Colonne Orchestra

The Concerts Colonne placed particular emphasis on contemporary music of the time such as (Saint-Saëns, Massenet, Charpentier, Fauré, d'Indy, Debussy, Ravel, Widor, Enescu, Dukas and Chabrier), alongside which were programmed Wagner and Richard Strauss.

[3] As well as Mahler, Peter Tchaikovsky, Claude Debussy, Edvard Grieg, Richard Strauss, Maurice Ravel, Gabriel Pierne, and Prokofiev conducted their music with the orchestra over the years.

A second period of recording for the orchestra occurred from 1928 to 1931 under Pierné amounting to 148 78 sides, encompassing French, Russian and German repertoire.

In 1938 Yehudi Menuhin recorded the Mendelssohn violin concerto and Wieniawski Légende with Enescu conducting the Colonne Orchestra, and during the war Roger Désormière set down contemporaray French works by Messaien, Delvincourt, Barraud and Delannoy.

[8] After La Péri and the Symphonie fantastique from Paray in 1949 and 1951, the main conductor of the remaining records was Jean Fournet, with 28 discs between 1947 and 1951.