphony) (1920)

Thierry Fischer/BBC National Orchestra of Wales
( + Une Cantate de Noel, Cello Concerto and Prelude, Fugue et Postlude)
HYPERIONCDA67688 (2008)

Michel Plasson/Orchestre du Capitole du Toulouse
( + Le Vol Sur L'Atlantique, La Traversee Des Andes, Pacific 231, Pastorale D'Ete and La Tempête: Prelude)
DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON 435438-2 (1993)

Paul Sacher/Basle Symphony Orchestra
( + Symphony No. 3 and Chant de Joie)
PAN 510053 (2003)

Michel Tabachnik/Orchestre National de l'ORTF
( + Symphony No. 1 and Mouvement Symphoniques No. 3)
BARCLAY INÉDITS 995 042 (LP) (1975)

DARIUS MILHAUD
(1892-1974)

Born in Marseille. He took violin lessons as a child before entering the Paris Conservatory where his teachers were Xavier Leroux , Charles-Marie Widor, André Gedalge and Vincent d'Indy. He spent some years in the diplomatic corps and traveled abroad where he absorbed various musical influences and spent the World War II years as an exile in America. As one of "Les Six," he was considered in the forefront of French musical modernism. Perhaps one of the most prolific of 20th century composers with hundreds of works in his catalogue in every conceivable genre, his frequently performed pieces are few. They include the ballets "La Création du Monde" and "Le Boeuf sur le Toit," the "Scaramouche Suite" for 2 Pianos and "Le Carnaval d'Aix" for Piano and Orchestra. It is only in recent years that all of his Symphonies and most of his Concertos have been recorded.

Symphonies Nos. 1 - 12

Alun Francis/Basel Radio Symphony Orchestra
CPO 999656-2 (5 CDs) (2000)

Symphony No. 1, Op. 210 (1939)

Alun Francis/Basel Radio Symphony Orchestra
( + Symphony No. 4)
CPO 999 539-2 (1998)

Darius Milhaud/CBS Symphony Orchestra
COLUMBIA ML-2082 (LP) (1949)

Michel Plasson/Orchestre du Capitole du Toulouse
( + Symphony No. 2 and Suite Provençale)
DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON 435437-2 (1992)

Leopold Stokowski/NBC Symphony Orchestra (rec. 1943)
( + Hovhannes: Symphony No. 1, Copland: Symphony No. 2 and Serebrier: Symphony No. 1)
GUILD HISTORICAL GHCD 2347 (2009)

Symphony No. 2, Op. 247 (1944)

Alun Francis/Basel Radio Symphony Orchestra
( + Symphony No. 3)
CPO 999 540-2 (1998)

Michel Plasson/Orchestre du Capitole du Toulouse
( + Symphony No. 1 and Suite Provençale)
DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON 435437-2 (1992)

Georges Tzipine/Orchestre de la Société du Conservatoire Paris
( + Auric: Phèdre, Poulenc: Secheresses, Tailleferre: Overture, Durey: Printemps au Fond de la Mer and Honegger: Amphion)
COLUMBIA 33CX 1252 /ANGEL 35117-8 (2 LPs) (1954)

Symphony No. 3 with Chorus, Op. 271 "Te Deum" (1946)

Alun Francis/Chor des Theaters Basel/Basel Radio Symphony Orchestra
( + Symphony No. 2)
CPO 999 540-2 (1998)

Darius/Milhaud/Elizabeth Brasseur Chorale/Orchestre de la Société du Conservatoire Paris
( + 2 Piano Concerto, Divertissement for Wind Quintet, Violin Concerto No. 2 and Les Quatre Saisons)
ACCORD MUSIDISC 461767 (2 CDs) (2001)
(original LP release: VEGA C30A355) (1963)/WESTMINSTER WST-17101) (1965)

Gennady Rozhdestvensky/Russian State Symphony Capella (Chorus and Orchestra) (rec. 1993)
( + The Bells and Saudades do Brasil)
OLYMPIA OCD 452 (1996)

Symphony No. 4, Op. 281 "Composée á l'occasion de Cenetaire de la Revolution de 1848" (1947)

F. Charles Adler/Vienna Symphony Orchestra
SPA RECORDS SPA 57 (LP) (1955)

Alun Francis/Chor des Thaters Basel/Basel Radio Symphony Orchestra
( + Symphony No. 1)
CPO 999 539-2 (1998)

Darius Milhaud/Orchestre/Orchestre Philharmonique de l'ORTF
( + Symphony No. 8, Piano Concerto No. 4 and Ballade for Piano and Orchestra)
APEX 0927499822 (2003)
(original LP release: ERATO STU 70452) (1968)

Symphony No. 5, Op. 322 (1953)

Alun Francis/Basel Radio Symphony Orchestra
( + Symphony No. 6)
CPO 999 240-2 (1993)

Symphony No. 6, Op. 343 (1955)

Alun Francis/Basel Radio Symphony Orchestra
( + Symphony No. 5)
CPO 999 240-2 (1993)

Jorge Mester/Louisville Orchestra
( + Cortège Funèbre, Quatre Chansons de Ronsard, Kentuckiana and Ouverture Mediterranéene)
FIRST EDITIONS FECD 0031 (2005)
(original LP release: LOUISVILLE LS-744) (1974)

