Notes and Editorial Reviews
Few great conductors can be classified by just a few characteristics. Although this cautionary remark applies to Dimitri Mitropoulos, it seems safe to say that, among other things, he was renowned for (1) performances of intensity and animation, (2) his willingness, even eagerness, to explore unfamiliar repertory, and (3) his photographic memory. Ample evidence of the first two characteristics can be heard in this collection of live performances, many previously unreleased, with the Philharmonic-Symphony and the NBC Symphony Orchestra in repertoire with which his career was closely associated. The two volumes include works by Busoni, to whose circle he had belonged as a student in Berlin, the Twelve-tone Viennese masters for whom he fought
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major cultural battles, Prokofiev, whose Third Piano Concerto he had premiered in Berlin, Richard Strauss, whose romantic program music appealed to his soul, and Mahler, whose inner landscape he found congenial and helped popularize in his decades in America. Digital restorations in 2008 utilizing the revolutionary "harmonic balancing" technique". Read less
Works on This Recording
1.
Symphony no 6 in A minor "Tragic" by Gustav Mahler
Conductor:
Dimitri Mitropoulos
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra
Period: Romantic
Written: 1904/1906; Austria
2.
Brandenburg Concerto no 5 in D major, BWV 1050 by Johann Sebastian Bach
Performer:
Dimitri Mitropoulos (Piano)
Conductor:
Dimitri Mitropoulos
Orchestra/Ensemble:
NBC Symphony Orchestra
Period: Baroque
Written: 1720-1721; ?Cöthen, Germany
3.
Concerto for Piano no 3 in C major, Op. 26 by Sergei Prokofiev
Performer:
Dimitri Mitropoulos (Piano)
Conductor:
Dimitri Mitropoulos
Orchestra/Ensemble:
NBC Symphony Orchestra
Period: 20th Century
Written: 1917-1921; USA
4.
Symphonie espagnole, Op. 21 by Edouard Lalo
Performer:
Zino Francescatti (Violin)
Conductor:
Dimitri Mitropoulos
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra
Period: Romantic
Written: 1873; France
6.
Symphony no 4 in F minor by Ralph Vaughan Williams
Conductor:
Dimitri Mitropoulos
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra
Period: 20th Century
Written: 1931-1934; England
8.
Erwartung, Op. 17 by Arnold Schoenberg
Performer:
Dorothy Dow (Soprano)
Conductor:
Dimitri Mitropoulos
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra
Period: 20th Century
Written: 1909; Vienna, Austria
Length: 28 Minutes 8 Secs.
Notes: This selection is a mono recording.
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