The date is probably "aspirational", given their track record, but here are the details about the next big conductor box from Sony. I'm told that an unissued Columbia recording of the Dvorak Scherzo Capriccioso that came out on a Minneapolis SO Mitropoulos tribute is missing. Anything else?

Mark O-T

Dimitri Mitropoulos – Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra | New York Philharmonic – The Complete RCA and Columbia Album Collection

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).

SET CONTENTS

DISC 1:

Liszt, Arr. Busoni: Rhapsodie espagnole, S. 254 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra

Borodin: Symphony No. 2 in B Minor, Op. 5 "Bogatyr" (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra

DISC 2:

Mozart: Thamos, König in Ägypten, K.345/336a: Entr'acte No. 1 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra

Mozart: Thamos, König in Ägypten, K.345/336a: Entr'acte No. 2 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra

Grieg: 2 Elegiac Melodies, Op. 34 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra

This is great! Does Sony have a plan to pack a complete Leinsdorf set or Rodzinski's Cleveland recordings?

On Saturday, September 25, 2021 at 2:33:08 PM UTC-10, Mark Obert-Thorn wrote:
> The date is probably "aspirational", given their track record, but here are the details about the next big conductor box from Sony. I'm told that an unissued Columbia recording of the Dvorak Scherzo Capriccioso that came out on a Minneapolis SO Mitropoulos tribute is missing. Anything else?
>
> Mark O-T
>
>
> Dimitri Mitropoulos – Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra | New York Philharmonic – The Complete RCA and Columbia Album Collection
>
> 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).
>
>
> SET CONTENTS
>
> DISC 1:
>
> Liszt, Arr. Busoni: Rhapsodie espagnole, S. 254 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> Borodin: Symphony No. 2 in B Minor, Op. 5 "Bogatyr" (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> DISC 2:
>
> Mozart: Thamos, König in Ägypten, K.345/336a: Entr'acte No. 1 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> Mozart: Thamos, König in Ägypten, K.345/336a: Entr'acte No. 2 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> Grieg: 2 Elegiac Melodies, Op. 34 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> Bach, J.S., Arr. L. Weiner: Toccata, Adagio & Fugue in C Major, BWV 564 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> Lully, Arr. Mottl: Ballet du temple de la paix, LWV 69 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> Dvořák: Slavonic Dances, Op. 46 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> Chabrier: Joyeuse marche (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> Meyerbeer: Le prophète, Act III: Coronation March (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> DISC 3:
>
> Bach, J.S., Arr. Mitropoulos: Fantasia and Fugue in G Minor, BWV 542 "Great" (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> Bach, J.S., Arr. H. Bösenroth: Choral Prelude for Organ BWV 680 "Wir glauben all' an einen Gott" (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> Glazunov: Overture on Three Greek Themes, Op. 3, No. 1 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> Ravel, Arr. Chardon: Piece en Forme de Habanera (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> Glazunov, Arr. Rogal-Lewitzsky: Chopiniana - Suite for Orchestra based on Piano Pieces by Frederic Chopin, Op. 46 (Remastered) - Robin Hood Dell Orchestra
>
> DISC 4:
>
> Mozart: Concerto No. 10 in E-Flat Major for Two Pianos and Orchestra, K. 365 (Remastered) - Robin Hood Dell Orchestra
>
> Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 7 in F Major, K.242 "Lodron Concerto" (Remastered) - Little Orchestra Society (Scherman)
>
> DISC 5:
>
> Milhaud: Le boeuf sur le toît, Op. 58 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> Ravel: Le tombeau de Couperin, M. 68a (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> Couperin, Arr. Milhaud: Overture and Allegro from "La Sultane Suite" (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> Rabaud: La procession nocturne, Op. 6 - New York Philharmonic
>
> DISC 6:
>
> Chausson: Symphony in B-Flat Major, Op. 20 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> Walton: Portsmouth Point Overture (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> DISC 7:
>
> Puccini: Manon Lescaut, Act III: Intermezzo (Remastered) - Robin Hood Dell Orchestra
>
> Mascagni: Cavalleria rusticana, Act II: Intermezzo (Remastered) - Robin Hood Dell Orchestra
>
> Wolf-Ferrari: I gioielli della Madonna (The jewels of the Madonna). Act II: Intermezzo (Remastered) - Robin Hood Dell Orchestra
>
> Wolf-Ferrari: I gioielli della Madonna (The jewels of the Madonna). Act III: Intermezzo (Remastered) - Robin Hood Dell Orchestra
>
> Menotti: Sebastian (Ballet Suite) (Remastered) - Robin Hood Dell Orchestra
>
> Massenet: Scènes Alsaciennes Suite No. 7 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> DISC 8:
>
> Rachmaninoff: The Isle of the Dead, Op. 29 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> Vaughan-Williams: Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> DISC 9:
>
> Mahler: Symphony No. 1 in D Major "Titan" - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> DISC 10:
>
> Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 2 in C Minor, Op. 17 "Little Russian" (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> DISC 11:
>
> Khachaturian: Piano Concerto in D-Flat Major, Op. 38 (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
>
> Rubinstein: Piano Concerto No. 4, Op. 70 (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
>
> DISC 12:
>
> Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 1 in B-Flat Major, Op. 23 (Remastered 1999) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> DISC 13:
>
> Poulenc: Concerto in D Minor for Two Pianos and Orchestra (Remastered) - RCA Victor Symphony Orchestra
>
> Brahms: Variations on a Theme by Haydn, Op. 56b for Two Pianos (Remastered) - (Whittemore & Lowe)
>
> DISC 14:
>
> Sessions: Symphony No. 2 (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
>
> Gould: Philharmonic Waltzes - New York Philharmonic
>
> Lalo: Le roi d'Ys: Overture (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> Siegmeister: Ozark set (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> DISC 15:
>
> Schumann: Symphony No. 3 in E-Flat Major, Op. 97 "Rhenish" (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> Weinberger: Schwanda the Bagpiper (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> Gould: Ministrel Show (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> DISC 16:
>
> Rachmaninoff: Symphony No. 2 in E Minor, Op. 27 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> DISC 17:
>
> Franck: Symphony in D Minor, FWV 48 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> DISC 18:
>
> Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4 in F Minor, Op. 36 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> DISC 19:
>
> Beethoven: Symphony No. 6 in F Major, Op. 68 "Pastorale" (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> DISC 20:
>
> Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 3 in A Minor, Op. 56, "Scotch" (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> Mendelssohn: Capriccio brillant in B Minor, Op. 22 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> Mendelssohn: Octet in E-Flat Major, Op. 20: III. Scherzo. Allegro leggierissimo (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> DISC 21:
>
> Dukas: L'Apprenti sorcier in F Minor (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> Rimsky-Korsakov: The Golden Cockerel (Suite) (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> Prokofiev: Symphony No. 1 in D Major, Op. 25 "Classical" (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> Glière: Red Poppy Ballet Suite: Russian Sailor's Dance (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> DISC 22:
>
> Schumann: Symphony No. 2 in C Major, Op. 61 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> Rimsky-Korsakov: The Golden Cockerel (Suite); Bridal Procession (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> DISC 23:
>
> Chopin: Piano Concerto No. 1 in E Minor, Op. 11 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> DISC 24:
>
> Brahms: Variations on a Theme by Haydn, Op. 56a "St. Anthony's Choral" (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> Weber: Jubel-Ouvertüre, Op. 59 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> Beethoven: Coriolan Overture, Op. 62 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> Beethoven: Leonore Overture No. 3 in C Major, Op. 72a (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> DISC 25:
>
> Bloch: Schelomo - Hebraic Rhapsody for Cello & Orchestra (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
>
> Saint-Saens: Cello Concerto No. 1 in A Minor, Op. 33 (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
>
> DISC 26:
>
> Stravinsky: Petrushka (1911 Version) (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
>
> DISC 27/28:
>
> Berg: Wozzeck, Op. 7 - New York Philharmonic
>
> DISC 29:
>
> Debussy: La Mer - New York Philharmonic
>
> Debussy: Images pour orchestre, L. 122, No. 2 (Remastered) - Philadelphia Orchestra (Ormandy)
>
> DISC 30:
>
> Schoenberg: Erwartung, Op. 17 - New York Philharmonic
>
> Krenek: Symphonic Elegy for String Orchestra (In Memoriam of Anton Webern) - New York Philharmonic
>
> Schoenberg: Verklärte Nacht, Op. 4 - Strings of the New York Philharmonic
>
> DISC 31:
>
> Bruch: Concerto No. 1 in G Minor for Violin and Orchestra, Op. 26 - New York Philharmonic
>
> Beethoven: Romance for Violin and Orchestra in G Major, Op. 40 (Remastered) - Columbia Symphony Orchestra (Morel)
>
> Beethoven: Romance for Violin and Orchestra in F Major, Op. 50 (Remastered) - Columbia Symphony Orchestra (Morel)
>
> Paganini: Concerto No. 3 in B Minor for Violin and Orchestra, Op. 61 - New York Philharmonic
>
> DISC 32:
>
> Gottschalk: Cakewalk Ballet Suite (Remastered) - Philadelphia Orchestra (Ormandy)
>
> Gould: Fall River Legend Ballet Suite (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
>
> Couperin, Arr. Milhaud: Overture and Allegro from "La Sultane Suite" (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
>
> Travis: Symphonic Allegro (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
>
> DISC 33:
>
> Berlioz: Roméo et Juliette, Op. 17, H 79 (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
>
> DISC 34:
>
> Prokofiev: Concerto No. 2 in G Minor for Violin and Orchestra, Op. 63 - New York Philharmonic
>
> Bach, J.S.: Violin Concerto No. 2 in E Major, BWV 1042 (Remastered) - Cleveland Orchestra (Szell)
>
> Prokofiev: Concerto No. 3 for Piano and Orchestra in C Major, Op. 26 - Robin Hood Dell Orchestra
>
> DISC 35:
>
> Scriabin: Symphony No. 4, Op. 54 "Le Poème de l'extase" - New York Philharmonic
>
> Scriabin: Promethée, le poème du feu, Op. 60 - New York Philharmonic
>
> DISC 36:
>
> Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5 in D Minor, Op. 47 (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
>
> DISC 37:
>
> Ippolitov-Ivanov: Caucasian Sketches, Suite No. 1, Op. 10 - New York Philharmonic
>
> Borodin, Arr. Rimsky-Korsakov: Prince Igor, Act II: Polovtsian Dances (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
>
> Borodin: In the Steppes of Central Asia - New York Philharmonic
>
> DISC 38:
>
> Schoenberg: Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, Op. 36 (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
>
> Berg: Concerto for Violin and Orchestra "To the Memory of an Angel" (Remastered) - Cleveland Orchestra (Rodzinski)
>
> DISC 39:
>
> Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 3 in A Minor, Op. 56, "Scotch" (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
>
> Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 5 in D Major, Op. 107 "Reformation" (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
>
> Mendelssohn: Die Hebriden, Op. 26 (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
>
> Mendelssohn: Ruy Blas, Op. 95: Overture (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
>
> DISC 40:
>
> Riegger: Symphony No. 3 in G Major, Op. 42 (Remastered) - Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra (Hanson)
>
> Mennin: Symphony No. 3 (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
>
> DISC 41:
>
> Shostakovich: Symphony No. 10 in E-Minor, Op. 93 (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
>
> DISC 42:
>
> Berlioz: Les nuits d'été, Op. 7 - Columbia Symphony Orchestra
>
> Berlioz: La captive, H 60 - Columbia Symphony Orchestra
>
> Berlioz: Le jeune Pâtre breton, H 65 - Columbia Symphony Orchestra
>
> Berlioz: Zaïde (boléro), Op.19 No. 1 - Columbia Symphony Orchestra
>
> DISC 43:
>
> Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto in E Minor, Op. 64 - New York Philharmonic
>
> Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto, Op. 35 - New York Philharmonic
>
> DISC 44:
>
> Borodin: Symphony No. 2 in B Minor, Op. 5 - New York Philharmonic
>
> Tchaikovsky: Orchestral Suite No. 1, in D Minor, Op. 43 - New York Philharmonic
>
> DISC 45:
>
> Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5 in E Minor, Op. 64 (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
>
> DISC 46:
>
> Shostakovich: Violin Concerto No. 1 in A Minor, Op. 99 - New York Philharmonic
>
> DISC 47:
>
> Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 5 in E-Flat Major, Op. 73 "Emperor" - New York Philharmonic
>
> Bach, J.S.: Concerto for 3 Pianos in D Minor, BWV 1063 (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
>
> DISC 48:
>
> Prokofiev: Lieutenant Kijé Suite, Op. 60 (Symphonic suite for Orchestra) - New York Philharmonic
>
> Kodály: Háry János Suite (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
>
> DISC 49:
>
> Saint-Saëns: Danse macabre, Op. 40 (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
>
> Saint-Saëns: Le rouet d'Omphale, Op. 31 - New York Philharmonic
>
> Saint-Saëns: Phaëton, Poème symphonique, op. 39 - New York Philharmonic
>
> Saint-Saëns: La jeunesse d'Hercule - Poème symphonique - New York Philharmonic
>
> DISC 50:
>
> Vaughan-Williams: Symphony No. 4 in F Minor - New York Philharmonic
>
> Vaughan-Williams: Fantasia On A Theme by Thomas Tallis - Strings of the New York Philharmonic
>
> DISC 51:
>
> Schuller: Symphony for Brass and Percussion, Op. 16 (Remastered) - Brass Ensemble Of The Jazz And Classical Music Society
>
> J.J. Johnson: Poem For Brass (Remastered) - (Schuller)
>
> J. Lewis: Three Little Feelings (Remastered) - (Schuller)
>
> Giuffre: Pharaoh (Remastered) - (Schuller)
>
> DISC 52:
>
> Schuman: Credendum - Article of Faith (Remastered) - Philadelphia Orchestra (Ormandy)
>
> Kirchner: Piano Concerto No. 1 (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
>
> DISC 53:
>
> Falla: Noches en los Jardines de España (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
>
> Falla: El sombrero de tres picos, Suite No.2 (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
>
> DISC 54:
>
> Dukas: L'Apprenti sorcier (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
>
> Weinberger: Schwanda the Bagpiper (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
>
> Strauss, R.: Salome, Op. 54: Dance of the 7 Veils (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
>
> Liszt: Les préludes, S.97 (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
>
> DISC 55:
>
> Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6 in B Minor, Op. 74 "Pathétique" (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
>
> DISC 56:
>
> Prokofiev: Violin Concerto No. 1 in D Major, Op. 19 - New York Philharmonic
>
> Prokofiev: Violin Concerto No. 2 in G Minor, Op. 63 - New York Philharmonic (Bernstein)
>
> DISC 57/58:
>
> Barber: Vanessa, Op. 32 (Remastered) - Metropolitan Opera Orchestra & Chorus
>
> DISC 59:
>
> Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet Ballet, Op. 64 (Excerpts) - New York Philharmonic
>
> DISC 60/61:
>
> Mussorgsky: Boris Godunov (Abridged) (Remastered) - Metropolitan Opera Orchestra & Chorus
>
> DISC 62:
>
> Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique, Op. 14 (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
>
> DISC 63:
>
> Tchaikovsky: Slavonic March, Op. 31 - New York Philharmonic
>
> Mussorgsky: Night On Bald Mountain - New York Philharmonic
>
> Tchaikovsky: Capriccio Italien, Op. 45 - New York Philharmonic
>
> Skalkottas: Four Greek Dances - New York Philharmonic
>
> DISC 64:
>
> Verdi: A Masked Ball (Abridged) (Remastered) - Metropolitan Opera Orchestra
>
> DISC 65:
>
> Walton: Concerto for Violin and Orchestra (Remastered) - The Philadelphia Orchestra (Ormandy)
>
> Lalo: Symphonie Espagnole (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
>
> DISC 66:
>
> Hindemith: Sonata for Oboe and Piano (Remastered) - Harold Gomberg, Dimitri Mitropoulos
>
> Löffler: 2 Rhapsodies for Oboe, Viola and Piano (Remastered) - Harold Gomberg; Dimitri Mitropoulos
>
> DISC 67:
>
> Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 3 in C Minor, Op. 37 (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
>
> Mozart: 9 Variations on a Minuet by Jean Pierre Duport, K. 573 (Remastered) - (Casadesus)
>
> DISC 68/69:
>
> Verdi: Un Ballo in Maschera - Metropolitan Opera Orchestra & Chorus

On 9/25/2021 11:31 PM, wanwan wrote:
> On Saturday, September 25, 2021 at 2:33:08 PM UTC-10, Mark Obert-Thorn wrote:
>> The date is probably "aspirational", given their track record, but here are the details about the next big conductor box from Sony. I'm told that an unissued Columbia recording of the Dvorak Scherzo Capriccioso that came out on a Minneapolis SO Mitropoulos tribute is missing. Anything else?
>>
>> Mark O-T
>>
>>
>> Dimitri Mitropoulos – Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra | New York Philharmonic – The Complete RCA and Columbia Album Collection
>>
>> 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).
>>
>>
>> SET CONTENTS
>>
>> DISC 1:
>>
>> Liszt, Arr. Busoni: Rhapsodie espagnole, S. 254 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>>
>> Borodin: Symphony No. 2 in B Minor, Op. 5 "Bogatyr" (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>>
>> DISC 2:
>>
>> Mozart: Thamos, König in Ägypten, K.345/336a: Entr'acte No. 1 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>>
>> Mozart: Thamos, König in Ägypten, K.345/336a: Entr'acte No. 2 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>>
>> Grieg: 2 Elegiac Melodies, Op. 34 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>>
>> Bach, J.S., Arr. L. Weiner: Toccata, Adagio & Fugue in C Major, BWV 564 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>>
>> Lully, Arr. Mottl: Ballet du temple de la paix, LWV 69 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>>
>> Dvořák: Slavonic Dances, Op. 46 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>>
>> Chabrier: Joyeuse marche (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>>
>> Meyerbeer: Le prophète, Act III: Coronation March (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>>
>> DISC 3:
>>
>> Bach, J.S., Arr. Mitropoulos: Fantasia and Fugue in G Minor, BWV 542 "Great" (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>>
>> Bach, J.S., Arr. H. Bösenroth: Choral Prelude for Organ BWV 680 "Wir glauben all' an einen Gott" (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>>
>> Glazunov: Overture on Three Greek Themes, Op. 3, No. 1 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>>
>> Ravel, Arr. Chardon: Piece en Forme de Habanera (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>>
>> Glazunov, Arr. Rogal-Lewitzsky: Chopiniana - Suite for Orchestra based on Piano Pieces by Frederic Chopin, Op. 46 (Remastered) - Robin Hood Dell Orchestra
>>
>> DISC 4:
>>
>> Mozart: Concerto No. 10 in E-Flat Major for Two Pianos and Orchestra, K. 365 (Remastered) - Robin Hood Dell Orchestra
>>
>> Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 7 in F Major, K.242 "Lodron Concerto" (Remastered) - Little Orchestra Society (Scherman)
>>
>> DISC 5:
>>
>> Milhaud: Le boeuf sur le toît, Op. 58 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>>
>> Ravel: Le tombeau de Couperin, M. 68a (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>>
>> Couperin, Arr. Milhaud: Overture and Allegro from "La Sultane Suite" (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>>
>> Rabaud: La procession nocturne, Op. 6 - New York Philharmonic
>>
>> DISC 6:
>>
>> Chausson: Symphony in B-Flat Major, Op. 20 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>>
>> Walton: Portsmouth Point Overture (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>>
>> DISC 7:
>>
>> Puccini: Manon Lescaut, Act III: Intermezzo (Remastered) - Robin Hood Dell Orchestra
>>
>> Mascagni: Cavalleria rusticana, Act II: Intermezzo (Remastered) - Robin Hood Dell Orchestra
>>
>> Wolf-Ferrari: I gioielli della Madonna (The jewels of the Madonna). Act II: Intermezzo (Remastered) - Robin Hood Dell Orchestra
>>
>> Wolf-Ferrari: I gioielli della Madonna (The jewels of the Madonna). Act III: Intermezzo (Remastered) - Robin Hood Dell Orchestra
>>
>> Menotti: Sebastian (Ballet Suite) (Remastered) - Robin Hood Dell Orchestra
>>
>> Massenet: Scènes Alsaciennes Suite No. 7 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>>
>> DISC 8:
>>
>> Rachmaninoff: The Isle of the Dead, Op. 29 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>>
>> Vaughan-Williams: Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>>
>> DISC 9:
>>
>> Mahler: Symphony No. 1 in D Major "Titan" - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>>
>> DISC 10:
>>
>> Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 2 in C Minor, Op. 17 "Little Russian" (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>>
>> DISC 11:
>>
>> Khachaturian: Piano Concerto in D-Flat Major, Op. 38 (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
>>
>> Rubinstein: Piano Concerto No. 4, Op. 70 (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
>>
>> DISC 12:
>>
>> Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 1 in B-Flat Major, Op. 23 (Remastered 1999) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>>
>> DISC 13:
>>
>> Poulenc: Concerto in D Minor for Two Pianos and Orchestra (Remastered) - RCA Victor Symphony Orchestra
>>
>> Brahms: Variations on a Theme by Haydn, Op. 56b for Two Pianos (Remastered) - (Whittemore & Lowe)
>>
>> DISC 14:
>>
>> Sessions: Symphony No. 2 (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
>>
>> Gould: Philharmonic Waltzes - New York Philharmonic
>>
>> Lalo: Le roi d'Ys: Overture (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>>
>> Siegmeister: Ozark set (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>>
>> DISC 15:
>>
>> Schumann: Symphony No. 3 in E-Flat Major, Op. 97 "Rhenish" (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>>
>> Weinberger: Schwanda the Bagpiper (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>>
>> Gould: Ministrel Show (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>>
>> DISC 16:
>>
>> Rachmaninoff: Symphony No. 2 in E Minor, Op. 27 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>>
>> DISC 17:
>>
>> Franck: Symphony in D Minor, FWV 48 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>>
>> DISC 18:
>>
>> Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4 in F Minor, Op. 36 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>>
>> DISC 19:
>>
>> Beethoven: Symphony No. 6 in F Major, Op. 68 "Pastorale" (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>>
>> DISC 20:
>>
>> Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 3 in A Minor, Op. 56, "Scotch" (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>>
>> Mendelssohn: Capriccio brillant in B Minor, Op. 22 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>>
>> Mendelssohn: Octet in E-Flat Major, Op. 20: III. Scherzo. Allegro leggierissimo (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>>
>> DISC 21:
>>
>> Dukas: L'Apprenti sorcier in F Minor (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>>
>> Rimsky-Korsakov: The Golden Cockerel (Suite) (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>>
>> Prokofiev: Symphony No. 1 in D Major, Op. 25 "Classical" (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>>
>> Glière: Red Poppy Ballet Suite: Russian Sailor's Dance (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>>
>> DISC 22:
>>
>> Schumann: Symphony No. 2 in C Major, Op. 61 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>>
>> Rimsky-Korsakov: The Golden Cockerel (Suite); Bridal Procession (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>>
>> DISC 23:
>>
>> Chopin: Piano Concerto No. 1 in E Minor, Op. 11 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>>
>> DISC 24:
>>
>> Brahms: Variations on a Theme by Haydn, Op. 56a "St. Anthony's Choral" (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>>
>> Weber: Jubel-Ouvertüre, Op. 59 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>>
>> Beethoven: Coriolan Overture, Op. 62 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>>
>> Beethoven: Leonore Overture No. 3 in C Major, Op. 72a (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>>
>> DISC 25:
>>
>> Bloch: Schelomo - Hebraic Rhapsody for Cello & Orchestra (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
>>
>> Saint-Saens: Cello Concerto No. 1 in A Minor, Op. 33 (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
>>
>> DISC 26:
>>
>> Stravinsky: Petrushka (1911 Version) (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
>>
>> DISC 27/28:
>>
>> Berg: Wozzeck, Op. 7 - New York Philharmonic
>>
>> DISC 29:
>>
>> Debussy: La Mer - New York Philharmonic
>>
>> Debussy: Images pour orchestre, L. 122, No. 2 (Remastered) - Philadelphia Orchestra (Ormandy)
>>
>> DISC 30:
>>
>> Schoenberg: Erwartung, Op. 17 - New York Philharmonic
>>
>> Krenek: Symphonic Elegy for String Orchestra (In Memoriam of Anton Webern) - New York Philharmonic
>>
>> Schoenberg: Verklärte Nacht, Op. 4 - Strings of the New York Philharmonic
>>
>> DISC 31:
>>
>> Bruch: Concerto No. 1 in G Minor for Violin and Orchestra, Op. 26 - New York Philharmonic
>>
>> Beethoven: Romance for Violin and Orchestra in G Major, Op. 40 (Remastered) - Columbia Symphony Orchestra (Morel)
>>
>> Beethoven: Romance for Violin and Orchestra in F Major, Op. 50 (Remastered) - Columbia Symphony Orchestra (Morel)
>>
>> Paganini: Concerto No. 3 in B Minor for Violin and Orchestra, Op. 61 - New York Philharmonic
>>
>> DISC 32:
>>
>> Gottschalk: Cakewalk Ballet Suite (Remastered) - Philadelphia Orchestra (Ormandy)
>>
>> Gould: Fall River Legend Ballet Suite (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
>>
>> Couperin, Arr. Milhaud: Overture and Allegro from "La Sultane Suite" (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
>>
>> Travis: Symphonic Allegro (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
>>
>> DISC 33:
>>
>> Berlioz: Roméo et Juliette, Op. 17, H 79 (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
>>
>> DISC 34:
>>
>> Prokofiev: Concerto No. 2 in G Minor for Violin and Orchestra, Op. 63 - New York Philharmonic
>>
>> Bach, J.S.: Violin Concerto No. 2 in E Major, BWV 1042 (Remastered) - Cleveland Orchestra (Szell)
>>
>> Prokofiev: Concerto No. 3 for Piano and Orchestra in C Major, Op. 26 - Robin Hood Dell Orchestra
>>
>> DISC 35:
>>
>> Scriabin: Symphony No. 4, Op. 54 "Le Poème de l'extase" - New York Philharmonic
>>
>> Scriabin: Promethée, le poème du feu, Op. 60 - New York Philharmonic
>>
>> DISC 36:
>>
>> Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5 in D Minor, Op. 47 (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
>>
>> DISC 37:
>>
>> Ippolitov-Ivanov: Caucasian Sketches, Suite No. 1, Op. 10 - New York Philharmonic
>>
>> Borodin, Arr. Rimsky-Korsakov: Prince Igor, Act II: Polovtsian Dances (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
>>
>> Borodin: In the Steppes of Central Asia - New York Philharmonic
>>
>> DISC 38:
>>
>> Schoenberg: Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, Op. 36 (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
>>
>> Berg: Concerto for Violin and Orchestra "To the Memory of an Angel" (Remastered) - Cleveland Orchestra (Rodzinski)
>>
>> DISC 39:
>>
>> Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 3 in A Minor, Op. 56, "Scotch" (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
>>
>> Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 5 in D Major, Op. 107 "Reformation" (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
>>
>> Mendelssohn: Die Hebriden, Op. 26 (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
>>
>> Mendelssohn: Ruy Blas, Op. 95: Overture (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
>>
>> DISC 40:
>>
>> Riegger: Symphony No. 3 in G Major, Op. 42 (Remastered) - Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra (Hanson)
>>
>> Mennin: Symphony No. 3 (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
>>
>> DISC 41:
>>
>> Shostakovich: Symphony No. 10 in E-Minor, Op. 93 (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
>>
>> DISC 42:
>>
>> Berlioz: Les nuits d'été, Op. 7 - Columbia Symphony Orchestra
>>
>> Berlioz: La captive, H 60 - Columbia Symphony Orchestra
>>
>> Berlioz: Le jeune Pâtre breton, H 65 - Columbia Symphony Orchestra
>>
>> Berlioz: Zaïde (boléro), Op.19 No. 1 - Columbia Symphony Orchestra
>>
>> DISC 43:
>>
>> Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto in E Minor, Op. 64 - New York Philharmonic
>>
>> Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto, Op. 35 - New York Philharmonic
>>
>> DISC 44:
>>
>> Borodin: Symphony No. 2 in B Minor, Op. 5 - New York Philharmonic
>>
>> Tchaikovsky: Orchestral Suite No. 1, in D Minor, Op. 43 - New York Philharmonic
>>
>> DISC 45:
>>
>> Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5 in E Minor, Op. 64 (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
>>
>> DISC 46:
>>
>> Shostakovich: Violin Concerto No. 1 in A Minor, Op. 99 - New York Philharmonic
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>> DISC 47:
>>
>> Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 5 in E-Flat Major, Op. 73 "Emperor" - New York Philharmonic
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>> Bach, J.S.: Concerto for 3 Pianos in D Minor, BWV 1063 (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
>>
>> DISC 48:
>>
>> Prokofiev: Lieutenant Kijé Suite, Op. 60 (Symphonic suite for Orchestra) - New York Philharmonic
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>> Kodály: Háry János Suite (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
>>
>> DISC 49:
>>
>> Saint-Saëns: Danse macabre, Op. 40 (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
>>
>> Saint-Saëns: Le rouet d'Omphale, Op. 31 - New York Philharmonic
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>> Saint-Saëns: Phaëton, Poème symphonique, op. 39 - New York Philharmonic
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>> Saint-Saëns: La jeunesse d'Hercule - Poème symphonique - New York Philharmonic
>>
>> DISC 50:
>>
>> Vaughan-Williams: Symphony No. 4 in F Minor - New York Philharmonic
>>
>> Vaughan-Williams: Fantasia On A Theme by Thomas Tallis - Strings of the New York Philharmonic
>>
>> DISC 51:
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>> Schuller: Symphony for Brass and Percussion, Op. 16 (Remastered) - Brass Ensemble Of The Jazz And Classical Music Society
>>
>> J.J. Johnson: Poem For Brass (Remastered) - (Schuller)
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>> J. Lewis: Three Little Feelings (Remastered) - (Schuller)
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>> Giuffre: Pharaoh (Remastered) - (Schuller)
>>
>> DISC 52:
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>> Schuman: Credendum - Article of Faith (Remastered) - Philadelphia Orchestra (Ormandy)
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>> Kirchner: Piano Concerto No. 1 (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
>>
>> DISC 53:
>>
>> Falla: Noches en los Jardines de España (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
>>
>> Falla: El sombrero de tres picos, Suite No.2 (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
>>
>> DISC 54:
>>
>> Dukas: L'Apprenti sorcier (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
>>
>> Weinberger: Schwanda the Bagpiper (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
>>
>> Strauss, R.: Salome, Op. 54: Dance of the 7 Veils (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
>>
>> Liszt: Les préludes, S.97 (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
>>
>> DISC 55:
>>
>> Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6 in B Minor, Op. 74 "Pathétique" (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
>>
>> DISC 56:
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>> Prokofiev: Violin Concerto No. 1 in D Major, Op. 19 - New York Philharmonic
>>
>> Prokofiev: Violin Concerto No. 2 in G Minor, Op. 63 - New York Philharmonic (Bernstein)
>>
>> DISC 57/58:
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>> Barber: Vanessa, Op. 32 (Remastered) - Metropolitan Opera Orchestra & Chorus
>>
>> DISC 59:
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>> Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet Ballet, Op. 64 (Excerpts) - New York Philharmonic
>>
>> DISC 60/61:
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>> Mussorgsky: Boris Godunov (Abridged) (Remastered) - Metropolitan Opera Orchestra & Chorus
>>
>> DISC 62:
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>> Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique, Op. 14 (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
>>
>> DISC 63:
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>> Tchaikovsky: Slavonic March, Op. 31 - New York Philharmonic
>>
>> Mussorgsky: Night On Bald Mountain - New York Philharmonic
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>> Tchaikovsky: Capriccio Italien, Op. 45 - New York Philharmonic
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>> Skalkottas: Four Greek Dances - New York Philharmonic
>>
>> DISC 64:
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>> Verdi: A Masked Ball (Abridged) (Remastered) - Metropolitan Opera Orchestra
>>
>> DISC 65:
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>> Walton: Concerto for Violin and Orchestra (Remastered) - The Philadelphia Orchestra (Ormandy)
>>
>> Lalo: Symphonie Espagnole (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
>>
>> DISC 66:
>>
>> Hindemith: Sonata for Oboe and Piano (Remastered) - Harold Gomberg, Dimitri Mitropoulos
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>> Löffler: 2 Rhapsodies for Oboe, Viola and Piano (Remastered) - Harold Gomberg; Dimitri Mitropoulos
>>
>> DISC 67:
>>
>> Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 3 in C Minor, Op. 37 (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
>>
>> Mozart: 9 Variations on a Minuet by Jean Pierre Duport, K. 573 (Remastered) - (Casadesus)
>>
>> DISC 68/69:
>>
>> Verdi: Un Ballo in Maschera - Metropolitan Opera Orchestra & Chorus
>
>
> Wonder if the Proko R&J excerpts is complete. IIRC, one of the re-issues was missing a movement.
>
> Eric
>
Sony 78761 (Great Performances series) has 9 selections from the first two suites, nothing from the 3rd suite. The earlier Sony 48169 (Essential Classics) has only 8, apparently missing "Juliet - the Little Girl," Suite 2, no. 2