Charles Munch/Boston Symphony Orchestra (rec. 1955)
(included in collection: "A Treasury of French Music")
WEST HILL RADIO ARCHIVES WHRA 6027 (6 CDs) (2010)

Michel Plasson/Orchestre du Capitole du Toulouse
( + Symphony No. 7)
DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON 439939-2 (1997)

Symphony No. 7, Op. 344 (1955)

Alun Francis/Basel Radio Symphony Orchestra
( + Symphonies Nos. 8 and 9)
CPO 999 166-2 (1994)

Michel Plasson/Orchestre du Capitole du Toulouse
( + Symphony No. 6)
DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON 439939-2 (1997)

Symphony No. 8, Op. 362 "Rhodanienne" (1957)

Alun Francis/Basel Radio Symphony Orchestra
( + Symphonies Nos. 7 and 9)
CPO 999 166-2 (1994)

Louis de Froment/Orchestre de Chambre de Radio-Luxembourg (rec. 1981)
( + Suite Provençale and Honegger: Symphony No. 3)
CITADEL CTD 88141 (2000)

Darius Milhaud/Orchestre/Orchestre Philharmonique de l'ORTF
( + Symphony No. 4, Piano Concerto No. 4 and Ballade for Piano and Orchestra)
APEX 0927499822 (2003)
(original LP release: ERATO STU 70452) (1968)

Vaclav Neumann/Czech Philharmonic Orchestra
( + Cantique du Rhône, Scaramouche Suite, La Cheminée du roi René and 9 Preludes for Organ)
PRAGA PR 250 013 (1992)

Symphony No. 9, Op. 380 (1959)

Alun Francis/Basel Radio Symphony Orchestra
( + Symphonies Nos. 7 and 8)
CPO 999 166-2 (1994)

Symphony No. 10, Op. 382 (1960)

Alun Francis/Basel Radio Symphony Orchestra
( + Symphonies Nos. 11 and 12)
CPO 999 354-2 (1996)

Zdeněk Košler/Czech Philharmonic Orchestra
( + Concertino d'Hiver, Music for Prague and Hommage a Comnenius)
PRAGA PR 250 012 (1992)

Darius Milhaud/BBC Symphony Orchestra (rec. 1970)
( + Musique pour l'Indiana, L'Homme et son Désir and Satie/Milhaud: Jack in the Box)
CARLTON BBC RADIO CLASSICS / 15656 9151-2 (1996)
(original LP issue: ARIES 1623) (pseudonyms used for performers) (c. 1975)

Darius Milhaud/Czech Philharmonic Orchestra (rec. 1966)
( + Musique pour Prague and Honegger: Symphony No. 2)
MULTISONIC 31 0022-2 (1990)

Symphony No. 11, Op. 384 "Romantique" (1960)

Alun Francis/Basel Radio Symphony Orchestra
( + Symphonies Nos. 10 and 12)
CPO 999 354-2 (1996)

Symphony No. 12, Op. 390 "Rurale" (1961)

Alun Francis/Basel Radio Symphony Orchestra
( + Symphonies Nos. 10 and 11)
CPO 999 354-2 (1996)

Chamber Symphony No. 1, Op. 43 "Le Printemps" (1917)

Bernard Dekaise/L'Ensemble Des Temps Moderne
( + Chamber Symphonies Nos. 2, 3 and 5, L'Homme et son Désir and L'Enlèvement d'Europe)
CYPRÈS CYP 2612 (1996)

Ensemble Villa Musica
( + Chamber Symphonies Nos. 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6, Suite d"Apres Corette and Les Rêves de Jacob)
MD + G L3449 (1992)

Barry Faldner/Sinfonia Orchestra of Chicago
( + Chamber Symphonies Nos. 2, 3 and 5, Debussy:Symphony and Goundod: Petite Symphonie)
KOCH INTERNATIONAL CLASSICS 3-7067-2 H1 (1992)

William Jackson/New Philharmonia Orchestra
( + Fauré: Sicilienne, Debussy: Clair de Lune, Honegger: Pastorale d'Été, Ravel: Pavane pour une Infante Défunte, Delius: On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring, Summer Night on the River and Ibert: Escales - Tunis-Nefia)
PRELUDE PRS 2512 (LP) (1977)

Darius Milhaud/Concert Hall Society Chamber Orchestra
( + Chamber Symphonies Nos. 2, 3 and 5 and Janáček: Piano Concertino)
CONCERT HALL CHS-1076 (LP) (c. 1954)

Darius Milhaud/Luxembourg Radio Television Symphony Orchestra
( + Chamber Symphonies Nos. 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6, L'Homme et son Désir, Piano Concerto No. 2, Suite Cisalpine, Le Boeuf sur le Toit, Percussion Concerto, La Muse Menagère and Le Carnaval d'Aix)
VOX BOX CDX 5109 (2 CDs) (1994)
(original LP release: VOX STGBY 626/CANDIDE CE 31008) (1969)

