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Here’s another spectacular release from RCA Japan’s Ormandy/Philadelphia edition, courtesy of Arkivmusic.com’s “on demand” program. These are wonderful, truly Romantic performances featuring amazing playing, string
Eugene Ormandy’s disc of Nutcracker excerpts, including the entire “suite” plus a good bit of additional music (Act 1’s journey through the snow and Waltz
Eugene Ormandy and the Philadelphia Orchestra gave the American premiere of Shostakovich’s valedictory symphony in 1972, followed by its first recording outside the Soviet Union.
At last, Sony offers a domestic reissue of the finest recording of Pictures at an Exhibition in the history of the universe. Well, okay, there
Eugene Ormandy’s 1962 Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 7 enjoyed an all-too-brief life on CD before CBS/Sony banished it from its catalogue. This work, actually a reconstruction
The novelty here for many listeners will be Ormandy’s Mahler First–a solid performance, wonderfully played (especially by the strings–listen to them rip into the opening
Although Sergei Rachmaninov considered himself first and foremost a composer, the last two decades of his life found him knee-deep in his “second career” as
Eugene Ormandy made some outstanding recordings at the end of his career for EMI. One was Sibelius’ Four Legends, and another was a disc containing
According to an anecdote in Harold C. Schonberg’s Vladimir Horowitz biography, George Szell called Tchaikovsky’s First Piano Concerto “a piece of s…”–and perhaps that’s true,
Rudolf Serkin’s gaunt tone and impassioned phrasing, along with Eugene Ormandy’s robust, alert support, have long distinguished this 1964 recording of Schumann’s A minor concerto
