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	Chicago Symphony Orchestra - Jean Martinon
		Martinon spent two years in a German camp, where he wrote many compositions, such as Stalag 9 (or Musique d'exil) and Absolve Domine for men's chorus and orchestra (without violins) in memory of French musicians killed in the war.
		Martinon was invited to serve as music director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in 1963.
		Martinon conducted a series of contemporary concerts, funded by the Rockefeller Foundation, at the University of Chicago, and he also led a baroque music festival.
	www.cso.org /main.taf?p=7,3,1,4,7 (235 words)

	Debussy and Ravel - Orchestral Works [RB]: Classical CD Reviews- Jan 2003 MusicWeb(UK) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The ORTF orchestra is entrusted with the Debussy; the Orchestre de Paris with the Ravel.
		Martinon was split between factions including the antipathetic critic of the Chicago Tribune, Claudia Cassidy.
		Martinon breathes and blows on the silky drapes of this wayward warm work with a knowledge borne of years of experience.
	www.musicweb-international.com /classrev/2003/Jan03/debussy_ravel_martinon_emi.htm (2182 words)

	Testament Reissues Jean Martinon's Prokofiev Fifth And Seventh Symphonies Review By Max Westler
		The recordings Martinon made in Chicago testify to a more distinguished partnership with the orchestra than the indignity of his departure would suggest.
		Martinon first came to international attention with a series of early stereo recordings for Decca, of mostly Russian repertoire: Tchaikovsky, Rimsky-Korsakov, Borodin, Shostakovich, and these two symphonies by Prokofiev.
		Martinon doesn't slow down for lyric episodes; and especially in the first and third movements the restlessness and tension are pretty much unrelieved.
	www.enjoythemusic.com /magazine/music/1004/classical/prokofiev.htm (1198 words)

	Decca Music Group - New Release
		The French conductor and composer Jean Martinon was born in Lyons on 10 January 1910 and died in Paris on 1 March 1976.
		Martinon studied in Lyons and Paris and his teachers included Roussel for composition, and Munch and Desormière for conducting.
		Martinon’s repertory was broad-ranging as demonstrated in this collection which, while containing much 19th and early 20th century French music, includes works which, at the time of recording, were still “new” – such as Prokofiev Symphony No.7.
	www.deccaclassics.com /music/originalmasters/4757209.html (392 words)

	Classical Net Review - Maestrino - Debussy - Orchestral Works
		Jean Martinon is one of those conductors who is not so well known as he should be.
		Martinon maintains tension even though he is among the slower of the recordings.
		Martinon's Nocturnes and Ibéria may not be as atmospheric as Stokowski's [EMI 2435-65422] but they are in the same class.
	www.classical.net /~music/recs/reviews/e/emi72673a.html (1296 words)

	Jean Martinon Live Historic CDs $5.00 each
		He directed the Concerts of the Academy (1944-1946), then the Orchestra Lamoureux (1951-1957), London Philarmonic Orchestra, the Orchestra of Tel-Aviv (1958), those of Dublin, of Belfast, etc...; Martinon was appointed General manager of the Music in Düsseldorf in 1960.
		Jean MARTINON was a leading conductor of the French music, his recordings prove it: Berlioz, Massenet, Bizet, Lalo, Saint-Saëns, Debussy, Ibert, Dukas, Poulenc, Pierné, Franck, Ravel, Schmitt, and Roussel.
		Jean MARTINON era un conduttore principale della musica francese, le sue registrazioni la dimostra: Berlioz, Massenet, Bizet, Lalo, San-Saëns, Debussy, Ibert, Dukas, Poulenc, Pierné, Franck, sfilacciatura, Schmitt e Roussel.
	www.musicinthemail.com /classicalconducting/martinon.html (564 words)

	Jean Martinon and The Orchestre de Paris - Ravel's Boléro/Daphnis et Chloé/La Valse - EMI Classics Records
		EMI Classics’ release of Jean Martinon and the Orchestre de Paris’; performances of Ravel’s Boléro, complete Daphnis et Chloé, and La Valse, happily, are anything but stale.
		Martinon was wise to allow the sensual nature of Boléro to speak and insinuate for itself, never pushing or pulling the orchestra.
		The performance has an obviousness about it; that is, Martinon conducts in such a way as to make each succeeding variation of the theme sound logically in its proper place in soundspace and time with regard to every other thematic variation.
	www.musictap.net /Reviews/MartinonJeanRavelBoleroDVDA.html (713 words)