Karl Anton Rickenbacher/Capella Cracoviensis
( + Chamber Symphonies Nos. 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6, L'Enlèvement d'Europe, L' Abandon d'Ariane and Le Délivrance de Thésée)
KOCH SCHWANN 3-1139-2 (1992)

Jean-Philippe Rouchon/Austrian Chamber Orchestra
( + Chamber Symphonies Nos. 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6, Concertino d'Été and Concertino d'Automne)
DE PLEIN VENT DPVCD 9005 (1990)

Gennady Rozhdestvensky/Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra
( + Chamber Symphonies Nos. 2, 3, 4 and 5, Poulenc: Rhapsodie Nègre and Jolivet: Concerto for Basson, Strings, Harp and Piano)
CHANT DU MONDE LDX 78659 (LP) (1978)
(original LP release: MELODIYA 33D-015447) (1965)

Chamber Symphony No. 2, Op. 49 "Pastorale" (1918)

Bernard Dekaise/L'Ensemble Des Temps Moderne
( + Chamber Symphonies Nos. 1, 3 and 5, L'Homme et son Désir and L'Enlèvement d'Europe)
CYPRÈS CYP 2612 (1996)

Ensemble Villa Musica
( + Chamber Symphonies Nos. 1, 3, 4, 5 and 6, Suite d'Après Corette and Les Rêves de Jacob)
MD + G L3449 (1992)

Barry Faldner/Sinfonia Orchestra of Chicago
( + Chamber Symphonies Nos. 1, 3 and 5, Debussy:Symphony and Goundod: Petite Symphonie)
KOCH INTERNATIONAL CLASSICS 3-7067-2 H1 (1992)

Darius Milhaud/Concert Hall Society Chamber Orchestra
( + Chamber Symphonies Nos. 1, 3 and 5 and Janáček: Piano Concertino)
CONCERT HALL CHS-1076 (LP) (c. 1954)

Darius Milhaud/Luxembourg Radio Television Symphony Orchestra
( + Chamber Symphonies Nos. 1, 3, 4, 5 and 6, L'Homme et son Désir, Piano Concerto No. 2, Suite Cisalpine, Le Boeuf sur le Toit, Percussion Concerto, La Muse Menagère and Le Carnaval d'Aix)
VOX BOX CDX 5109 (2 CDs) (1994)
(original LP release: VOX STGBY 626/CANDIDE CE 31008) (1969)

Karl Anton Rickenbacher/Capella Cracoviensis
( + Chamber Symphonies Nos. 1, 3, 4, 5 and 6, L'Enlèvement d'Europe, L' Abandon d'Ariane and Le Délivrance de Thésée)
KOCH SCHWANN 3-1139-2 (1992)

Jean-Philippe Rouchon/Austrian Chamber Orchestra
( + Chamber Symphonies Nos. 1, 3, 4, 5 and 6, Concertino d'Été and Concertino d'Automne)
DE PLEIN VENT DPVCD 9005 (1990)

Gennady Rozhdestvensky/Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra
( + Chamber Symphonies Nos. 1, 3, 4 and 5, Poulenc: Rhapsodie Nègre and Jolivet: Concerto for Basson, Strings, Harp and Piano)
CHANT DU MONDE LDX 78659 (LP) (1978)
(original LP release: MELODIYA 33D-015447) (1965)

Chamber Symphony No. 3, Op. 71 "Sérénade" (1921)

Chamber Music Palm Beach

Bernard Dekaise/L'Ensemble Des Temps Moderne
( + Chamber Symphonies Nos. 1, 2 and 5, L'Homme et son Désir and L'Enlèvement d'Europe)
CYPRÈS CYP 2612 (1996)

Ensemble Villa Musica
( + Chamber Symphonies Nos. 1, 2, 4, 5 and 6, Suite d"Apres Corette and Les Rêves de Jacob)
MD + G L3449 (1992)

Barry Faldner/Sinfonia Orchestra of Chicago
( + Chamber Symphonies Nos. 1, 2 and 5, Debussy:Symphony and Goundod: Petite Symphonie)
KOCH INTERNATIONAL CLASSICS 3-7067-2 H1 (1992)

Darius Milhaud/Concert Hall Society Chamber Orchestra
( + Chamber Symphonies Nos. 1, 2 and 5 and Janáček: Piano Concertino)
CONCERT HALL CHS-1076 (LP) (c. 1954)

Darius Milhaud/Luxembourg Radio Television Symphony Orchestra
( + Chamber Symphonies Nos. 1, 2, 4, 5 and 6, L'Homme et son Désir, Piano Concerto No. 2, Suite Cisalpine, Le Boeuf sur le Toit, Percussion Concerto, La Muse Menagère and Le Carnaval d'Aix)
VOX BOX CDX 5109 (2 CDs) (1994)
(original LP release: VOX STGBY 626/CANDIDE CE 31008) (1969)

Karl Anton Rickenbacher/Capella Cracoviensis
( + Chamber Symphonies Nos. 1, 2, 4, 5 and 6, L'Enlèvement d'Europe, L' Abandon d'Ariane and Le Délivrance de Thésée)
KOCH SCHWANN 3-1139-2 (1992)

