Eugene Ormandy & Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra: The Complete RCA Album Collection | Sony 19439952392

Eugene Ormandy & Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra: The Complete RCA Album Collection

Label: Sony

Cat No: 19439952392

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 11

Release Date: 22nd July 2022

Contents

Works

Bach, Johann Sebastian

Chorale Prelude BWV727 'Herzlich tut mich verlangen'

Beethoven, Ludwig van

Leonore Overture no.3 in C major, op.72b (excerpt)
Symphony no.4 in B flat major, op.60

Brahms, Johannes

Hungarian Dances (21), WoO1
» no.18 in D major (orch. Dvorak)
» no.19 in B minor (orch. Dvorak)
» no.20 in E minor (orch. Dvorak)
» no.21 in E minor (orch. Dvorak)

Bruckner, Anton

Symphony no.7 in E major

Carpenter, John Alden

Adventures in a Perambulator

Delibes, Leo

Coppelia: Suite
» Entr'acte (Act 2)
» Valse (Act 1)
La Source (composed with Minkus)
» Pas des echarpes
» Scene d'amour
» Scherzo-Polka
» Variations
Sylvia: Suite
» Cortege de Bacchus
» Pizzicato Polka

Drigo, Riccardo

Les Millions d'Arlequin
» Valse bluette (Air de ballet no.2)

Dvorak, Antonin

Scherzo capriccioso in D flat major, op.66

Enescu, George

Romanian Rhapsodies (2), op.11
» no.1 in A major

Gounod, Charles

Funeral March of a Marionette

Grainger, Percy

Country Gardens
Irish Tune from County Derry
Molly on the Shore
Shepherd's Hey

Griffes, Charles

The Pleasure-Dome of Kubla Khan, op.8

Harris, Roy

When Johnny Comes Marching Home

Honegger, Arthur

Concertino for piano and orchestra

Kodaly, Zoltan

Hary Janos Suite

Kreisler, Fritz

Caprice viennois, op.2
Old Viennese Melodies (3)
Tambourin chinois, op.3

Mahler, Gustav

Symphony no.2 in C minor 'Resurrection'

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

German Dances (3), K605
» no.2 in G major
» no.3 Die Schlittenfahrt (Sleigh Ride)
German Dances (4), K602
» no.3 in C major
German Dances (6), K600
» no.1 in C major
» no.2 in F major
» no.3 in B flat major
» no.4 in E flat major
» no.5 in G major 'Die Kanarienvogel'
Le nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro), K492
» Overture
Serenade no.13 in G major, K525 'Eine kleine Nachtmusik'

Paganini, Nicolo

Moto perpetuo, op.11, MS72

Rachmaninov, Sergei

Symphony no.2 in E minor, op.27

Ravel, Maurice

Miroirs
» Alborada del gracioso (orchestral version)

Schoenberg, Arnold

Verklarte Nacht (Transfigured Night), op.4 (orchestral version)

Schumann, Robert

Kinderszenen, op.15
» no.7 Traumerei
Symphony no.4 in D minor, op.120

Sibelius, Jean

Symphony no.1 in E minor, op.39

Smetana, Bedrich

The Bartered Bride (Prodana nevesta)
» Furiant
» Polka
» Skocna - Dance of the Comedians

Sowerby, Leo

The Irish Washerwoman

Stix, Carl

Spielerei, op.140

Strauss II, Johann

Accelerationen Waltz, op.234
An der schonen blauen Donau (On the beautiful blue Danube), op.314
Aquarellen Walzer, op.258
Die Fledermaus
» Overture
Die Zigeunerbaron (The Gypsy Baron)
» Overture
Geschichten aus dem Wienerwald (Tales from the Vienna Woods), op.325
Neue Pizzicato-Polka, op.449

Strauss II, Johann (with Josef Strauss)

Pizzicato Polka, op.234

Strauss, Richard

Der Rosenkavalier, op.59
» Waltzes

Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Ilyich

String Quartet no.1 in D major, op.11
» II Andante cantabile

Weinberger, Jaromir

Schwanda the Bagpiper
» Fugue
» Polka

Wolf-Ferrari, Ermanno

I gioielli della Madonna (The Jewels of the Madonna)
» Intermezzo no.1
» Intermezzo no.2

Zador, Eugene

Hungarian Capriccio

Zemachson, Arnold

Chorale and Fugue in D minor, op.4

Artists

Harold Ayres (violin)
Corinne Frank Bowen (soprano)
Ray Fitch (tarogato)
Eunice Norton (piano)
Anne O’Malley Gallogly (contralto)
Twin City Symphony Chorus
Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra

Conductor

Eugene Ormandy

Works

Bach, Johann Sebastian

Chorale Prelude BWV727 'Herzlich tut mich verlangen'

Beethoven, Ludwig van

Leonore Overture no.3 in C major, op.72b (excerpt)
Symphony no.4 in B flat major, op.60

Brahms, Johannes

Hungarian Dances (21), WoO1
» no.18 in D major (orch. Dvorak)
» no.19 in B minor (orch. Dvorak)
» no.20 in E minor (orch. Dvorak)
» no.21 in E minor (orch. Dvorak)

Bruckner, Anton

Symphony no.7 in E major

Carpenter, John Alden

Adventures in a Perambulator

Delibes, Leo

Coppelia: Suite
» Entr'acte (Act 2)
» Valse (Act 1)
La Source (composed with Minkus)
» Pas des echarpes
» Scene d'amour
» Scherzo-Polka
» Variations
Sylvia: Suite
» Cortege de Bacchus
» Pizzicato Polka

