Serge Baudo. Live in Moscow (Live)

  • Disc number in the directory: MEL CO 1122
  • Recorded: 1964
  • Release: 2022

Firma Melodiya continues the series of digital releases of previously unknown historical audio recordings from its archive. 

This album contains recordings of the first two concerts of the outstanding French conductor Serge Baudo that took place in March 1964. 

Although the then 36-year-old conductor of the Paris Opera had appeared at La Scala and showed his worth as a composer, his name was completely new for the Moscow public at that time. The young maestro, together with the USSR State Symphony Orchestra and the Moscow State Philharmonic Orchestra, appeared with a bright and varied program dominated by French music of the 20th century (Dukas, Debussy, Ravel, Roussel, Dutilleux). Some of the works were performed in Moscow for the first time.

Track list

    • CD1
    • CD2
  • 1 La damnation de Faust, Op. 24: No. 1, Menuet des follets (Live)
    Serge Baudo, The USSR State Symphony Orchestra (Hector Berlioz)
    05:23
  • 2 La damnation de Faust, Op. 24: No. 2, Ballet des sylphes (Live)
    Serge Baudo, The USSR State Symphony Orchestra (Hector Berlioz)
    02:02
  • 3 La damnation de Faust, Op. 24: No. 3, Marche de Rakoczy (Live)
    Serge Baudo, The USSR State Symphony Orchestra (Hector Berlioz)
    04:56
  • 4 Gwendoline: Overture (Live)
    Serge Baudo, The USSR State Symphony Orchestra (Emmanuel Chabrier)
    09:26
  • 5 Symphony No. 3, Op. 42: I. Allegro vivo (Live)
    Serge Baudo, The USSR State Symphony Orchestra (Albert Roussel)
    05:27
  • 6 Symphony No. 3, Op. 42: II. Adagio (Live)
    Serge Baudo, The USSR State Symphony Orchestra (Albert Roussel)
    07:48
  • 7 Symphony No. 3, Op. 42: III. Vivace (Live)
    Serge Baudo, The USSR State Symphony Orchestra (Albert Roussel)
    03:02
  • 8 Symphony No. 3, Op. 42: IV. Allegro con spirito (Live)
    Serge Baudo, The USSR State Symphony Orchestra (Albert Roussel)
    06:07
  • 9 Le Tombeau de Couperin, М. 68а: I. Prélude (Live)
    Serge Baudo, The USSR State Symphony Orchestra (Maurice Ravel)
    03:21
  • 10 Le Tombeau de Couperin, М. 68а: II. Forlane (Live)
    Serge Baudo, The USSR State Symphony Orchestra (Maurice Ravel)
    06:32
  • 11 Le Tombeau de Couperin, М. 68а: III. Menuet (Live)
    Serge Baudo, The USSR State Symphony Orchestra (Maurice Ravel)
    04:51
  • 12 Le Tombeau de Couperin, М. 68а: IV. Rigaudon (Live)
    Serge Baudo, The USSR State Symphony Orchestra (Maurice Ravel)
    03:41
  • 13 La Péri (Live)
    Serge Baudo, The USSR State Symphony Orchestra (Paul Dukas)
    19:27
  • Total time: 01:22:03
  • 1 La valse, M. 72 (Live)
    Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra, Serge Baudo (Maurice Ravel)
    12:57
  • 2 Symphony No. 2 "Le Double": I. Animato, ma misterioso (Live)
    Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra, Serge Baudo (Henri Dutilleux)
    08:12
  • 3 Symphony No. 2 "Le Double": II. Andantino sostenuto (Live)
    Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra, Serge Baudo (Henri Dutilleux)
    08:25
  • 4 Symphony No. 2 "Le Double": III. Allegro fuocoso-Calmato (Live)
    Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra, Serge Baudo (Henri Dutilleux)
    12:23
  • 5 Images pour orchestre, L. 122, Ibéria: I. Par les rues et par les chemins (Live)
    Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra, Serge Baudo (Claude Debussy)
    06:45
  • 6 Images pour orchestre, L. 122, Ibéria: II. Les parfums de la nuit (Live)
    Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra, Serge Baudo (Claude Debussy)
    07:38
  • 7 Images pour orchestre, L. 122, Ibéria: III. Le matin d'un jour de fête (Live)
    Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra, Serge Baudo (Claude Debussy)
    04:22
  • Total time: 01:00:42