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…tandem with Ormandy’s voluptuous Scheherazade. It’s also worth pointing out that although the jackets may be original, the couplings thankfully are not. Thus, The Romantic Philadelphia Strings contains Ormandy’s outstanding…
…it has become fashionable to disparage Ormandy generally, as it was equally fashionable back in the day to denigrate these particular RCA performances as compared to Ormandy’s CBS legacy. Part…
…a work otherwise absent from the Ormandy discography. In sum, Biddulph is to be commended for compiling some of the more obscure yet interesting items from Ormandy’s huge, underrated legacy….
…catalog staples with Ormandy’s 78 rpm and mono era Strauss, along with the conductor’s later 1970s RCA Victor remakes. But there’s nothing to complain about concerning the Ormandy/Philadelphia/Strauss triumvirate. First…
…in the Ormandy name. Sonics vary widely, but the saddest thing is that this really isn’t a tribute to Ormandy at all, as much as it’s simply another attempt to…
…the fact that, with few exceptions, Ormandy got duller as he got older. We badly need an “Ormandy in Mono” box. Don’t hold your breath. Anyway, one of those exceptions…
Eugene Ormandy’s Sony recording of the First Symphony (last available on Essential Classics coupled to Bernstein’s equally outstanding Fifth Symphony) is unequalled for Romantic opulence, even extending to some retouching…
Eugene Ormandy’s gutsy, raw, and edgy opening to Shostakovich’s Fifth Symphony comes as a bit of a shock after hearing the recent, rather anemic version by Christoph Eschenbach, also with…
This disc contains two of Eugene Ormandy’s finest recorded performances for RCA, and significantly he recorded neither of these pieces for CBS/Sony. The Shostakovich is a magnificent rendition: on balance…
Eugene Ormandy was a surprisingly dedicated Ives conductor, at least on disc, and a very good one too. This version of Three Places in New England was, if memory serves,…