Eugene Ormandy, The Philadelphia Orchestra - The RCA Victor Recordings 1935-42 [21CDs] (2025)
XLD | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 3,76 Gb | Total time: 20:30:29 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Sony Classical | # 19658771062 | Recorded: 1935-1942
XLD | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 3,76 Gb | Total time: 20:30:29 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Sony Classical | # 19658771062 | Recorded: 1935-1942
1931 was the breakthrough year for 32-year-old Hungarian immigrant Eugene Ormandy. First, he was engaged by the Philadelphia Orchestra to deputize for his idol Toscanini, who was briefly indisposed. Then, a few months later, he was asked to step in for the conductor of the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra, also indisposed – but in this case permanently. Soon Ormandy was hired to take over that rising Midwestern orchestra. At the end of his five-year tenure in Minneapolis, which produced a considerable discography for RCA Victor (available in an 11-CD Sony Classical box set), Ormandy was called back to Philadelphia, this time to become its co-conductor with Leopold Stokowski. In 1936, he began recording regularly for Victor with his new orchestra, picking up the pace in 1938 when he became its sole music director.