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 by: Frank Berger - Tue, 3 May 2022 19:12 UTC

On 5/2/2022 11:33 PM, wanwan wrote:
> On Monday, May 2, 2022 at 12:26:18 PM UTC-10, Jonathan Ben Schragadove wrote:
>> On Friday, April 29, 2022 at 3:47:25 PM UTC-7, Jonathan Ben Schragadove wrote:
>>> On Thursday, April 28, 2022 at 4:38:58 PM UTC-7, Frank Berger wrote:
>>>> On 4/28/2022 5:58 PM, Mark Obert-Thorn wrote:
>>>>> 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
>>>>>
>>>>> Got to give them their due -- Sony made their release date. My copy just shipped today from ImportCDs ($230.24, including tax and shipping).
>>>>>
>>>>> MO-T
>>>>>
>>>> JPCE shipped mine on the 21st. Hasn't arrived yet.
>>> I recently ordered from jpc for the first time, and my order shipped on April 12 (to USA west coast). Still hasn't arrived...
>> Update: arrived today (May 2). Is jpc usually this slow? At least it arrived undamaged, and they offer some good deals on hard-to-find titles, and major discounts on some of their older house label CPO titles.
>
> You are lucky that you've received yours. Mine is still sitting in Frankfurt since the 21st.
>
> Eric
>

Mine shipped on the 21st, was in Frankfurt on the 23rd, arrived in the U.S. May 1. No updates since then.

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 by: John Fowler - Wed, 4 May 2022 20:33 UTC

My Mitropoulos box arrived May 4 via Federal Express.
Mailed from Germany on April 21.
The packaging was incredibly protective.
The Sony box (same size as the Szell, Walter and Ormandy boxes) was packaged inside of 3 additional cardboard boxes, with plastic popcorn generously cushioning everything.
The large hardcover book is modeled on the Szell, Walter and Ormandy books.
The 69 CDs inside actually only take up a width of slightly less than 8 inches, so Sony could have gotten by with a much smaller box
(which I would have preferred, but I'm not complaining)
Contents are listed on the spine of each "original jacket".
$195 well-spent (thank you JPC.de)

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 by: Frank Berger - Wed, 4 May 2022 21:19 UTC

On 5/4/2022 4:33 PM, John Fowler wrote:
> My Mitropoulos box arrived May 4 via Federal Express.
> Mailed from Germany on April 21.
> The packaging was incredibly protective.
> The Sony box (same size as the Szell, Walter and Ormandy boxes) was packaged inside of 3 additional cardboard boxes, with plastic popcorn generously cushioning everything.
> The large hardcover book is modeled on the Szell, Walter and Ormandy books.
> The 69 CDs inside actually only take up a width of slightly less than 8 inches, so Sony could have gotten by with a much smaller box
> (which I would have preferred, but I'm not complaining)
> Contents are listed on the spine of each "original jacket".
> $195 well-spent (thank you JPC.de)

Mine also shipped on Apri. 21, cleared customs today and USPS estimates delivery May 7.

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 by: MELMOTH - Wed, 4 May 2022 21:43 UTC

Dans son message précédent, Frank Berger a écrit :
> Mine also shipped on Apri. 21, cleared customs today and USPS estimates
> delivery May 7.

Many thanks for this exciting news...

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 by: MELMOTH - Wed, 4 May 2022 21:47 UTC

Frank Berger avait écrit le 04/05/2022 :
> Mine also shipped on Apri. 21, cleared customs today and USPS estimates
> delivery May 7.

Many thanks for this exciting news...

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 by: Frank Berger - Wed, 4 May 2022 22:43 UTC

On 5/4/2022 5:47 PM, MELMOTH wrote:
> Frank Berger avait écrit le 04/05/2022 :
>> Mine also shipped on Apri. 21, cleared customs today and USPS estimates delivery May 7.
>
> Many thanks for this exciting news...
>

I thought you were being sarcastic, but since you thanked me twice, I see you meant it.

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On Wednesday, May 4, 2022 at 3:43:09 PM UTC-7, Frank Berger wrote:
> On 5/4/2022 5:47 PM, MELMOTH wrote:
> > Frank Berger avait écrit le 04/05/2022 :
> >> Mine also shipped on Apri. 21, cleared customs today and USPS estimates delivery May 7.
> >
> > Many thanks for this exciting news...
> >
> I thought you were being sarcastic, but since you thanked me twice, I see you meant it.