On Saturday, September 25, 2021 at 5:33:08 PM UTC-7, Mark Obert-Thorn wrote:
> The date is probably "aspirational", given their track record, but here are the details about the next big conductor box from Sony. I'm told that an unissued Columbia recording of the Dvorak Scherzo Capriccioso that came out on a Minneapolis SO Mitropoulos tribute is missing. Anything else?
>
> Mark O-T
>
>
> Dimitri Mitropoulos – Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra | New York Philharmonic – The Complete RCA and Columbia Album Collection
>
> 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).
>
>
> SET CONTENTS
>
> DISC 1:
>
> Liszt, Arr. Busoni: Rhapsodie espagnole, S. 254 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> Borodin: Symphony No. 2 in B Minor, Op. 5 "Bogatyr" (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> DISC 2:
>
> Mozart: Thamos, König in Ägypten, K.345/336a: Entr'acte No. 1 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> Mozart: Thamos, König in Ägypten, K.345/336a: Entr'acte No. 2 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> Grieg: 2 Elegiac Melodies, Op. 34 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> Bach, J.S., Arr. L. Weiner: Toccata, Adagio & Fugue in C Major, BWV 564 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> Lully, Arr. Mottl: Ballet du temple de la paix, LWV 69 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> Dvořák: Slavonic Dances, Op. 46 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> Chabrier: Joyeuse marche (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> Meyerbeer: Le prophète, Act III: Coronation March (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> DISC 3:
>
> Bach, J.S., Arr. Mitropoulos: Fantasia and Fugue in G Minor, BWV 542 "Great" (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> Bach, J.S., Arr. H. Bösenroth: Choral Prelude for Organ BWV 680 "Wir glauben all' an einen Gott" (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> Glazunov: Overture on Three Greek Themes, Op. 3, No. 1 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> Ravel, Arr. Chardon: Piece en Forme de Habanera (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> Glazunov, Arr. Rogal-Lewitzsky: Chopiniana - Suite for Orchestra based on Piano Pieces by Frederic Chopin, Op. 46 (Remastered) - Robin Hood Dell Orchestra
>
> DISC 4:
>
> Mozart: Concerto No. 10 in E-Flat Major for Two Pianos and Orchestra, K. 365 (Remastered) - Robin Hood Dell Orchestra
>
> Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 7 in F Major, K.242 "Lodron Concerto" (Remastered) - Little Orchestra Society (Scherman)
>
> DISC 5:
>
> Milhaud: Le boeuf sur le toît, Op. 58 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> Ravel: Le tombeau de Couperin, M. 68a (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> Couperin, Arr. Milhaud: Overture and Allegro from "La Sultane Suite" (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> Rabaud: La procession nocturne, Op. 6 - New York Philharmonic
>
> DISC 6:
>
> Chausson: Symphony in B-Flat Major, Op. 20 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> Walton: Portsmouth Point Overture (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> DISC 7:
>
> Puccini: Manon Lescaut, Act III: Intermezzo (Remastered) - Robin Hood Dell Orchestra
>
> Mascagni: Cavalleria rusticana, Act II: Intermezzo (Remastered) - Robin Hood Dell Orchestra
>
> Wolf-Ferrari: I gioielli della Madonna (The jewels of the Madonna). Act II: Intermezzo (Remastered) - Robin Hood Dell Orchestra
>
> Wolf-Ferrari: I gioielli della Madonna (The jewels of the Madonna). Act III: Intermezzo (Remastered) - Robin Hood Dell Orchestra
>
> Menotti: Sebastian (Ballet Suite) (Remastered) - Robin Hood Dell Orchestra
>
> Massenet: Scènes Alsaciennes Suite No. 7 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> DISC 8:
>
> Rachmaninoff: The Isle of the Dead, Op. 29 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> Vaughan-Williams: Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> DISC 9:
>
> Mahler: Symphony No. 1 in D Major "Titan" - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> DISC 10:
>
> Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 2 in C Minor, Op. 17 "Little Russian" (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> DISC 11:
>
> Khachaturian: Piano Concerto in D-Flat Major, Op. 38 (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
>
> Rubinstein: Piano Concerto No. 4, Op. 70 (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
>
> DISC 12:
>
> Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 1 in B-Flat Major, Op. 23 (Remastered 1999) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> DISC 13:
>
> Poulenc: Concerto in D Minor for Two Pianos and Orchestra (Remastered) - RCA Victor Symphony Orchestra
>
> Brahms: Variations on a Theme by Haydn, Op. 56b for Two Pianos (Remastered) - (Whittemore & Lowe)
>
> DISC 14:
>
> Sessions: Symphony No. 2 (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
>
> Gould: Philharmonic Waltzes - New York Philharmonic
>
> Lalo: Le roi d'Ys: Overture (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> Siegmeister: Ozark set (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> DISC 15:
>
> Schumann: Symphony No. 3 in E-Flat Major, Op. 97 "Rhenish" (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> Weinberger: Schwanda the Bagpiper (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> Gould: Ministrel Show (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> DISC 16:
>
> Rachmaninoff: Symphony No. 2 in E Minor, Op. 27 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> DISC 17:
>
> Franck: Symphony in D Minor, FWV 48 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> DISC 18:
>
> Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4 in F Minor, Op. 36 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> DISC 19:
>
> Beethoven: Symphony No. 6 in F Major, Op. 68 "Pastorale" (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> DISC 20:
>
> Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 3 in A Minor, Op. 56, "Scotch" (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> Mendelssohn: Capriccio brillant in B Minor, Op. 22 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> Mendelssohn: Octet in E-Flat Major, Op. 20: III. Scherzo. Allegro leggierissimo (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> DISC 21:
>
> Dukas: L'Apprenti sorcier in F Minor (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> Rimsky-Korsakov: The Golden Cockerel (Suite) (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> Prokofiev: Symphony No. 1 in D Major, Op. 25 "Classical" (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> Glière: Red Poppy Ballet Suite: Russian Sailor's Dance (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> DISC 22:
>
> Schumann: Symphony No. 2 in C Major, Op. 61 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> Rimsky-Korsakov: The Golden Cockerel (Suite); Bridal Procession (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> DISC 23:
>
> Chopin: Piano Concerto No. 1 in E Minor, Op. 11 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> DISC 24:
>
> Brahms: Variations on a Theme by Haydn, Op. 56a "St. Anthony's Choral" (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> Weber: Jubel-Ouvertüre, Op. 59 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> Beethoven: Coriolan Overture, Op. 62 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> Beethoven: Leonore Overture No. 3 in C Major, Op. 72a (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> DISC 25:
>
> Bloch: Schelomo - Hebraic Rhapsody for Cello & Orchestra (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
>
> Saint-Saens: Cello Concerto No. 1 in A Minor, Op. 33 (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
>
> DISC 26:
>
> Stravinsky: Petrushka (1911 Version) (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
>
> DISC 27/28:
>
> Berg: Wozzeck, Op. 7 - New York Philharmonic
>
> DISC 29:
>
> Debussy: La Mer - New York Philharmonic
>
> Debussy: Images pour orchestre, L. 122, No. 2 (Remastered) - Philadelphia Orchestra (Ormandy)
>
> DISC 30:
>
> Schoenberg: Erwartung, Op. 17 - New York Philharmonic
>
> Krenek: Symphonic Elegy for String Orchestra (In Memoriam of Anton Webern) - New York Philharmonic
>
> Schoenberg: Verklärte Nacht, Op. 4 - Strings of the New York Philharmonic
>
> DISC 31:
>
> Bruch: Concerto No. 1 in G Minor for Violin and Orchestra, Op. 26 - New York Philharmonic
>
> Beethoven: Romance for Violin and Orchestra in G Major, Op. 40 (Remastered) - Columbia Symphony Orchestra (Morel)
>
> Beethoven: Romance for Violin and Orchestra in F Major, Op. 50 (Remastered) - Columbia Symphony Orchestra (Morel)
>
> Paganini: Concerto No. 3 in B Minor for Violin and Orchestra, Op. 61 - New York Philharmonic
>
> DISC 32:
>
> Gottschalk: Cakewalk Ballet Suite (Remastered) - Philadelphia Orchestra (Ormandy)
>
> Gould: Fall River Legend Ballet Suite (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
>
> Couperin, Arr. Milhaud: Overture and Allegro from "La Sultane Suite" (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
>
> Travis: Symphonic Allegro (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
>
> DISC 33:
>
> Berlioz: Roméo et Juliette, Op. 17, H 79 (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
>
> DISC 34:
>
> Prokofiev: Concerto No. 2 in G Minor for Violin and Orchestra, Op. 63 - New York Philharmonic
>
> Bach, J.S.: Violin Concerto No. 2 in E Major, BWV 1042 (Remastered) - Cleveland Orchestra (Szell)
>
> Prokofiev: Concerto No. 3 for Piano and Orchestra in C Major, Op. 26 - Robin Hood Dell Orchestra
>
> DISC 35:
>
> Scriabin: Symphony No. 4, Op. 54 "Le Poème de l'extase" - New York Philharmonic
>
> Scriabin: Promethée, le poème du feu, Op. 60 - New York Philharmonic
>
> DISC 36:
>
> Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5 in D Minor, Op. 47 (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
>
> DISC 37:
>
> Ippolitov-Ivanov: Caucasian Sketches, Suite No. 1, Op. 10 - New York Philharmonic
>
> Borodin, Arr. Rimsky-Korsakov: Prince Igor, Act II: Polovtsian Dances (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
>
> Borodin: In the Steppes of Central Asia - New York Philharmonic
>
> DISC 38:
>
> Schoenberg: Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, Op. 36 (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
>
> Berg: Concerto for Violin and Orchestra "To the Memory of an Angel" (Remastered) - Cleveland Orchestra (Rodzinski)
>
> DISC 39:
>
> Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 3 in A Minor, Op. 56, "Scotch" (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
>
> Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 5 in D Major, Op. 107 "Reformation" (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
>
> Mendelssohn: Die Hebriden, Op. 26 (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
>
> Mendelssohn: Ruy Blas, Op. 95: Overture (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
>
> DISC 40:
>
> Riegger: Symphony No. 3 in G Major, Op. 42 (Remastered) - Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra (Hanson)
>
> Mennin: Symphony No. 3 (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
>
> DISC 41:
>
> Shostakovich: Symphony No. 10 in E-Minor, Op. 93 (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
>
> DISC 42:
>
> Berlioz: Les nuits d'été, Op. 7 - Columbia Symphony Orchestra
>
> Berlioz: La captive, H 60 - Columbia Symphony Orchestra
>
> Berlioz: Le jeune Pâtre breton, H 65 - Columbia Symphony Orchestra
>
> Berlioz: Zaïde (boléro), Op.19 No. 1 - Columbia Symphony Orchestra
>
> DISC 43:
>
> Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto in E Minor, Op. 64 - New York Philharmonic
>
> Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto, Op. 35 - New York Philharmonic
>
> DISC 44:
>
> Borodin: Symphony No. 2 in B Minor, Op. 5 - New York Philharmonic
>
> Tchaikovsky: Orchestral Suite No. 1, in D Minor, Op. 43 - New York Philharmonic
>
> DISC 45:
>
> Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5 in E Minor, Op. 64 (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
>
> DISC 46:
>
> Shostakovich: Violin Concerto No. 1 in A Minor, Op. 99 - New York Philharmonic
>
> DISC 47:
>
> Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 5 in E-Flat Major, Op. 73 "Emperor" - New York Philharmonic
>
> Bach, J.S.: Concerto for 3 Pianos in D Minor, BWV 1063 (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
>
> DISC 48:
>
> Prokofiev: Lieutenant Kijé Suite, Op. 60 (Symphonic suite for Orchestra) - New York Philharmonic
>
> Kodály: Háry János Suite (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
>
> DISC 49:
>
> Saint-Saëns: Danse macabre, Op. 40 (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
>
> Saint-Saëns: Le rouet d'Omphale, Op. 31 - New York Philharmonic
>
> Saint-Saëns: Phaëton, Poème symphonique, op. 39 - New York Philharmonic
>
> Saint-Saëns: La jeunesse d'Hercule - Poème symphonique - New York Philharmonic
>
> DISC 50:
>
> Vaughan-Williams: Symphony No. 4 in F Minor - New York Philharmonic
>
> Vaughan-Williams: Fantasia On A Theme by Thomas Tallis - Strings of the New York Philharmonic
>
> DISC 51:
>
> Schuller: Symphony for Brass and Percussion, Op. 16 (Remastered) - Brass Ensemble Of The Jazz And Classical Music Society
>
> J.J. Johnson: Poem For Brass (Remastered) - (Schuller)
>
> J. Lewis: Three Little Feelings (Remastered) - (Schuller)
>
> Giuffre: Pharaoh (Remastered) - (Schuller)
>
> DISC 52:
>
> Schuman: Credendum - Article of Faith (Remastered) - Philadelphia Orchestra (Ormandy)
>
> Kirchner: Piano Concerto No. 1 (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
>
> DISC 53:
>
> Falla: Noches en los Jardines de España (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
>
> Falla: El sombrero de tres picos, Suite No.2 (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
>
> DISC 54:
>
> Dukas: L'Apprenti sorcier (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
>
> Weinberger: Schwanda the Bagpiper (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
>
> Strauss, R.: Salome, Op. 54: Dance of the 7 Veils (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
>
> Liszt: Les préludes, S.97 (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
>
> DISC 55:
>
> Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6 in B Minor, Op. 74 "Pathétique" (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
>
> DISC 56:
>
> Prokofiev: Violin Concerto No. 1 in D Major, Op. 19 - New York Philharmonic
>
> Prokofiev: Violin Concerto No. 2 in G Minor, Op. 63 - New York Philharmonic (Bernstein)
>
> DISC 57/58:
>
> Barber: Vanessa, Op. 32 (Remastered) - Metropolitan Opera Orchestra & Chorus
>
> DISC 59:
>
> Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet Ballet, Op. 64 (Excerpts) - New York Philharmonic
>
> DISC 60/61:
>
> Mussorgsky: Boris Godunov (Abridged) (Remastered) - Metropolitan Opera Orchestra & Chorus
>
> DISC 62:
>
> Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique, Op. 14 (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
>
> DISC 63:
>
> Tchaikovsky: Slavonic March, Op. 31 - New York Philharmonic
>
> Mussorgsky: Night On Bald Mountain - New York Philharmonic
>
> Tchaikovsky: Capriccio Italien, Op. 45 - New York Philharmonic
>
> Skalkottas: Four Greek Dances - New York Philharmonic
>
> DISC 64:
>
> Verdi: A Masked Ball (Abridged) (Remastered) - Metropolitan Opera Orchestra
>
> DISC 65:
>
> Walton: Concerto for Violin and Orchestra (Remastered) - The Philadelphia Orchestra (Ormandy)
>
> Lalo: Symphonie Espagnole (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
>
> DISC 66:
>
> Hindemith: Sonata for Oboe and Piano (Remastered) - Harold Gomberg, Dimitri Mitropoulos
>
> Löffler: 2 Rhapsodies for Oboe, Viola and Piano (Remastered) - Harold Gomberg; Dimitri Mitropoulos
>
> DISC 67:
>
> Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 3 in C Minor, Op. 37 (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
>
> Mozart: 9 Variations on a Minuet by Jean Pierre Duport, K. 573 (Remastered) - (Casadesus)
>
> DISC 68/69:
>
> Verdi: Un Ballo in Maschera - Metropolitan Opera Orchestra & Chorus

