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What’s not to like? Here we have one of Eugene Ormandy’s classic accounts of the Nutcracker Suite, followed by a transcription for the Modern Mandolin
This was one of Eugene Ormandy’s last recordings, made just before his stepping down as music director of the Philadelphia Orchestra. Nonetheless, the players turned
There’s nothing even remotely ribald about this Carmina Burana. Eugene Ormandy’s sexless conducting ensures the music has little of its usual bite, an impression reinforced
This is the very same Horowitz/Rachmaninov coupling that was issued just a few years ago on RCA’s High Performance audiophile series. The current issue boasts
This pairing of two of the most popular violin concertos played in concert by one of the last century’s greatest violinists will be a mandatory
With each reissue, this best-ever recording of Pictures at an Exhibition creeps closer to its country of origin (and Sony corporate headquarters). First it was
These recordings date from 1946, the year following Bartók’s death, and they clearly demonstrate that standards of performance in this master’s music were high from
The main interest in Eugene Ormandy’s Symphonie fantastique is the excellent playing of the Philadelphia Orchestra, which gives a good old-fashioned virtuoso performance highlighted by
The Gilels/Ormandy Chopin E minor concerto mainly impresses for its surface sheen. As a Chopinist, Gilels was not the colorist and tone poet Arthur Rubinstein
These performances date from the pioneer years of digital recording, a technology that EMI quickly exploited (though not as fast as some of its rivals)
