Dimitri Mitropoulos - Complete RCA and Columbia Album Collection [New CD] With B

Description: Dimitri Mitropoulos - Complete RCA and Columbia Album Collection [New CD] With B Artist: Dimitri Mitropoulos Title: Complete RCA and Columbia Album Collection Condition: Format: CD Release Date: 2022 Label: Sony Classics UPC: 194398882529 Genre: Classical Artists Album Tracks1. Disc 1:2. Liszt, Arr. Busoni: Rhapsodie Espagnole, S. 254 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra3. Borodin: Symphony No. 2 in B minor, Op. 5 "Bogatyr" (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra4. Disc 2:5. Mozart: Thamos, König in Ägypten, K.345/336A: Entr'acte No. 1 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra6. Mozart: Thamos, König in Ägypten, K.345/336A: Entr'acte No. 2 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra7. Grieg: 2 Elegiac Melodies, Op. 34 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra8. Bach, J.S., Arr. L. Weiner: Toccata, Adagio & Fugue in C Major, BWV 564 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra9. Lully, Arr. Mottl: Ballet Du Temple de la Paix, LWV 69 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra10. Dvořák: Slavonic Dances, Op. 46 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra11. Chabrier: Joyeuse Marche (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra12. Meyerbeer: Le Prophète, Act III: Coronation March (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra13. Disc 3:14. Bach, J.S., Arr. Mitropoulos: Fantasia and Fugue in G minor, BWV 542 "Great" (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra15. Bach, J.S., Arr. H. Bösenroth: Choral Prelude for Organ BWV 680 "Wir Glauben All' An Einen Gott" (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra16. Glazunov: Overture on Three Greek Themes, Op. 3, No. 1 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra17. Ravel, Arr. Chardon: Piece en Forme de Habanera (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra18. Glazunov, Arr. Rogal-Lewitzsky: Chopiniana - Suite for Orchestra Based on Piano Pieces By Frederic Chopin, Op. 46 (Remastered) - Robin Hood Dell Orchestra19. Disc 4:20. Mozart: Concerto No. 10 in E-Flat Major for Two Pianos and Orchestra, K. 365 (Remastered) - Robin Hood Dell Orchestra21. Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 7 in F Major, K.242 "Lodron Concerto" (Remastered) - Little Orchestra Society (Scherman)22. Disc 5:23. Milhaud: Le Boeuf Sur Le Toît, Op. 58 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra24. Ravel: Le Tombeau de Couperin, M. 68A (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra25. Couperin, Arr. Milhaud: Overture and Allegro from "La Sultane Suite" (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra26. Rabaud: La Procession Nocturne, Op. 6 - New York Philharmonic27. Disc 6:28. Chausson: Symphony in B-Flat Major, Op. 20 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra29. Walton: Portsmouth Point Overture (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra30. Disc 7:31. Puccini: Manon Lescaut, Act III: Intermezzo (Remastered) - Robin Hood Dell Orchestra32. Mascagni: Cavalleria Rusticana, Act II: Intermezzo (Remastered) - Robin Hood Dell Orchestra33. Wolf-Ferrari: I Gioielli Della Madonna (The Jewels of the Madonna). Act II: Intermezzo (Remastered) - Robin Hood Dell Orchestra34. Wolf-Ferrari: I Gioielli Della Madonna (The Jewels of the Madonna). Act III: Intermezzo (Remastered) - Robin Hood Dell Orchestra35. Menotti: Sebastian (Ballet Suite) (Remastered) - Robin Hood Dell Orchestra36. Massenet: Scènes Alsaciennes Suite No. 7 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra37. Disc 8:38. Rachmaninoff: The Isle of the Dead, Op. 29 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra39. Vaughan-Williams: Fantasia on a Theme By Thomas Tallis (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra40. Disc 9:41. Mahler: Symphony No. 1 in D Major "Titan" - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra42. Disc 10:43. Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 2 in C minor, Op. 17 "Little Russian" (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra44. Disc 11:45. Khachaturian: Piano Concerto in D-Flat Major, Op. 38 (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic46. Rubinstein: Piano Concerto No. 4, Op. 70 (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic47. Disc 12:48. Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 1 in B-Flat Major, Op. 23 (Remastered 1999) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra49. Disc 13:50. Poulenc: Concerto in D minor for Two Pianos and Orchestra (Remastered) - RCA Victor Symphony Orchestra51. Brahms: Variations on a Theme By Haydn, Op. 56B for Two Pianos (Remastered) - (Whittemore & Lowe)52. Disc 14:53. Sessions: Symphony No. 2 (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic54. Gould: Philharmonic Waltzes - New York Philharmonic55. Lalo: Le Roi D'ys: Overture (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra56. Siegmeister: Ozark Set (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra57. Disc 15:58. Schumann: Symphony No. 3 in E-Flat Major, Op. 97 "Rhenish" (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra59. Weinberger: Schwanda the Bagpiper (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra60. Gould: Ministrel Show (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra61. Disc 16:62. Rachmaninoff: Symphony No. 2 in E minor, Op. 27 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra63. Disc 17:64. Franck: Symphony in D minor, FWV 48 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra65. Disc 18:66. Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4 in F minor, Op. 36 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra67. Disc 19:68. Beethoven: Symphony No. 6 in F Major, Op. 68 "Pastorale" (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra69. Disc 20:70. Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 3 in a Minor, Op. 56, "Scotch" (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra71. Mendelssohn: Capriccio Brillant in B minor, Op. 22 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra72. Mendelssohn: Octet in E-Flat Major, Op. 20: III. Scherzo. Allegro Leggierissimo (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra73. Disc 21:74. Dukas: L'apprenti Sorcier in F minor (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra75. Rimsky-Korsakov: The Golden Cockerel (Suite) (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra76. Prokofiev: Symphony No. 1 in D Major, Op. 25 "Classical" (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra77. Glière: Red Poppy Ballet Suite: Russian Sailor's Dance (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra78. Disc 22:79. Schumann: Symphony No. 2 in C Major, Op. 61 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra80. Rimsky-Korsakov: The Golden Cockerel (Suite); Bridal Procession (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra81. Disc 23:82. Chopin: Piano Concerto No. 1 in E minor, Op. 11 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra83. Disc 24:84. Brahms: Variations on a Theme By Haydn, Op. 56A "ST. Anthony's Choral" (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra85. Weber: Jubel-Ouvertüre, Op. 59 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra86. Beethoven: Coriolan Overture, Op. 62 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra87. Beethoven: Leonore Overture No. 3 in C Major, Op. 72A (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra88. Disc 25:89. Bloch: Schelomo - Hebraic Rhapsody for Cello & Orchestra (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic90. Saint-Saens: Cello Concerto No. 1 in a Minor, Op. 33 (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic91. Disc 26:92. Stravinsky: Petrushka (1911 Version) (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic93. Disc 27/28:94. Berg: Wozzeck, Op. 7 - New York Philharmonic95. Disc 29:96. Debussy: La Mer - New York Philharmonic97. Debussy: Images Pour Orchestre, L. 122, No. 2 (Remastered) - Philadelphia Orchestra (Ormandy)98. Disc 30:99. Schoenberg: Erwartung, Op. 17 - New York Philharmonic100. Krenek: Symphonic Elegy for String Orchestra (In Memoriam of Anton Webern) - New York Philharmonic101. Schoenberg: Verklärte Nacht, Op. 4 - Strings of the New York Philharmonic102. Disc 31:103. Bruch: Concerto No. 1 in G minor for Violin and Orchestra, Op. 26 - New York Philharmonic104. Beethoven: Romance for Violin and Orchestra in G Major, Op. 40 (Remastered) - Columbia Symphony Orchestra (Morel)105. Beethoven: Romance for Violin and Orchestra in F Major, Op. 50 (Remastered) - Columbia Symphony