On Saturday, September 25, 2021 at 9:24:56 PM UTC-7, gggg gggg wrote:
> On Saturday, September 25, 2021 at 5:33:08 PM UTC-7, Mark Obert-Thorn wrote:
> > The date is probably "aspirational", given their track record, but here are the details about the next big conductor box from Sony. I'm told that an unissued Columbia recording of the Dvorak Scherzo Capriccioso that came out on a Minneapolis SO Mitropoulos tribute is missing. Anything else?
> >
> > Mark O-T
> >
> >
> > Dimitri Mitropoulos – Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra | New York Philharmonic – The Complete RCA and Columbia Album Collection
> >
> > 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).
> >
> >
> > SET CONTENTS
> >
> > DISC 1:
> >
> > Liszt, Arr. Busoni: Rhapsodie espagnole, S. 254 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
> >
> > Borodin: Symphony No. 2 in B Minor, Op. 5 "Bogatyr" (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
> >
> > DISC 2:
> >
> > Mozart: Thamos, König in Ägypten, K.345/336a: Entr'acte No. 1 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
> >
> > Mozart: Thamos, König in Ägypten, K.345/336a: Entr'acte No. 2 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
> >
> > Grieg: 2 Elegiac Melodies, Op. 34 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
> >
> > Bach, J.S., Arr. L. Weiner: Toccata, Adagio & Fugue in C Major, BWV 564 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
> >
> > Lully, Arr. Mottl: Ballet du temple de la paix, LWV 69 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
> >
> > Dvořák: Slavonic Dances, Op. 46 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
> >
> > Chabrier: Joyeuse marche (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
> >
> > Meyerbeer: Le prophète, Act III: Coronation March (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
> >
> > DISC 3:
> >
> > Bach, J.S., Arr. Mitropoulos: Fantasia and Fugue in G Minor, BWV 542 "Great" (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
> >
> > Bach, J.S., Arr. H. Bösenroth: Choral Prelude for Organ BWV 680 "Wir glauben all' an einen Gott" (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
> >
> > Glazunov: Overture on Three Greek Themes, Op. 3, No. 1 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
> >
> > Ravel, Arr. Chardon: Piece en Forme de Habanera (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
> >
> > Glazunov, Arr. Rogal-Lewitzsky: Chopiniana - Suite for Orchestra based on Piano Pieces by Frederic Chopin, Op. 46 (Remastered) - Robin Hood Dell Orchestra
> >
> > DISC 4:
> >
> > Mozart: Concerto No. 10 in E-Flat Major for Two Pianos and Orchestra, K.. 365 (Remastered) - Robin Hood Dell Orchestra
> >
> > Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 7 in F Major, K.242 "Lodron Concerto" (Remastered) - Little Orchestra Society (Scherman)
> >
> > DISC 5:
> >
> > Milhaud: Le boeuf sur le toît, Op. 58 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
> >
> > Ravel: Le tombeau de Couperin, M. 68a (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
> >
> > Couperin, Arr. Milhaud: Overture and Allegro from "La Sultane Suite" (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
> >
> > Rabaud: La procession nocturne, Op. 6 - New York Philharmonic
> >
> > DISC 6:
> >
> > Chausson: Symphony in B-Flat Major, Op. 20 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
> >
> > Walton: Portsmouth Point Overture (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
> >
> > DISC 7:
> >
> > Puccini: Manon Lescaut, Act III: Intermezzo (Remastered) - Robin Hood Dell Orchestra
> >
> > Mascagni: Cavalleria rusticana, Act II: Intermezzo (Remastered) - Robin Hood Dell Orchestra
> >
> > Wolf-Ferrari: I gioielli della Madonna (The jewels of the Madonna). Act II: Intermezzo (Remastered) - Robin Hood Dell Orchestra
> >
> > Wolf-Ferrari: I gioielli della Madonna (The jewels of the Madonna). Act III: Intermezzo (Remastered) - Robin Hood Dell Orchestra
> >
> > Menotti: Sebastian (Ballet Suite) (Remastered) - Robin Hood Dell Orchestra
> >
> > Massenet: Scènes Alsaciennes Suite No. 7 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
> >
> > DISC 8:
> >
> > Rachmaninoff: The Isle of the Dead, Op. 29 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
> >
> > Vaughan-Williams: Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
> >
> > DISC 9:
> >
> > Mahler: Symphony No. 1 in D Major "Titan" - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
> >
> > DISC 10:
> >
> > Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 2 in C Minor, Op. 17 "Little Russian" (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
> >
> > DISC 11:
> >
> > Khachaturian: Piano Concerto in D-Flat Major, Op. 38 (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
> >
> > Rubinstein: Piano Concerto No. 4, Op. 70 (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
> >
> > DISC 12:
> >
> > Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 1 in B-Flat Major, Op. 23 (Remastered 1999) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
> >
> > DISC 13:
> >
> > Poulenc: Concerto in D Minor for Two Pianos and Orchestra (Remastered) - RCA Victor Symphony Orchestra
> >
> > Brahms: Variations on a Theme by Haydn, Op. 56b for Two Pianos (Remastered) - (Whittemore & Lowe)
> >
> > DISC 14:
> >
> > Sessions: Symphony No. 2 (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
> >
> > Gould: Philharmonic Waltzes - New York Philharmonic
> >
> > Lalo: Le roi d'Ys: Overture (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
> >
> > Siegmeister: Ozark set (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
> >
> > DISC 15:
> >
> > Schumann: Symphony No. 3 in E-Flat Major, Op. 97 "Rhenish" (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
> >
> > Weinberger: Schwanda the Bagpiper (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
> >
> > Gould: Ministrel Show (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
> >
> > DISC 16:
> >
> > Rachmaninoff: Symphony No. 2 in E Minor, Op. 27 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
> >
> > DISC 17:
> >
> > Franck: Symphony in D Minor, FWV 48 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
> >
> > DISC 18:
> >
> > Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4 in F Minor, Op. 36 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
> >
> > DISC 19:
> >
> > Beethoven: Symphony No. 6 in F Major, Op. 68 "Pastorale" (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
> >
> > DISC 20:
> >
> > Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 3 in A Minor, Op. 56, "Scotch" (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
> >
> > Mendelssohn: Capriccio brillant in B Minor, Op. 22 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
> >
> > Mendelssohn: Octet in E-Flat Major, Op. 20: III. Scherzo. Allegro leggierissimo (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
> >
> > DISC 21:
> >
> > Dukas: L'Apprenti sorcier in F Minor (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
> >
> > Rimsky-Korsakov: The Golden Cockerel (Suite) (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
> >
> > Prokofiev: Symphony No. 1 in D Major, Op. 25 "Classical" (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
> >
> > Glière: Red Poppy Ballet Suite: Russian Sailor's Dance (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
> >
> > DISC 22:
> >
> > Schumann: Symphony No. 2 in C Major, Op. 61 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
> >
> > Rimsky-Korsakov: The Golden Cockerel (Suite); Bridal Procession (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
> >
> > DISC 23:
> >
> > Chopin: Piano Concerto No. 1 in E Minor, Op. 11 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
> >
> > DISC 24:
> >
> > Brahms: Variations on a Theme by Haydn, Op. 56a "St. Anthony's Choral" (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
> >
> > Weber: Jubel-Ouvertüre, Op. 59 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
> >
> > Beethoven: Coriolan Overture, Op. 62 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
> >
> > Beethoven: Leonore Overture No. 3 in C Major, Op. 72a (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
> >
> > DISC 25:
> >
> > Bloch: Schelomo - Hebraic Rhapsody for Cello & Orchestra (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
> >
> > Saint-Saens: Cello Concerto No. 1 in A Minor, Op. 33 (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
> >
> > DISC 26:
> >
> > Stravinsky: Petrushka (1911 Version) (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
> >
> > DISC 27/28:
> >
> > Berg: Wozzeck, Op. 7 - New York Philharmonic
> >
> > DISC 29:
> >
> > Debussy: La Mer - New York Philharmonic
> >
> > Debussy: Images pour orchestre, L. 122, No. 2 (Remastered) - Philadelphia Orchestra (Ormandy)
> >
> > DISC 30:
> >
> > Schoenberg: Erwartung, Op. 17 - New York Philharmonic
> >
> > Krenek: Symphonic Elegy for String Orchestra (In Memoriam of Anton Webern) - New York Philharmonic
> >
> > Schoenberg: Verklärte Nacht, Op. 4 - Strings of the New York Philharmonic
> >
> > DISC 31:
> >
> > Bruch: Concerto No. 1 in G Minor for Violin and Orchestra, Op. 26 - New York Philharmonic
> >
> > Beethoven: Romance for Violin and Orchestra in G Major, Op. 40 (Remastered) - Columbia Symphony Orchestra (Morel)
> >
> > Beethoven: Romance for Violin and Orchestra in F Major, Op. 50 (Remastered) - Columbia Symphony Orchestra (Morel)
> >
> > Paganini: Concerto No. 3 in B Minor for Violin and Orchestra, Op. 61 - New York Philharmonic
> >
> > DISC 32:
> >
> > Gottschalk: Cakewalk Ballet Suite (Remastered) - Philadelphia Orchestra (Ormandy)
> >
> > Gould: Fall River Legend Ballet Suite (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
> >
> > Couperin, Arr. Milhaud: Overture and Allegro from "La Sultane Suite" (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
> >
> > Travis: Symphonic Allegro (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
> >
> > DISC 33:
> >
> > Berlioz: Roméo et Juliette, Op. 17, H 79 (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
> >
> > DISC 34:
> >
> > Prokofiev: Concerto No. 2 in G Minor for Violin and Orchestra, Op. 63 - New York Philharmonic
> >
> > Bach, J.S.: Violin Concerto No. 2 in E Major, BWV 1042 (Remastered) - Cleveland Orchestra (Szell)
> >
> > Prokofiev: Concerto No. 3 for Piano and Orchestra in C Major, Op. 26 - Robin Hood Dell Orchestra
> >
> > DISC 35:
> >
> > Scriabin: Symphony No. 4, Op. 54 "Le Poème de l'extase" - New York Philharmonic
> >
> > Scriabin: Promethée, le poème du feu, Op. 60 - New York Philharmonic
> >
> > DISC 36:
> >
> > Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5 in D Minor, Op. 47 (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
> >
> > DISC 37:
> >
> > Ippolitov-Ivanov: Caucasian Sketches, Suite No. 1, Op. 10 - New York Philharmonic
> >
> > Borodin, Arr. Rimsky-Korsakov: Prince Igor, Act II: Polovtsian Dances (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
> >
> > Borodin: In the Steppes of Central Asia - New York Philharmonic
> >
> > DISC 38:
> >
> > Schoenberg: Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, Op. 36 (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
> >
> > Berg: Concerto for Violin and Orchestra "To the Memory of an Angel" (Remastered) - Cleveland Orchestra (Rodzinski)
> >
> > DISC 39:
> >
> > Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 3 in A Minor, Op. 56, "Scotch" (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
> >
> > Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 5 in D Major, Op. 107 "Reformation" (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
> >
> > Mendelssohn: Die Hebriden, Op. 26 (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
> >
> > Mendelssohn: Ruy Blas, Op. 95: Overture (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
> >
> > DISC 40:
> >
> > Riegger: Symphony No. 3 in G Major, Op. 42 (Remastered) - Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra (Hanson)
> >
> > Mennin: Symphony No. 3 (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
> >
> > DISC 41:
> >
> > Shostakovich: Symphony No. 10 in E-Minor, Op. 93 (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
> >
> > DISC 42:
> >
> > Berlioz: Les nuits d'été, Op. 7 - Columbia Symphony Orchestra
> >
> > Berlioz: La captive, H 60 - Columbia Symphony Orchestra
> >
> > Berlioz: Le jeune Pâtre breton, H 65 - Columbia Symphony Orchestra
> >
> > Berlioz: Zaïde (boléro), Op.19 No. 1 - Columbia Symphony Orchestra
> >
> > DISC 43:
> >
> > Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto in E Minor, Op. 64 - New York Philharmonic
> >
> > Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto, Op. 35 - New York Philharmonic
> >
> > DISC 44:
> >
> > Borodin: Symphony No. 2 in B Minor, Op. 5 - New York Philharmonic
> >
> > Tchaikovsky: Orchestral Suite No. 1, in D Minor, Op. 43 - New York Philharmonic
> >
> > DISC 45:
> >
> > Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5 in E Minor, Op. 64 (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
> >
> > DISC 46:
> >
> > Shostakovich: Violin Concerto No. 1 in A Minor, Op. 99 - New York Philharmonic
> >
> > DISC 47:
> >
> > Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 5 in E-Flat Major, Op. 73 "Emperor" - New York Philharmonic
> >
> > Bach, J.S.: Concerto for 3 Pianos in D Minor, BWV 1063 (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
> >
> > DISC 48:
> >
> > Prokofiev: Lieutenant Kijé Suite, Op. 60 (Symphonic suite for Orchestra) - New York Philharmonic
> >
> > Kodály: Háry János Suite (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
> >
> > DISC 49:
> >
> > Saint-Saëns: Danse macabre, Op. 40 (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
> >
> > Saint-Saëns: Le rouet d'Omphale, Op. 31 - New York Philharmonic
> >
> > Saint-Saëns: Phaëton, Poème symphonique, op. 39 - New York Philharmonic
> >
> > Saint-Saëns: La jeunesse d'Hercule - Poème symphonique - New York Philharmonic
> >
> > DISC 50:
> >
> > Vaughan-Williams: Symphony No. 4 in F Minor - New York Philharmonic
> >
> > Vaughan-Williams: Fantasia On A Theme by Thomas Tallis - Strings of the New York Philharmonic
> >
> > DISC 51:
> >
> > Schuller: Symphony for Brass and Percussion, Op. 16 (Remastered) - Brass Ensemble Of The Jazz And Classical Music Society
> >
> > J.J. Johnson: Poem For Brass (Remastered) - (Schuller)
> >
> > J. Lewis: Three Little Feelings (Remastered) - (Schuller)
> >
> > Giuffre: Pharaoh (Remastered) - (Schuller)
> >
> > DISC 52:
> >
> > Schuman: Credendum - Article of Faith (Remastered) - Philadelphia Orchestra (Ormandy)
> >
> > Kirchner: Piano Concerto No. 1 (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
> >
> > DISC 53:
> >
> > Falla: Noches en los Jardines de España (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
> >
> > Falla: El sombrero de tres picos, Suite No.2 (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
> >
> > DISC 54:
> >
> > Dukas: L'Apprenti sorcier (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
> >
> > Weinberger: Schwanda the Bagpiper (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
> >
> > Strauss, R.: Salome, Op. 54: Dance of the 7 Veils (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
> >
> > Liszt: Les préludes, S.97 (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
> >
> > DISC 55:
> >
> > Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6 in B Minor, Op. 74 "Pathétique" (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
> >
> > DISC 56:
> >
> > Prokofiev: Violin Concerto No. 1 in D Major, Op. 19 - New York Philharmonic
> >
> > Prokofiev: Violin Concerto No. 2 in G Minor, Op. 63 - New York Philharmonic (Bernstein)
> >
> > DISC 57/58:
> >
> > Barber: Vanessa, Op. 32 (Remastered) - Metropolitan Opera Orchestra & Chorus
> >
> > DISC 59:
> >
> > Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet Ballet, Op. 64 (Excerpts) - New York Philharmonic
> >
> > DISC 60/61:
> >
> > Mussorgsky: Boris Godunov (Abridged) (Remastered) - Metropolitan Opera Orchestra & Chorus
> >
> > DISC 62:
> >
> > Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique, Op. 14 (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
> >
> > DISC 63:
> >
> > Tchaikovsky: Slavonic March, Op. 31 - New York Philharmonic
> >
> > Mussorgsky: Night On Bald Mountain - New York Philharmonic
> >
> > Tchaikovsky: Capriccio Italien, Op. 45 - New York Philharmonic
> >
> > Skalkottas: Four Greek Dances - New York Philharmonic
> >
> > DISC 64:
> >
> > Verdi: A Masked Ball (Abridged) (Remastered) - Metropolitan Opera Orchestra
> >
> > DISC 65:
> >
> > Walton: Concerto for Violin and Orchestra (Remastered) - The Philadelphia Orchestra (Ormandy)
> >
> > Lalo: Symphonie Espagnole (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
> >
> > DISC 66:
> >
> > Hindemith: Sonata for Oboe and Piano (Remastered) - Harold Gomberg, Dimitri Mitropoulos
> >
> > Löffler: 2 Rhapsodies for Oboe, Viola and Piano (Remastered) - Harold Gomberg; Dimitri Mitropoulos
> >
> > DISC 67:
> >
> > Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 3 in C Minor, Op. 37 (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
> >
> > Mozart: 9 Variations on a Minuet by Jean Pierre Duport, K. 573 (Remastered) - (Casadesus)
> >
> > DISC 68/69:
> >
> > Verdi: Un Ballo in Maschera - Metropolitan Opera Orchestra & Chorus
> (Recent Y. upload):
>
> Giuseppe Verdi, Dimitri Mitropoulos – Un Ballo In Maschera

On Saturday, September 25, 2021 at 11:08:34 PM UTC-4, Invocation wrote:
> This is great! Does Sony have a plan to pack a complete Leinsdorf set or Rodzinski's Cleveland recordings?

I don't have any inside information about those. Also, I've heard further about the "missing" Dvorak Scherzo Capriccioso, and apparently it was a live performance from a V-Disc, not a studio session. Sony doesn't include that sort of thing in these sets, only studio or live recordings that they own. Further to gggg's post below, they no longer have the rights to the live Salzburg material which they previously issued, so that's not in the box, either.

MO-T

On Sunday, September 26, 2021 at 9:28:39 AM UTC-5, Mark Obert-Thorn wrote:
> On Saturday, September 25, 2021 at 11:08:34 PM UTC-4, Invocation wrote:
> > This is great! Does Sony have a plan to pack a complete Leinsdorf set or Rodzinski's Cleveland recordings?
> I don't have any inside information about those. Also, I've heard further about the "missing" Dvorak Scherzo Capriccioso, and apparently it was a live performance from a V-Disc, not a studio session. Sony doesn't include that sort of thing in these sets, only studio or live recordings that they own. Further to gggg's post below, they no longer have the rights to the live Salzburg material which they previously issued, so that's not in the box, either.
>
> MO-T

Wonderful news.
This looks like "original jacket" with a vengeance (lots of discs have short timings), which I kind of like, but I'm old.
I wish Sony had been this thorough with Rodzinsky - by giving us his complete Cleveland and Chicago recordings as well as New York.

Marvelous news. Many thanks.

Στις Κυριακή, 26 Σεπτεμβρίου 2021 στις 3:33:08 π.μ. UTC+3, ο χρήστης Mark Obert-Thorn έγραψε:
> The date is probably "aspirational", given their track record, but here are the details about the next big conductor box from Sony. I'm told that an unissued Columbia recording of the Dvorak Scherzo Capriccioso that came out on a Minneapolis SO Mitropoulos tribute is missing. Anything else?
>
> Mark O-T
>
>
> Dimitri Mitropoulos – Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra | New York Philharmonic – The Complete RCA and Columbia Album Collection
>
> 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).
>
>
> SET CONTENTS
>
> DISC 1:
>
> Liszt, Arr. Busoni: Rhapsodie espagnole, S. 254 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> Borodin: Symphony No. 2 in B Minor, Op. 5 "Bogatyr" (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> DISC 2:
>
> Mozart: Thamos, König in Ägypten, K.345/336a: Entr'acte No. 1 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> Mozart: Thamos, König in Ägypten, K.345/336a: Entr'acte No. 2 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> Grieg: 2 Elegiac Melodies, Op. 34 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> Bach, J.S., Arr. L. Weiner: Toccata, Adagio & Fugue in C Major, BWV 564 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> Lully, Arr. Mottl: Ballet du temple de la paix, LWV 69 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> Dvořák: Slavonic Dances, Op. 46 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> Chabrier: Joyeuse marche (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> Meyerbeer: Le prophète, Act III: Coronation March (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> DISC 3:
>
> Bach, J.S., Arr. Mitropoulos: Fantasia and Fugue in G Minor, BWV 542 "Great" (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> Bach, J.S., Arr. H. Bösenroth: Choral Prelude for Organ BWV 680 "Wir glauben all' an einen Gott" (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> Glazunov: Overture on Three Greek Themes, Op. 3, No. 1 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> Ravel, Arr. Chardon: Piece en Forme de Habanera (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> Glazunov, Arr. Rogal-Lewitzsky: Chopiniana - Suite for Orchestra based on Piano Pieces by Frederic Chopin, Op. 46 (Remastered) - Robin Hood Dell Orchestra
>
> DISC 4:
>
> Mozart: Concerto No. 10 in E-Flat Major for Two Pianos and Orchestra, K. 365 (Remastered) - Robin Hood Dell Orchestra
>
> Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 7 in F Major, K.242 "Lodron Concerto" (Remastered) - Little Orchestra Society (Scherman)
>
> DISC 5:
>
> Milhaud: Le boeuf sur le toît, Op. 58 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> Ravel: Le tombeau de Couperin, M. 68a (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> Couperin, Arr. Milhaud: Overture and Allegro from "La Sultane Suite" (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> Rabaud: La procession nocturne, Op. 6 - New York Philharmonic
>
> DISC 6:
>
> Chausson: Symphony in B-Flat Major, Op. 20 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> Walton: Portsmouth Point Overture (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> DISC 7:
>
> Puccini: Manon Lescaut, Act III: Intermezzo (Remastered) - Robin Hood Dell Orchestra
>
> Mascagni: Cavalleria rusticana, Act II: Intermezzo (Remastered) - Robin Hood Dell Orchestra
>
> Wolf-Ferrari: I gioielli della Madonna (The jewels of the Madonna). Act II: Intermezzo (Remastered) - Robin Hood Dell Orchestra
>
> Wolf-Ferrari: I gioielli della Madonna (The jewels of the Madonna). Act III: Intermezzo (Remastered) - Robin Hood Dell Orchestra
>
> Menotti: Sebastian (Ballet Suite) (Remastered) - Robin Hood Dell Orchestra
>
> Massenet: Scènes Alsaciennes Suite No. 7 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> DISC 8:
>
> Rachmaninoff: The Isle of the Dead, Op. 29 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> Vaughan-Williams: Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> DISC 9:
>
> Mahler: Symphony No. 1 in D Major "Titan" - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> DISC 10:
>
> Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 2 in C Minor, Op. 17 "Little Russian" (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> DISC 11:
>
> Khachaturian: Piano Concerto in D-Flat Major, Op. 38 (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
>
> Rubinstein: Piano Concerto No. 4, Op. 70 (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
>
> DISC 12:
>
> Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 1 in B-Flat Major, Op. 23 (Remastered 1999) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> DISC 13:
>
> Poulenc: Concerto in D Minor for Two Pianos and Orchestra (Remastered) - RCA Victor Symphony Orchestra
>
> Brahms: Variations on a Theme by Haydn, Op. 56b for Two Pianos (Remastered) - (Whittemore & Lowe)
>
> DISC 14:
>
> Sessions: Symphony No. 2 (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
>
> Gould: Philharmonic Waltzes - New York Philharmonic
>
> Lalo: Le roi d'Ys: Overture (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> Siegmeister: Ozark set (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> DISC 15:
>
> Schumann: Symphony No. 3 in E-Flat Major, Op. 97 "Rhenish" (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> Weinberger: Schwanda the Bagpiper (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> Gould: Ministrel Show (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> DISC 16:
>
> Rachmaninoff: Symphony No. 2 in E Minor, Op. 27 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> DISC 17:
>
> Franck: Symphony in D Minor, FWV 48 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> DISC 18:
>
> Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4 in F Minor, Op. 36 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> DISC 19:
>
> Beethoven: Symphony No. 6 in F Major, Op. 68 "Pastorale" (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> DISC 20:
>
> Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 3 in A Minor, Op. 56, "Scotch" (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> Mendelssohn: Capriccio brillant in B Minor, Op. 22 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> Mendelssohn: Octet in E-Flat Major, Op. 20: III. Scherzo. Allegro leggierissimo (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> DISC 21:
>
> Dukas: L'Apprenti sorcier in F Minor (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> Rimsky-Korsakov: The Golden Cockerel (Suite) (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> Prokofiev: Symphony No. 1 in D Major, Op. 25 "Classical" (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> Glière: Red Poppy Ballet Suite: Russian Sailor's Dance (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> DISC 22:
>
> Schumann: Symphony No. 2 in C Major, Op. 61 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> Rimsky-Korsakov: The Golden Cockerel (Suite); Bridal Procession (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> DISC 23:
>
> Chopin: Piano Concerto No. 1 in E Minor, Op. 11 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> DISC 24:
>
> Brahms: Variations on a Theme by Haydn, Op. 56a "St. Anthony's Choral" (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> Weber: Jubel-Ouvertüre, Op. 59 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> Beethoven: Coriolan Overture, Op. 62 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> Beethoven: Leonore Overture No. 3 in C Major, Op. 72a (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> DISC 25:
>
> Bloch: Schelomo - Hebraic Rhapsody for Cello & Orchestra (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
>
> Saint-Saens: Cello Concerto No. 1 in A Minor, Op. 33 (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
>
> DISC 26:
>
> Stravinsky: Petrushka (1911 Version) (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
>
> DISC 27/28:
>
> Berg: Wozzeck, Op. 7 - New York Philharmonic
>
> DISC 29:
>
> Debussy: La Mer - New York Philharmonic
>
> Debussy: Images pour orchestre, L. 122, No. 2 (Remastered) - Philadelphia Orchestra (Ormandy)
>
> DISC 30:
>
> Schoenberg: Erwartung, Op. 17 - New York Philharmonic
>
> Krenek: Symphonic Elegy for String Orchestra (In Memoriam of Anton Webern) - New York Philharmonic
>
> Schoenberg: Verklärte Nacht, Op. 4 - Strings of the New York Philharmonic
>
> DISC 31:
>
> Bruch: Concerto No. 1 in G Minor for Violin and Orchestra, Op. 26 - New York Philharmonic
>
> Beethoven: Romance for Violin and Orchestra in G Major, Op. 40 (Remastered) - Columbia Symphony Orchestra (Morel)
>
> Beethoven: Romance for Violin and Orchestra in F Major, Op. 50 (Remastered) - Columbia Symphony Orchestra (Morel)
>
> Paganini: Concerto No. 3 in B Minor for Violin and Orchestra, Op. 61 - New York Philharmonic
>
> DISC 32:
>
> Gottschalk: Cakewalk Ballet Suite (Remastered) - Philadelphia Orchestra (Ormandy)
>
> Gould: Fall River Legend Ballet Suite (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
>
> Couperin, Arr. Milhaud: Overture and Allegro from "La Sultane Suite" (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
>
> Travis: Symphonic Allegro (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
>
> DISC 33:
>
> Berlioz: Roméo et Juliette, Op. 17, H 79 (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
>
> DISC 34:
>
> Prokofiev: Concerto No. 2 in G Minor for Violin and Orchestra, Op. 63 - New York Philharmonic
>
> Bach, J.S.: Violin Concerto No. 2 in E Major, BWV 1042 (Remastered) - Cleveland Orchestra (Szell)
>
> Prokofiev: Concerto No. 3 for Piano and Orchestra in C Major, Op. 26 - Robin Hood Dell Orchestra
>
> DISC 35:
>
> Scriabin: Symphony No. 4, Op. 54 "Le Poème de l'extase" - New York Philharmonic
>
> Scriabin: Promethée, le poème du feu, Op. 60 - New York Philharmonic
>
> DISC 36:
>
> Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5 in D Minor, Op. 47 (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
>
> DISC 37:
>
> Ippolitov-Ivanov: Caucasian Sketches, Suite No. 1, Op. 10 - New York Philharmonic
>
> Borodin, Arr. Rimsky-Korsakov: Prince Igor, Act II: Polovtsian Dances (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
>
> Borodin: In the Steppes of Central Asia - New York Philharmonic
>
> DISC 38:
>
> Schoenberg: Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, Op. 36 (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
>
> Berg: Concerto for Violin and Orchestra "To the Memory of an Angel" (Remastered) - Cleveland Orchestra (Rodzinski)
>
> DISC 39:
>
> Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 3 in A Minor, Op. 56, "Scotch" (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
>
> Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 5 in D Major, Op. 107 "Reformation" (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
>
> Mendelssohn: Die Hebriden, Op. 26 (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
>
> Mendelssohn: Ruy Blas, Op. 95: Overture (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
>
> DISC 40:
>
> Riegger: Symphony No. 3 in G Major, Op. 42 (Remastered) - Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra (Hanson)
>
> Mennin: Symphony No. 3 (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
>
> DISC 41:
>
> Shostakovich: Symphony No. 10 in E-Minor, Op. 93 (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
>
> DISC 42:
>
> Berlioz: Les nuits d'été, Op. 7 - Columbia Symphony Orchestra
>
> Berlioz: La captive, H 60 - Columbia Symphony Orchestra
>
> Berlioz: Le jeune Pâtre breton, H 65 - Columbia Symphony Orchestra
>
> Berlioz: Zaïde (boléro), Op.19 No. 1 - Columbia Symphony Orchestra
>
> DISC 43:
>
> Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto in E Minor, Op. 64 - New York Philharmonic
>
> Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto, Op. 35 - New York Philharmonic
>
> DISC 44:
>
> Borodin: Symphony No. 2 in B Minor, Op. 5 - New York Philharmonic
>
> Tchaikovsky: Orchestral Suite No. 1, in D Minor, Op. 43 - New York Philharmonic
>
> DISC 45:
>
> Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5 in E Minor, Op. 64 (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
>
> DISC 46:
>
> Shostakovich: Violin Concerto No. 1 in A Minor, Op. 99 - New York Philharmonic
>
> DISC 47:
>
> Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 5 in E-Flat Major, Op. 73 "Emperor" - New York Philharmonic
>
> Bach, J.S.: Concerto for 3 Pianos in D Minor, BWV 1063 (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
>
> DISC 48:
>
> Prokofiev: Lieutenant Kijé Suite, Op. 60 (Symphonic suite for Orchestra) - New York Philharmonic
>
> Kodály: Háry János Suite (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
>
> DISC 49:
>
> Saint-Saëns: Danse macabre, Op. 40 (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
>
> Saint-Saëns: Le rouet d'Omphale, Op. 31 - New York Philharmonic
>
> Saint-Saëns: Phaëton, Poème symphonique, op. 39 - New York Philharmonic
>
> Saint-Saëns: La jeunesse d'Hercule - Poème symphonique - New York Philharmonic
>
> DISC 50:
>
> Vaughan-Williams: Symphony No. 4 in F Minor - New York Philharmonic
>
> Vaughan-Williams: Fantasia On A Theme by Thomas Tallis - Strings of the New York Philharmonic
>
> DISC 51:
>
> Schuller: Symphony for Brass and Percussion, Op. 16 (Remastered) - Brass Ensemble Of The Jazz And Classical Music Society
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> J.J. Johnson: Poem For Brass (Remastered) - (Schuller)
>
> J. Lewis: Three Little Feelings (Remastered) - (Schuller)
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> Giuffre: Pharaoh (Remastered) - (Schuller)
>
> DISC 52:
>
> Schuman: Credendum - Article of Faith (Remastered) - Philadelphia Orchestra (Ormandy)
>
> Kirchner: Piano Concerto No. 1 (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
>
> DISC 53:
>
> Falla: Noches en los Jardines de España (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
>
> Falla: El sombrero de tres picos, Suite No.2 (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
>
> DISC 54:
>
> Dukas: L'Apprenti sorcier (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
>
> Weinberger: Schwanda the Bagpiper (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
>
> Strauss, R.: Salome, Op. 54: Dance of the 7 Veils (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
>
> Liszt: Les préludes, S.97 (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
>
> DISC 55:
>
> Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6 in B Minor, Op. 74 "Pathétique" (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
>
> DISC 56:
>
> Prokofiev: Violin Concerto No. 1 in D Major, Op. 19 - New York Philharmonic
>
> Prokofiev: Violin Concerto No. 2 in G Minor, Op. 63 - New York Philharmonic (Bernstein)
>
> DISC 57/58:
>
> Barber: Vanessa, Op. 32 (Remastered) - Metropolitan Opera Orchestra & Chorus
>
> DISC 59:
>
> Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet Ballet, Op. 64 (Excerpts) - New York Philharmonic
>
> DISC 60/61:
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> Mussorgsky: Boris Godunov (Abridged) (Remastered) - Metropolitan Opera Orchestra & Chorus
>
> DISC 62:
>
> Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique, Op. 14 (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
>
> DISC 63:
>
> Tchaikovsky: Slavonic March, Op. 31 - New York Philharmonic
>
> Mussorgsky: Night On Bald Mountain - New York Philharmonic
>
> Tchaikovsky: Capriccio Italien, Op. 45 - New York Philharmonic
>
> Skalkottas: Four Greek Dances - New York Philharmonic
>
> DISC 64:
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> Verdi: A Masked Ball (Abridged) (Remastered) - Metropolitan Opera Orchestra
>
> DISC 65:
>
> Walton: Concerto for Violin and Orchestra (Remastered) - The Philadelphia Orchestra (Ormandy)
>
> Lalo: Symphonie Espagnole (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
>
> DISC 66:
>
> Hindemith: Sonata for Oboe and Piano (Remastered) - Harold Gomberg, Dimitri Mitropoulos
>
> Löffler: 2 Rhapsodies for Oboe, Viola and Piano (Remastered) - Harold Gomberg; Dimitri Mitropoulos
>
> DISC 67:
>
> Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 3 in C Minor, Op. 37 (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
>
> Mozart: 9 Variations on a Minuet by Jean Pierre Duport, K. 573 (Remastered) - (Casadesus)
>
> DISC 68/69:
>
> Verdi: Un Ballo in Maschera - Metropolitan Opera Orchestra & Chorus