Jean-Philippe Rouchon/Austrian Chamber Orchestra
( + Chamber Symphonies Nos. 1, 2, 4, 5 and 6, Concertino d'Été and Concertino d'Automne)
DE PLEIN VENT DPVCD 9005 (1990) ê

Gennady Rozhdestvensky/Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra
( + Chamber Symphonies Nos. 1, 2, 4 and 5, Poulenc: Rhapsodie Nègre and Jolivet: Concerto for Basson, Strings, Harp and Piano)
CHANT DU MONDE LDX 78659 (LP) (1978)
(original LP release: MELODIYA 33D-015447) (1965)

Chamber Symphony No. 4 for Ten String Instuments, Op. 74 "Dixtuor" (1921)

Ensemble Villa Musica
( + Chamber Symphonies Nos. 1, 2, 3, 5 and 6, Suite d"Apres Corette and Les Rêves de Jacob)
MD + G L3449 (1992)

Lukas Foss/Zimbler Sinfonietta
( + Bartók: Divertimento for Strings, Ives: The Unanswered Question and Skalkottas:Suite for Strings)
UNICORN UNLP 1037 (LP) (1956)

Darius Milhaud/Luxembourg Radio Television Symphony Orchestra
( + Chamber Symphonies Nos. 1, 2, 3, 5 and 6, L'Homme et son Désir, Piano Concerto No. 2, Suite Cisalpine, Le Boeuf sur le Toit, Percussion Concerto, La Muse Menagère and Le Carnaval d'Aix)
VOX BOX CDX 5109 (2 CDs) (1994)
(original LP release: VOX STGBY 626/CANDIDE CE 31008) (1969)

Karl Anton Rickenbacher/Capella Cracoviensis
( + Chamber Symphonies Nos. 1, 2, 3, 5 and 6, L'Enlèvement d'Europe, L' Abandon d'Ariane and Le Délivrance de Thésée)
KOCH SCHWANN 3-1139-2 (1992)

Jean-Philippe Rouchon/Austrian Chamber Orchestra
( + Chamber Symphonies Nos. 1, 2, 3, 5 and 6, Concertino d'Été and Concertino d'Automne)
DE PLEIN VENT DPVCD 9005 (1990)

Gennady Rozhdestvensky/Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra
( + Chamber Symphonies Nos. 1, 2, 3 and 5, Poulenc: Rhapsodie Nègre and Jolivet: Concerto for Basson, Strings, Harp and Piano)
CHANT DU MONDE LDX 78659 (LP) (1978)
(original LP release: MELODIYA 33D-015447) (1965)

Chamber Symphony No. 5 for Ten Wind Instuments, Op. 75 "Dixtuor“ d'Instruments à Vent" (1922)

Bernard Dekaise/L'Ensemble Des Temps Moderne
( + Chamber Symphonies Nos. 1, 2 and 3, L'Homme et son Désir and L'Enlèvement d'Europe)
CYPRÈS CYP 2612 (1996)

Ensemble Villa Musica
( + Chamber Symphonies Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4 and 6, Suite d"Après Corette and Les Rêves de Jacob)
MD + G L3449 (1992)

Barry Faldner/Sinfonia Orchestra of Chicago
( + Chamber Symphonies Nos. 1, 2 and 3, Debussy:Symphony and Goundod: Petite Symphonie)
KOCH INTERNATIONAL CLASSICS 3-7067-2 H1 (1992)

Darius Milhaud/Concert Hall Society Chamber Orchestra
( + Chamber Symphonies Nos. 1, 2 and 3 and Janáček: Piano Concertino)
CONCERT HALL CHS-1076 (LP) (c. 1954)

Darius Milhaud/Luxembourg Radio Television Symphony Orchestra
( + Chamber Symphonies Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4 and 6, L'Homme et son Désir, Piano Concerto No. 2, Suite Cisalpine, Le Boeuf sur le Toit, Percussion Concerto, La Muse Menagère and Le Carnaval d'Aix)
VOX BOX CDX 5109 (2 CDs) (1994)
(original LP release: VOX STGBY 626/CANDIDE CE 31008) (1969)

Libor Pešek/Harmonie de Chambre de Prague
( + Le Boeuf sur le Toit, Carnaval d'Aix and Violin Sonata No. 2)
PRAGA PR 250 007 (1992)
(original LP release: SUPRAPHON 50475) (1962)

Karl Anton Rickenbacher/Capella Cracoviensis
( + Chamber Symphonies Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4 and 6, L'Enlèvement d'Europe, L' Abandon d'Ariane and Le Délivrance de Thésée)
KOCH SCHWANN 3-1139-2 (1992)

Jean-Philippe Rouchon/Austrian Chamber Orchestra
( + Chamber Symphonies Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4 and 6, Concertino d'Été and Concertino d'Automne)
DE PLEIN VENT DPVCD 9005 (1990)

Gennady Rozhdestvensky/Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra
( + Chamber Symphonies Nos. 1, 2, 3 and 4, Poulenc: Rhapsodie Nègre and Jolivet: Concerto for Basson, Strings, Harp and Piano)
CHANT DU MONDE LDX 78659 (LP) (1978)
(original LP release: MELODIYA 33D-015447) (1965)