Orchestra (Morel)106. Paganini: Concerto No. 3 in B minor for Violin and Orchestra, Op. 61 - New York Philharmonic107. Disc 32:108. Gottschalk: Cakewalk Ballet Suite (Remastered) - Philadelphia Orchestra (Ormandy)109. Gould: Fall River Legend Ballet Suite (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic110. Couperin, Arr. Milhaud: Overture and Allegro from "La Sultane Suite" (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic111. Travis: Symphonic Allegro (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic112. Disc 33:113. Berlioz: Roméo Et Juliette, Op. 17, H 79 (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic114. Disc 34:115. Prokofiev: Concerto No. 2 in G minor for Violin and Orchestra, Op. 63 - New York Philharmonic116. Bach, J.S.: Violin Concerto No. 2 in E Major, BWV 1042 (Remastered) - Cleveland Orchestra (Szell)117. Prokofiev: Concerto No. 3 for Piano and Orchestra in C Major, Op. 26 - Robin Hood Dell Orchestra118. Disc 35:119. Scriabin: Symphony No. 4, Op. 54 "Le Poème de L'extase" - New York Philharmonic120. Scriabin: Promethée, Le Poème Du Feu, Op. 60 - New York Philharmonic121. Disc 36:122. Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5 in D minor, Op. 47 (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic123. Disc 37:124. Ippolitov-Ivanov: Caucasian Sketches, Suite No. 1, Op. 10 - New York Philharmonic125. Borodin, Arr. Rimsky-Korsakov: Prince Igor, Act II: Polovtsian Dances (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic126. Borodin: In the Steppes of Central Asia - New York Philharmonic127. Disc 38:128. Schoenberg: Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, Op. 36 (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic129. Berg: Concerto for Violin and Orchestra "To the Memory of An Angel" (Remastered) - Cleveland Orchestra (Rodzinski)130. Disc 39:131. Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 3 in a Minor, Op. 56, "Scotch" (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic132. Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 5 in D Major, Op. 107 "Reformation" (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic133. Mendelssohn: Die Hebriden, Op. 26 (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic134. Mendelssohn: Ruy Blas, Op. 95: Overture (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic135. Disc 40:136. Riegger: Symphony No. 3 in G Major, Op. 42 (Remastered) - Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra (Hanson)137. Mennin: Symphony No. 3 (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic138. Disc 41:139. Shostakovich: Symphony No. 10 in E-Minor, Op. 93 (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic140. Disc 42:141. Berlioz: Les Nuits D'ÉTÉ, Op. 7 - Columbia Symphony Orchestra142. Berlioz: La Captive, H 60 - Columbia Symphony Orchestra143. Berlioz: Le Jeune Pâtre Breton, H 65 - Columbia Symphony Orchestra144. Berlioz: Zaïde (Boléro), Op.19 No. 1 - Columbia Symphony Orchestra145. Disc 43:146. Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto in E minor, Op. 64 - New York Philharmonic147. Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto, Op. 35 - New York Philharmonic148. Disc 44:149. Borodin: Symphony No. 2 in B minor, Op. 5 - New York Philharmonic150. Tchaikovsky: Orchestral Suite No. 1, in D minor, Op. 43 - New York Philharmonic151. Disc 45:152. Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5 in E minor, Op. 64 (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic153. Disc 46:154. Shostakovich: Violin Concerto No. 1 in a Minor, Op. 99 - New York Philharmonic155. Disc 47:156. Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 5 in E-Flat Major, Op. 73 "Emperor" - New York Philharmonic157. Bach, J.S.: Concerto for 3 Pianos in D minor, BWV 1063 (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic158. Disc 48:159. Prokofiev: Lieutenant Kijé Suite, Op. 60 (Symphonic Suite for Orchestra) - New York Philharmonic160. Kodály: Háry János Suite (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic161. Disc 49:162. Saint-Saëns: Danse Macabre, Op. 40 (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic163. Saint-Saëns: Le Rouet D'omphale, Op. 31 - New York Philharmonic164. Saint-Saëns: Phaëton, Poème Symphonique, Op. 39 - New York Philharmonic165. Saint-Saëns: La Jeunesse D'hercule - Poème Symphonique - New York