On Saturday, September 25, 2021 at 5:33:08 PM UTC-7, Mark Obert-Thorn wrote:
> The date is probably "aspirational", given their track record, but here are the details about the next big conductor box from Sony. I'm told that an unissued Columbia recording of the Dvorak Scherzo Capriccioso that came out on a Minneapolis SO Mitropoulos tribute is missing. Anything else?
>
> Mark O-T
>
>
> Dimitri Mitropoulos – Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra | New York Philharmonic – The Complete RCA and Columbia Album Collection
>
> 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).
>
>
> SET CONTENTS
>
> DISC 1:
>
> Liszt, Arr. Busoni: Rhapsodie espagnole, S. 254 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> Borodin: Symphony No. 2 in B Minor, Op. 5 "Bogatyr" (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> DISC 2:
>
> Mozart: Thamos, König in Ägypten, K.345/336a: Entr'acte No. 1 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> Mozart: Thamos, König in Ägypten, K.345/336a: Entr'acte No. 2 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> Grieg: 2 Elegiac Melodies, Op. 34 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> Bach, J.S., Arr. L. Weiner: Toccata, Adagio & Fugue in C Major, BWV 564 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> Lully, Arr. Mottl: Ballet du temple de la paix, LWV 69 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> Dvořák: Slavonic Dances, Op. 46 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> Chabrier: Joyeuse marche (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> Meyerbeer: Le prophète, Act III: Coronation March (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> DISC 3:
>
> Bach, J.S., Arr. Mitropoulos: Fantasia and Fugue in G Minor, BWV 542 "Great" (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> Bach, J.S., Arr. H. Bösenroth: Choral Prelude for Organ BWV 680 "Wir glauben all' an einen Gott" (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> Glazunov: Overture on Three Greek Themes, Op. 3, No. 1 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> Ravel, Arr. Chardon: Piece en Forme de Habanera (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> Glazunov, Arr. Rogal-Lewitzsky: Chopiniana - Suite for Orchestra based on Piano Pieces by Frederic Chopin, Op. 46 (Remastered) - Robin Hood Dell Orchestra
>
> DISC 4:
>
> Mozart: Concerto No. 10 in E-Flat Major for Two Pianos and Orchestra, K. 365 (Remastered) - Robin Hood Dell Orchestra
>
> Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 7 in F Major, K.242 "Lodron Concerto" (Remastered) - Little Orchestra Society (Scherman)
>
> DISC 5:
>
> Milhaud: Le boeuf sur le toît, Op. 58 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> Ravel: Le tombeau de Couperin, M. 68a (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> Couperin, Arr. Milhaud: Overture and Allegro from "La Sultane Suite" (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> Rabaud: La procession nocturne, Op. 6 - New York Philharmonic
>
> DISC 6:
>
> Chausson: Symphony in B-Flat Major, Op. 20 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> Walton: Portsmouth Point Overture (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> DISC 7:
>
> Puccini: Manon Lescaut, Act III: Intermezzo (Remastered) - Robin Hood Dell Orchestra
>
> Mascagni: Cavalleria rusticana, Act II: Intermezzo (Remastered) - Robin Hood Dell Orchestra
>
> Wolf-Ferrari: I gioielli della Madonna (The jewels of the Madonna). Act II: Intermezzo (Remastered) - Robin Hood Dell Orchestra
>
> Wolf-Ferrari: I gioielli della Madonna (The jewels of the Madonna). Act III: Intermezzo (Remastered) - Robin Hood Dell Orchestra
>
> Menotti: Sebastian (Ballet Suite) (Remastered) - Robin Hood Dell Orchestra
>
> Massenet: Scènes Alsaciennes Suite No. 7 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> DISC 8:
>
> Rachmaninoff: The Isle of the Dead, Op. 29 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> Vaughan-Williams: Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> DISC 9:
>
> Mahler: Symphony No. 1 in D Major "Titan" - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> DISC 10:
>
> Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 2 in C Minor, Op. 17 "Little Russian" (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> DISC 11:
>
> Khachaturian: Piano Concerto in D-Flat Major, Op. 38 (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
>
> Rubinstein: Piano Concerto No. 4, Op. 70 (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
>
> DISC 12:
>
> Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 1 in B-Flat Major, Op. 23 (Remastered 1999) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> DISC 13:
>
> Poulenc: Concerto in D Minor for Two Pianos and Orchestra (Remastered) - RCA Victor Symphony Orchestra
>
> Brahms: Variations on a Theme by Haydn, Op. 56b for Two Pianos (Remastered) - (Whittemore & Lowe)
>
> DISC 14:
>
> Sessions: Symphony No. 2 (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
>
> Gould: Philharmonic Waltzes - New York Philharmonic
>
> Lalo: Le roi d'Ys: Overture (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> Siegmeister: Ozark set (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> DISC 15:
>
> Schumann: Symphony No. 3 in E-Flat Major, Op. 97 "Rhenish" (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> Weinberger: Schwanda the Bagpiper (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> Gould: Ministrel Show (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> DISC 16:
>
> Rachmaninoff: Symphony No. 2 in E Minor, Op. 27 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> DISC 17:
>
> Franck: Symphony in D Minor, FWV 48 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> DISC 18:
>
> Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4 in F Minor, Op. 36 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> DISC 19:
>
> Beethoven: Symphony No. 6 in F Major, Op. 68 "Pastorale" (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> DISC 20:
>
> Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 3 in A Minor, Op. 56, "Scotch" (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> Mendelssohn: Capriccio brillant in B Minor, Op. 22 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> Mendelssohn: Octet in E-Flat Major, Op. 20: III. Scherzo. Allegro leggierissimo (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> DISC 21:
>
> Dukas: L'Apprenti sorcier in F Minor (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> Rimsky-Korsakov: The Golden Cockerel (Suite) (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> Prokofiev: Symphony No. 1 in D Major, Op. 25 "Classical" (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> Glière: Red Poppy Ballet Suite: Russian Sailor's Dance (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> DISC 22:
>
> Schumann: Symphony No. 2 in C Major, Op. 61 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> Rimsky-Korsakov: The Golden Cockerel (Suite); Bridal Procession (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> DISC 23:
>
> Chopin: Piano Concerto No. 1 in E Minor, Op. 11 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> DISC 24:
>
> Brahms: Variations on a Theme by Haydn, Op. 56a "St. Anthony's Choral" (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> Weber: Jubel-Ouvertüre, Op. 59 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> Beethoven: Coriolan Overture, Op. 62 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> Beethoven: Leonore Overture No. 3 in C Major, Op. 72a (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> DISC 25:
>
> Bloch: Schelomo - Hebraic Rhapsody for Cello & Orchestra (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
>
> Saint-Saens: Cello Concerto No. 1 in A Minor, Op. 33 (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
>
> DISC 26:
>
> Stravinsky: Petrushka (1911 Version) (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
>
> DISC 27/28:
>
> Berg: Wozzeck, Op. 7 - New York Philharmonic
>
> DISC 29:
>
> Debussy: La Mer - New York Philharmonic
>
> Debussy: Images pour orchestre, L. 122, No. 2 (Remastered) - Philadelphia Orchestra (Ormandy)
>
> DISC 30:
>
> Schoenberg: Erwartung, Op. 17 - New York Philharmonic
>
> Krenek: Symphonic Elegy for String Orchestra (In Memoriam of Anton Webern) - New York Philharmonic
>
> Schoenberg: Verklärte Nacht, Op. 4 - Strings of the New York Philharmonic
>
> DISC 31:
>
> Bruch: Concerto No. 1 in G Minor for Violin and Orchestra, Op. 26 - New York Philharmonic
>
> Beethoven: Romance for Violin and Orchestra in G Major, Op. 40 (Remastered) - Columbia Symphony Orchestra (Morel)
>
> Beethoven: Romance for Violin and Orchestra in F Major, Op. 50 (Remastered) - Columbia Symphony Orchestra (Morel)
>
> Paganini: Concerto No. 3 in B Minor for Violin and Orchestra, Op. 61 - New York Philharmonic
>
> DISC 32:
>
> Gottschalk: Cakewalk Ballet Suite (Remastered) - Philadelphia Orchestra (Ormandy)
>
> Gould: Fall River Legend Ballet Suite (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
>
> Couperin, Arr. Milhaud: Overture and Allegro from "La Sultane Suite" (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
>
> Travis: Symphonic Allegro (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
>
> DISC 33:
>
> Berlioz: Roméo et Juliette, Op. 17, H 79 (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
>
> DISC 34:
>
> Prokofiev: Concerto No. 2 in G Minor for Violin and Orchestra, Op. 63 - New York Philharmonic
>
> Bach, J.S.: Violin Concerto No. 2 in E Major, BWV 1042 (Remastered) - Cleveland Orchestra (Szell)
>
> Prokofiev: Concerto No. 3 for Piano and Orchestra in C Major, Op. 26 - Robin Hood Dell Orchestra
>
> DISC 35:
>
> Scriabin: Symphony No. 4, Op. 54 "Le Poème de l'extase" - New York Philharmonic
>
> Scriabin: Promethée, le poème du feu, Op. 60 - New York Philharmonic
>
> DISC 36:
>
> Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5 in D Minor, Op. 47 (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
>
> DISC 37:
>
> Ippolitov-Ivanov: Caucasian Sketches, Suite No. 1, Op. 10 - New York Philharmonic
>
> Borodin, Arr. Rimsky-Korsakov: Prince Igor, Act II: Polovtsian Dances (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
>
> Borodin: In the Steppes of Central Asia - New York Philharmonic
>
> DISC 38:
>
> Schoenberg: Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, Op. 36 (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
>
> Berg: Concerto for Violin and Orchestra "To the Memory of an Angel" (Remastered) - Cleveland Orchestra (Rodzinski)
>
> DISC 39:
>
> Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 3 in A Minor, Op. 56, "Scotch" (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
>
> Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 5 in D Major, Op. 107 "Reformation" (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
>
> Mendelssohn: Die Hebriden, Op. 26 (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
>
> Mendelssohn: Ruy Blas, Op. 95: Overture (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
>
> DISC 40:
>
> Riegger: Symphony No. 3 in G Major, Op. 42 (Remastered) - Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra (Hanson)
>
> Mennin: Symphony No. 3 (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
>
> DISC 41:
>
> Shostakovich: Symphony No. 10 in E-Minor, Op. 93 (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
>
> DISC 42:
>
> Berlioz: Les nuits d'été, Op. 7 - Columbia Symphony Orchestra
>
> Berlioz: La captive, H 60 - Columbia Symphony Orchestra
>
> Berlioz: Le jeune Pâtre breton, H 65 - Columbia Symphony Orchestra
>
> Berlioz: Zaïde (boléro), Op.19 No. 1 - Columbia Symphony Orchestra
>
> DISC 43:
>
> Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto in E Minor, Op. 64 - New York Philharmonic
>
> Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto, Op. 35 - New York Philharmonic
>
> DISC 44:
>
> Borodin: Symphony No. 2 in B Minor, Op. 5 - New York Philharmonic
>
> Tchaikovsky: Orchestral Suite No. 1, in D Minor, Op. 43 - New York Philharmonic
>
> DISC 45:
>
> Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5 in E Minor, Op. 64 (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
>
> DISC 46:
>
> Shostakovich: Violin Concerto No. 1 in A Minor, Op. 99 - New York Philharmonic
>
> DISC 47:
>
> Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 5 in E-Flat Major, Op. 73 "Emperor" - New York Philharmonic
>
> Bach, J.S.: Concerto for 3 Pianos in D Minor, BWV 1063 (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
>
> DISC 48:
>
> Prokofiev: Lieutenant Kijé Suite, Op. 60 (Symphonic suite for Orchestra) - New York Philharmonic
>
> Kodály: Háry János Suite (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
>
> DISC 49:
>
> Saint-Saëns: Danse macabre, Op. 40 (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
>
> Saint-Saëns: Le rouet d'Omphale, Op. 31 - New York Philharmonic
>
> Saint-Saëns: Phaëton, Poème symphonique, op. 39 - New York Philharmonic
>
> Saint-Saëns: La jeunesse d'Hercule - Poème symphonique - New York Philharmonic
>
> DISC 50:
>
> Vaughan-Williams: Symphony No. 4 in F Minor - New York Philharmonic
>
> Vaughan-Williams: Fantasia On A Theme by Thomas Tallis - Strings of the New York Philharmonic
>
> DISC 51:
>
> Schuller: Symphony for Brass and Percussion, Op. 16 (Remastered) - Brass Ensemble Of The Jazz And Classical Music Society
>
> J.J. Johnson: Poem For Brass (Remastered) - (Schuller)
>
> J. Lewis: Three Little Feelings (Remastered) - (Schuller)
>
> Giuffre: Pharaoh (Remastered) - (Schuller)
>
> DISC 52:
>
> Schuman: Credendum - Article of Faith (Remastered) - Philadelphia Orchestra (Ormandy)
>
> Kirchner: Piano Concerto No. 1 (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
>
> DISC 53:
>
> Falla: Noches en los Jardines de España (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
>
> Falla: El sombrero de tres picos, Suite No.2 (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
>
> DISC 54:
>
> Dukas: L'Apprenti sorcier (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
>
> Weinberger: Schwanda the Bagpiper (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
>
> Strauss, R.: Salome, Op. 54: Dance of the 7 Veils (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
>
> Liszt: Les préludes, S.97 (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
>
> DISC 55:
>
> Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6 in B Minor, Op. 74 "Pathétique" (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
>
> DISC 56:
>
> Prokofiev: Violin Concerto No. 1 in D Major, Op. 19 - New York Philharmonic
>
> Prokofiev: Violin Concerto No. 2 in G Minor, Op. 63 - New York Philharmonic (Bernstein)
>
> DISC 57/58:
>
> Barber: Vanessa, Op. 32 (Remastered) - Metropolitan Opera Orchestra & Chorus
>
> DISC 59:
>
> Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet Ballet, Op. 64 (Excerpts) - New York Philharmonic
>
> DISC 60/61:
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> Mussorgsky: Boris Godunov (Abridged) (Remastered) - Metropolitan Opera Orchestra & Chorus
>
> DISC 62:
>
> Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique, Op. 14 (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
>
> DISC 63:
>
> Tchaikovsky: Slavonic March, Op. 31 - New York Philharmonic
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> Mussorgsky: Night On Bald Mountain - New York Philharmonic
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> Tchaikovsky: Capriccio Italien, Op. 45 - New York Philharmonic
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> Skalkottas: Four Greek Dances - New York Philharmonic
>
> DISC 64:
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> Verdi: A Masked Ball (Abridged) (Remastered) - Metropolitan Opera Orchestra
>
> DISC 65:
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> Walton: Concerto for Violin and Orchestra (Remastered) - The Philadelphia Orchestra (Ormandy)
>
> Lalo: Symphonie Espagnole (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
>
> DISC 66:
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> Hindemith: Sonata for Oboe and Piano (Remastered) - Harold Gomberg, Dimitri Mitropoulos
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> Löffler: 2 Rhapsodies for Oboe, Viola and Piano (Remastered) - Harold Gomberg; Dimitri Mitropoulos
>
> DISC 67:
>
> Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 3 in C Minor, Op. 37 (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
>
> Mozart: 9 Variations on a Minuet by Jean Pierre Duport, K. 573 (Remastered) - (Casadesus)
>
> DISC 68/69:
>
> Verdi: Un Ballo in Maschera - Metropolitan Opera Orchestra & Chorus

