Eugene Ormandy - Beethoven Symphony No. 5 - Schubert Symphony No. 8 (2025 Remastered Version) (2025) [24/96]

Ormandy took over the Philadelphia’s music directorship from Leopold Stokowski in 1938 and held the position for 42 years. During that time – in which his name and the orchestra’s became inseparable – he cultivated and further developed the voluptuous sound that originated with his predecessor. “Any conductor reflects clearly the instrument he played,” the Budapest-born Ormandy (1899-1985) once said. “My sound is what it is because I was a violinist.” The American composer and critic Virgil Thomson described Ormandy’s “Philadelphia sound” as “pungent and mellow like the smell of fall fruits. No other instrumental assembly has quite the quality of impersonal, almost botanical, beauty that this one possesses; and none of the other conductors who appear regularly before us has quite Eugene Ormandy’s way of offering really excellent workmanship without personal insistence.”

TRACKLIST

1. Eugene Ormandy - I. Allegro con brio (2025 Remastered Version)
2. Eugene Ormandy - II. Andante con moto (2025 Remastered Version)
3. Eugene Ormandy - III. Scherzo - Allegro (2025 Remastered Version)
4. Eugene Ormandy - IV. Finale - Allegro (2025 Remastered Version)
5. Eugene Ormandy - I. Allegro moderato (2025 Remastered Version)
6. Eugene Ormandy - II. Andante con moto (2025 Remastered Version)



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