Artist: Charles Munch
Album: Mendelssohn: Symphony 4 & 5 by Charles Munch
Genre: Classical
Release Date: 2023
Audio Format:: FLAC (tracks) 24 bit, 96 kHz
Duration: 53:47
Total Tracks: 8
Total Size: 920 MB

Tracklist:

1-1. Charles Munch – Symphony No. 4 in A Major, Op. 90 “Italian”: I. Allegro vivace (2023 Remastered, Boston 1958) (08:02)
1-2. Charles Munch – Symphony No. 4 in A Major, Op. 90 “Italian”: II. Andante con moto (2023 Remastered, Boston 1958) (05:56)
1-3. Charles Munch – Symphony No. 4 in A Major, Op. 90 “Italian”: III. Con moto moderato (2023 Remastered, Boston 1958) (06:27)
1-4. Charles Munch – Symphony No. 4 in A Major, Op. 90 “Italian”: IV. Saltarello: Presto (2023 Remastered, Boston 1958) (06:04)
1-5. Charles Munch – Symphony No. 5 in D minor, Op. 107 “Reformation”: I. Andante, Allegro con fuoco (2023 Remastered, Boston 1957) (10:41)
1-6. Charles Munch – Symphony No. 5 in D minor, Op. 107 “Reformation”: II. Allegro vivace (2023 Remastered, Boston 1957) (04:12)
1-7. Charles Munch – Symphony No. 5 in D minor, Op. 107 “Reformation”: III. Andante (2023 Remastered, Boston 1957) (03:23)
1-8. Charles Munch – Symphony No. 5 in D minor, Op. 107 “Reformation”: IV. Chorale: Andante con moto, Allegro vivace (2023 Remastered, Boston 1957) (08:58)

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Charles Münch was the son of the Alsatian organist and choir director Ernst Münch and the organist Eugene Münch was his uncle. He studied violin at the Strasbourg Conservatory and in 1912 with Lucien Capet in Paris. One of his teachers at the Strasbourg Conservatory was Hans Pfitzner.As an Alsatian, he was drafted into the German Army at the outbreak of the First World War as an artillery sergeant. He suffered gas poisoning at Péronne in 1916 and a gunshot wound at the Battle of Verdun. After the end of the war, he returned to Alsace (now again in French hands) and received French citizenship in 1919.

After further studies with Carl Flesch in Berlin, Charles Münch pursued a career as a soloist and taught violin at the Strasbourg Conservatory (1919) and then at the Leipzig Conservatory. From 1926 to 1932, during Wilhelm Furtwängler’s tenure, he was concertmaster of the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra. During this time he studied conducting. Back in France, he made his debut as a conductor in Paris in November 1932 in a self-financed concert with the Orchestre Straram. His marriage in 1933 to Geneviève Maury, the granddaughter of one of the founders of the Nestlé group, enabled him to finance his further career.

From 1933 to 1940 he continued his studies in conducting with Alfred Szendrei in Paris. From 1935 to 1938 he was conductor of the Orchestre de la Société Philharmonique in Paris, founded by Alfred Cortot, and in 1936 he received a position as a teacher at the École Normale de Musique de Paris. In 1938 he was appointed director of the Société des Concerts du Conservatoire de Paris and retained this post during the German occupation in World War II.