Topic: MR. ORMANDY AND THE PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA (Read 4764 times)

elmore3003 · « **Reply #30 on:** July 20, 2014, 05:48:29 AM »

I'm thinking about purchasing this, simply for the Orff.

elmore3003 · « **Reply #31 on:** July 20, 2014, 05:49:02 AM »

singdaw · « **Reply #32 on:** July 20, 2014, 05:49:47 AM »

That's the set, DR elmore3003, but it isn't quite complete - it's missing a few minor odds and ends.

singdaw · « **Reply #33 on:** July 20, 2014, 05:50:33 AM »

I am sure that the Orff is available as a single disc.

ChasSmith · « **Reply #34 on:** July 20, 2014, 05:51:54 AM »

Quote from: elmore3003 on July 20, 2014, 05:45:40 AM

I think that Ormandy recording of Carmina Burana may have been one of the firsts, if not the first. He was a wonderful conductor, but I think he, like Reiner, Monteux, Fiedler, Ansermet, and others, may be looked down and perhaps forgotten as well, by trendy au courant critics whose memories are shunted aside by all that knowledge they claim to carry. I like the work of all these gentlemen.

Yes! There is a world of wealth to behold in all of their recordings.

Could the Stokowski recording of the Orff have been earlier? (I didn't discover that one myself till years later.)

elmore3003 · « **Reply #35 on:** July 20, 2014, 05:52:18 AM »

Quote from: singdaw on July 20, 2014, 05:50:33 AM

I am sure that the Orff is available as a single disc.

Yes. I see you are correct. Still, that Ormandy set has a lot of appeal.

ChasSmith · « **Reply #36 on:** July 20, 2014, 05:53:26 AM »

That 20th Century Classics set should be pretty great, I think.

singdaw · « **Reply #37 on:** July 20, 2014, 05:57:39 AM »

Alas, it seems Ormandy didn't conduct all three pieces comprising the Trionfi; or if he did, they don't seem to be represented in the catalogue.

elmore3003 · « **Reply #38 on:** July 20, 2014, 06:06:31 AM »

Quote from: singdaw on July 20, 2014, 05:57:39 AM

Alas, it seems Ormandy didn't conduct all three pieces comprising the Trionfi; or if he did, they don't seem to be represented in the catalogue.

No, he only recorded Burana and Catullus. I was intrigued by the complete Tchaikovsky symphonies as well.

Druxy · « **Reply #39 on:** July 20, 2014, 07:07:31 AM »

Sad news about James Garner.

I always enjoyed watching him; never hate the pleasure of meeting him.

elmore3003 · « **Reply #40 on:** July 20, 2014, 07:37:41 AM »

Greetings from Toyland!

FJL · « **Reply #41 on:** July 20, 2014, 08:04:41 AM »

Skip is off being on the panel of an all-day seminar today down on 18th Street at TRU. The subject seems to be opening numbers and "I want" songs.

http://www.truonline.org/TRUBeginnings-Musical.htm

FJL · « **Reply #42 on:** July 20, 2014, 08:08:40 AM »

vixmom, thanks for your comment last night - would have loved to see all of you, too!

Jrand73 · « **Reply #43 on:** July 20, 2014, 08:13:31 AM »

We need photos from tonight's HHW Gathering.

Jrand73 · « **Reply #44 on:** July 20, 2014, 08:14:39 AM »

I loved the notes today! Very entertaining. My very first "classical" recording was the EP 45 RPM of Mr Van Cliburn playing Tchaikovsky's First in B Flat Minor.....I still have it. Most excellent.

Jrand73 · « **Reply #45 on:** July 20, 2014, 08:23:14 AM »

I bought a new rocking chair for my front porch at the Marsh Grocery Store. The manager sold me the one that he had put together - which was very nice of him to do.

I want to buy a small white table now....since the brown one doesn't match.

ArnoldMBrockman · « **Reply #46 on:** July 20, 2014, 08:35:05 AM »

Quote from: bk on July 20, 2014, 12:23:09 AM

And the word of the day is: ORRERY!

And The Song Of The Day Is: I GOT THE SUN IN THE MORNING

ArnoldMBrockman · « **Reply #47 on:** July 20, 2014, 08:36:06 AM »

Quote from: Jrand63 on July 20, 2014, 08:23:14 AM

I bought a new rocking chair for my front porch at the Marsh Grocery Store. The manager sold me the one that he had put together - which was very nice of him to do.

I want to buy a small white table now....since the brown one doesn't match.

Looks Good. Happy Rocking

singdaw · « **Reply #48 on:** July 20, 2014, 09:51:35 AM »

We are being taken by friends to a very special restaurant in Wisconsin, so I will be errant and truant for most of the day.

Jrand73 · « **Reply #49 on:** July 20, 2014, 10:41:26 AM »

Off to the auditions!

bk · « **Reply #50 on:** July 20, 2014, 11:34:25 AM »

elmore, that Moldau is a stereo recording done for RCA years after the one I grew up with, which was on Columbia - being mono, I don't think it will ever get a release.

And yes, that first box you pictured is the Columbia set - the other box is RCA - not sure if he recorded Carmina Burana for both labels, but if so I would seek out the Columbia first.

bk · « **Reply #51 on:** July 20, 2014, 11:34:43 AM »

I'm up after nine hours of blessed sleep. Weird dreams.

FJL · « **Reply #52 on:** July 20, 2014, 11:41:53 AM »

What's with all the weird dreams lately?

bk · « **Reply #53 on:** July 20, 2014, 11:52:23 AM »

And there's this 10 CD set -it's pricey but I just found it for more than 50% off, about five bucks a disc.

ryacko · « **Reply #54 on:** July 20, 2014, 12:11:00 PM »

Happy Sunday, all!

I'm finally crawling out from under a bout f bad food and feeling much perkier.

BK, having been born and raised in Philly, Maestro Ormandy is who I grew up with as well, and he and the Philadelphia Orchestra were my go-to musicians for anything classical. Lucky me.

And I enjoyed Red very much. Great fun! Red 2 is as well, though I found it more action oriented. Great casts having lots of fun together.

bk · « **Reply #55 on:** July 20, 2014, 01:34:42 PM »

Listened to two Saint-Saens concertos - neither much to my liking, but just finished with The Age of Anxiety with Entremont and Bernstein - brilliant. I have the same performance on another CD but this one blows that apart in every way, sound-wise especially.

Jane · « **Reply #56 on:** July 20, 2014, 01:35:11 PM »

Quote from: bk on July 20, 2014, 12:24:18 AM

And a very happy haineshisway.com birthday to Miss Karen, who doesn't live here anymore. She is mother to the original Zubrick of The Brain, Cason Murphy.

Did you son recently get married?

Jane · « **Reply #57 on:** July 20, 2014, 01:35:40 PM »

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MISS KAREN!!!

John G. · « **Reply #58 on:** July 20, 2014, 01:36:49 PM »

Good afternoon, all.

Spent a relaxing weekend with friends in West Texas in a town called Brackettville. Hadn't been there before. Nice area. They've been having a much wetter summer than normal, so all was rather lush.

Ate, drank, went swimming, slept an awful lot.

John G. · « **Reply #59 on:** July 20, 2014, 01:37:04 PM »

Let's move on.

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