Jeroen Weierink/Holland Wind Players
( + Ibert: Cello Concerto, Martinů: Cello Concertino and N. Tcherepnin: Sonatine)
ETCETERA KTC 1191 (1998)

Chamber Symphony No. 6 for Soprano, Contralto, Tenor, Bass, Oboe and Cello, Op. 79 (1923)

Ensemble Villa Musica
( + Chamber Symphonies Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5, Suite d"Apres Corette and Les Rêves de Jacob)
MD + G L3449 (1992)

Darius Milhaud/Luxembourg Radio Television Symphony Orchestra
( + Chamber Symphonies Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5, L'Homme et son Désir, Piano Concerto No. 2, Suite Cisalpine, Le Boeuf sur le Toit, Percussion Concerto, La Muse Menagère and Le Carnaval d'Aix)
VOX BOX CDX 5109 (2 CDs) (1994)
(original LP release: VOX STGBY 626/CANDIDE CE 31008) (1969)

Karl Anton Rickenbacher/Capella Cracoviensis
( + Chamber Symphonies Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5, L'Enlèvement d'Europe, L' Abandon d'Ariane and Le Délivrance de Thésée)
KOCH SCHWANN 3-1139-2 (1992)

Jean-Philippe Rouchon/Austrian Chamber Orchestra
( + Chamber Symphonies Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5, Concertino d'Été and Concertino d'Automne)
DE PLEIN VENT DPVCD 9005 (1990)

Symphoniette, Op. 363 (1957)

Ernst Theis/Austrian Chamber Symphony
( + Concerto for Marimba and Vibraphone, Cortège Funèbre and Radanovics: Introversion)
MUSICAPHON M 56809 (1996)

Pacem in Terris, Symphonie Chorale pour Contralto, Baryton, Chœur Mixte et Orchestre, Op. 404 (1963)

Maurice Abravane/Florence Kopleff (contralto)/Louis Quilico (baritone)/University of Utah/Utah Symphony Orchestra
( + L'Homme et son Désir)
VANGUARD CLASSICS OVC 8067 (1993)
(original LP release: VANGUARD VRS 1134) (1965)

JEAN RIVIER
(1896-1987)

Born in Villemomble, suburban Paris. His musical training, interrupted by service and a long recuperation from World War I, was completed at the Paris Conservatory where his teachers were Maurice Emmanuel, Jean Gallon and Georges Caussade. He was a leading activist in various contemporary music societies and taught at the Paris Conservatory after World War II. His compositions include operas, orchestral, chamber, instrumental and vocal music. His unrecorded Symphonies are No. 1 (1931), No. 6 "Les Présages" (1958) and No. 7 "Les Contrastes" (1971). There are also many concertos and shorter works in his orchestral catalogue.

Symphony No. 2 in C for String Orchestra (1937)

Izler Solomon/MGM String Orchestra
( + Honegger: Symphony No. 2)
MGM E3104 (LP) (1955)

Symphony No. 3 in G major for String Orchestra (1937)

Bernard Calmel/Orchestre Bernard Calmel
( + Symphonies Nos. 4 and 8)
PAVANE ADW 7328 (1994)

Jean-François Paillard/'Orchestre de Chambre Jean-François Paillard
( + Barraud: Quatre Préludes and Daniel-Lesur: Variations)
ERATO STE 50135 (LP) (1963)

Georges Tzipine/Orchestre national.de l'ORTF
( + Symphony No. 5)
PATHÉ DTX 286 (LP) (1959)

Symphony No. 4 in B flat major for String Orchestra (1947)

Bernard Calmel/Orchestre Bernard Calmel
( + Symphonies Nos. 3 and 8)
PAVANE ADW 7328 (1994)

Symphony No. 5 in A minor (1950)

Georges Tzipine/Orchestre national.de l'ORTF
( + Symphony No. 3)
PATHÉ DTX 286 (LP) (1959)

Symphony No. 8 for String Orchestra (1978)

Bernard Calmel/Orchestre Bernard Calmel
( + Symphonies Nos. 3 and 4)
PAVANE ADW 7328 (1994)

ALEXANDRE TANSMAN
(1897-1986)

Born in Lódz, Poland. Trained at the University of Warsaw where his most prominent teacher was Pioter Rytel, he emigrated to France in 1919 and embarked on a musical career as a pianist and composer. He went to America during World War II and made his living as a conductor and composer of film scores but returned to Paris after the war. He composed prolifically and his catalogue includes operas, orchestral, chamber, instrumental and vocal music. His Symphony No. 1 dates from 1925 and among his other large orchestral works there are 2 Piano Concertos and Concertos for Violin, Viola, Cello, Guitar and Clarinet.