Philharmonic166. Disc 50:167. Vaughan-Williams: Symphony No. 4 in F minor - New York Philharmonic168. Vaughan-Williams: Fantasia on a Theme By Thomas Tallis - Strings of the New York Philharmonic169. Disc 51:170. Schuller: Symphony for Brass and Percussion, Op. 16 (Remastered) - Brass Ensemble of the Jazz and Classical Music Society171. J.J. Johnson: Poem for Brass (Remastered) - (Schuller)172. J. Lewis: Three Little Feelings (Remastered) - (Schuller)173. Giuffre: Pharaoh (Remastered) - (Schuller)174. Disc 52:175. Schuman: Credendum - Article of Faith (Remastered) - Philadelphia Orchestra (Ormandy)176. Kirchner: Piano Concerto No. 1 (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic177. Disc 53:178. Falla: Noches en los Jardines de España (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic179. Falla: El Sombrero de Tres Picos, Suite No.2 (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic180. Disc 54:181. Dukas: L'apprenti Sorcier (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic182. Weinberger: Schwanda the Bagpiper (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic183. Strauss, R.: Salome, Op. 54: Dance of the 7 Veils (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic184. Liszt: Les Préludes, S.97 (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic185. Disc 55:186. Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6 in B minor, Op. 74 "Pathétique" (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic187. Disc 56:188. Prokofiev: Violin Concerto No. 1 in D Major, Op. 19 - New York Philharmonic189. Prokofiev: Violin Concerto No. 2 in G minor, Op. 63 - New York Philharmonic (Bernstein)190. Disc 57/58:191. Barber: Vanessa, Op. 32 (Remastered) - Metropolitan Opera Orchestra & Chorus192. Disc 59:193. Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet Ballet, Op. 64 (Excerpts) - New York Philharmonic194. Disc 60/61:195. Mussorgsky: Boris Godunov (Abridged) (Remastered) - Metropolitan Opera Orchestra & Chorus196. Disc 62:197. Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique, Op. 14 (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic198. Disc 63:199. Tchaikovsky: Slavonic March, Op. 31 - New York Philharmonic200. Mussorgsky: Night on Bald Mountain - New York Philharmonic201. Tchaikovsky: Capriccio Italien, Op. 45 - New York Philharmonic202. Skalkottas: Four Greek Dances - New York Philharmonic203. Disc 64:204. Verdi: A Masked Ball (Abridged) (Remastered) - Metropolitan Opera Orchestra205. Disc 65:206. Walton: Concerto for Violin and Orchestra (Remastered) - the Philadelphia Orchestra (Ormandy)207. Lalo: Symphonie Espagnole (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic208. Disc 66:209. Hindemith: Sonata for Oboe and Piano (Remastered) - Harold Gomberg, Dimitri Mitropoulos210. Löffler: 2 Rhapsodies for Oboe, Viola and Piano (Remastered) - Harold Gomberg; Dimitri Mitropoulos211. Disc 67:212. Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 3 in C minor, Op. 37 (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic213. Mozart: 9 Variations on a Minuet By Jean Pierre Duport, K. 573 (Remastered) - (Casadesus)214. Disc 68/69:215. Verdi: Un Ballo in Maschera - Metropolitan Opera Orchestra & Chorus The legendary original soundtrack to Cowboy Bebop is finally available on vinyl! The Bebop crew is just trying to make a buck. This motley lot of intergalactic loners teams up to track down fugitives and turn them in for cold hard cash. Spike is a hero whose cool façade hides a dark and deadly past. The pilot Jet is a bruiser of a brute who can't wait to collect the next bounty. Faye Valentine is a femme fatale prone to breaking hearts and separating fools from their money. Along for the ride are the brilliant, but weird, hacker Ed and a super-genius Welsh Corgi named Ein. On their own, any one of them is likely to get lost in the sprawl of space, but together, they're they most entertaining gang of bounty hunters in the year 2071. Composed and performed by Yoko Kanno and the band Seatbelts, the music of Cowboy Bebop is one of the signature elements of the series. The energetic jazz-infused pieces rip and roar across the stars and are as indispensable as the crew of the Bebop themselves.Sony Classical is proud to announce one of its most significant historic releases of recent years: a 69-CD box set containing the recorded legacy