Drigo, Riccardo

Les Millions d'Arlequin
» Valse bluette (Air de ballet no.2)

Dvorak, Antonin

Scherzo capriccioso in D flat major, op.66

Enescu, George

Romanian Rhapsodies (2), op.11
» no.1 in A major

Gounod, Charles

Funeral March of a Marionette

Grainger, Percy

Country Gardens
Irish Tune from County Derry
Molly on the Shore
Shepherd's Hey

Griffes, Charles

The Pleasure-Dome of Kubla Khan, op.8

Harris, Roy

When Johnny Comes Marching Home

Honegger, Arthur

Concertino for piano and orchestra

Kodaly, Zoltan

Hary Janos Suite

Kreisler, Fritz

Caprice viennois, op.2
Old Viennese Melodies (3)
Tambourin chinois, op.3

Mahler, Gustav

Symphony no.2 in C minor 'Resurrection'

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

German Dances (3), K605
» no.2 in G major
» no.3 Die Schlittenfahrt (Sleigh Ride)
German Dances (4), K602
» no.3 in C major
German Dances (6), K600
» no.1 in C major
» no.2 in F major
» no.3 in B flat major
» no.4 in E flat major
» no.5 in G major 'Die Kanarienvogel'
Le nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro), K492
» Overture
Serenade no.13 in G major, K525 'Eine kleine Nachtmusik'

Paganini, Nicolo

Moto perpetuo, op.11, MS72

Rachmaninov, Sergei

Symphony no.2 in E minor, op.27

Ravel, Maurice

Miroirs
» Alborada del gracioso (orchestral version)

Schoenberg, Arnold

Verklarte Nacht (Transfigured Night), op.4 (orchestral version)

Schumann, Robert

Kinderszenen, op.15
» no.7 Traumerei
Symphony no.4 in D minor, op.120

Sibelius, Jean

Symphony no.1 in E minor, op.39

Smetana, Bedrich

The Bartered Bride (Prodana nevesta)
» Furiant
» Polka
» Skocna - Dance of the Comedians

Sowerby, Leo

The Irish Washerwoman

Stix, Carl

Spielerei, op.140

Strauss II, Johann

Accelerationen Waltz, op.234
An der schonen blauen Donau (On the beautiful blue Danube), op.314
Aquarellen Walzer, op.258
Die Fledermaus
» Overture
Die Zigeunerbaron (The Gypsy Baron)
» Overture
Geschichten aus dem Wienerwald (Tales from the Vienna Woods), op.325
Neue Pizzicato-Polka, op.449

Strauss II, Johann (with Josef Strauss)

Pizzicato Polka, op.234

Strauss, Richard

Der Rosenkavalier, op.59
» Waltzes

Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Ilyich

String Quartet no.1 in D major, op.11
» II Andante cantabile

Weinberger, Jaromir

Schwanda the Bagpiper
» Fugue
» Polka

Wolf-Ferrari, Ermanno

I gioielli della Madonna (The Jewels of the Madonna)
» Intermezzo no.1
» Intermezzo no.2

Zador, Eugene

Hungarian Capriccio

Zemachson, Arnold

Chorale and Fugue in D minor, op.4

Artists

Harold Ayres (violin)
Corinne Frank Bowen (soprano)
Ray Fitch (tarogato)
Eunice Norton (piano)
Anne O’Malley Gallogly (contralto)
Twin City Symphony Chorus
Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra

Conductor

Eugene Ormandy

About

Sony Classical is now pleased to present the complete Ormandy/Minneapolis discography for the first time in a single collection. Many of these performances were never issued on LP, not to mention CD. Including recordings for RCA Victor from 1934 to 1935 in a single 11-CD edition, some of the rarest recordings are finally available. 53 works appearing on CD for the first time on Sony Classical, remastered from the original analogue discs and tapes using 24-bit / 96 kHz technology.

Eugene Ormandy’s name is inseparably linked with Philadelphia and the orchestra he served as music director there for over 40 years. But before the advent of Ormandy/Philadelphia, there was another historic partnership – Ormandy/Minneapolis – which, though much briefer, was hardly less pivotal in the Hungarian conductor’s career.

The 11-disc set contains major symphonic works which were still rarely heard when these recordings introduced them to music lovers all across the world. The pioneering 1935 version of Mahler’s “Resurrection” Symphony dominated the record catalogues for nearly two decades, and it remains thrilling today. Ormandy and the Minneapolis SO were the first in the US to commit to disc Rachmaninov’s Second Symphony (“Fervently played and grandly recorded”Gramophone, 1936) and Sibelius’s First (“Mr Ormandy seems to be squeezing every ounce of emotion out of it, and lovers of opulence will rejoice”Gramophone, 1936), while their Bruckner Seventh was the first commercial American recording of any of that composer’s symphonies.

The new box set also contains the recording world premières of Kodály’s Háry János Suite, the string-orchestra version of Schoenberg’s Verklärte Nacht and Honegger’s Concertino for piano and orchestra, as well as American works such as Roy Harris’s When Johnny Comes Marching Home, Charles Tomlinson Griffes’s Pleasure-Dome of Kubla Khan and John Alden Carpenter’s Adventures in a Perambulator. The electrifying performance of Enescu’s Romanian Rhapsody no.1, an Ormandy showpiece, was the first one of that work to reach a worldwide audience, while the selections from Weinberger’s Schwanda – Ormandy’s ticket to fame – also made their recording début in Minneapolis. The conductor’s only recording of Schumann’s Fourth Symphony is here, as is his first recording of Beethoven’s Fourth, plus Hungarian Dances by Brahms and many others.

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