Symphony No. 2 in A minor (1926)

Oleg Caetani/Melbourne Symphony Orchestra
( + Symphony No. 3 and Quatre Mouvements pour Orchestre)
CHANDOS CHSA 5065 (2008)

Symphony No. 3 (Symphonie Concertante for Piano Quartet and Orchestral Accompaniment) (1931)

Oleg Caetani/Wilma Smith (violin)/Katharine Brockman (viola)/David Berlin (cello)/Caroline Almonte (piano)/Melbourne Symphony Orchestra
( + Symphony No. 2 and Quatre Mouvements pour Orchestre)
CHANDOS CHSA 5065 (2008)

Symphony No. 4 in C sharp minor (1939)

Oleg Caetani/Melbourne Symphony Orchestra
( + Symphonies Nos. 5 and 6)
CHANDOS CHSA 5041 (2006)

Marc Nalecz-Niesiolowski/Bialystok Podlasie Philharmonic Orchestra
( + Variations on a Theme of Frescobaldi, Nun Kommt der Heiden Heiland and 4 Polish Dances)
DUX 0542 (2007)

Israel Yinon/Bamberger Symphoniker
( + Arnoux: Bric à Brac)
KOCH SCHWANN 3-6558-2 (2000)


Symphony No. 5 in D minor (1942)

Oleg Caetani/Melbourne Symphony Orchestra
( + Symphonies Nos.4 and 6)
CHANDOS CHSA 5041 (2006)

Meir Minsky/Czecho-Slovak State Philharmonic
( + Stèle in Memoriam d'Igor Stravinsky and Quatre Mouvements pour Orchestre)
MARCO POLO 8.223379 (1993)

Symphony No. 6 for Chorus and Orchestra "In Memoriam" (1943)

Oleg Caetani/Melbourne Chorale/Melbourne Symphony Orchestra
( + Symphonies Nos. 4 and 5)
CHANDOS CHSA 5041 (2006)

Symphony No. 7 "Lyrique" (1944

Oleg Caetani/Melbourne Symphony Orchestra
( + Symphonies Nos. 8 and 9)
CHANDOS CHSA 5054 (2007)

Symphony No. 8 "Musique pour Orchestre" (1948)

Oleg Caetani/Melbourne Symphony Orchestra
( + Symphonies Nos. 7 and 9)
CHANDOS CHSA 5054 (2007)

Rafael Kubelik/Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra (rec. 1950)
(included in collection: "Anthology of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra 1950 - 60")
Q DISC MCCL 97018 (14 CDs) (2003)

Symphony No. 9 (1957-8)

Oleg Caetani/Melbourne Symphony Orchestra
( + Symphonies Nos. 7 and 8)
CHANDOS CHSA 5054 (2007)

Sinfonia Piccola (1952)

Oleg Caetani/Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana
( + Sinfoniettas Nos. 1 and 2 and Symphonie de Chambre)
CHANDOS CHAN 10574 (2009)

Israel Yinon/Virtuosi di Praga
( + Sinfoniettas Nos. 1 and 2 and Divertimento)
KOCH SCWANN 3-6593-2 (2000)

Symphonie de Chambre (1960)

Oleg Caetani/Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana
( + Sinfoniettas Nos. 1 and 2 and Sinfonia Piccola)
CHANDOS CHAN 10574 (2009)

Sinfonietta No. 1 (1924)

Oleg Caetani/Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana
( + Sinfonietta No. 2, Sinfonia Piccola and Symphonie de Chambre)
CHANDOS CHAN 10574 (2009)

Israel Yinon/Virtuosi di Praga
( + Sinfonia Piccola, Sinfonietta No.2 and Divertimento)
KOCH SCWANN 3-6593-2 (2000)

Sinfonietta No. 2 (1978)

Oleg Caetani/Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana
( + Sinfonietta No.1, Sinfonia Piccola and Symphonie de Chambre)
CHANDOS CHAN 10574 (2009)

Israel Yinon/Virtuosi di Praga
( + Sinfonia Piccola, Sinfonietta No.1 and Divertimento)
KOCH SCWANN 3-6593-2 (20

ROBERT CASADESUS
(1899-1972)

Born in Paris into a musical family that included 3 uncles who were composers. His formal studies were at the Paris Conservatory where his piano teacher was Joseph Diemer and Xavier Leroux taught him composition. He achieved great fame as a pianist and toured extensively, often appearing with his wife Gaby. He taught both in France and America. His unrecorded Symphonies are Nos. 2 (1941), 3 (1947), 4 (1954) and 6 (1965) and his orchestral catalogue also includes 3 Piano Concertos, Concertos for 2 and 3 Pianos, Violin Concerto, Cello Concerto and 3 Suites for Orchestra.

Symphony No. 1, Op. 19 (1934-1972)

Howard Shelley/Northern Sinfonia
( + Symphonies Nos. 5 and 7)
CHANDOS CHAN 10263 (2005)

Symphony No. 5, Op. 60 "Sur le Nom de Haydn" (1959-60)

Howard Shelley/Northern Sinfonia
( + Symphonies Nos. 1 and 7)
CHANDOS CHAN 10263 (2005)

Symphony No. 7 for Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra, Op. 68 "Israël" (1967-70)

Howard Shelley/Alexandra Gibson (mezzo)/ Mark Wilde (tenor)/ Michael Druiett (bass)/Northern Sinfonia Chorus/Gateshead Children's Choir/Northern Sinfonia
( + Symphonies Nos. 1 and 5)
CHANDOS CHAN 10263 (2005)

FRANCIS POULENC
(1899-1963)

Born in Paris. His formal musical training began with piano lessons from Ricardo Viñes. He entered the circle of musicians around Erik Satie and, after service in World War I, had composition lessons from Charles Koechiln. He was part of the informal musical group "Les Six" and was a very accomplished pianist. As a composer he is the last in the line of French composers whose music is enjoyed by the greater musical public. His extensive catalogue encompasses most genres from opera to solo instrumental pieces and his Concertos for 2 Pianos, Harpsichord and Organ, ballets "Les Biches" and "Les Animaux Modèles" and choral "Gloria" are among the most popular of 20th century compositions.