of Dimitri Mitropoulos (1896–1960), who ranks by general consensus among the 20th century’s most brilliant conductors. Many of these legendary performances have never before been transferred from their analogue masters and released on digital medium. A lifelong ascetic and mystic, Mitropoulos was attracted in his youth to the monastic life but decided against following his older brothers into the Greek Orthodox Church when he learned that music was censured as a forbidden indulgence. After studying piano, composition, theory and conducting, first in his native Athens, then in Rome, Brussels and with Busoni in Berlin – where he served as Erich Kleiber’s assistant at the Staatsoper from 1921–24 – his career took flight in Athens. It was there that he developed his trademark style of conducting without baton or score and brought to his music-making all his religious fervour and passion along with his prodigious memory. As the critic Peter Quantrill astutely noted in an overview of his recordings in Gramophone: “Mitropoulos’s facility of memory could draw out [recurring melodic and motivic strands] at faster-than-usual tempi while maintaining an intuitive proportion between their sections. You seem to hear more of the music in a shorter space of time.” His international fame began with a 1930 Berlin Philharmonic performance of the Prokofiev Third Piano Concerto, in which Mitropoulos appeared as both soloist and conductor. (He would repeat that tour de force a decade and a half later in Philadelphia, a performance included in this new set.) His American career was launched by sensational concerts with the Boston Symphony Orchestra in 1936, which promptly resulted in his appointment to succeed Eugene Ormandy as principal conductor of the Minneapolis Symphony (now Minnesota) Orchestra. He proceeded to bring that ensemble international fame through recordings which captured the force of his magnetic personality and electrifying musicianship. In Minneapolis, he enjoyed enormous success with critics and audiences, performing half of Mahler’s then still largely unfamiliar output (earning him American Mahler Society Medal of Honor in 1940) and commissioning numerous works by leading American and European composers to make the orchestra a bastion of modern music in the US. Mitropoulos’s association with the New York Philharmonic, which he first conducted in 1940, was hardly less successful artistically, though it was ultimately tarnished by critical hostility having more to do with his sexual orientation than his musical interpretations. From 1949, he served as the orchestra’s co-conductor with Leopold Stokowski, then from 1951 as music director until, after a period of joint leadership with Leonard Bernstein in 1958, he “abdicated with joy” in favour of his protégé, supposedly to devote more time to opera. During his New York years, he was also a commanding presence at the Metropolitan. As Sony Classical’s massive new box set definitively demonstrates, Mitropoulos faithfully documented his eclectically wide-ranging repertoire on disc in Minneapolis and New York, even recording some favourite works in both cities. To cite a few highlights from the MINNEAPOLIS SYMPHONY years: there is the first-ever recording of Mahler’s First Symphony (1940), which “can still be counted among the finest the work has received” (Gramophone); Tchaikovsky’s Symphonies Nos. 4 (1940) and 2 (1946) as well as his First Piano Concerto with Arthur Rubinstein (1946) – “The soloist is in rare form, and this is an example of the grand manner in operation” (High Fidelity). Other symphonies for which Mitropoulos showed his special affinity in Minneapolis include the Borodin Second (1941; MusicWeb International: “The best performance of the Borodin symphony I’ve ever heard”), Schumann’s Second (1940) and “Rhenish” (1947), the Prokofiev “Classical” (1940) and Franck D minor (1940) – “Mitropoulos infuses his reading with unbearable intensity” (Classical Notes). Also reissued here are Mitropoulos’s celebrated, incandescent Minneapolis readings of Rachmaninoff’s Second Symphony (1947) – “An excellent interpretation … beautifully recorded, with a resonant, spacious quality … played with smooth, virtuosic effect” (Gramophone) – and The Isle of the Dead (1945); as well as Brahms’s “St. Antoni” Variations (1942), Vaughan Williams’s