Arthur Honegger - Symphonies (Serge Baudo)

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Composer: Arthur Honegger

• Symphony No. 1 in C major, H75
• Symphony No. 2 for strings & trumpet ad lib in D major, H153
• Symphony No. 3 "Liturgique", H186
• Symphony No. 4 "Deliciae Basiliensis", H191
• Symphony No. 5 in D major "Di Tre Re", H202
• Pacific 231 (Mouvement symphonique No. 1), H53
• Pastorale d'été, H31
• Chant de joie, H47

Czech Philharmonic Orchestra

Serge Baudo, conductor

Date: 1960-1986

Label: Supraphon

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Arthur Honegger (10 March 1892 – 27 November 1955) was a Swiss composer who spent most of his life in France. He studied at the Zürich Conservatory and after 1912 at the Paris Conservatory. After World War I he was associated with a group of young composers known as "Les Six". Honegger was a prolific composer and made notable contributions to opera, ballet, orchestral, choral, chamber and film music. His music is written in a bold and uninhibited musical idiom that combines the harmonic innovations of the French avant-garde with the large forms and massed sonorities of the German tradition.

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Serge Baudo (born 16 July 1927) is a French conductor, the son of the oboist Étienne Baudo and the nephew of the cellist Paul Tortelier. He studied at the Paris Conservatoire, and made his conducting debut in 1950. His first major appointment was permanent conductor at the Paris Opera (1962-1965), in addition to being the first principal conductor of the newly founded Orchestre de Paris (1967-1970). Baudo was Music Director of the Lyons Opéra from 1969 to 1971, and then of the Orchestre National de Lyons from 1971 to 1987. He is a tireless champion of contemporary music and has led numerous first performances.

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