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Dimitri Mitropoulos conducts Schumann’s “Spring” Symphony, recorded live at the 1957 Salzburg Festival, with a buoyant energy and joyful spirit that pre-echoes Bernstein’s Vienna recording
You gotta love those folks at Sony France. First they continue with Bernstein Century, and now we have the enticing prospect of a complete Robert
This thrilling live performance, taped on September 23, 1960 in excellent stereo sound at the Vienna State Opera, owes most of its success to conductor
This is a thrilling performance of Puccini’s most interesting opera. Premiered in 1910 at the Metropolitan Opera, for which its American theme was chosen, Toscanini
This is a juicy performance of Verdi’s fifth opera, a work brimming with great melodies and exciting arias, duos, trios, and ensembles. It has great
As a conductor, Dimitri Mitropoulos very much resembled a sort of younger version of Furtwängler, albeit with a predilection for modern music. When he was
It’s mindboggling to think that on Christmas Day, 1949, the New York Philharmonic’s broadcast subscription concert offered not Handel’s Messiah, not Tchaikovsky’s visions of sugar-plum
No need to linger here. Several versions of Mitropoulos’ impulsive way with Mahler’s First survive: his hysterically neurotic, poorly played, badly recorded Minneapolis studio recording
Here’s another routine night at the opera, enshrined for posterity. Well, not quite routine since Myto puts the Overture between Acts 1 and 2. Did
William Kapell’s 1953 New York Philharmonic performance of the Brahms D minor Concerto reveals the extent to which the short-lived pianist had internalized this gnarly