Tallis Fantasia (1945), Ravel’s Tombeau de Couperin (1941) and Milhaud’s Le Boeuf sur le toit (1945). We have Mitropoulos’s fellow Busoni pupil Egon Petri as piano soloist in their teacher’s arrangement of Liszt’s Spanish Rhapsody (1940) and pianist Oscar Levant in concertos by Khachaturian (1950) and Anton Rubinstein (1952). With the NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC, Mitropoulos conducts the epoch-making first recording of Berg’s Wozzeck (1951) with Mack Harrell and Eileen Farrell – “It is difficult to conceive any other conductor having an equivalent grasp of the score; and Mitropoulos infused his knowledge and vitality into his soloists” (Gramophone); Schoenberg’s Verklärte Nacht, Erwartung with soprano Dorothy Dow (1951) and the first recording of his Violin Concerto, with Louis Krasner, Mitropoulos’s erstwhile Minneapolis concertmaster (1952); Krenek’s Symphonic Elegy (1951); and memorable Berlioz including an “almost hallucinatory” (Classical Net) Symphonie fantastique (1957) and excerpts from Roméo et Juliette (1952). Included from New York are also Mendelssohn’s “Scottish” and “Reformation” Symphonies (1953); Tchaikovsky’s Fifth Symphony (1954), Pathétique (1957) – “Mitropoulos achieves some remarkable flexibility of phrase for his expressive purposes … The first chord in the Adagio lamentoso movement of this recording sounds as if the conductor had reached the hearts of every individual string player” (New York Times) – and First Suite (1954); Scriabin’s Poème de l’extase and Promethée (1953); Shostakovich’s Symphonies Nos. 5 (1952) and 10 (1954) – “Mitropoulos had a particular affinity for this symphony. He gave its Western Hemisphere premiere in 1954 … This recording conveys an exciting spontaneity” (High Fidelity), “Mitropoulos’s pioneering account probes more deeply into the heart of this score than any of the recent newcomers” (Gramophone); Debussy’s La Mer (1950) and Stravinsky’s Petrushka (1951); excerpts from Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet (1957) as well as that composer’s Lieutenant Kijé and Kodály’s Háry János suites (1956); Vaughan Williams’s Fourth Symphony (1956) – “splendidly alert and unfailingly eloquent (nowhere more so than in the slow movement) … Mitropoulos’s deeply felt interpretation won the enthusiastic approbation of the composer” (Gramophone) – and his Tallis Fantasia in the conductor’s 1958 glorious stereo remake (BBC Music Magazine: “A marvel of fine string playing”). Other New York recordings with a soloist include David Oistrakh’s “unmissable … spellbinding … not least because of the conducting” (Gramophone) first recording of the Shostakovich Violin Concerto No. 1 (1956); pianist Robert Casadesus in the Beethoven “Emperor” (1955), with “accompaniments as dynamic and exciting as the soloist’s playing” (Classics Today), and Falla’s Nights in the Gardens of Spain (1956–57) – “Remarkable … Listen to the mystery and menace that he and Mitropoulos find in the first movement’s second half, or to the huge passion they bring to its climax” (Classics Today); the Mendelssohn and Tchaikovsky (1954) and Prokofiev’s Second Violin Concerto (1952) with Zino Francescatti and the Prokofiev First Concerto with Isaac Stern (1956). Major American works from New York include the recording premiere of Roger Sessions’s Second Symphony (1950) – “one of the most important symphonic works ever produced in the United States” (Gramophone) – as well as Peter Mennin’s Third Symphony (1954), Gunther Schuller’s Symphony for Brass and Percussion (1956), Morton Gould’s Fall River Legend ballet suite (1952) and Leon Kirchner featured as soloist in his Piano Concerto No. 1 (1956). Finally, the box also contains Mitropoulos’s complete METROPOLITAN OPERA sets: the world premiere of Samuel Barber’s Vanessa with Eleanor Steber, Nicolai Gedda, Regina Resnik and Rosalind Elias (1958) – “This recording stands the test of time as well as does the opera itself” (Penguin Guide); Verdi’s Un ballo in maschera with Zinka Milanov, Jan Peerce, Leonard Warren and the Met debut of Marian Anderson (1955); and Mussorgsky’s Boris Godunov (in English; abridged) with Giorgio Tozzi (1956).DIMITRI MITROPOULOS -COMPLETE RCA AND COLUMBIA ALBUM COLLECTIONCopyright DirectToU LLC. All Rights Reserved.

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