	Robert Croan: Martinon composition in spotlight
		Featured in tomorrow evening's Y Music Society recital of violinist Dylana Jenson is an unaccompanied Sonatina by Jean Martinon (1910-76) that promises to be one of the more interesting novelties of this season.
		The French-born Martinon is best-known as a conductor.
		A Jean Martinon Society was founded on both sides of the Atlantic in 1984 to celebrate his contributions as a composer.
	www.post-gazette.com /magazine/19981103croan6.asp (509 words)

	DEBUSSY Collection Martinon BRILLIANT 92765 [RB]: Classical CD Reviews- November 2005 MusicWeb-International (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		We tend to forget that the present recordings were made within a couple of years of Martinon's death in 1976 though there is no sign of a falling off in insight or energy.
		Martinon came to regret that he was so strongly associated with French music rather as Boult and Handley have been so tightly bound up with English music.
		Not only is this set of compelling artistic attraction it is kind to the bank balance and also takes up only a couple of centimetres of shelf space.
	www.musicweb-international.com /classrev/2005/Nov05/Debussy_Brilliant_92765.htm (1402 words)

	Classics Today.com - Your Online Guide to Classical Music
		Jean Martinon's five-year tenure in Chicago following Fritz Reiner's untimely death remains a controversial period in the orchestra's history, at least from a public relations perspective.
		Although Martinon was widely regarded as something of a failure, I have yet to hear a recording or live broadcast that isn't terrific.
		A composer himself, Martinon had a reputation for interpretive coolness, but this never should be mistaken for a lack of drama or excitement.
	www.classicstoday.com /review.asp?ReviewNum=1517 (174 words)

	Lambert Orkis - Recordings - Chamber Music - with William Steck
		The Martinon, Dello Joio, and Respighi works were all recorded by William Steck and Lambert Orkis in 1987.
		The earliest piece, the Respighi, replete with beautiful romantic harmonies and melodies, is a virtuosic tour de force, both individually and as an ensemble work.
		Jean Martinon (born 1910), a French composer and conductor, has written a four-movement duo which contains material that is progressive while at the same time maintaining conservative characteristics.
	www.lambertorkis.com /chamstemar.htm (235 words)

	Classical Net Review - Martinon - Decca Recordings 1951-1960
		This is one of the most enjoyable box sets in the Decca catalogue with a wide array of music under the exquisite and inimitable baton of the great Jean Martinon.
		Often underrated and perhaps slightly forgotten, this French conductor was a cultured artist in the very sense of the word, bringing a refined approach to music making that is immortalized in these fabulously sounding Decca recordings.
		Martinon had a penchant for Czech music and this is reflected in his boisterous performances of Dvořák's Slavonic Dances, somewhat rare recordings but again, beautifully engineered by the master Kenneth Wilkinson.
	www.classical.net /music/recs/reviews/l/lon757209a.html (575 words)

	Jean Martinon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Martinon is considered by many to be one of the great French conductors of his time and a major rival to Munch and Paray.
		The orchestra that Reiner built was far more to Solti’s liking than Martinon’s and the Chicagoans, whatever their considerable merits, never managed the fluid elegance that is Martinon’s hallmark.
		The recording here is with Orchestre National de la ORTF who respond to Martinon beautifully.
	hometown.aol.com /gothamauricle/Martinon.htm (156 words)

	Schuricht / E. Kleiber / Krauss / Ferras/ Martinon
		Jean Martinon took over the position of musical director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in 1963 after Fritz Reiner left, a difficult position to fill indeed, particularly with the vindictive Claudia Cassidy, critic of the Chicago Tribune, maliciously and constantly undermining him until his departure in 1968.
		Martinon then led the French National Radio Orchestra and the Residency Orchestra in The Hague.
		Martinon surely was a finer conductor than a composer; some collectors may wish to have these, and for those interested, here they are in wonderful transfers on a small private label that has provided a service for collectors with these immaculate, wide-range transfers from pristine original LPs.
	classicalcdreview.com /carl.html (820 words)