On Thursday, September 30, 2021 at 11:59:44 PM UTC-4, gggg gggg wrote:
> On Saturday, September 25, 2021 at 5:33:08 PM UTC-7, Mark Obert-Thorn wrote:
> > The date is probably "aspirational", given their track record, but here are the details about the next big conductor box from Sony. I'm told that an unissued Columbia recording of the Dvorak Scherzo Capriccioso that came out on a Minneapolis SO Mitropoulos tribute is missing. Anything else?
> >
> > Mark O-T
> >
> >
> > Dimitri Mitropoulos – Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra | New York Philharmonic – The Complete RCA and Columbia Album Collection
> >
> > 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).
> >
> >
> > SET CONTENTS
> >
> > DISC 1:
> >
> > Liszt, Arr. Busoni: Rhapsodie espagnole, S. 254 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
> >
> > Borodin: Symphony No. 2 in B Minor, Op. 5 "Bogatyr" (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
> >
> > DISC 2:
> >
> > Mozart: Thamos, König in Ägypten, K.345/336a: Entr'acte No. 1 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
> >
> > Mozart: Thamos, König in Ägypten, K.345/336a: Entr'acte No. 2 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
> >
> > Grieg: 2 Elegiac Melodies, Op. 34 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
> >
> > Bach, J.S., Arr. L. Weiner: Toccata, Adagio & Fugue in C Major, BWV 564 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
> >
> > Lully, Arr. Mottl: Ballet du temple de la paix, LWV 69 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
> >
> > Dvořák: Slavonic Dances, Op. 46 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
> >
> > Chabrier: Joyeuse marche (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
> >
> > Meyerbeer: Le prophète, Act III: Coronation March (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
> >
> > DISC 3:
> >
> > Bach, J.S., Arr. Mitropoulos: Fantasia and Fugue in G Minor, BWV 542 "Great" (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
> >
> > Bach, J.S., Arr. H. Bösenroth: Choral Prelude for Organ BWV 680 "Wir glauben all' an einen Gott" (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
> >
> > Glazunov: Overture on Three Greek Themes, Op. 3, No. 1 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
> >
> > Ravel, Arr. Chardon: Piece en Forme de Habanera (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
> >
> > Glazunov, Arr. Rogal-Lewitzsky: Chopiniana - Suite for Orchestra based on Piano Pieces by Frederic Chopin, Op. 46 (Remastered) - Robin Hood Dell Orchestra
> >
> > DISC 4:
> >
> > Mozart: Concerto No. 10 in E-Flat Major for Two Pianos and Orchestra, K.. 365 (Remastered) - Robin Hood Dell Orchestra
> >
> > Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 7 in F Major, K.242 "Lodron Concerto" (Remastered) - Little Orchestra Society (Scherman)
> >
> > DISC 5:
> >
> > Milhaud: Le boeuf sur le toît, Op. 58 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
> >
> > Ravel: Le tombeau de Couperin, M. 68a (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
> >
> > Couperin, Arr. Milhaud: Overture and Allegro from "La Sultane Suite" (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
> >
> > Rabaud: La procession nocturne, Op. 6 - New York Philharmonic
> >
> > DISC 6:
> >
> > Chausson: Symphony in B-Flat Major, Op. 20 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
> >
> > Walton: Portsmouth Point Overture (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
> >
> > DISC 7:
> >
> > Puccini: Manon Lescaut, Act III: Intermezzo (Remastered) - Robin Hood Dell Orchestra
> >
> > Mascagni: Cavalleria rusticana, Act II: Intermezzo (Remastered) - Robin Hood Dell Orchestra
> >
> > Wolf-Ferrari: I gioielli della Madonna (The jewels of the Madonna). Act II: Intermezzo (Remastered) - Robin Hood Dell Orchestra
> >
> > Wolf-Ferrari: I gioielli della Madonna (The jewels of the Madonna). Act III: Intermezzo (Remastered) - Robin Hood Dell Orchestra
> >
> > Menotti: Sebastian (Ballet Suite) (Remastered) - Robin Hood Dell Orchestra
> >
> > Massenet: Scènes Alsaciennes Suite No. 7 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
> >
> > DISC 8:
> >
> > Rachmaninoff: The Isle of the Dead, Op. 29 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
> >
> > Vaughan-Williams: Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
> >
> > DISC 9:
> >
> > Mahler: Symphony No. 1 in D Major "Titan" - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
> >
> > DISC 10:
> >
> > Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 2 in C Minor, Op. 17 "Little Russian" (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
> >
> > DISC 11:
> >
> > Khachaturian: Piano Concerto in D-Flat Major, Op. 38 (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
> >
> > Rubinstein: Piano Concerto No. 4, Op. 70 (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
> >
> > DISC 12:
> >
> > Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 1 in B-Flat Major, Op. 23 (Remastered 1999) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
> >
> > DISC 13:
> >
> > Poulenc: Concerto in D Minor for Two Pianos and Orchestra (Remastered) - RCA Victor Symphony Orchestra
> >
> > Brahms: Variations on a Theme by Haydn, Op. 56b for Two Pianos (Remastered) - (Whittemore & Lowe)
> >
> > DISC 14:
> >
> > Sessions: Symphony No. 2 (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
> >
> > Gould: Philharmonic Waltzes - New York Philharmonic
> >
> > Lalo: Le roi d'Ys: Overture (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
> >
> > Siegmeister: Ozark set (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
> >
> > DISC 15:
> >
> > Schumann: Symphony No. 3 in E-Flat Major, Op. 97 "Rhenish" (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
> >
> > Weinberger: Schwanda the Bagpiper (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
> >
> > Gould: Ministrel Show (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
> >
> > DISC 16:
> >
> > Rachmaninoff: Symphony No. 2 in E Minor, Op. 27 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
> >
> > DISC 17:
> >
> > Franck: Symphony in D Minor, FWV 48 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
> >
> > DISC 18:
> >
> > Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4 in F Minor, Op. 36 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
> >
> > DISC 19:
> >
> > Beethoven: Symphony No. 6 in F Major, Op. 68 "Pastorale" (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
> >
> > DISC 20:
> >
> > Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 3 in A Minor, Op. 56, "Scotch" (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
> >
> > Mendelssohn: Capriccio brillant in B Minor, Op. 22 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
> >
> > Mendelssohn: Octet in E-Flat Major, Op. 20: III. Scherzo. Allegro leggierissimo (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
> >
> > DISC 21:
> >
> > Dukas: L'Apprenti sorcier in F Minor (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
> >
> > Rimsky-Korsakov: The Golden Cockerel (Suite) (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
> >
> > Prokofiev: Symphony No. 1 in D Major, Op. 25 "Classical" (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
> >
> > Glière: Red Poppy Ballet Suite: Russian Sailor's Dance (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
> >
> > DISC 22:
> >
> > Schumann: Symphony No. 2 in C Major, Op. 61 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
> >
> > Rimsky-Korsakov: The Golden Cockerel (Suite); Bridal Procession (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
> >
> > DISC 23:
> >
> > Chopin: Piano Concerto No. 1 in E Minor, Op. 11 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
> >
> > DISC 24:
> >
> > Brahms: Variations on a Theme by Haydn, Op. 56a "St. Anthony's Choral" (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
> >
> > Weber: Jubel-Ouvertüre, Op. 59 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
> >
> > Beethoven: Coriolan Overture, Op. 62 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
> >
> > Beethoven: Leonore Overture No. 3 in C Major, Op. 72a (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
> >
> > DISC 25:
> >
> > Bloch: Schelomo - Hebraic Rhapsody for Cello & Orchestra (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
> >
> > Saint-Saens: Cello Concerto No. 1 in A Minor, Op. 33 (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
> >
> > DISC 26:
> >
> > Stravinsky: Petrushka (1911 Version) (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
> >
> > DISC 27/28:
> >
> > Berg: Wozzeck, Op. 7 - New York Philharmonic
> >
> > DISC 29:
> >
> > Debussy: La Mer - New York Philharmonic
> >
> > Debussy: Images pour orchestre, L. 122, No. 2 (Remastered) - Philadelphia Orchestra (Ormandy)
> >
> > DISC 30:
> >
> > Schoenberg: Erwartung, Op. 17 - New York Philharmonic
> >
> > Krenek: Symphonic Elegy for String Orchestra (In Memoriam of Anton Webern) - New York Philharmonic
> >
> > Schoenberg: Verklärte Nacht, Op. 4 - Strings of the New York Philharmonic
> >
> > DISC 31:
> >
> > Bruch: Concerto No. 1 in G Minor for Violin and Orchestra, Op. 26 - New York Philharmonic
> >
> > Beethoven: Romance for Violin and Orchestra in G Major, Op. 40 (Remastered) - Columbia Symphony Orchestra (Morel)
> >
> > Beethoven: Romance for Violin and Orchestra in F Major, Op. 50 (Remastered) - Columbia Symphony Orchestra (Morel)
> >
> > Paganini: Concerto No. 3 in B Minor for Violin and Orchestra, Op. 61 - New York Philharmonic
> >
> > DISC 32:
> >
> > Gottschalk: Cakewalk Ballet Suite (Remastered) - Philadelphia Orchestra (Ormandy)
> >
> > Gould: Fall River Legend Ballet Suite (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
> >
> > Couperin, Arr. Milhaud: Overture and Allegro from "La Sultane Suite" (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
> >
> > Travis: Symphonic Allegro (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
> >
> > DISC 33:
> >
> > Berlioz: Roméo et Juliette, Op. 17, H 79 (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
> >
> > DISC 34:
> >
> > Prokofiev: Concerto No. 2 in G Minor for Violin and Orchestra, Op. 63 - New York Philharmonic
> >
> > Bach, J.S.: Violin Concerto No. 2 in E Major, BWV 1042 (Remastered) - Cleveland Orchestra (Szell)
> >
> > Prokofiev: Concerto No. 3 for Piano and Orchestra in C Major, Op. 26 - Robin Hood Dell Orchestra
> >
> > DISC 35:
> >
> > Scriabin: Symphony No. 4, Op. 54 "Le Poème de l'extase" - New York Philharmonic
> >
> > Scriabin: Promethée, le poème du feu, Op. 60 - New York Philharmonic
> >
> > DISC 36:
> >
> > Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5 in D Minor, Op. 47 (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
> >
> > DISC 37:
> >
> > Ippolitov-Ivanov: Caucasian Sketches, Suite No. 1, Op. 10 - New York Philharmonic
> >
> > Borodin, Arr. Rimsky-Korsakov: Prince Igor, Act II: Polovtsian Dances (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
> >
> > Borodin: In the Steppes of Central Asia - New York Philharmonic
> >
> > DISC 38:
> >
> > Schoenberg: Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, Op. 36 (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
> >
> > Berg: Concerto for Violin and Orchestra "To the Memory of an Angel" (Remastered) - Cleveland Orchestra (Rodzinski)
> >
> > DISC 39:
> >
> > Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 3 in A Minor, Op. 56, "Scotch" (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
> >
> > Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 5 in D Major, Op. 107 "Reformation" (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
> >
> > Mendelssohn: Die Hebriden, Op. 26 (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
> >
> > Mendelssohn: Ruy Blas, Op. 95: Overture (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
> >
> > DISC 40:
> >
> > Riegger: Symphony No. 3 in G Major, Op. 42 (Remastered) - Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra (Hanson)
> >
> > Mennin: Symphony No. 3 (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
> >
> > DISC 41:
> >
> > Shostakovich: Symphony No. 10 in E-Minor, Op. 93 (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
> >
> > DISC 42:
> >
> > Berlioz: Les nuits d'été, Op. 7 - Columbia Symphony Orchestra
> >
> > Berlioz: La captive, H 60 - Columbia Symphony Orchestra
> >
> > Berlioz: Le jeune Pâtre breton, H 65 - Columbia Symphony Orchestra
> >
> > Berlioz: Zaïde (boléro), Op.19 No. 1 - Columbia Symphony Orchestra
> >
> > DISC 43:
> >
> > Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto in E Minor, Op. 64 - New York Philharmonic
> >
> > Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto, Op. 35 - New York Philharmonic
> >
> > DISC 44:
> >
> > Borodin: Symphony No. 2 in B Minor, Op. 5 - New York Philharmonic
> >
> > Tchaikovsky: Orchestral Suite No. 1, in D Minor, Op. 43 - New York Philharmonic
> >
> > DISC 45:
> >
> > Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5 in E Minor, Op. 64 (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
> >
> > DISC 46:
> >
> > Shostakovich: Violin Concerto No. 1 in A Minor, Op. 99 - New York Philharmonic
> >
> > DISC 47:
> >
> > Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 5 in E-Flat Major, Op. 73 "Emperor" - New York Philharmonic
> >
> > Bach, J.S.: Concerto for 3 Pianos in D Minor, BWV 1063 (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
> >
> > DISC 48:
> >
> > Prokofiev: Lieutenant Kijé Suite, Op. 60 (Symphonic suite for Orchestra) - New York Philharmonic
> >
> > Kodály: Háry János Suite (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
> >
> > DISC 49:
> >
> > Saint-Saëns: Danse macabre, Op. 40 (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
> >
> > Saint-Saëns: Le rouet d'Omphale, Op. 31 - New York Philharmonic
> >
> > Saint-Saëns: Phaëton, Poème symphonique, op. 39 - New York Philharmonic
> >
> > Saint-Saëns: La jeunesse d'Hercule - Poème symphonique - New York Philharmonic
> >
> > DISC 50:
> >
> > Vaughan-Williams: Symphony No. 4 in F Minor - New York Philharmonic
> >
> > Vaughan-Williams: Fantasia On A Theme by Thomas Tallis - Strings of the New York Philharmonic
> >
> > DISC 51:
> >
> > Schuller: Symphony for Brass and Percussion, Op. 16 (Remastered) - Brass Ensemble Of The Jazz And Classical Music Society
> >
> > J.J. Johnson: Poem For Brass (Remastered) - (Schuller)
> >
> > J. Lewis: Three Little Feelings (Remastered) - (Schuller)
> >
> > Giuffre: Pharaoh (Remastered) - (Schuller)
> >
> > DISC 52:
> >
> > Schuman: Credendum - Article of Faith (Remastered) - Philadelphia Orchestra (Ormandy)
> >
> > Kirchner: Piano Concerto No. 1 (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
> >
> > DISC 53:
> >
> > Falla: Noches en los Jardines de España (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
> >
> > Falla: El sombrero de tres picos, Suite No.2 (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
> >
> > DISC 54:
> >
> > Dukas: L'Apprenti sorcier (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
> >
> > Weinberger: Schwanda the Bagpiper (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
> >
> > Strauss, R.: Salome, Op. 54: Dance of the 7 Veils (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
> >
> > Liszt: Les préludes, S.97 (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
> >
> > DISC 55:
> >
> > Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6 in B Minor, Op. 74 "Pathétique" (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
> >
> > DISC 56:
> >
> > Prokofiev: Violin Concerto No. 1 in D Major, Op. 19 - New York Philharmonic
> >
> > Prokofiev: Violin Concerto No. 2 in G Minor, Op. 63 - New York Philharmonic (Bernstein)
> >
> > DISC 57/58:
> >
> > Barber: Vanessa, Op. 32 (Remastered) - Metropolitan Opera Orchestra & Chorus
> >
> > DISC 59:
> >
> > Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet Ballet, Op. 64 (Excerpts) - New York Philharmonic
> >
> > DISC 60/61:
> >
> > Mussorgsky: Boris Godunov (Abridged) (Remastered) - Metropolitan Opera Orchestra & Chorus
> >
> > DISC 62:
> >
> > Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique, Op. 14 (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
> >
> > DISC 63:
> >
> > Tchaikovsky: Slavonic March, Op. 31 - New York Philharmonic
> >
> > Mussorgsky: Night On Bald Mountain - New York Philharmonic
> >
> > Tchaikovsky: Capriccio Italien, Op. 45 - New York Philharmonic
> >
> > Skalkottas: Four Greek Dances - New York Philharmonic
> >
> > DISC 64:
> >
> > Verdi: A Masked Ball (Abridged) (Remastered) - Metropolitan Opera Orchestra
> >
> > DISC 65:
> >
> > Walton: Concerto for Violin and Orchestra (Remastered) - The Philadelphia Orchestra (Ormandy)
> >
> > Lalo: Symphonie Espagnole (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
> >
> > DISC 66:
> >
> > Hindemith: Sonata for Oboe and Piano (Remastered) - Harold Gomberg, Dimitri Mitropoulos
> >
> > Löffler: 2 Rhapsodies for Oboe, Viola and Piano (Remastered) - Harold Gomberg; Dimitri Mitropoulos
> >
> > DISC 67:
> >
> > Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 3 in C Minor, Op. 37 (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
> >
> > Mozart: 9 Variations on a Minuet by Jean Pierre Duport, K. 573 (Remastered) - (Casadesus)
> >
> > DISC 68/69:
> >
> > Verdi: Un Ballo in Maschera - Metropolitan Opera Orchestra & Chorus
> (Upcoming radio program):
>
> https://www.wfmt.com/2021/12/12/mitropoulos-in-philadelphia

On Saturday, September 25, 2021 at 8:33:08 PM UTC-4, Mark Obert-Thorn wrote:
> The date is probably "aspirational", given their track record, but here are the details about the next big conductor box from Sony. I'm told that an unissued Columbia recording of the Dvorak Scherzo Capriccioso that came out on a Minneapolis SO Mitropoulos tribute is missing. Anything else?
>
> Mark O-T
>
>
> Dimitri Mitropoulos – Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra | New York Philharmonic – The Complete RCA and Columbia Album Collection
>
> 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).
>
>
> SET CONTENTS
>
> DISC 1:
>
> Liszt, Arr. Busoni: Rhapsodie espagnole, S. 254 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> Borodin: Symphony No. 2 in B Minor, Op. 5 "Bogatyr" (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> DISC 2:
>
> Mozart: Thamos, König in Ägypten, K.345/336a: Entr'acte No. 1 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> Mozart: Thamos, König in Ägypten, K.345/336a: Entr'acte No. 2 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> Grieg: 2 Elegiac Melodies, Op. 34 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> Bach, J.S., Arr. L. Weiner: Toccata, Adagio & Fugue in C Major, BWV 564 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> Lully, Arr. Mottl: Ballet du temple de la paix, LWV 69 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> Dvořák: Slavonic Dances, Op. 46 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> Chabrier: Joyeuse marche (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> Meyerbeer: Le prophète, Act III: Coronation March (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> DISC 3:
>
> Bach, J.S., Arr. Mitropoulos: Fantasia and Fugue in G Minor, BWV 542 "Great" (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> Bach, J.S., Arr. H. Bösenroth: Choral Prelude for Organ BWV 680 "Wir glauben all' an einen Gott" (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> Glazunov: Overture on Three Greek Themes, Op. 3, No. 1 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> Ravel, Arr. Chardon: Piece en Forme de Habanera (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> Glazunov, Arr. Rogal-Lewitzsky: Chopiniana - Suite for Orchestra based on Piano Pieces by Frederic Chopin, Op. 46 (Remastered) - Robin Hood Dell Orchestra
>
> DISC 4:
>
> Mozart: Concerto No. 10 in E-Flat Major for Two Pianos and Orchestra, K. 365 (Remastered) - Robin Hood Dell Orchestra
>
> Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 7 in F Major, K.242 "Lodron Concerto" (Remastered) - Little Orchestra Society (Scherman)
>
> DISC 5:
>
> Milhaud: Le boeuf sur le toît, Op. 58 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> Ravel: Le tombeau de Couperin, M. 68a (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> Couperin, Arr. Milhaud: Overture and Allegro from "La Sultane Suite" (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> Rabaud: La procession nocturne, Op. 6 - New York Philharmonic
>
> DISC 6:
>
> Chausson: Symphony in B-Flat Major, Op. 20 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> Walton: Portsmouth Point Overture (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> DISC 7:
>
> Puccini: Manon Lescaut, Act III: Intermezzo (Remastered) - Robin Hood Dell Orchestra
>
> Mascagni: Cavalleria rusticana, Act II: Intermezzo (Remastered) - Robin Hood Dell Orchestra
>
> Wolf-Ferrari: I gioielli della Madonna (The jewels of the Madonna). Act II: Intermezzo (Remastered) - Robin Hood Dell Orchestra
>
> Wolf-Ferrari: I gioielli della Madonna (The jewels of the Madonna). Act III: Intermezzo (Remastered) - Robin Hood Dell Orchestra
>
> Menotti: Sebastian (Ballet Suite) (Remastered) - Robin Hood Dell Orchestra
>
> Massenet: Scènes Alsaciennes Suite No. 7 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> DISC 8:
>
> Rachmaninoff: The Isle of the Dead, Op. 29 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> Vaughan-Williams: Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> DISC 9:
>
> Mahler: Symphony No. 1 in D Major "Titan" - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> DISC 10:
>
> Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 2 in C Minor, Op. 17 "Little Russian" (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> DISC 11:
>
> Khachaturian: Piano Concerto in D-Flat Major, Op. 38 (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
>
> Rubinstein: Piano Concerto No. 4, Op. 70 (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
>
> DISC 12:
>
> Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 1 in B-Flat Major, Op. 23 (Remastered 1999) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> DISC 13:
>
> Poulenc: Concerto in D Minor for Two Pianos and Orchestra (Remastered) - RCA Victor Symphony Orchestra
>
> Brahms: Variations on a Theme by Haydn, Op. 56b for Two Pianos (Remastered) - (Whittemore & Lowe)
>
> DISC 14:
>
> Sessions: Symphony No. 2 (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
>
> Gould: Philharmonic Waltzes - New York Philharmonic
>
> Lalo: Le roi d'Ys: Overture (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> Siegmeister: Ozark set (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> DISC 15:
>
> Schumann: Symphony No. 3 in E-Flat Major, Op. 97 "Rhenish" (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> Weinberger: Schwanda the Bagpiper (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> Gould: Ministrel Show (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> DISC 16:
>
> Rachmaninoff: Symphony No. 2 in E Minor, Op. 27 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> DISC 17:
>
> Franck: Symphony in D Minor, FWV 48 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> DISC 18:
>
> Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4 in F Minor, Op. 36 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> DISC 19:
>
> Beethoven: Symphony No. 6 in F Major, Op. 68 "Pastorale" (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> DISC 20:
>
> Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 3 in A Minor, Op. 56, "Scotch" (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> Mendelssohn: Capriccio brillant in B Minor, Op. 22 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> Mendelssohn: Octet in E-Flat Major, Op. 20: III. Scherzo. Allegro leggierissimo (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> DISC 21:
>
> Dukas: L'Apprenti sorcier in F Minor (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> Rimsky-Korsakov: The Golden Cockerel (Suite) (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> Prokofiev: Symphony No. 1 in D Major, Op. 25 "Classical" (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> Glière: Red Poppy Ballet Suite: Russian Sailor's Dance (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> DISC 22:
>
> Schumann: Symphony No. 2 in C Major, Op. 61 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> Rimsky-Korsakov: The Golden Cockerel (Suite); Bridal Procession (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> DISC 23:
>
> Chopin: Piano Concerto No. 1 in E Minor, Op. 11 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> DISC 24:
>
> Brahms: Variations on a Theme by Haydn, Op. 56a "St. Anthony's Choral" (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> Weber: Jubel-Ouvertüre, Op. 59 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> Beethoven: Coriolan Overture, Op. 62 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> Beethoven: Leonore Overture No. 3 in C Major, Op. 72a (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> DISC 25:
>
> Bloch: Schelomo - Hebraic Rhapsody for Cello & Orchestra (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
>
> Saint-Saens: Cello Concerto No. 1 in A Minor, Op. 33 (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
>
> DISC 26:
>
> Stravinsky: Petrushka (1911 Version) (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
>
> DISC 27/28:
>
> Berg: Wozzeck, Op. 7 - New York Philharmonic
>
> DISC 29:
>
> Debussy: La Mer - New York Philharmonic
>
> Debussy: Images pour orchestre, L. 122, No. 2 (Remastered) - Philadelphia Orchestra (Ormandy)
>
> DISC 30:
>
> Schoenberg: Erwartung, Op. 17 - New York Philharmonic
>
> Krenek: Symphonic Elegy for String Orchestra (In Memoriam of Anton Webern) - New York Philharmonic
>
> Schoenberg: Verklärte Nacht, Op. 4 - Strings of the New York Philharmonic
>
> DISC 31:
>
> Bruch: Concerto No. 1 in G Minor for Violin and Orchestra, Op. 26 - New York Philharmonic
>
> Beethoven: Romance for Violin and Orchestra in G Major, Op. 40 (Remastered) - Columbia Symphony Orchestra (Morel)
>
> Beethoven: Romance for Violin and Orchestra in F Major, Op. 50 (Remastered) - Columbia Symphony Orchestra (Morel)
>
> Paganini: Concerto No. 3 in B Minor for Violin and Orchestra, Op. 61 - New York Philharmonic
>
> DISC 32:
>
> Gottschalk: Cakewalk Ballet Suite (Remastered) - Philadelphia Orchestra (Ormandy)
>
> Gould: Fall River Legend Ballet Suite (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
>
> Couperin, Arr. Milhaud: Overture and Allegro from "La Sultane Suite" (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
>
> Travis: Symphonic Allegro (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
>
> DISC 33:
>
> Berlioz: Roméo et Juliette, Op. 17, H 79 (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
>
> DISC 34:
>
> Prokofiev: Concerto No. 2 in G Minor for Violin and Orchestra, Op. 63 - New York Philharmonic
>
> Bach, J.S.: Violin Concerto No. 2 in E Major, BWV 1042 (Remastered) - Cleveland Orchestra (Szell)
>
> Prokofiev: Concerto No. 3 for Piano and Orchestra in C Major, Op. 26 - Robin Hood Dell Orchestra
>
> DISC 35:
>
> Scriabin: Symphony No. 4, Op. 54 "Le Poème de l'extase" - New York Philharmonic
>
> Scriabin: Promethée, le poème du feu, Op. 60 - New York Philharmonic
>
> DISC 36:
>
> Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5 in D Minor, Op. 47 (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
>
> DISC 37:
>
> Ippolitov-Ivanov: Caucasian Sketches, Suite No. 1, Op. 10 - New York Philharmonic
>
> Borodin, Arr. Rimsky-Korsakov: Prince Igor, Act II: Polovtsian Dances (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
>
> Borodin: In the Steppes of Central Asia - New York Philharmonic
>
> DISC 38:
>
> Schoenberg: Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, Op. 36 (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
>
> Berg: Concerto for Violin and Orchestra "To the Memory of an Angel" (Remastered) - Cleveland Orchestra (Rodzinski)
>
> DISC 39:
>
> Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 3 in A Minor, Op. 56, "Scotch" (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
>
> Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 5 in D Major, Op. 107 "Reformation" (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
>
> Mendelssohn: Die Hebriden, Op. 26 (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
>
> Mendelssohn: Ruy Blas, Op. 95: Overture (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
>
> DISC 40:
>
> Riegger: Symphony No. 3 in G Major, Op. 42 (Remastered) - Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra (Hanson)
>
> Mennin: Symphony No. 3 (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
>
> DISC 41:
>
> Shostakovich: Symphony No. 10 in E-Minor, Op. 93 (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
>
> DISC 42:
>
> Berlioz: Les nuits d'été, Op. 7 - Columbia Symphony Orchestra
>
> Berlioz: La captive, H 60 - Columbia Symphony Orchestra
>
> Berlioz: Le jeune Pâtre breton, H 65 - Columbia Symphony Orchestra
>
> Berlioz: Zaïde (boléro), Op.19 No. 1 - Columbia Symphony Orchestra
>
> DISC 43:
>
> Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto in E Minor, Op. 64 - New York Philharmonic
>
> Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto, Op. 35 - New York Philharmonic
>
> DISC 44:
>
> Borodin: Symphony No. 2 in B Minor, Op. 5 - New York Philharmonic
>
> Tchaikovsky: Orchestral Suite No. 1, in D Minor, Op. 43 - New York Philharmonic
>
> DISC 45:
>
> Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5 in E Minor, Op. 64 (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
>
> DISC 46:
>
> Shostakovich: Violin Concerto No. 1 in A Minor, Op. 99 - New York Philharmonic
>
> DISC 47:
>
> Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 5 in E-Flat Major, Op. 73 "Emperor" - New York Philharmonic
>
> Bach, J.S.: Concerto for 3 Pianos in D Minor, BWV 1063 (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
>
> DISC 48:
>
> Prokofiev: Lieutenant Kijé Suite, Op. 60 (Symphonic suite for Orchestra) - New York Philharmonic
>
> Kodály: Háry János Suite (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
>
> DISC 49:
>
> Saint-Saëns: Danse macabre, Op. 40 (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
>
> Saint-Saëns: Le rouet d'Omphale, Op. 31 - New York Philharmonic
>
> Saint-Saëns: Phaëton, Poème symphonique, op. 39 - New York Philharmonic
>
> Saint-Saëns: La jeunesse d'Hercule - Poème symphonique - New York Philharmonic
>
> DISC 50:
>
> Vaughan-Williams: Symphony No. 4 in F Minor - New York Philharmonic
>
> Vaughan-Williams: Fantasia On A Theme by Thomas Tallis - Strings of the New York Philharmonic
>
> DISC 51:
>
> Schuller: Symphony for Brass and Percussion, Op. 16 (Remastered) - Brass Ensemble Of The Jazz And Classical Music Society
>
> J.J. Johnson: Poem For Brass (Remastered) - (Schuller)
>
> J. Lewis: Three Little Feelings (Remastered) - (Schuller)
>
> Giuffre: Pharaoh (Remastered) - (Schuller)
>
> DISC 52:
>
> Schuman: Credendum - Article of Faith (Remastered) - Philadelphia Orchestra (Ormandy)
>
> Kirchner: Piano Concerto No. 1 (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
>
> DISC 53:
>
> Falla: Noches en los Jardines de España (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
>
> Falla: El sombrero de tres picos, Suite No.2 (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
>
> DISC 54:
>
> Dukas: L'Apprenti sorcier (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
>
> Weinberger: Schwanda the Bagpiper (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
>
> Strauss, R.: Salome, Op. 54: Dance of the 7 Veils (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
>
> Liszt: Les préludes, S.97 (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
>
> DISC 55:
>
> Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6 in B Minor, Op. 74 "Pathétique" (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
>
> DISC 56:
>
> Prokofiev: Violin Concerto No. 1 in D Major, Op. 19 - New York Philharmonic
>
> Prokofiev: Violin Concerto No. 2 in G Minor, Op. 63 - New York Philharmonic (Bernstein)
>
> DISC 57/58:
>
> Barber: Vanessa, Op. 32 (Remastered) - Metropolitan Opera Orchestra & Chorus
>
> DISC 59:
>
> Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet Ballet, Op. 64 (Excerpts) - New York Philharmonic
>
> DISC 60/61:
>
> Mussorgsky: Boris Godunov (Abridged) (Remastered) - Metropolitan Opera Orchestra & Chorus
>
> DISC 62:
>
> Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique, Op. 14 (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
>
> DISC 63:
>
> Tchaikovsky: Slavonic March, Op. 31 - New York Philharmonic
>
> Mussorgsky: Night On Bald Mountain - New York Philharmonic
>
> Tchaikovsky: Capriccio Italien, Op. 45 - New York Philharmonic
>
> Skalkottas: Four Greek Dances - New York Philharmonic
>
> DISC 64:
>
> Verdi: A Masked Ball (Abridged) (Remastered) - Metropolitan Opera Orchestra
>
> DISC 65:
>
> Walton: Concerto for Violin and Orchestra (Remastered) - The Philadelphia Orchestra (Ormandy)
>
> Lalo: Symphonie Espagnole (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
>
> DISC 66:
>
> Hindemith: Sonata for Oboe and Piano (Remastered) - Harold Gomberg, Dimitri Mitropoulos
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> Löffler: 2 Rhapsodies for Oboe, Viola and Piano (Remastered) - Harold Gomberg; Dimitri Mitropoulos
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> DISC 67:
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> Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 3 in C Minor, Op. 37 (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
>
> Mozart: 9 Variations on a Minuet by Jean Pierre Duport, K. 573 (Remastered) - (Casadesus)
>
> DISC 68/69:
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> Verdi: Un Ballo in Maschera - Metropolitan Opera Orchestra & Chorus

> Let's hope that Sony reduced the horrid "honky" upper low frequencies effects in many of Mitropoulos' NYPO / Carneigie Hall recordings This was caused by a primitve attempt to electrnically extend the reverb time in the hall back in the early to mid 1950s
Who you calling horrid honky?

