That is, while I never found anything wrong or deficient about his conducting, I usually never found much spark to it, either. But I didn't really take much notice of him and bought very little of his work because he always seemed a rather foursquare conductor to me. When I started acquiring recordings at the beginning of the stereo age (mid 1950's), Ormandy had already well established himself as one of the world's leading conductors. HDTT (High Definition Tape Transfers) translated the Quadraphonic tape to various newer formats in 2015. It was 1972 that Ormandy made the RCA recording under review, using the short-lived technology known at the time as Quadraphonic. He took over the orchestra from Leopold Stokowski in the mid 1930's and recorded for several labels thereafter: primarily Columbia/CBS, RCA, and EMI until the late 70's. HDTT remaster.Įugene Ormandy (1899-1985) was the conductor of the Philadelphia Orchestra for about as long as any conductor has ever been the conductor of any one orchestra: He was at the helm for forty-four years.
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