Sinfonietta (1947)

Donald Barra/San Diego Chamber Orchestra
( + Ibert: Divertissement and Concertino da Camera)
KOCH INTERNATIONAL CLASSICS KI 3-7042-2 (1994)

Mario Bernardi/CBC Vancouver Orchestra
( + Debussy: Petite Suite, Fauré: Pelléas et Mélisande and Satie: Jack in the Box)
CBC SMCD 5122 (1993)

Boris Brott/Hamilton Philharmonic Orchestra
( + McCauley: Concerto Grosso)
CBC SM 264 (LP) (1975)

Edmon Colomer/Orchestre National de Picardie
( + Suite Française and Organ Concerto)
CALLIOPE CAL 9748 (1999)

Ronald Corp/New London Orchestra
( + Aubade and Hahn: Le Bal de Beatrice d'Este)
HYPERION HELIOS CDH58167 (2004)
(original CD release: HYPERION CDA66347) (1989)

Jonathan Darlington/Luxembourg Philharmonic Orchestra
( + Les Animaux Modèles)
TIMPANI 1C1146 (1997)

Charles Dutoit/Orchestre National de France
( + Piano Concerto, 2 Piano Concerto, Organ Concerto, Harpsichord Concerto, Aubade, Pièce Brève sur le Nom d'Albert Roussel, Bucolique, Deux Marches et un Intermède, Suite Française, Les Biches,
Les Animaux Modeles, Matelote Provençale, Pastourelle Valse, Discours du Général, La Baigneuse de Trouville, Fanfare and Satie/Poulenc: 2 Préludes Posthumes et Une Gnossienne)
DECCA 460597-2 (3 CDs) (1999)
(original LP release: DECCA 452665-2) (1996)


Richard Hickox/City of London Sinfonia
( + Organ Concerto, Piano Concerto, 2 Piano Concerto, Harpsichord Concerto and Aubade)
VIRGIN CLASSICS 522045-2 (2 CDs) (2008)
(original CD release: VIRGIN CLASSICS VC5 45028-2) (1996)

Paavo Järvi/Tapiola Sinfonietta
( + Roussel: Sinfonietta, Jolivet: Flute Concerto and Ibert: Divertissement)
BIS CD-630 (1994)

Georges Prêtre/Orchestre de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire Paris
( + Aubade)
VEGA C 30 A 303 (LP) (1961)

Georges Prêtre/Orchestre de Paris
( + 2 Piano Concerto, Harpsichord Concerto, Les Animaux Modèles, Les Biches, Suite Française, L'Éventail de Jeanne: Pastourelle, Bucolique, Matelote Provençale, Deux Marches et un Intermède and Les Mariés de la Tour Eiffel: excerpts)
EMI CLASSICS CZS 7 62690-2 (2 CDs) (1990)
(original LP release: HMV ASD 2450/ANGEL S-36519) (1969)

Mendi Rodan/Isreal Sinfonietta
( + Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 1 and J.C. Bach: Sinfonia in D)
OLYMPIA OCD 164 (1989)

HENRY BARRAUD
(1900-1997)

Born in Bordeaux. His initial musical training was in his home city but he then attended the Paris Conservatory Paul Dukas, Georges Caussade and Louis Aubert were his teachers. His administrative posts included musical directorship of the 1937 Paris International Exposition and national program director for French Radio. He composed operas, ballets and works in most genres. His unrecorded Symphony No. 2 (1955) is for string orchestra and his other works for orchestra include Offrande a une Ombre, Rapsodie Dionysienne, Piano Concerto, Concerto da Camera and a Concerto for Strings.

Symphony No. 1 "Symphonie de Numance" (1952)

Georges Tzipine/Orchestre National de l'ORTF
( + Aubert: Le Tombeau de Chateaubriand)
COLUMBIA (France) FCX 597S (LP) (1957)

Symphony No. 3 (1957)

Charles Munch/Orchestre National de la R.T.F.
( + Roussel: Bacchus et Ariane: Suite No. 2 and Piano Concerto)
ACCORD 461745-2 (2001)
(original LP release: VEGA C30A351) (1963)

Symphony No. 4 (Symphonie Concertante) for Trumpet and Orchestra (1965-6)

Manuel Rosenthal/Roger Delmotte (trumpet)/Orchestre National de l'ORTF)
( + Milhaud: Saudades do Brazil)
BARCLAY INÉDITS 995 034 (LP) (1974)

PIERRE-OCTAVE FERROUD
(1900-1936)

Born in Chasselay, near Lyonss. He studied with Guy Ropartz at the Nancy Conservatory and with Florent Schmitt at the Lyons Conservatory. He settled in Paris where he worked as a music critic and composer and produced several ballets and a number of orchestral and chamber works in a career cut short by an automobile accident

