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Article: Pierre Monteux: The Musicians' Conductor
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- June 19, 1994
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In the avalanche of pre-digital recordings reissued on CD in
the past 10 years, one of the century's major conductors has been
curiously underrepresented. Pierre Monteux (1875-1964) has not been
totally ignored, but his work has had only a small fraction of the
attention given to such conductors as Furtwangler, von Karajan and
Toscanini, who generated a kind of carefully cultivated mystique
based only in part on their musical skills.
Now, substantial if not complete amends have been made by RCA
in a handsome package titled the "Pierre Monteux Edition"
(09026-61893, 15 CDs with booklet). In the quality and variety of
its contents, the depth, subtlety and versatility of its musical ...