	Classical CD Reissues Pt. 2, 5/04 AUDIOPHILE AUDITION
		Inscriptions from November 1957 reissued from the Decca originals, featuring the late Jean Martinon (1910-1976), the able composer-conductor whose estimate in France was under-rated, but whose repute in Britain and the United States was high, especially in French music and in modern works.
		Martinon took his cue from Charles Munch, his mentor and professional guide, but Martinon's touch and colors were slightly more classical than Munch's penchant for colossal, romantic intensity.
		Martinon's is a rather chaste, controlled reading, as is the Seventh Symphony, both in good stereo sound.
	www.audaud.com /audaud/MAY04/reissues/recds2.html (1954 words)

	Jean Martinon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
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	Chicago Symphony Orchestra - Artistic Administration
		Jean Martinon, music director from 1963 until 1968, maintained his own office at Orchestra Hall, and this series consists of his personal correspondence and season planning files.
		As a composer, Martinon was very interested in the promotion and performance of new music.
		Martinon also premiered several of his own works, including Symphony no. 4 (Altitudes), commissioned for the 75th anniversary of the Orchestra.
	www.cso.org /main.taf?p=7,3,2,2,1 (1114 words)

	BEETHOVEN: Piano Concerto No. 5 in E-flat Major, Op. 73 “Emperor;” Piano Sonata No. 4 in E-flat, Op. 7 - Arturo ...
		The last movement might well approach Michelangeli’s conception of the Hammerklavier, had he ever deigned to inscribe it.
		The Emperor Concerto is yet another reading to savor, with its rather uncompromising, driven tempo in the opening Allegro that still manages Michelangeli and Martinon their moments of high relief.
		Detractors are bound to find the bravura approach too glib for their tastes; but even the severest critic will be agog at the sheer fluency of execution and consistent sheen in the piano dynamics.
	www.audaud.com /article.php?ArticleID=357 (466 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Martinon conducts Debussy & Ravel: Music: Jean Martinon,Orchestre de Paris,Claude Debussy,Maurice Ravel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Performed by ORTF National Orchestra Conducted by Jean Martinon
		Performed by ORTF National Orchestra, ORTF Chorus Conducted by Jean Martinon
		Performed by Paris Orchestra Conducted by Jean Martinon
	www.amazon.co.uk /Martinon-conducts-Debussy-Ravel-Jean/dp/B00006HM8X (568 words)

	Jean-Pierre Rampal
		Rampal's programs ranged from the seventeenth century to the present day, with excursions into jazz, English folk songs, Japanese classics and the music of India.
		Among contemporary composers who have dedicated works to him are Jean Francaix, André Jolivet, Jean Martinon, Francis Poulenc and Pierre Boulez.
		Perhaps the most recorded classical instrumentalist in history, Jean-Pierre Rampal received the Grand Prix du Disque for a number of his recordings.
	www.nfaonline.org /resMuseum7.asp (716 words)

	Barnes & Noble.com - Artist Bio
		He prides himself on his technique, his style of playing and his musical intelligence.
		He has performed works by such composers as David Baker, Antal Dorati, Bernard Heiden, Jean Martinon, Miklos Rozsa and Robert Starer, to name a few.
		Over the course of his musical career he has played with all the major orchestras and has appeared on every continent in recitals or concerts.
	music.barnesandnoble.com /search/artistbio.asp?userid=29TBXJZRF3P&ctr=54375 (511 words)

	Universal Music Australia - The Music Pages February 2006 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Martinon wrote a number of large-scale pieces including concertos for violin (No.2 was written for Szeryng) and cello (written for Pierre Fournier), and orchestral works.
		Martinon's repertory was broad-ranging as demonstrated in this collection which, while containing much 19th and early 20th century French music, includes works which, at the time of recording, were still 'new' - such as Prokofiev Symphony No.7.
		2 and 5) by Alexander Tcherepnin, with the composer as soloist; and the Second Violin Concerto by Jean Martinon, with Henryk Szeryng.
	www.universal-australia.com.au /musicpages/classicscatalogue_origmast.html (2071 words)

