Pierre Monteux: The Musicians' Conductor

The Washington Post | June 19, 1994| | Copyright

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). ...

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