On Saturday, September 25, 2021 at 5:33:08 PM UTC-7, Mark Obert-Thorn wrote:
> The date is probably "aspirational", given their track record, but here are the details about the next big conductor box from Sony. I'm told that an unissued Columbia recording of the Dvorak Scherzo Capriccioso that came out on a Minneapolis SO Mitropoulos tribute is missing. Anything else?
>
> Mark O-T
>
>
> Dimitri Mitropoulos – Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra | New York Philharmonic – The Complete RCA and Columbia Album Collection
>
> 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).
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> 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).
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>
> SET CONTENTS
>
> DISC 1:
>
> Liszt, Arr. Busoni: Rhapsodie espagnole, S. 254 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> Borodin: Symphony No. 2 in B Minor, Op. 5 "Bogatyr" (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> DISC 2:
>
> Mozart: Thamos, König in Ägypten, K.345/336a: Entr'acte No. 1 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> Mozart: Thamos, König in Ägypten, K.345/336a: Entr'acte No. 2 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> Grieg: 2 Elegiac Melodies, Op. 34 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> Bach, J.S., Arr. L. Weiner: Toccata, Adagio & Fugue in C Major, BWV 564 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> Lully, Arr. Mottl: Ballet du temple de la paix, LWV 69 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> Dvořák: Slavonic Dances, Op. 46 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> Chabrier: Joyeuse marche (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> Meyerbeer: Le prophète, Act III: Coronation March (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> DISC 3:
>
> Bach, J.S., Arr. Mitropoulos: Fantasia and Fugue in G Minor, BWV 542 "Great" (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> Bach, J.S., Arr. H. Bösenroth: Choral Prelude for Organ BWV 680 "Wir glauben all' an einen Gott" (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> Glazunov: Overture on Three Greek Themes, Op. 3, No. 1 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> Ravel, Arr. Chardon: Piece en Forme de Habanera (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> Glazunov, Arr. Rogal-Lewitzsky: Chopiniana - Suite for Orchestra based on Piano Pieces by Frederic Chopin, Op. 46 (Remastered) - Robin Hood Dell Orchestra
>
> DISC 4:
>
> Mozart: Concerto No. 10 in E-Flat Major for Two Pianos and Orchestra, K. 365 (Remastered) - Robin Hood Dell Orchestra
>
> Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 7 in F Major, K.242 "Lodron Concerto" (Remastered) - Little Orchestra Society (Scherman)
>
> DISC 5:
>
> Milhaud: Le boeuf sur le toît, Op. 58 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> Ravel: Le tombeau de Couperin, M. 68a (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> Couperin, Arr. Milhaud: Overture and Allegro from "La Sultane Suite" (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> Rabaud: La procession nocturne, Op. 6 - New York Philharmonic
>
> DISC 6:
>
> Chausson: Symphony in B-Flat Major, Op. 20 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> Walton: Portsmouth Point Overture (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> DISC 7:
>
> Puccini: Manon Lescaut, Act III: Intermezzo (Remastered) - Robin Hood Dell Orchestra
>
> Mascagni: Cavalleria rusticana, Act II: Intermezzo (Remastered) - Robin Hood Dell Orchestra
>
> Wolf-Ferrari: I gioielli della Madonna (The jewels of the Madonna). Act II: Intermezzo (Remastered) - Robin Hood Dell Orchestra
>
> Wolf-Ferrari: I gioielli della Madonna (The jewels of the Madonna). Act III: Intermezzo (Remastered) - Robin Hood Dell Orchestra
>
> Menotti: Sebastian (Ballet Suite) (Remastered) - Robin Hood Dell Orchestra
>
> Massenet: Scènes Alsaciennes Suite No. 7 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> DISC 8:
>
> Rachmaninoff: The Isle of the Dead, Op. 29 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> Vaughan-Williams: Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> DISC 9:
>
> Mahler: Symphony No. 1 in D Major "Titan" - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> DISC 10:
>
> Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 2 in C Minor, Op. 17 "Little Russian" (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> DISC 11:
>
> Khachaturian: Piano Concerto in D-Flat Major, Op. 38 (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
>
> Rubinstein: Piano Concerto No. 4, Op. 70 (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
>
> DISC 12:
>
> Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 1 in B-Flat Major, Op. 23 (Remastered 1999) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> DISC 13:
>
> Poulenc: Concerto in D Minor for Two Pianos and Orchestra (Remastered) - RCA Victor Symphony Orchestra
>
> Brahms: Variations on a Theme by Haydn, Op. 56b for Two Pianos (Remastered) - (Whittemore & Lowe)
>
> DISC 14:
>
> Sessions: Symphony No. 2 (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
>
> Gould: Philharmonic Waltzes - New York Philharmonic
>
> Lalo: Le roi d'Ys: Overture (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> Siegmeister: Ozark set (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> DISC 15:
>
> Schumann: Symphony No. 3 in E-Flat Major, Op. 97 "Rhenish" (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> Weinberger: Schwanda the Bagpiper (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> Gould: Ministrel Show (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> DISC 16:
>
> Rachmaninoff: Symphony No. 2 in E Minor, Op. 27 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> DISC 17:
>
> Franck: Symphony in D Minor, FWV 48 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> DISC 18:
>
> Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4 in F Minor, Op. 36 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> DISC 19:
>
> Beethoven: Symphony No. 6 in F Major, Op. 68 "Pastorale" (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> DISC 20:
>
> Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 3 in A Minor, Op. 56, "Scotch" (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> Mendelssohn: Capriccio brillant in B Minor, Op. 22 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> Mendelssohn: Octet in E-Flat Major, Op. 20: III. Scherzo. Allegro leggierissimo (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> DISC 21:
>
> Dukas: L'Apprenti sorcier in F Minor (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> Rimsky-Korsakov: The Golden Cockerel (Suite) (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> Prokofiev: Symphony No. 1 in D Major, Op. 25 "Classical" (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> Glière: Red Poppy Ballet Suite: Russian Sailor's Dance (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> DISC 22:
>
> Schumann: Symphony No. 2 in C Major, Op. 61 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> Rimsky-Korsakov: The Golden Cockerel (Suite); Bridal Procession (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> DISC 23:
>
> Chopin: Piano Concerto No. 1 in E Minor, Op. 11 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> DISC 24:
>
> Brahms: Variations on a Theme by Haydn, Op. 56a "St. Anthony's Choral" (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> Weber: Jubel-Ouvertüre, Op. 59 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> Beethoven: Coriolan Overture, Op. 62 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> Beethoven: Leonore Overture No. 3 in C Major, Op. 72a (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> DISC 25:
>
> Bloch: Schelomo - Hebraic Rhapsody for Cello & Orchestra (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
>
> Saint-Saens: Cello Concerto No. 1 in A Minor, Op. 33 (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
>
> DISC 26:
>
> Stravinsky: Petrushka (1911 Version) (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
>
> DISC 27/28:
>
> Berg: Wozzeck, Op. 7 - New York Philharmonic
>
> DISC 29:
>
> Debussy: La Mer - New York Philharmonic
>
> Debussy: Images pour orchestre, L. 122, No. 2 (Remastered) - Philadelphia Orchestra (Ormandy)
>
> DISC 30:
>
> Schoenberg: Erwartung, Op. 17 - New York Philharmonic
>
> Krenek: Symphonic Elegy for String Orchestra (In Memoriam of Anton Webern) - New York Philharmonic
>
> Schoenberg: Verklärte Nacht, Op. 4 - Strings of the New York Philharmonic
>
> DISC 31:
>
> Bruch: Concerto No. 1 in G Minor for Violin and Orchestra, Op. 26 - New York Philharmonic
>
> Beethoven: Romance for Violin and Orchestra in G Major, Op. 40 (Remastered) - Columbia Symphony Orchestra (Morel)
>
> Beethoven: Romance for Violin and Orchestra in F Major, Op. 50 (Remastered) - Columbia Symphony Orchestra (Morel)
>
> Paganini: Concerto No. 3 in B Minor for Violin and Orchestra, Op. 61 - New York Philharmonic
>
> DISC 32:
>
> Gottschalk: Cakewalk Ballet Suite (Remastered) - Philadelphia Orchestra (Ormandy)
>
> Gould: Fall River Legend Ballet Suite (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
>
> Couperin, Arr. Milhaud: Overture and Allegro from "La Sultane Suite" (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
>
> Travis: Symphonic Allegro (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
>
> DISC 33:
>
> Berlioz: Roméo et Juliette, Op. 17, H 79 (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
>
> DISC 34:
>
> Prokofiev: Concerto No. 2 in G Minor for Violin and Orchestra, Op. 63 - New York Philharmonic
>
> Bach, J.S.: Violin Concerto No. 2 in E Major, BWV 1042 (Remastered) - Cleveland Orchestra (Szell)
>
> Prokofiev: Concerto No. 3 for Piano and Orchestra in C Major, Op. 26 - Robin Hood Dell Orchestra
>
> DISC 35:
>
> Scriabin: Symphony No. 4, Op. 54 "Le Poème de l'extase" - New York Philharmonic
>
> Scriabin: Promethée, le poème du feu, Op. 60 - New York Philharmonic
>
> DISC 36:
>
> Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5 in D Minor, Op. 47 (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
>
> DISC 37:
>
> Ippolitov-Ivanov: Caucasian Sketches, Suite No. 1, Op. 10 - New York Philharmonic
>
> Borodin, Arr. Rimsky-Korsakov: Prince Igor, Act II: Polovtsian Dances (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
>
> Borodin: In the Steppes of Central Asia - New York Philharmonic
>
> DISC 38:
>
> Schoenberg: Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, Op. 36 (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
>
> Berg: Concerto for Violin and Orchestra "To the Memory of an Angel" (Remastered) - Cleveland Orchestra (Rodzinski)
>
> DISC 39:
>
> Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 3 in A Minor, Op. 56, "Scotch" (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
>
> Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 5 in D Major, Op. 107 "Reformation" (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
>
> Mendelssohn: Die Hebriden, Op. 26 (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
>
> Mendelssohn: Ruy Blas, Op. 95: Overture (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
>
> DISC 40:
>
> Riegger: Symphony No. 3 in G Major, Op. 42 (Remastered) - Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra (Hanson)
>
> Mennin: Symphony No. 3 (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
>
> DISC 41:
>
> Shostakovich: Symphony No. 10 in E-Minor, Op. 93 (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
>
> DISC 42:
>
> Berlioz: Les nuits d'été, Op. 7 - Columbia Symphony Orchestra
>
> Berlioz: La captive, H 60 - Columbia Symphony Orchestra
>
> Berlioz: Le jeune Pâtre breton, H 65 - Columbia Symphony Orchestra
>
> Berlioz: Zaïde (boléro), Op.19 No. 1 - Columbia Symphony Orchestra
>
> DISC 43:
>
> Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto in E Minor, Op. 64 - New York Philharmonic
>
> Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto, Op. 35 - New York Philharmonic
>
> DISC 44:
>
> Borodin: Symphony No. 2 in B Minor, Op. 5 - New York Philharmonic
>
> Tchaikovsky: Orchestral Suite No. 1, in D Minor, Op. 43 - New York Philharmonic
>
> DISC 45:
>
> Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5 in E Minor, Op. 64 (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
>
> DISC 46:
>
> Shostakovich: Violin Concerto No. 1 in A Minor, Op. 99 - New York Philharmonic
>
> DISC 47:
>
> Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 5 in E-Flat Major, Op. 73 "Emperor" - New York Philharmonic
>
> Bach, J.S.: Concerto for 3 Pianos in D Minor, BWV 1063 (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
>
> DISC 48:
>
> Prokofiev: Lieutenant Kijé Suite, Op. 60 (Symphonic suite for Orchestra) - New York Philharmonic
>
> Kodály: Háry János Suite (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
>
> DISC 49:
>
> Saint-Saëns: Danse macabre, Op. 40 (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
>
> Saint-Saëns: Le rouet d'Omphale, Op. 31 - New York Philharmonic
>
> Saint-Saëns: Phaëton, Poème symphonique, op. 39 - New York Philharmonic
>
> Saint-Saëns: La jeunesse d'Hercule - Poème symphonique - New York Philharmonic
>
> DISC 50:
>
> Vaughan-Williams: Symphony No. 4 in F Minor - New York Philharmonic
>
> Vaughan-Williams: Fantasia On A Theme by Thomas Tallis - Strings of the New York Philharmonic
>
> DISC 51:
>
> Schuller: Symphony for Brass and Percussion, Op. 16 (Remastered) - Brass Ensemble Of The Jazz And Classical Music Society
>
> J.J. Johnson: Poem For Brass (Remastered) - (Schuller)
>
> J. Lewis: Three Little Feelings (Remastered) - (Schuller)
>
> Giuffre: Pharaoh (Remastered) - (Schuller)
>
> DISC 52:
>
> Schuman: Credendum - Article of Faith (Remastered) - Philadelphia Orchestra (Ormandy)
>
> Kirchner: Piano Concerto No. 1 (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
>
> DISC 53:
>
> Falla: Noches en los Jardines de España (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
>
> Falla: El sombrero de tres picos, Suite No.2 (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
>
> DISC 54:
>
> Dukas: L'Apprenti sorcier (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
>
> Weinberger: Schwanda the Bagpiper (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
>
> Strauss, R.: Salome, Op. 54: Dance of the 7 Veils (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
>
> Liszt: Les préludes, S.97 (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
>
> DISC 55:
>
> Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6 in B Minor, Op. 74 "Pathétique" (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
>
> DISC 56:
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> Prokofiev: Violin Concerto No. 1 in D Major, Op. 19 - New York Philharmonic
>
> Prokofiev: Violin Concerto No. 2 in G Minor, Op. 63 - New York Philharmonic (Bernstein)
>
> DISC 57/58:
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> Barber: Vanessa, Op. 32 (Remastered) - Metropolitan Opera Orchestra & Chorus
>
> DISC 59:
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> Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet Ballet, Op. 64 (Excerpts) - New York Philharmonic
>
> DISC 60/61:
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> Mussorgsky: Boris Godunov (Abridged) (Remastered) - Metropolitan Opera Orchestra & Chorus
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> DISC 62:
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> Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique, Op. 14 (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
>
> DISC 63:
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> Tchaikovsky: Slavonic March, Op. 31 - New York Philharmonic
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> Mussorgsky: Night On Bald Mountain - New York Philharmonic
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> Tchaikovsky: Capriccio Italien, Op. 45 - New York Philharmonic
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> Skalkottas: Four Greek Dances - New York Philharmonic
>
> DISC 64:
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> Verdi: A Masked Ball (Abridged) (Remastered) - Metropolitan Opera Orchestra
>
> DISC 65:
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> Walton: Concerto for Violin and Orchestra (Remastered) - The Philadelphia Orchestra (Ormandy)
>
> Lalo: Symphonie Espagnole (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
>
> DISC 66:
>
> Hindemith: Sonata for Oboe and Piano (Remastered) - Harold Gomberg, Dimitri Mitropoulos
>
> Löffler: 2 Rhapsodies for Oboe, Viola and Piano (Remastered) - Harold Gomberg; Dimitri Mitropoulos
>
> DISC 67:
>
> Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 3 in C Minor, Op. 37 (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
>
> Mozart: 9 Variations on a Minuet by Jean Pierre Duport, K. 573 (Remastered) - (Casadesus)
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> DISC 68/69:
>
> Verdi: Un Ballo in Maschera - Metropolitan Opera Orchestra & Chorus

On Wednesday, October 27, 2021 at 3:01:54 PM UTC-5, gggg gggg wrote:
> On Saturday, September 25, 2021 at 5:33:08 PM UTC-7, Mark Obert-Thorn wrote:
> > The date is probably "aspirational", given their track record, but here are the details about the next big conductor box from Sony. I'm told that an unissued Columbia recording of the Dvorak Scherzo Capriccioso that came out on a Minneapolis SO Mitropoulos tribute is missing. Anything else?
> >
> > Mark O-T
> >
> >
> > Dimitri Mitropoulos – Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra | New York Philharmonic – The Complete RCA and Columbia Album Collection
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> > 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.
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> > 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.”
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> > 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.
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> > 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.
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> > 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).
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> > 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).
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> > 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).
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> > 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”).
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> > 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).
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> > 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).
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> > SET CONTENTS
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> > DISC 1:
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> > Liszt, Arr. Busoni: Rhapsodie espagnole, S. 254 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
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> > Borodin: Symphony No. 2 in B Minor, Op. 5 "Bogatyr" (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
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> > DISC 2:
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> > Mozart: Thamos, König in Ägypten, K.345/336a: Entr'acte No. 1 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
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> > Mozart: Thamos, König in Ägypten, K.345/336a: Entr'acte No. 2 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
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> > Grieg: 2 Elegiac Melodies, Op. 34 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
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> > Bach, J.S., Arr. L. Weiner: Toccata, Adagio & Fugue in C Major, BWV 564 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
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> > Lully, Arr. Mottl: Ballet du temple de la paix, LWV 69 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
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> > Dvořák: Slavonic Dances, Op. 46 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
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> > Chabrier: Joyeuse marche (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
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> > Meyerbeer: Le prophète, Act III: Coronation March (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
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> > DISC 3:
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> > Bach, J.S., Arr. Mitropoulos: Fantasia and Fugue in G Minor, BWV 542 "Great" (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
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> > Bach, J.S., Arr. H. Bösenroth: Choral Prelude for Organ BWV 680 "Wir glauben all' an einen Gott" (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
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> > Glazunov: Overture on Three Greek Themes, Op. 3, No. 1 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
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> > Ravel, Arr. Chardon: Piece en Forme de Habanera (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
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> > Glazunov, Arr. Rogal-Lewitzsky: Chopiniana - Suite for Orchestra based on Piano Pieces by Frederic Chopin, Op. 46 (Remastered) - Robin Hood Dell Orchestra
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> > DISC 4:
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> > Mozart: Concerto No. 10 in E-Flat Major for Two Pianos and Orchestra, K.. 365 (Remastered) - Robin Hood Dell Orchestra
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> > Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 7 in F Major, K.242 "Lodron Concerto" (Remastered) - Little Orchestra Society (Scherman)
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> > DISC 5:
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> > Milhaud: Le boeuf sur le toît, Op. 58 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
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> > Ravel: Le tombeau de Couperin, M. 68a (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
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> > Couperin, Arr. Milhaud: Overture and Allegro from "La Sultane Suite" (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
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> > Rabaud: La procession nocturne, Op. 6 - New York Philharmonic
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> > DISC 6:
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> > Chausson: Symphony in B-Flat Major, Op. 20 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
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> > Walton: Portsmouth Point Overture (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
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> > DISC 7:
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> > Puccini: Manon Lescaut, Act III: Intermezzo (Remastered) - Robin Hood Dell Orchestra
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> > Mascagni: Cavalleria rusticana, Act II: Intermezzo (Remastered) - Robin Hood Dell Orchestra
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> > Wolf-Ferrari: I gioielli della Madonna (The jewels of the Madonna). Act II: Intermezzo (Remastered) - Robin Hood Dell Orchestra
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> > Wolf-Ferrari: I gioielli della Madonna (The jewels of the Madonna). Act III: Intermezzo (Remastered) - Robin Hood Dell Orchestra
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> > Menotti: Sebastian (Ballet Suite) (Remastered) - Robin Hood Dell Orchestra
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> > Massenet: Scènes Alsaciennes Suite No. 7 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
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> > DISC 8:
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> > Rachmaninoff: The Isle of the Dead, Op. 29 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
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> > Vaughan-Williams: Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
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> > DISC 9:
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> > Mahler: Symphony No. 1 in D Major "Titan" - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
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> > DISC 10:
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> > Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 2 in C Minor, Op. 17 "Little Russian" (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
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> > DISC 11:
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> > Khachaturian: Piano Concerto in D-Flat Major, Op. 38 (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
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> > Rubinstein: Piano Concerto No. 4, Op. 70 (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
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> > DISC 12:
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> > Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 1 in B-Flat Major, Op. 23 (Remastered 1999) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
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> > DISC 13:
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> > Poulenc: Concerto in D Minor for Two Pianos and Orchestra (Remastered) - RCA Victor Symphony Orchestra
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> > Brahms: Variations on a Theme by Haydn, Op. 56b for Two Pianos (Remastered) - (Whittemore & Lowe)
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> > DISC 14:
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> > Sessions: Symphony No. 2 (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
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> > Gould: Philharmonic Waltzes - New York Philharmonic
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> > Lalo: Le roi d'Ys: Overture (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
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> > Siegmeister: Ozark set (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
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> > DISC 15:
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> > Schumann: Symphony No. 3 in E-Flat Major, Op. 97 "Rhenish" (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
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> > Weinberger: Schwanda the Bagpiper (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
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> > Gould: Ministrel Show (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
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> > DISC 16:
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> > Rachmaninoff: Symphony No. 2 in E Minor, Op. 27 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
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> > DISC 17:
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> > Franck: Symphony in D Minor, FWV 48 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
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> > DISC 18:
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> > Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4 in F Minor, Op. 36 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
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> > DISC 19:
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> > Beethoven: Symphony No. 6 in F Major, Op. 68 "Pastorale" (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
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> > DISC 20:
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> > Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 3 in A Minor, Op. 56, "Scotch" (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
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> > Mendelssohn: Capriccio brillant in B Minor, Op. 22 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
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> > Mendelssohn: Octet in E-Flat Major, Op. 20: III. Scherzo. Allegro leggierissimo (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
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> > DISC 21:
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> > Dukas: L'Apprenti sorcier in F Minor (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
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> > Rimsky-Korsakov: The Golden Cockerel (Suite) (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
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> > Prokofiev: Symphony No. 1 in D Major, Op. 25 "Classical" (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
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> > Glière: Red Poppy Ballet Suite: Russian Sailor's Dance (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
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> > DISC 22:
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> > Schumann: Symphony No. 2 in C Major, Op. 61 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
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> > Rimsky-Korsakov: The Golden Cockerel (Suite); Bridal Procession (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
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> > DISC 23:
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> > Chopin: Piano Concerto No. 1 in E Minor, Op. 11 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
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> > DISC 24:
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> > Brahms: Variations on a Theme by Haydn, Op. 56a "St. Anthony's Choral" (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
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> > Weber: Jubel-Ouvertüre, Op. 59 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
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> > Beethoven: Coriolan Overture, Op. 62 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
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> > Beethoven: Leonore Overture No. 3 in C Major, Op. 72a (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
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> > DISC 25:
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> > Bloch: Schelomo - Hebraic Rhapsody for Cello & Orchestra (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
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> > Saint-Saens: Cello Concerto No. 1 in A Minor, Op. 33 (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
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> > DISC 26:
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> > Stravinsky: Petrushka (1911 Version) (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
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> > DISC 27/28:
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> > Berg: Wozzeck, Op. 7 - New York Philharmonic
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> > DISC 29:
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> > Debussy: La Mer - New York Philharmonic
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> > Debussy: Images pour orchestre, L. 122, No. 2 (Remastered) - Philadelphia Orchestra (Ormandy)
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> > DISC 30:
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> > Schoenberg: Erwartung, Op. 17 - New York Philharmonic
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> > Krenek: Symphonic Elegy for String Orchestra (In Memoriam of Anton Webern) - New York Philharmonic
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> > Schoenberg: Verklärte Nacht, Op. 4 - Strings of the New York Philharmonic
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> > DISC 31:
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> > Bruch: Concerto No. 1 in G Minor for Violin and Orchestra, Op. 26 - New York Philharmonic
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> > Beethoven: Romance for Violin and Orchestra in G Major, Op. 40 (Remastered) - Columbia Symphony Orchestra (Morel)
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> > Beethoven: Romance for Violin and Orchestra in F Major, Op. 50 (Remastered) - Columbia Symphony Orchestra (Morel)
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> > Paganini: Concerto No. 3 in B Minor for Violin and Orchestra, Op. 61 - New York Philharmonic
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> > DISC 32:
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> > Gottschalk: Cakewalk Ballet Suite (Remastered) - Philadelphia Orchestra (Ormandy)
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> > Gould: Fall River Legend Ballet Suite (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
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> > Couperin, Arr. Milhaud: Overture and Allegro from "La Sultane Suite" (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
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> > Travis: Symphonic Allegro (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
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> > DISC 33:
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> > Berlioz: Roméo et Juliette, Op. 17, H 79 (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
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> > DISC 34:
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> > Prokofiev: Concerto No. 2 in G Minor for Violin and Orchestra, Op. 63 - New York Philharmonic
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> > Bach, J.S.: Violin Concerto No. 2 in E Major, BWV 1042 (Remastered) - Cleveland Orchestra (Szell)
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> > Prokofiev: Concerto No. 3 for Piano and Orchestra in C Major, Op. 26 - Robin Hood Dell Orchestra
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> > DISC 35:
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> > Scriabin: Symphony No. 4, Op. 54 "Le Poème de l'extase" - New York Philharmonic
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> > Scriabin: Promethée, le poème du feu, Op. 60 - New York Philharmonic
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> > DISC 36:
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> > Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5 in D Minor, Op. 47 (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
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> > DISC 37:
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> > Ippolitov-Ivanov: Caucasian Sketches, Suite No. 1, Op. 10 - New York Philharmonic
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> > Borodin, Arr. Rimsky-Korsakov: Prince Igor, Act II: Polovtsian Dances (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
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> > Borodin: In the Steppes of Central Asia - New York Philharmonic
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> > DISC 38:
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> > Schoenberg: Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, Op. 36 (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
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> > Berg: Concerto for Violin and Orchestra "To the Memory of an Angel" (Remastered) - Cleveland Orchestra (Rodzinski)
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> > DISC 39:
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> > Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 3 in A Minor, Op. 56, "Scotch" (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
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> > Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 5 in D Major, Op. 107 "Reformation" (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
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> > Mendelssohn: Die Hebriden, Op. 26 (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
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> > Mendelssohn: Ruy Blas, Op. 95: Overture (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
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> > DISC 40:
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> > Riegger: Symphony No. 3 in G Major, Op. 42 (Remastered) - Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra (Hanson)
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> > Mennin: Symphony No. 3 (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
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> > DISC 41:
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> > Shostakovich: Symphony No. 10 in E-Minor, Op. 93 (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
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> > DISC 42:
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> > Berlioz: Les nuits d'été, Op. 7 - Columbia Symphony Orchestra
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> > Berlioz: La captive, H 60 - Columbia Symphony Orchestra
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> > Berlioz: Le jeune Pâtre breton, H 65 - Columbia Symphony Orchestra
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> > Berlioz: Zaïde (boléro), Op.19 No. 1 - Columbia Symphony Orchestra
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> > DISC 43:
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> > Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto in E Minor, Op. 64 - New York Philharmonic
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> > Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto, Op. 35 - New York Philharmonic
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> > DISC 44:
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> > Borodin: Symphony No. 2 in B Minor, Op. 5 - New York Philharmonic
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> > Tchaikovsky: Orchestral Suite No. 1, in D Minor, Op. 43 - New York Philharmonic
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> > DISC 45:
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> > Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5 in E Minor, Op. 64 (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
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> > DISC 46:
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> > Shostakovich: Violin Concerto No. 1 in A Minor, Op. 99 - New York Philharmonic
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> > DISC 47:
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> > Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 5 in E-Flat Major, Op. 73 "Emperor" - New York Philharmonic
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> > Bach, J.S.: Concerto for 3 Pianos in D Minor, BWV 1063 (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
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> > DISC 48:
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> > Prokofiev: Lieutenant Kijé Suite, Op. 60 (Symphonic suite for Orchestra) - New York Philharmonic
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> > Kodály: Háry János Suite (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
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> > DISC 49:
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> > Saint-Saëns: Danse macabre, Op. 40 (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
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> > Saint-Saëns: Le rouet d'Omphale, Op. 31 - New York Philharmonic
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> > Saint-Saëns: Phaëton, Poème symphonique, op. 39 - New York Philharmonic
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> > Saint-Saëns: La jeunesse d'Hercule - Poème symphonique - New York Philharmonic
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> > DISC 50:
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> > Vaughan-Williams: Symphony No. 4 in F Minor - New York Philharmonic
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> > Vaughan-Williams: Fantasia On A Theme by Thomas Tallis - Strings of the New York Philharmonic
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> > DISC 51:
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> > Schuller: Symphony for Brass and Percussion, Op. 16 (Remastered) - Brass Ensemble Of The Jazz And Classical Music Society
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> > J.J. Johnson: Poem For Brass (Remastered) - (Schuller)
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> > J. Lewis: Three Little Feelings (Remastered) - (Schuller)
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> > Giuffre: Pharaoh (Remastered) - (Schuller)
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> > DISC 52:
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> > Schuman: Credendum - Article of Faith (Remastered) - Philadelphia Orchestra (Ormandy)
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> > Kirchner: Piano Concerto No. 1 (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
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> > DISC 53:
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> > Falla: Noches en los Jardines de España (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
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> > Falla: El sombrero de tres picos, Suite No.2 (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
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> > DISC 54:
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> > Dukas: L'Apprenti sorcier (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
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> > Weinberger: Schwanda the Bagpiper (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
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> > Strauss, R.: Salome, Op. 54: Dance of the 7 Veils (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
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> > Liszt: Les préludes, S.97 (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
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> > DISC 55:
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> > Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6 in B Minor, Op. 74 "Pathétique" (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
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> > DISC 56:
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> > Prokofiev: Violin Concerto No. 1 in D Major, Op. 19 - New York Philharmonic
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> > Prokofiev: Violin Concerto No. 2 in G Minor, Op. 63 - New York Philharmonic (Bernstein)
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> > DISC 57/58:
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> > Barber: Vanessa, Op. 32 (Remastered) - Metropolitan Opera Orchestra & Chorus
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> > DISC 59:
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> > Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet Ballet, Op. 64 (Excerpts) - New York Philharmonic
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> > DISC 60/61:
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> > Mussorgsky: Boris Godunov (Abridged) (Remastered) - Metropolitan Opera Orchestra & Chorus
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> > DISC 62:
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> > Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique, Op. 14 (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
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> > DISC 63:
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> > Tchaikovsky: Slavonic March, Op. 31 - New York Philharmonic
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> > Mussorgsky: Night On Bald Mountain - New York Philharmonic
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> > Tchaikovsky: Capriccio Italien, Op. 45 - New York Philharmonic
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> > Skalkottas: Four Greek Dances - New York Philharmonic
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> > DISC 64:
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> > Verdi: A Masked Ball (Abridged) (Remastered) - Metropolitan Opera Orchestra
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> > DISC 65:
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> > Walton: Concerto for Violin and Orchestra (Remastered) - The Philadelphia Orchestra (Ormandy)
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> > Lalo: Symphonie Espagnole (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
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> > DISC 66:
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> > Hindemith: Sonata for Oboe and Piano (Remastered) - Harold Gomberg, Dimitri Mitropoulos
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> > Löffler: 2 Rhapsodies for Oboe, Viola and Piano (Remastered) - Harold Gomberg; Dimitri Mitropoulos
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> > DISC 67:
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> > Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 3 in C Minor, Op. 37 (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
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> > Mozart: 9 Variations on a Minuet by Jean Pierre Duport, K. 573 (Remastered) - (Casadesus)
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> > DISC 68/69:
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> > Verdi: Un Ballo in Maschera - Metropolitan Opera Orchestra & Chorus
> (Recent Y. upload):
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> Dimitri Mitropoulos (1896-1960): Concert at Carnegie Hall 19 April 1953 with Arthur Rubinstein
I don't see the Met Opera Club DIE WALKURE included in the list. Is there a reason for that?