	Bartók: Suites For Orchestra / Martinon, Chicago So \| ArkivMusic
		The Chicago Symphony's recordings of Bartók conducted by fellow-Hungarian Fritz Reiner are justly famous, but the 1967 recording of Bartók's 'Miraculous Mandarin' Suite on this disc reveals that Reiner's successor as music director in Chicago, Jean Martinon, was equally able to inspire the orchestra in this repertoire.
		This ballet suite is one of the most viscerally exciting scores that Bartók wrote, and it is given a thrilling reading here, with tempos taken at a breakneck pace, especially in the chase sequence near the end.
		For a final contrast, Varèse's noisy 'Arcana' is thrown in: Basically an experiment in sonority, it is brilliantly orchestrated with a huge array of percussion, and requires every bit of virtuosity Martinon and his orchestra have to offer.
	www.arkivmusic.com /classical/album.jsp?album_id=9828 (175 words)

	Fournet/Zecchi/Martinon reissues
		The two suites from Peer Gynt with Jean Fournet were recorded in June 1959 during sessions that also produced shorter works of Dukas, Borodin, Mussorgsky, Chabrier and Debussy.
		The George Szell/NYP and Jean Martinon/CSO releases are Locked in the Vault Reissues, respectively Volumes 41 and 47.
		The twin-CD Martinon set is a jewel - all of the Ravel works were previously issued on a mid-price RCA CD (63683) but these transfers are their equal and a major plus is the second suite from Roussel's Bacchus and Ariadne, one of Martinon's finest Chicago recordings which never has been issued on CD.
	www.classicalcdreview.com /gynt.html (573 words)

	The Ensemble Sospeso - León Biriotti (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Oboist and composer León Biriotti was born in Montevideo in 1929.
		He studied in Montevideo with Jean-Louis LeRoux, Enrique Casal Chapí and Jean Martinon, and later on with Alberto Ginastera and György Ligeti.
		He has done versatile work for new music as an oboist, premiering a considerable number of new compositions, and writing many works for his instrument including two concerti with orchestra he performed in Italy, Austria, United Kingdom and Finland in recent years.
	www.sospeso.com /contents/composers_artists/biriotti.htm (147 words)

	Amazon.co.uk Music: Martinon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Debussy: Orchestral Works Vol.1(2Cd)(24Bit) by Jean Martinon, Martinon, French Radio Symphony Orchestra, and Claude Debussy (Audio CD)
		Debussy: Orchestral Works Vol.2(2Cd)(24Bit) by Jean Martinon, Martinon, French Radio Symphony Orchestra, and Claude Debussy (Audio CD)
		Ibert: Ouverture De Fete/Escales(24Bit) by Martinon and French National Radio O (Audio CD)
	www.amazon.co.uk /s?ie=UTF8&tag2=italianopera-21&keywords=Martinon&search-type=ss&index=music&page=1 (199 words)

	Amazon.ca Music: Martinon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Bacchus Et Ariane, Martinon by Jean Martinon, Albert Roussel, ORTF Chorus, and ORTF National Orchestra (Audio CD - 2003)
		Complete Orchestral Works 4 by Claude Debussy, Jean Martinon, and Orchestre National de L'O.R.T.F. Audio CD - 1989)
		Complete Works 2 by Claude Debussy, Jean Martinon, Michel Sedrez and Fabienne Boury, and Orchestre National de l'O.R.T.F. Audio CD - 1993)
	www.amazon.ca /s?ie=UTF8&keywords=Martinon&search-type=ss&index=music-ca&page=1 (205 words)

	Amazon.ca: Divertissement/Danse Macabre/L: Music: Jean Martinon,Jacques Ibert,Camille Saint-Saens,Georges Bizet,Hector ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Jeux D'enfants - Petite Ste D'orchestra, Op.22: Duo (Petit Mari, Petite Femme) - Paris Conservatoire Orch/Jean Martinon P
		Performed by Paris Conservatory Orchestra Conducted by Jean Martinon
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	www.amazon.ca /Divertissement-Danse-Macabre-Jean-Martinon/dp/B0000042DQ (304 words)

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