Symphony in A major (1930)

Patrick Davin/Württemberg Philharmonic Orchestra
( + Sarabande, L’Eventail de Jean: March, Sérénade, Chirurgie and Andante Cordial)
MARCO POLO 8.225029 (1998)

Miloš Konvalinka /Brno State Philharmonic Orchestra (rec. 1966)
( + Franck: Symphony in d minor)
PRAGA PR 250083 (1995)

Emmanuel Krivine/Orchestre National de Lyon
( + Types, Foules and Sérénade)
AUVIDIS VALOIS V 4810 (1999)

HENRI SAUGUET
(1901-1989)

Born in Bordeaux his original name was Jean Pierre Poupard. After some initial training in Bordeaux he studied with Joseph Canteloube in Montauban and Charles Koechlin in Paris. He became attached to the circle of Erik Satie known as the École d'Arcueil. He composed operas, ballets and many orchestral, chamber and vocal works. Some of his other major orchestral works were 3 Piano Concertos and "Mélodie Concertante" for Cello and Orchestra.

Symphony No. 1 "Expiatoire" (1945)

Antonio de Almeida/Moscow Symphony Orchestra
MARCO POLO 8.223463 (1996)

Symphony No. 2 for Soprano, Chorus and Orchestra "Allégorique - Les Saisons" (1949)

Antonio de Almeida/Geneviève Ruscica (soprano)/Moscow Symphony Orchestra
MARCO POLO 8.223464-5 (2 CDs) (1996)

Symphony No. 3 "I.N.R." (1955)

Antonio de Almeida/Moscow Symphony Orchestra
( + Symphony No. 4)
MARCO POLO 8.223472 (1997)

Symphony No. 4 "Du Troisième Âge" (1971)

Antonio de Almeida/Moscow Symphony Orchestra
( + Symphony No. 3)
MARCO POLO 8.223472 (1997)

ANDRÉ JOLIVET
(1905-1974)

Born in Paris to a highly cultured family. He began his musical studies as a child and had several years of tutelage from Paul Le Flem. He was propelled into a modernist direction by his acquaintance with Edgard Varese and with a number of like-inclined composers such as Yves Baudrier, Daniel-Lesur and Olivier Messiaen formed La Jeune France whose purpose was the promotion of contemporary French music. He worked as a conductor and taught at the Paris Conservatory and produced a vast amount of music ranging from operas to solo pieces for instruments and voices. Beyond the Symphonies listed below, Jolivet composed many other substantial orchestral works including a "Symphonie de Danse" (1940), Piano Concerto, Violin Concerto, 2 Cello Concertos, Ondes Martennot Concerto and 2 Trumpet Concertos.

Symphony No. 1 (1953)

Marius Constant/Orchestre National de l'O.R.T.F
( + Nikiprowetzky: Hommage à Antonio Gaudi)
BARCLAY INÉDITS 995 008 (LP) (1971)

André Jolivet/Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra
MELODIYA D 017995-8 (LP) (1966)

André Jolivet/Orchestre de Beromünster
( + Symphonies Nos. 2 and 3, Danses Rituelles, J.S. Bach: Suites in C and D, BWV 1066)
LYRINX LYR 045-7 (3 LPS) (1984)

Symphony No. 2 (1959)

André Jolivet/Orchestre Philharmonique de l'ORTF
( + Symphonies Nos. 1 and 3, Danses Rituelles, J.S. Bach: Suites in C and D, BWV 1066)
LYRINX LYR 045-7 (3 LPS) (1984)

Symphony No. 3 (1964)

André Jolivet/Orchestre National de France (rec. 1966)
( + Piano Concerto and Cello Concerto No. 1)
SOLSTICE SOCD 81 (1992)
(original release: LYRINX LYR 045-7 {3 LPS}) (1984)

Symphony for String Orchestra (1961)

Mark Foster/Orchestre des Pays de Savoie
( + Adagio, Andante,
La Flèche du Temps and Ying-Yang)
TIMPANI 1C1027 (1994)

JACQUES DUPONT
(1906-1985)

Born in Paris. He studied at the Paris Conservatory where his teachers were Alfred Cortot (piano), Marcel Samuel-Rousseau (harmony), Noël Gallon (counterpoint and fugue, Max d’Ollone (chamber music), Henri Rabaud (conducting), Maurice Emmanuel (music history) and Henri Büsser (composition). He held positions as director of the Toulon Conservatory, conductor of the Concerts Classiques au Casino de Cannes and became Inspecteur Principal de la musique en France. He composed prolifically in various genres from operas, ballets and film scores to works for solo instruments and songs.His other Symphonies are: Nos (1) "Censi-Symphonie," Op. 13 (1936), "Féa ou Les Baladins Fantasques," Op. 27 (destroyed), (3) Divertissement 48 for Piano, String Orchestra and Percussion, Op. 30,No. 1 (1948), (5) "Le Concert Étrange" for Violin and Orchestra, Op. 73 (1975) and (6) for Piano and Orchestra, Op. 78 "Symphonie Luxembourg."