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Beethoven's Choral Symphony under Monteux

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Pierre Monteux conducted this work at an 85thbirthday concert in April 1960 with the BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Whose Music Director he had been 40 years earlier. This orchestra and conductor never made a commercial record of the symphony together.
Beethoven Symphony No 9, in D minor, Op 125 (with final chorus on Schiller's Ode to Joy)
ELEANOR STEBER (soprano) FREDA O.RAY-MASSÉ (contralto)
JOHN MCCOLLUM (tenor) DAVID LAURENT (baSS) CHORUS PRO MUSICA
(Given in Symphony Hall, Boston: recording from the Boston Symphony Transcription Trust)

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Unknown:
Pierre Monteux
Soprano:
Eleanor Steber
Source: Radio Times

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