On Saturday, September 25, 2021 at 7:33:08 PM UTC-5, Mark Obert-Thorn wrote:
> The date is probably "aspirational", given their track record, but here are the details about the next big conductor box from Sony. I'm told that an unissued Columbia recording of the Dvorak Scherzo Capriccioso that came out on a Minneapolis SO Mitropoulos tribute is missing. Anything else?
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> Mark O-T
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> Dimitri Mitropoulos – Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra | New York Philharmonic – The Complete RCA and Columbia Album Collection
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> 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.
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> 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.”
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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).
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> 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).
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> 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).
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> 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”).
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> 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).
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> 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).
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> SET CONTENTS
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> DISC 1:
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> Liszt, Arr. Busoni: Rhapsodie espagnole, S. 254 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
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> Borodin: Symphony No. 2 in B Minor, Op. 5 "Bogatyr" (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
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> DISC 2:
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> Mozart: Thamos, König in Ägypten, K.345/336a: Entr'acte No. 1 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
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> Mozart: Thamos, König in Ägypten, K.345/336a: Entr'acte No. 2 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
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> Grieg: 2 Elegiac Melodies, Op. 34 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
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> Bach, J.S., Arr. L. Weiner: Toccata, Adagio & Fugue in C Major, BWV 564 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
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> Lully, Arr. Mottl: Ballet du temple de la paix, LWV 69 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
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> Dvořák: Slavonic Dances, Op. 46 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
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> Chabrier: Joyeuse marche (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
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> Meyerbeer: Le prophète, Act III: Coronation March (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
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> DISC 3:
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> Bach, J.S., Arr. Mitropoulos: Fantasia and Fugue in G Minor, BWV 542 "Great" (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
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> Bach, J.S., Arr. H. Bösenroth: Choral Prelude for Organ BWV 680 "Wir glauben all' an einen Gott" (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
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> Glazunov: Overture on Three Greek Themes, Op. 3, No. 1 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
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> Ravel, Arr. Chardon: Piece en Forme de Habanera (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
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> Glazunov, Arr. Rogal-Lewitzsky: Chopiniana - Suite for Orchestra based on Piano Pieces by Frederic Chopin, Op. 46 (Remastered) - Robin Hood Dell Orchestra
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> DISC 4:
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> Mozart: Concerto No. 10 in E-Flat Major for Two Pianos and Orchestra, K. 365 (Remastered) - Robin Hood Dell Orchestra
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> Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 7 in F Major, K.242 "Lodron Concerto" (Remastered) - Little Orchestra Society (Scherman)
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> DISC 5:
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> Milhaud: Le boeuf sur le toît, Op. 58 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
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> Ravel: Le tombeau de Couperin, M. 68a (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
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> Couperin, Arr. Milhaud: Overture and Allegro from "La Sultane Suite" (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
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> Rabaud: La procession nocturne, Op. 6 - New York Philharmonic
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> DISC 6:
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> Chausson: Symphony in B-Flat Major, Op. 20 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
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> Walton: Portsmouth Point Overture (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
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> DISC 7:
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> Puccini: Manon Lescaut, Act III: Intermezzo (Remastered) - Robin Hood Dell Orchestra
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> Mascagni: Cavalleria rusticana, Act II: Intermezzo (Remastered) - Robin Hood Dell Orchestra
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> Wolf-Ferrari: I gioielli della Madonna (The jewels of the Madonna). Act II: Intermezzo (Remastered) - Robin Hood Dell Orchestra
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> Wolf-Ferrari: I gioielli della Madonna (The jewels of the Madonna). Act III: Intermezzo (Remastered) - Robin Hood Dell Orchestra
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> Menotti: Sebastian (Ballet Suite) (Remastered) - Robin Hood Dell Orchestra
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> Massenet: Scènes Alsaciennes Suite No. 7 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
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> DISC 8:
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> Rachmaninoff: The Isle of the Dead, Op. 29 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
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> Vaughan-Williams: Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
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> DISC 9:
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> Mahler: Symphony No. 1 in D Major "Titan" - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
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> DISC 10:
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> Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 2 in C Minor, Op. 17 "Little Russian" (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
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> DISC 11:
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> Khachaturian: Piano Concerto in D-Flat Major, Op. 38 (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
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> Rubinstein: Piano Concerto No. 4, Op. 70 (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
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> DISC 12:
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> Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 1 in B-Flat Major, Op. 23 (Remastered 1999) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
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> DISC 13:
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> Poulenc: Concerto in D Minor for Two Pianos and Orchestra (Remastered) - RCA Victor Symphony Orchestra
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> Brahms: Variations on a Theme by Haydn, Op. 56b for Two Pianos (Remastered) - (Whittemore & Lowe)
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> DISC 14:
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> Sessions: Symphony No. 2 (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
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> Gould: Philharmonic Waltzes - New York Philharmonic
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> Lalo: Le roi d'Ys: Overture (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
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> Siegmeister: Ozark set (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
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> DISC 15:
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> Schumann: Symphony No. 3 in E-Flat Major, Op. 97 "Rhenish" (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
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> Weinberger: Schwanda the Bagpiper (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
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> Gould: Ministrel Show (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
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> DISC 16:
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> Rachmaninoff: Symphony No. 2 in E Minor, Op. 27 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
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> DISC 17:
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> Franck: Symphony in D Minor, FWV 48 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
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> DISC 18:
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> Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4 in F Minor, Op. 36 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
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> DISC 19:
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> Beethoven: Symphony No. 6 in F Major, Op. 68 "Pastorale" (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
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> DISC 20:
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> Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 3 in A Minor, Op. 56, "Scotch" (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
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> Mendelssohn: Capriccio brillant in B Minor, Op. 22 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
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> Mendelssohn: Octet in E-Flat Major, Op. 20: III. Scherzo. Allegro leggierissimo (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
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> DISC 21:
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> Dukas: L'Apprenti sorcier in F Minor (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
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> Rimsky-Korsakov: The Golden Cockerel (Suite) (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
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> Prokofiev: Symphony No. 1 in D Major, Op. 25 "Classical" (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
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> Glière: Red Poppy Ballet Suite: Russian Sailor's Dance (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
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> DISC 22:
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> Schumann: Symphony No. 2 in C Major, Op. 61 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
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> Rimsky-Korsakov: The Golden Cockerel (Suite); Bridal Procession (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
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> DISC 23:
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> Chopin: Piano Concerto No. 1 in E Minor, Op. 11 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
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> DISC 24:
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> Brahms: Variations on a Theme by Haydn, Op. 56a "St. Anthony's Choral" (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
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> Weber: Jubel-Ouvertüre, Op. 59 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
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> Beethoven: Coriolan Overture, Op. 62 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
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> Beethoven: Leonore Overture No. 3 in C Major, Op. 72a (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
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> DISC 25:
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> Bloch: Schelomo - Hebraic Rhapsody for Cello & Orchestra (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
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> Saint-Saens: Cello Concerto No. 1 in A Minor, Op. 33 (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
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> DISC 26:
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> Stravinsky: Petrushka (1911 Version) (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
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> DISC 27/28:
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> Berg: Wozzeck, Op. 7 - New York Philharmonic
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> DISC 29:
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> Debussy: La Mer - New York Philharmonic
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> Debussy: Images pour orchestre, L. 122, No. 2 (Remastered) - Philadelphia Orchestra (Ormandy)
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> DISC 30:
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> Schoenberg: Erwartung, Op. 17 - New York Philharmonic
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> Krenek: Symphonic Elegy for String Orchestra (In Memoriam of Anton Webern) - New York Philharmonic
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> Schoenberg: Verklärte Nacht, Op. 4 - Strings of the New York Philharmonic
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> DISC 31:
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> Bruch: Concerto No. 1 in G Minor for Violin and Orchestra, Op. 26 - New York Philharmonic
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> Beethoven: Romance for Violin and Orchestra in G Major, Op. 40 (Remastered) - Columbia Symphony Orchestra (Morel)
>
> Beethoven: Romance for Violin and Orchestra in F Major, Op. 50 (Remastered) - Columbia Symphony Orchestra (Morel)
>
> Paganini: Concerto No. 3 in B Minor for Violin and Orchestra, Op. 61 - New York Philharmonic
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> DISC 32:
>
> Gottschalk: Cakewalk Ballet Suite (Remastered) - Philadelphia Orchestra (Ormandy)
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> Gould: Fall River Legend Ballet Suite (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
>
> Couperin, Arr. Milhaud: Overture and Allegro from "La Sultane Suite" (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
>
> Travis: Symphonic Allegro (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
>
> DISC 33:
>
> Berlioz: Roméo et Juliette, Op. 17, H 79 (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
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> DISC 34:
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> Prokofiev: Concerto No. 2 in G Minor for Violin and Orchestra, Op. 63 - New York Philharmonic
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> Bach, J.S.: Violin Concerto No. 2 in E Major, BWV 1042 (Remastered) - Cleveland Orchestra (Szell)
>
> Prokofiev: Concerto No. 3 for Piano and Orchestra in C Major, Op. 26 - Robin Hood Dell Orchestra
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> DISC 35:
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> Scriabin: Symphony No. 4, Op. 54 "Le Poème de l'extase" - New York Philharmonic
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> Scriabin: Promethée, le poème du feu, Op. 60 - New York Philharmonic
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> DISC 36:
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> Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5 in D Minor, Op. 47 (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
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> DISC 37:
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> Ippolitov-Ivanov: Caucasian Sketches, Suite No. 1, Op. 10 - New York Philharmonic
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> Borodin, Arr. Rimsky-Korsakov: Prince Igor, Act II: Polovtsian Dances (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
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> Borodin: In the Steppes of Central Asia - New York Philharmonic
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> DISC 38:
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> Schoenberg: Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, Op. 36 (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
>
> Berg: Concerto for Violin and Orchestra "To the Memory of an Angel" (Remastered) - Cleveland Orchestra (Rodzinski)
>
> DISC 39:
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> Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 3 in A Minor, Op. 56, "Scotch" (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
>
> Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 5 in D Major, Op. 107 "Reformation" (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
>
> Mendelssohn: Die Hebriden, Op. 26 (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
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> Mendelssohn: Ruy Blas, Op. 95: Overture (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
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> DISC 40:
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> Riegger: Symphony No. 3 in G Major, Op. 42 (Remastered) - Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra (Hanson)
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> Mennin: Symphony No. 3 (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
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> DISC 41:
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> Shostakovich: Symphony No. 10 in E-Minor, Op. 93 (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
>
> DISC 42:
>
> Berlioz: Les nuits d'été, Op. 7 - Columbia Symphony Orchestra
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> Berlioz: La captive, H 60 - Columbia Symphony Orchestra
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> Berlioz: Le jeune Pâtre breton, H 65 - Columbia Symphony Orchestra
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> Berlioz: Zaïde (boléro), Op.19 No. 1 - Columbia Symphony Orchestra
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> DISC 43:
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> Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto in E Minor, Op. 64 - New York Philharmonic
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> Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto, Op. 35 - New York Philharmonic
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> DISC 44:
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> Borodin: Symphony No. 2 in B Minor, Op. 5 - New York Philharmonic
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> Tchaikovsky: Orchestral Suite No. 1, in D Minor, Op. 43 - New York Philharmonic
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> DISC 45:
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> Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5 in E Minor, Op. 64 (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
>
> DISC 46:
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> Shostakovich: Violin Concerto No. 1 in A Minor, Op. 99 - New York Philharmonic
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> DISC 47:
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> Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 5 in E-Flat Major, Op. 73 "Emperor" - New York Philharmonic
>
> Bach, J.S.: Concerto for 3 Pianos in D Minor, BWV 1063 (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
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> DISC 48:
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> Prokofiev: Lieutenant Kijé Suite, Op. 60 (Symphonic suite for Orchestra) - New York Philharmonic
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> Kodály: Háry János Suite (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
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> DISC 49:
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> Saint-Saëns: Danse macabre, Op. 40 (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
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> Saint-Saëns: Le rouet d'Omphale, Op. 31 - New York Philharmonic
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> Saint-Saëns: Phaëton, Poème symphonique, op. 39 - New York Philharmonic
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> Saint-Saëns: La jeunesse d'Hercule - Poème symphonique - New York Philharmonic
>
> DISC 50:
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> Vaughan-Williams: Symphony No. 4 in F Minor - New York Philharmonic
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> Vaughan-Williams: Fantasia On A Theme by Thomas Tallis - Strings of the New York Philharmonic
>
> DISC 51:
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> Schuller: Symphony for Brass and Percussion, Op. 16 (Remastered) - Brass Ensemble Of The Jazz And Classical Music Society
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> J.J. Johnson: Poem For Brass (Remastered) - (Schuller)
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> J. Lewis: Three Little Feelings (Remastered) - (Schuller)
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> Giuffre: Pharaoh (Remastered) - (Schuller)
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> DISC 52:
>
> Schuman: Credendum - Article of Faith (Remastered) - Philadelphia Orchestra (Ormandy)
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> Kirchner: Piano Concerto No. 1 (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
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> DISC 53:
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> Falla: Noches en los Jardines de España (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
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> Falla: El sombrero de tres picos, Suite No.2 (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
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> DISC 54:
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> Dukas: L'Apprenti sorcier (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
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> Weinberger: Schwanda the Bagpiper (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
>
> Strauss, R.: Salome, Op. 54: Dance of the 7 Veils (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
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> Liszt: Les préludes, S.97 (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
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> DISC 55:
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> Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6 in B Minor, Op. 74 "Pathétique" (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
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> DISC 56:
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> Prokofiev: Violin Concerto No. 1 in D Major, Op. 19 - New York Philharmonic
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> Prokofiev: Violin Concerto No. 2 in G Minor, Op. 63 - New York Philharmonic (Bernstein)
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> DISC 57/58:
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> Barber: Vanessa, Op. 32 (Remastered) - Metropolitan Opera Orchestra & Chorus
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> DISC 59:
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> Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet Ballet, Op. 64 (Excerpts) - New York Philharmonic
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> DISC 60/61:
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> Mussorgsky: Boris Godunov (Abridged) (Remastered) - Metropolitan Opera Orchestra & Chorus
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> DISC 62:
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> Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique, Op. 14 (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
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> DISC 63:
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> Tchaikovsky: Slavonic March, Op. 31 - New York Philharmonic
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> Mussorgsky: Night On Bald Mountain - New York Philharmonic
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> Tchaikovsky: Capriccio Italien, Op. 45 - New York Philharmonic
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> Skalkottas: Four Greek Dances - New York Philharmonic
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> DISC 64:
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> Verdi: A Masked Ball (Abridged) (Remastered) - Metropolitan Opera Orchestra
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> DISC 65:
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> Walton: Concerto for Violin and Orchestra (Remastered) - The Philadelphia Orchestra (Ormandy)
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> Lalo: Symphonie Espagnole (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
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> DISC 66:
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> Hindemith: Sonata for Oboe and Piano (Remastered) - Harold Gomberg, Dimitri Mitropoulos
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> Löffler: 2 Rhapsodies for Oboe, Viola and Piano (Remastered) - Harold Gomberg; Dimitri Mitropoulos
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> DISC 67:
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> Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 3 in C Minor, Op. 37 (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
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> Mozart: 9 Variations on a Minuet by Jean Pierre Duport, K. 573 (Remastered) - (Casadesus)
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> DISC 68/69:
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> Verdi: Un Ballo in Maschera - Metropolitan Opera Orchestra & Chorus

On 12/3/21 2:15 PM, John Michel wrote:

> I don't see the Met Opera Club 2-LP set of DIE WALKURE listed. Is
> there a reason for that omission?

The Met isn't a Sony property so it would require licensing.

BTW, it's cumbersome to scroll through untrimmed google group quotes on
a newsreader.

John Michel a utilisé son clavier pour écrire :
> I don't see the Met Opera Club DIE WALKURE included in the list. Is there a
> reason for that?

Damn...When are you going to learn how to quote properly?...

