I don’t buy many CDs these days (I get more than I can handle for free) but I did recently purchase the box set pictured above — “Ernest Ansermet: Decca Recordings 1953-1967” — and thought I’d pass ...

He achieved international renown as the creator and conductor of the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, which he directed for more than half a century. This special edition was produced in 1983 to mark ...

The U.S. had first seen Ernest Ansermet (rhymes with ah sir may) and his black, square-cut beard 32 years ago, conducting while Nijinsky danced. It was Ansermet who gave the U.S. its first taste of ...

The conductor Ernest Ansermet held a grudge against atonal music, saying it went against the "true path" of tonality. In this performance, the Suisse Romande Orchestra plays a tune catchy enough to ...

Hovering over the open-air podium with his arms outstretched, the white-bearded, white-jacketed conductor looked like a snowy egret about to flap off into the fading sunset. Instead, he flew into ...

1. Ernest Ansermet speaks about Igor Stravinsky in Switzerland. 2. Igor Stravinsky: Histoire du Soldat (excerpt). Recorded in 1940. 3. Ernest Ansermet on his first performances of Stravinsky’s works.

The conductor Ernest Ansermet held a grudge against atonal music, saying it went against the "true path" of tonality. In this performance, the Suisse Romande Orchestra plays a tune catchy enough to ...