Famous antecedents include --
Jimmy Two Times from movie GOODFELLAS
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 by: Frank Berger - Sun, 8 May 2022 14:09 UTC

On 5/4/2022 4:33 PM, John Fowler wrote:
> My Mitropoulos box arrived May 4 via Federal Express.
> Mailed from Germany on April 21.
> The packaging was incredibly protective.
> The Sony box (same size as the Szell, Walter and Ormandy boxes) was packaged inside of 3 additional cardboard boxes, with plastic popcorn generously cushioning everything.
> The large hardcover book is modeled on the Szell, Walter and Ormandy books.
> The 69 CDs inside actually only take up a width of slightly less than 8 inches, so Sony could have gotten by with a much smaller box
> (which I would have preferred, but I'm not complaining)
> Contents are listed on the spine of each "original jacket".
> $195 well-spent (thank you JPC.de)

Received mine yesterday. Impressively packed, as you said.

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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:
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> 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:
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> 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:
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> Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 1 in B-Flat Major, Op. 23 (Remastered 1999) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
>
> DISC 13:
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> 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)
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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
>
> 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
>
> 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


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On Monday, May 23, 2022 at 9:47:00 PM UTC-10, 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
> On Sunday, the following will be included on WFMT's Collectors Corner:
>
> - PUCCINI: La fanciulla del West: Act I Final Scene. (Mario del Monaco, tenor; Dimitri Mitropoulos, cond; Florence May Festival Orch) Myto 042.H087
>
> https://www.wfmt.com/2022/05/29/the-art-of-eleanor-steber


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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


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On Tuesday, May 31, 2022 at 4:27:02 AM UTC+1, 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
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On Tuesday, May 31, 2022 at 5:42:05 AM UTC-4, jjbo...@gmail.com wrote:
> On Tuesday, May 31, 2022 at 4:27:02 AM UTC+1, 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.
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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)
> > >
> > > 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. upoad):
> >
> > Review: Sony's 69-CD MItropoulos Box (10 Best Recordings Preview for ClassicsToday.com Subscribers)
> http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2022/May/Mitropoulos-complete-19439888252.htm
In checking the contents as listed by JPC and MusicWeb, I see that CD53 (Falla Nights in the Gardens
of Spain; Three-Cornered Hat Suite 2) does not show the Falla Interlude & Dance from La Vida Breve
that was on the original LP (and documented in the North book).


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On 5/31/2022 12:17 PM, Jerry wrote:
> On Tuesday, May 31, 2022 at 5:42:05 AM UTC-4, jjbo...@gmail.com wrote:
>> On Tuesday, May 31, 2022 at 4:27:02 AM UTC+1, 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. upoad):
>>>
>>> Review: Sony's 69-CD MItropoulos Box (10 Best Recordings Preview for ClassicsToday.com Subscribers)
>> http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2022/May/Mitropoulos-complete-19439888252.htm
> In checking the contents as listed by JPC and MusicWeb, I see that CD53 (Falla Nights in the Gardens
> of Spain; Three-Cornered Hat Suite 2) does not show the Falla Interlude & Dance from La Vida Breve
> that was on the original LP (and documented in the North book).
>
> Is that a misprint or is it actually not included?
>
> Jerry

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On 5/31/2022 12:17 PM, Jerry wrote:
> On Tuesday, May 31, 2022 at 5:42:05 AM UTC-4, jjbo...@gmail.com wrote:
>> On Tuesday, May 31, 2022 at 4:27:02 AM UTC+1, 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. upoad):
>>>
>>> Review: Sony's 69-CD MItropoulos Box (10 Best Recordings Preview for ClassicsToday.com Subscribers)
>> http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2022/May/Mitropoulos-complete-19439888252.htm
> In checking the contents as listed by JPC and MusicWeb, I see that CD53 (Falla Nights in the Gardens
> of Spain; Three-Cornered Hat Suite 2) does not show the Falla Interlude & Dance from La Vida Breve
> that was on the original LP (and documented in the North book).
>
> Is that a misprint or is it actually not included?
>
> Jerry

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The Sony book calls it "Intermedio - Danza espanola No. 1 from La vida breve".
The original jacket calls it "Interlude and Dance from La vida breve".

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On Wednesday, June 1, 2022 at 2:57:31 AM UTC-7, John Fowler wrote:
> The Sony book calls it "Intermedio - Danza espanola No. 1 from La vida breve".
> The original jacket calls it "Interlude and Dance from La vida breve".

I just received my box from JPC - it had gotten diverted in the mail for several weeks. I am in the process of ripping and tagging the discs, as well as scanning the CD jackets and the booklet as this is how I consume my media these days. Question - after I performed a similar exercise with the Ormandy box, someone on the group posted a link to an official PDF of the booklet which was far better than my scan. Before I go through the effort to scan the Mitropoulos book is there a similar PDF of it out there somewhere? Thanks.

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