On Saturday, September 25, 2021 at 7:33:08 PM UTC-5, Mark Obert-Thorn wrote:
> The date is probably "aspirational", given their track record, but here are the details about the next big conductor box from Sony. I'm told that an unissued Columbia recording of the Dvorak Scherzo Capriccioso that came out on a Minneapolis SO Mitropoulos tribute is missing. Anything else?
>
> Mark O-T
>
>
> Dimitri Mitropoulos – Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra | New York Philharmonic – The Complete RCA and Columbia Album Collection
>
> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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).
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> 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).
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> 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).
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> 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”).
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> 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).
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> 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).
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>
> SET CONTENTS
>
> DISC 1:
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> Liszt, Arr. Busoni: Rhapsodie espagnole, S. 254 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
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> Borodin: Symphony No. 2 in B Minor, Op. 5 "Bogatyr" (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
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> DISC 2:
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> Mozart: Thamos, König in Ägypten, K.345/336a: Entr'acte No. 1 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
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> Mozart: Thamos, König in Ägypten, K.345/336a: Entr'acte No. 2 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
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> Grieg: 2 Elegiac Melodies, Op. 34 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
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> Bach, J.S., Arr. L. Weiner: Toccata, Adagio & Fugue in C Major, BWV 564 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
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> Lully, Arr. Mottl: Ballet du temple de la paix, LWV 69 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
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> Dvořák: Slavonic Dances, Op. 46 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
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> Chabrier: Joyeuse marche (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
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> Meyerbeer: Le prophète, Act III: Coronation March (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
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> DISC 3:
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> Bach, J.S., Arr. Mitropoulos: Fantasia and Fugue in G Minor, BWV 542 "Great" (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
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> Bach, J.S., Arr. H. Bösenroth: Choral Prelude for Organ BWV 680 "Wir glauben all' an einen Gott" (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> Glazunov: Overture on Three Greek Themes, Op. 3, No. 1 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
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> Ravel, Arr. Chardon: Piece en Forme de Habanera (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
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> Glazunov, Arr. Rogal-Lewitzsky: Chopiniana - Suite for Orchestra based on Piano Pieces by Frederic Chopin, Op. 46 (Remastered) - Robin Hood Dell Orchestra
>
> DISC 4:
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> Mozart: Concerto No. 10 in E-Flat Major for Two Pianos and Orchestra, K. 365 (Remastered) - Robin Hood Dell Orchestra
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> Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 7 in F Major, K.242 "Lodron Concerto" (Remastered) - Little Orchestra Society (Scherman)
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> DISC 5:
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> Milhaud: Le boeuf sur le toît, Op. 58 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
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> Ravel: Le tombeau de Couperin, M. 68a (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
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> Couperin, Arr. Milhaud: Overture and Allegro from "La Sultane Suite" (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
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> Rabaud: La procession nocturne, Op. 6 - New York Philharmonic
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> DISC 6:
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> Chausson: Symphony in B-Flat Major, Op. 20 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
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> Walton: Portsmouth Point Overture (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
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> DISC 7:
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> Puccini: Manon Lescaut, Act III: Intermezzo (Remastered) - Robin Hood Dell Orchestra
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> Mascagni: Cavalleria rusticana, Act II: Intermezzo (Remastered) - Robin Hood Dell Orchestra
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> Wolf-Ferrari: I gioielli della Madonna (The jewels of the Madonna). Act II: Intermezzo (Remastered) - Robin Hood Dell Orchestra
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> Wolf-Ferrari: I gioielli della Madonna (The jewels of the Madonna). Act III: Intermezzo (Remastered) - Robin Hood Dell Orchestra
>
> Menotti: Sebastian (Ballet Suite) (Remastered) - Robin Hood Dell Orchestra
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> Massenet: Scènes Alsaciennes Suite No. 7 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> DISC 8:
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> Rachmaninoff: The Isle of the Dead, Op. 29 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
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> Vaughan-Williams: Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
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> DISC 9:
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> Mahler: Symphony No. 1 in D Major "Titan" - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
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> DISC 10:
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> Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 2 in C Minor, Op. 17 "Little Russian" (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
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> DISC 11:
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> Khachaturian: Piano Concerto in D-Flat Major, Op. 38 (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
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> Rubinstein: Piano Concerto No. 4, Op. 70 (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
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> DISC 12:
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> Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 1 in B-Flat Major, Op. 23 (Remastered 1999) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
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> DISC 13:
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> Poulenc: Concerto in D Minor for Two Pianos and Orchestra (Remastered) - RCA Victor Symphony Orchestra
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> Brahms: Variations on a Theme by Haydn, Op. 56b for Two Pianos (Remastered) - (Whittemore & Lowe)
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> DISC 14:
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> Sessions: Symphony No. 2 (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
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> Gould: Philharmonic Waltzes - New York Philharmonic
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> Lalo: Le roi d'Ys: Overture (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
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> Siegmeister: Ozark set (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
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> DISC 15:
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> Schumann: Symphony No. 3 in E-Flat Major, Op. 97 "Rhenish" (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
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> Weinberger: Schwanda the Bagpiper (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
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> Gould: Ministrel Show (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> DISC 16:
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> Rachmaninoff: Symphony No. 2 in E Minor, Op. 27 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
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> DISC 17:
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> Franck: Symphony in D Minor, FWV 48 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
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> DISC 18:
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> Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4 in F Minor, Op. 36 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> DISC 19:
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> Beethoven: Symphony No. 6 in F Major, Op. 68 "Pastorale" (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> DISC 20:
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> Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 3 in A Minor, Op. 56, "Scotch" (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> Mendelssohn: Capriccio brillant in B Minor, Op. 22 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> Mendelssohn: Octet in E-Flat Major, Op. 20: III. Scherzo. Allegro leggierissimo (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> DISC 21:
>
> Dukas: L'Apprenti sorcier in F Minor (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> Rimsky-Korsakov: The Golden Cockerel (Suite) (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> Prokofiev: Symphony No. 1 in D Major, Op. 25 "Classical" (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> Glière: Red Poppy Ballet Suite: Russian Sailor's Dance (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> DISC 22:
>
> Schumann: Symphony No. 2 in C Major, Op. 61 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> Rimsky-Korsakov: The Golden Cockerel (Suite); Bridal Procession (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> DISC 23:
>
> Chopin: Piano Concerto No. 1 in E Minor, Op. 11 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> DISC 24:
>
> Brahms: Variations on a Theme by Haydn, Op. 56a "St. Anthony's Choral" (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> Weber: Jubel-Ouvertüre, Op. 59 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> Beethoven: Coriolan Overture, Op. 62 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> Beethoven: Leonore Overture No. 3 in C Major, Op. 72a (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> DISC 25:
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> Bloch: Schelomo - Hebraic Rhapsody for Cello & Orchestra (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
>
> Saint-Saens: Cello Concerto No. 1 in A Minor, Op. 33 (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
>
> DISC 26:
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> Stravinsky: Petrushka (1911 Version) (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
>
> DISC 27/28:
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> Berg: Wozzeck, Op. 7 - New York Philharmonic
>
> DISC 29:
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> Debussy: La Mer - New York Philharmonic
>
> Debussy: Images pour orchestre, L. 122, No. 2 (Remastered) - Philadelphia Orchestra (Ormandy)
>
> DISC 30:
>
> Schoenberg: Erwartung, Op. 17 - New York Philharmonic
>
> Krenek: Symphonic Elegy for String Orchestra (In Memoriam of Anton Webern) - New York Philharmonic
>
> Schoenberg: Verklärte Nacht, Op. 4 - Strings of the New York Philharmonic
>
> DISC 31:
>
> Bruch: Concerto No. 1 in G Minor for Violin and Orchestra, Op. 26 - New York Philharmonic
>
> Beethoven: Romance for Violin and Orchestra in G Major, Op. 40 (Remastered) - Columbia Symphony Orchestra (Morel)
>
> Beethoven: Romance for Violin and Orchestra in F Major, Op. 50 (Remastered) - Columbia Symphony Orchestra (Morel)
>
> Paganini: Concerto No. 3 in B Minor for Violin and Orchestra, Op. 61 - New York Philharmonic
>
> DISC 32:
>
> Gottschalk: Cakewalk Ballet Suite (Remastered) - Philadelphia Orchestra (Ormandy)
>
> Gould: Fall River Legend Ballet Suite (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
>
> Couperin, Arr. Milhaud: Overture and Allegro from "La Sultane Suite" (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
>
> Travis: Symphonic Allegro (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
>
> DISC 33:
>
> Berlioz: Roméo et Juliette, Op. 17, H 79 (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
>
> DISC 34:
>
> Prokofiev: Concerto No. 2 in G Minor for Violin and Orchestra, Op. 63 - New York Philharmonic
>
> Bach, J.S.: Violin Concerto No. 2 in E Major, BWV 1042 (Remastered) - Cleveland Orchestra (Szell)
>
> Prokofiev: Concerto No. 3 for Piano and Orchestra in C Major, Op. 26 - Robin Hood Dell Orchestra
>
> DISC 35:
>
> Scriabin: Symphony No. 4, Op. 54 "Le Poème de l'extase" - New York Philharmonic
>
> Scriabin: Promethée, le poème du feu, Op. 60 - New York Philharmonic
>
> DISC 36:
>
> Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5 in D Minor, Op. 47 (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
>
> DISC 37:
>
> Ippolitov-Ivanov: Caucasian Sketches, Suite No. 1, Op. 10 - New York Philharmonic
>
> Borodin, Arr. Rimsky-Korsakov: Prince Igor, Act II: Polovtsian Dances (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
>
> Borodin: In the Steppes of Central Asia - New York Philharmonic
>
> DISC 38:
>
> Schoenberg: Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, Op. 36 (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
>
> Berg: Concerto for Violin and Orchestra "To the Memory of an Angel" (Remastered) - Cleveland Orchestra (Rodzinski)
>
> DISC 39:
>
> Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 3 in A Minor, Op. 56, "Scotch" (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
>
> Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 5 in D Major, Op. 107 "Reformation" (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
>
> Mendelssohn: Die Hebriden, Op. 26 (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
>
> Mendelssohn: Ruy Blas, Op. 95: Overture (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
>
> DISC 40:
>
> Riegger: Symphony No. 3 in G Major, Op. 42 (Remastered) - Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra (Hanson)
>
> Mennin: Symphony No. 3 (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
>
> DISC 41:
>
> Shostakovich: Symphony No. 10 in E-Minor, Op. 93 (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
>
> DISC 42:
>
> Berlioz: Les nuits d'été, Op. 7 - Columbia Symphony Orchestra
>
> Berlioz: La captive, H 60 - Columbia Symphony Orchestra
>
> Berlioz: Le jeune Pâtre breton, H 65 - Columbia Symphony Orchestra
>
> Berlioz: Zaïde (boléro), Op.19 No. 1 - Columbia Symphony Orchestra
>
> DISC 43:
>
> Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto in E Minor, Op. 64 - New York Philharmonic
>
> Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto, Op. 35 - New York Philharmonic
>
> DISC 44:
>
> Borodin: Symphony No. 2 in B Minor, Op. 5 - New York Philharmonic
>
> Tchaikovsky: Orchestral Suite No. 1, in D Minor, Op. 43 - New York Philharmonic
>
> DISC 45:
>
> Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5 in E Minor, Op. 64 (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
>
> DISC 46:
>
> Shostakovich: Violin Concerto No. 1 in A Minor, Op. 99 - New York Philharmonic
>
> DISC 47:
>
> Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 5 in E-Flat Major, Op. 73 "Emperor" - New York Philharmonic
>
> Bach, J.S.: Concerto for 3 Pianos in D Minor, BWV 1063 (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
>
> DISC 48:
>
> Prokofiev: Lieutenant Kijé Suite, Op. 60 (Symphonic suite for Orchestra) - New York Philharmonic
>
> Kodály: Háry János Suite (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
>
> DISC 49:
>
> Saint-Saëns: Danse macabre, Op. 40 (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
>
> Saint-Saëns: Le rouet d'Omphale, Op. 31 - New York Philharmonic
>
> Saint-Saëns: Phaëton, Poème symphonique, op. 39 - New York Philharmonic
>
> Saint-Saëns: La jeunesse d'Hercule - Poème symphonique - New York Philharmonic
>
> DISC 50:
>
> Vaughan-Williams: Symphony No. 4 in F Minor - New York Philharmonic
>
> Vaughan-Williams: Fantasia On A Theme by Thomas Tallis - Strings of the New York Philharmonic
>
> DISC 51:
>
> Schuller: Symphony for Brass and Percussion, Op. 16 (Remastered) - Brass Ensemble Of The Jazz And Classical Music Society
>
> J.J. Johnson: Poem For Brass (Remastered) - (Schuller)
>
> J. Lewis: Three Little Feelings (Remastered) - (Schuller)
>
> Giuffre: Pharaoh (Remastered) - (Schuller)
>
> DISC 52:
>
> Schuman: Credendum - Article of Faith (Remastered) - Philadelphia Orchestra (Ormandy)
>
> Kirchner: Piano Concerto No. 1 (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
>
> DISC 53:
>
> Falla: Noches en los Jardines de España (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
>
> Falla: El sombrero de tres picos, Suite No.2 (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
>
> DISC 54:
>
> Dukas: L'Apprenti sorcier (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
>
> Weinberger: Schwanda the Bagpiper (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
>
> Strauss, R.: Salome, Op. 54: Dance of the 7 Veils (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
>
> Liszt: Les préludes, S.97 (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
>
> DISC 55:
>
> Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6 in B Minor, Op. 74 "Pathétique" (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
>
> DISC 56:
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> Prokofiev: Violin Concerto No. 1 in D Major, Op. 19 - New York Philharmonic
>
> Prokofiev: Violin Concerto No. 2 in G Minor, Op. 63 - New York Philharmonic (Bernstein)
>
> DISC 57/58:
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> Barber: Vanessa, Op. 32 (Remastered) - Metropolitan Opera Orchestra & Chorus
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> DISC 59:
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> Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet Ballet, Op. 64 (Excerpts) - New York Philharmonic
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> DISC 60/61:
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> Mussorgsky: Boris Godunov (Abridged) (Remastered) - Metropolitan Opera Orchestra & Chorus
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> DISC 62:
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> Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique, Op. 14 (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
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> DISC 63:
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> Tchaikovsky: Slavonic March, Op. 31 - New York Philharmonic
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> Mussorgsky: Night On Bald Mountain - New York Philharmonic
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> Tchaikovsky: Capriccio Italien, Op. 45 - New York Philharmonic
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> Skalkottas: Four Greek Dances - New York Philharmonic
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> DISC 64:
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> Verdi: A Masked Ball (Abridged) (Remastered) - Metropolitan Opera Orchestra
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> DISC 65:
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> Walton: Concerto for Violin and Orchestra (Remastered) - The Philadelphia Orchestra (Ormandy)
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> Lalo: Symphonie Espagnole (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
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> DISC 66:
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> Hindemith: Sonata for Oboe and Piano (Remastered) - Harold Gomberg, Dimitri Mitropoulos
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> Löffler: 2 Rhapsodies for Oboe, Viola and Piano (Remastered) - Harold Gomberg; Dimitri Mitropoulos
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> DISC 67:
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> Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 3 in C Minor, Op. 37 (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
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> Mozart: 9 Variations on a Minuet by Jean Pierre Duport, K. 573 (Remastered) - (Casadesus)
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> DISC 68/69:
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> Verdi: Un Ballo in Maschera - Metropolitan Opera Orchestra & Chorus

On Thursday, December 9, 2021 at 3:54:14 PM UTC-5, John Michel wrote:
> On Saturday, September 25, 2021 at 7:33:08 PM UTC-5, Mark Obert-Thorn wrote:
> > The date is probably "aspirational", given their track record, but here are the details about the next big conductor box from Sony. I'm told that an unissued Columbia recording of the Dvorak Scherzo Capriccioso that came out on a Minneapolis SO Mitropoulos tribute is missing. Anything else?
> >
> > Mark O-T
> >
> >
> > Dimitri Mitropoulos – Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra | New York Philharmonic – The Complete RCA and Columbia Album Collection
> >
> > 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).
> >
> >
> > SET CONTENTS
> >
> > DISC 1:
> >
> > Liszt, Arr. Busoni: Rhapsodie espagnole, S. 254 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
> >
> > Borodin: Symphony No. 2 in B Minor, Op. 5 "Bogatyr" (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
> >
> > DISC 2:
> >
> > Mozart: Thamos, König in Ägypten, K.345/336a: Entr'acte No. 1 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
> >
> > Mozart: Thamos, König in Ägypten, K.345/336a: Entr'acte No. 2 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
> >
> > Grieg: 2 Elegiac Melodies, Op. 34 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
> >
> > Bach, J.S., Arr. L. Weiner: Toccata, Adagio & Fugue in C Major, BWV 564 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
> >
> > Lully, Arr. Mottl: Ballet du temple de la paix, LWV 69 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
> >
> > Dvořák: Slavonic Dances, Op. 46 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
> >
> > Chabrier: Joyeuse marche (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
> >
> > Meyerbeer: Le prophète, Act III: Coronation March (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
> >
> > DISC 3:
> >
> > Bach, J.S., Arr. Mitropoulos: Fantasia and Fugue in G Minor, BWV 542 "Great" (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
> >
> > Bach, J.S., Arr. H. Bösenroth: Choral Prelude for Organ BWV 680 "Wir glauben all' an einen Gott" (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
> >
> > Glazunov: Overture on Three Greek Themes, Op. 3, No. 1 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
> >
> > Ravel, Arr. Chardon: Piece en Forme de Habanera (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
> >
> > Glazunov, Arr. Rogal-Lewitzsky: Chopiniana - Suite for Orchestra based on Piano Pieces by Frederic Chopin, Op. 46 (Remastered) - Robin Hood Dell Orchestra
> >
> > DISC 4:
> >
> > Mozart: Concerto No. 10 in E-Flat Major for Two Pianos and Orchestra, K.. 365 (Remastered) - Robin Hood Dell Orchestra
> >
> > Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 7 in F Major, K.242 "Lodron Concerto" (Remastered) - Little Orchestra Society (Scherman)
> >
> > DISC 5:
> >
> > Milhaud: Le boeuf sur le toît, Op. 58 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
> >
> > Ravel: Le tombeau de Couperin, M. 68a (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
> >
> > Couperin, Arr. Milhaud: Overture and Allegro from "La Sultane Suite" (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
> >
> > Rabaud: La procession nocturne, Op. 6 - New York Philharmonic
> >
> > DISC 6:
> >
> > Chausson: Symphony in B-Flat Major, Op. 20 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
> >
> > Walton: Portsmouth Point Overture (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
> >
> > DISC 7:
> >
> > Puccini: Manon Lescaut, Act III: Intermezzo (Remastered) - Robin Hood Dell Orchestra
> >
> > Mascagni: Cavalleria rusticana, Act II: Intermezzo (Remastered) - Robin Hood Dell Orchestra
> >
> > Wolf-Ferrari: I gioielli della Madonna (The jewels of the Madonna). Act II: Intermezzo (Remastered) - Robin Hood Dell Orchestra
> >
> > Wolf-Ferrari: I gioielli della Madonna (The jewels of the Madonna). Act III: Intermezzo (Remastered) - Robin Hood Dell Orchestra
> >
> > Menotti: Sebastian (Ballet Suite) (Remastered) - Robin Hood Dell Orchestra
> >
> > Massenet: Scènes Alsaciennes Suite No. 7 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
> >
> > DISC 8:
> >
> > Rachmaninoff: The Isle of the Dead, Op. 29 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
> >
> > Vaughan-Williams: Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
> >
> > DISC 9:
> >
> > Mahler: Symphony No. 1 in D Major "Titan" - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
> >
> > DISC 10:
> >
> > Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 2 in C Minor, Op. 17 "Little Russian" (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
> >
> > DISC 11:
> >
> > Khachaturian: Piano Concerto in D-Flat Major, Op. 38 (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
> >
> > Rubinstein: Piano Concerto No. 4, Op. 70 (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
> >
> > DISC 12:
> >
> > Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 1 in B-Flat Major, Op. 23 (Remastered 1999) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
> >
> > DISC 13:
> >
> > Poulenc: Concerto in D Minor for Two Pianos and Orchestra (Remastered) - RCA Victor Symphony Orchestra
> >
> > Brahms: Variations on a Theme by Haydn, Op. 56b for Two Pianos (Remastered) - (Whittemore & Lowe)
> >
> > DISC 14:
> >
> > Sessions: Symphony No. 2 (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
> >
> > Gould: Philharmonic Waltzes - New York Philharmonic
> >
> > Lalo: Le roi d'Ys: Overture (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
> >
> > Siegmeister: Ozark set (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
> >
> > DISC 15:
> >
> > Schumann: Symphony No. 3 in E-Flat Major, Op. 97 "Rhenish" (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
> >
> > Weinberger: Schwanda the Bagpiper (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
> >
> > Gould: Ministrel Show (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
> >
> > DISC 16:
> >
> > Rachmaninoff: Symphony No. 2 in E Minor, Op. 27 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
> >
> > DISC 17:
> >
> > Franck: Symphony in D Minor, FWV 48 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
> >
> > DISC 18:
> >
> > Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4 in F Minor, Op. 36 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
> >
> > DISC 19:
> >
> > Beethoven: Symphony No. 6 in F Major, Op. 68 "Pastorale" (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
> >
> > DISC 20:
> >
> > Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 3 in A Minor, Op. 56, "Scotch" (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
> >
> > Mendelssohn: Capriccio brillant in B Minor, Op. 22 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
> >
> > Mendelssohn: Octet in E-Flat Major, Op. 20: III. Scherzo. Allegro leggierissimo (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
> >
> > DISC 21:
> >
> > Dukas: L'Apprenti sorcier in F Minor (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
> >
> > Rimsky-Korsakov: The Golden Cockerel (Suite) (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
> >
> > Prokofiev: Symphony No. 1 in D Major, Op. 25 "Classical" (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
> >
> > Glière: Red Poppy Ballet Suite: Russian Sailor's Dance (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
> >
> > DISC 22:
> >
> > Schumann: Symphony No. 2 in C Major, Op. 61 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
> >
> > Rimsky-Korsakov: The Golden Cockerel (Suite); Bridal Procession (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
> >
> > DISC 23:
> >
> > Chopin: Piano Concerto No. 1 in E Minor, Op. 11 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
> >
> > DISC 24:
> >
> > Brahms: Variations on a Theme by Haydn, Op. 56a "St. Anthony's Choral" (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
> >
> > Weber: Jubel-Ouvertüre, Op. 59 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
> >
> > Beethoven: Coriolan Overture, Op. 62 (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
> >
> > Beethoven: Leonore Overture No. 3 in C Major, Op. 72a (Remastered) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
> >
> > DISC 25:
> >
> > Bloch: Schelomo - Hebraic Rhapsody for Cello & Orchestra (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
> >
> > Saint-Saens: Cello Concerto No. 1 in A Minor, Op. 33 (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
> >
> > DISC 26:
> >
> > Stravinsky: Petrushka (1911 Version) (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
> >
> > DISC 27/28:
> >
> > Berg: Wozzeck, Op. 7 - New York Philharmonic
> >
> > DISC 29:
> >
> > Debussy: La Mer - New York Philharmonic
> >
> > Debussy: Images pour orchestre, L. 122, No. 2 (Remastered) - Philadelphia Orchestra (Ormandy)
> >
> > DISC 30:
> >
> > Schoenberg: Erwartung, Op. 17 - New York Philharmonic
> >
> > Krenek: Symphonic Elegy for String Orchestra (In Memoriam of Anton Webern) - New York Philharmonic
> >
> > Schoenberg: Verklärte Nacht, Op. 4 - Strings of the New York Philharmonic
> >
> > DISC 31:
> >
> > Bruch: Concerto No. 1 in G Minor for Violin and Orchestra, Op. 26 - New York Philharmonic
> >
> > Beethoven: Romance for Violin and Orchestra in G Major, Op. 40 (Remastered) - Columbia Symphony Orchestra (Morel)
> >
> > Beethoven: Romance for Violin and Orchestra in F Major, Op. 50 (Remastered) - Columbia Symphony Orchestra (Morel)
> >
> > Paganini: Concerto No. 3 in B Minor for Violin and Orchestra, Op. 61 - New York Philharmonic
> >
> > DISC 32:
> >
> > Gottschalk: Cakewalk Ballet Suite (Remastered) - Philadelphia Orchestra (Ormandy)
> >
> > Gould: Fall River Legend Ballet Suite (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
> >
> > Couperin, Arr. Milhaud: Overture and Allegro from "La Sultane Suite" (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
> >
> > Travis: Symphonic Allegro (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
> >
> > DISC 33:
> >
> > Berlioz: Roméo et Juliette, Op. 17, H 79 (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
> >
> > DISC 34:
> >
> > Prokofiev: Concerto No. 2 in G Minor for Violin and Orchestra, Op. 63 - New York Philharmonic
> >
> > Bach, J.S.: Violin Concerto No. 2 in E Major, BWV 1042 (Remastered) - Cleveland Orchestra (Szell)
> >
> > Prokofiev: Concerto No. 3 for Piano and Orchestra in C Major, Op. 26 - Robin Hood Dell Orchestra
> >
> > DISC 35:
> >
> > Scriabin: Symphony No. 4, Op. 54 "Le Poème de l'extase" - New York Philharmonic
> >
> > Scriabin: Promethée, le poème du feu, Op. 60 - New York Philharmonic
> >
> > DISC 36:
> >
> > Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5 in D Minor, Op. 47 (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
> >
> > DISC 37:
> >
> > Ippolitov-Ivanov: Caucasian Sketches, Suite No. 1, Op. 10 - New York Philharmonic
> >
> > Borodin, Arr. Rimsky-Korsakov: Prince Igor, Act II: Polovtsian Dances (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
> >
> > Borodin: In the Steppes of Central Asia - New York Philharmonic
> >
> > DISC 38:
> >
> > Schoenberg: Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, Op. 36 (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
> >
> > Berg: Concerto for Violin and Orchestra "To the Memory of an Angel" (Remastered) - Cleveland Orchestra (Rodzinski)
> >
> > DISC 39:
> >
> > Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 3 in A Minor, Op. 56, "Scotch" (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
> >
> > Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 5 in D Major, Op. 107 "Reformation" (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
> >
> > Mendelssohn: Die Hebriden, Op. 26 (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
> >
> > Mendelssohn: Ruy Blas, Op. 95: Overture (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
> >
> > DISC 40:
> >
> > Riegger: Symphony No. 3 in G Major, Op. 42 (Remastered) - Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra (Hanson)
> >
> > Mennin: Symphony No. 3 (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
> >
> > DISC 41:
> >
> > Shostakovich: Symphony No. 10 in E-Minor, Op. 93 (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
> >
> > DISC 42:
> >
> > Berlioz: Les nuits d'été, Op. 7 - Columbia Symphony Orchestra
> >
> > Berlioz: La captive, H 60 - Columbia Symphony Orchestra
> >
> > Berlioz: Le jeune Pâtre breton, H 65 - Columbia Symphony Orchestra
> >
> > Berlioz: Zaïde (boléro), Op.19 No. 1 - Columbia Symphony Orchestra
> >
> > DISC 43:
> >
> > Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto in E Minor, Op. 64 - New York Philharmonic
> >
> > Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto, Op. 35 - New York Philharmonic
> >
> > DISC 44:
> >
> > Borodin: Symphony No. 2 in B Minor, Op. 5 - New York Philharmonic
> >
> > Tchaikovsky: Orchestral Suite No. 1, in D Minor, Op. 43 - New York Philharmonic
> >
> > DISC 45:
> >
> > Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5 in E Minor, Op. 64 (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
> >
> > DISC 46:
> >
> > Shostakovich: Violin Concerto No. 1 in A Minor, Op. 99 - New York Philharmonic
> >
> > DISC 47:
> >
> > Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 5 in E-Flat Major, Op. 73 "Emperor" - New York Philharmonic
> >
> > Bach, J.S.: Concerto for 3 Pianos in D Minor, BWV 1063 (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
> >
> > DISC 48:
> >
> > Prokofiev: Lieutenant Kijé Suite, Op. 60 (Symphonic suite for Orchestra) - New York Philharmonic
> >
> > Kodály: Háry János Suite (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
> >
> > DISC 49:
> >
> > Saint-Saëns: Danse macabre, Op. 40 (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
> >
> > Saint-Saëns: Le rouet d'Omphale, Op. 31 - New York Philharmonic
> >
> > Saint-Saëns: Phaëton, Poème symphonique, op. 39 - New York Philharmonic
> >
> > Saint-Saëns: La jeunesse d'Hercule - Poème symphonique - New York Philharmonic
> >
> > DISC 50:
> >
> > Vaughan-Williams: Symphony No. 4 in F Minor - New York Philharmonic
> >
> > Vaughan-Williams: Fantasia On A Theme by Thomas Tallis - Strings of the New York Philharmonic
> >
> > DISC 51:
> >
> > Schuller: Symphony for Brass and Percussion, Op. 16 (Remastered) - Brass Ensemble Of The Jazz And Classical Music Society
> >
> > J.J. Johnson: Poem For Brass (Remastered) - (Schuller)
> >
> > J. Lewis: Three Little Feelings (Remastered) - (Schuller)
> >
> > Giuffre: Pharaoh (Remastered) - (Schuller)
> >
> > DISC 52:
> >
> > Schuman: Credendum - Article of Faith (Remastered) - Philadelphia Orchestra (Ormandy)
> >
> > Kirchner: Piano Concerto No. 1 (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
> >
> > DISC 53:
> >
> > Falla: Noches en los Jardines de España (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
> >
> > Falla: El sombrero de tres picos, Suite No.2 (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
> >
> > DISC 54:
> >
> > Dukas: L'Apprenti sorcier (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
> >
> > Weinberger: Schwanda the Bagpiper (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
> >
> > Strauss, R.: Salome, Op. 54: Dance of the 7 Veils (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
> >
> > Liszt: Les préludes, S.97 (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
> >
> > DISC 55:
> >
> > Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6 in B Minor, Op. 74 "Pathétique" (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
> >
> > DISC 56:
> >
> > Prokofiev: Violin Concerto No. 1 in D Major, Op. 19 - New York Philharmonic
> >
> > Prokofiev: Violin Concerto No. 2 in G Minor, Op. 63 - New York Philharmonic (Bernstein)
> >
> > DISC 57/58:
> >
> > Barber: Vanessa, Op. 32 (Remastered) - Metropolitan Opera Orchestra & Chorus
> >
> > DISC 59:
> >
> > Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet Ballet, Op. 64 (Excerpts) - New York Philharmonic
> >
> > DISC 60/61:
> >
> > Mussorgsky: Boris Godunov (Abridged) (Remastered) - Metropolitan Opera Orchestra & Chorus
> >
> > DISC 62:
> >
> > Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique, Op. 14 (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
> >
> > DISC 63:
> >
> > Tchaikovsky: Slavonic March, Op. 31 - New York Philharmonic
> >
> > Mussorgsky: Night On Bald Mountain - New York Philharmonic
> >
> > Tchaikovsky: Capriccio Italien, Op. 45 - New York Philharmonic
> >
> > Skalkottas: Four Greek Dances - New York Philharmonic
> >
> > DISC 64:
> >
> > Verdi: A Masked Ball (Abridged) (Remastered) - Metropolitan Opera Orchestra
> >
> > DISC 65:
> >
> > Walton: Concerto for Violin and Orchestra (Remastered) - The Philadelphia Orchestra (Ormandy)
> >
> > Lalo: Symphonie Espagnole (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
> >
> > DISC 66:
> >
> > Hindemith: Sonata for Oboe and Piano (Remastered) - Harold Gomberg, Dimitri Mitropoulos
> >
> > Löffler: 2 Rhapsodies for Oboe, Viola and Piano (Remastered) - Harold Gomberg; Dimitri Mitropoulos
> >
> > DISC 67:
> >
> > Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 3 in C Minor, Op. 37 (Remastered) - New York Philharmonic
> >
> > Mozart: 9 Variations on a Minuet by Jean Pierre Duport, K. 573 (Remastered) - (Casadesus)
> >
> > DISC 68/69:
> >
> > Verdi: Un Ballo in Maschera - Metropolitan Opera Orchestra & Chorus
> I wonder if this Minneapolis Sym/Mitropoulos item could be tracked down and added as well:
>
> DVOŘÁK, ANTONĺN
> Concerto for Cello and Orchestra, B minor, Op.115
> Gregor Piatigorsky, cello
> Columbia XCO 32636-45 (78-rpm), unreleased
>
> The lacquer masters for this and all other Minneapolis Symphony Columbia recordings made from 6 December 1941 forward were destroyed in 1990. All that is known to survive of this recording is the first movement, which is preserved on a 16-inch pressing in the YMW series located at Sony Music Archives in New York

drh8h a présenté l'énoncé suivant :
> Do you really mean all the lacquers, whether issued or not, were destroyed?
> Everything?

Learn to quote, asshole...

On Friday, December 10, 2021 at 5:56:50 PM UTC-5, MELMOTH wrote:
> drh8h a présenté l'énoncé suivant :
> > Do you really mean all the lacquers, whether issued or not, were destroyed?
> > Everything?
> Learn to quote, asshole...

Aren't you one of those "real newsreaders"? Then you shouldn't need it.

drh8h a exprimé avec précision :
> Aren't you one of those "real newsreaders"? Then you shouldn't need it.

On Saturday, September 25, 2021 at 7:33:08 PM UTC-5, Mark Obert-Thorn
wrote:
The date is probably "aspirational", given their track record, but here
are the details about the next big conductor box from Sony. I'm told
that an unissued Columbia recording of the Dvorak Scherzo Capriccioso
that came out on a Minneapolis SO Mitropoulos tribute is missing.
Anything else?

Mark O-T

Dimitri Mitropoulos – Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra | New York
Philharmonic – The Complete RCA and Columbia Album Collection

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.”