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The Original Jacket Collection: Eugene Ormandy | 
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| Creators: Mstislav Rostropovich, Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, Johann Christian Bach, Johann Sebastian Bach, Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, Samuel Barber, Bela Bartok, Alexander Borodin, Edvard Grieg, Edward Macdowell, Pietro Mascagni, Jules Massenet, Felix Mendelssohn, Modest Mussorgsky, Sergey Rachmaninov, Ottorino Respighi, Nikolai Rimsky-korsakov, Dmitry Shostakovich, Jean Sibelius, Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky
Label: Sony Classics
Category: Music
List Price: $79.98
Buy New: $42.09
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Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 87449
Format: Box Set, Limited Edition
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 10
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.9
Dimensions (in): 5.2 x 5.2 x 1.7
UPC: 886972798721
EAN: 0886972798721
ASIN: B0018TNJL4
Release Date: June 24, 2008
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| Tracks:
Disc 1
| • | I pini di Villa Borghese. Allegretto vivace. Vivace | | • | Pini presso una catacomba. Lento | | • | I pini del Gianicolo | | • | I pini della Via Appia: Tempo di Marcia | | • | La fontana di Valle Giulia all'alba. Andante mosso | | • | La fontana del Tritone al mattino. Vivo | | • | La fontana di Trevi al meriggio. Allegro moderato. Allegro vivace. Largamente | | • | La fontana di Villa Medici al tramonto. Andante | | • | Circenses | | • | Il giubileo | | • | L'Ottobrata | | • | La befana |
Disc 2
| • | Promenade | | • | Gnomus (The Gnome) | | • | Promenade | | • | Il vecchio castello (The Old Castle) | | • | Promenade | | • | Tuileries (Children's Dispute after a Game) | | • | Bydlo | | • | Promenade | | • | Ballet des petits poussins dans leurs coques (Ballet of the Unhatched Chicks) | | • | Samuel Goldenburg and Schmuyle | | • | Limoges. Le Marche (The Market Place of Limoges) | | • | Catacombae. Sepulchrum romanum (Catacombs. A Roman Grave) | | • | Cum mortuis in lingua morta (With the Dead in a Dead Language) | | • | La Cabane de Baba-Yaga sur des pattes de poule (The Hut of Baba-Yaga on Chicken's Legs) | | • | La grande Porte de Kiev (The Great Gate of Kiev) | | • | The Sea and Sinbad's Ship | | • | The Story of the Kalander Prince | | • | The Young Prince and the Young Princess | | • | Festival at Baghdad. The Sea. The Ship goes to pieces on a rock surmounted by a Bronze Warrior. Con |
Disc 3
| • | Largo. Allegro molto | | • | Allegro molto | | • | Adagio | | • | Allegro vivace |
Disc 4
| • | Andante. Allegro con anima | | • | Andante cantabile, con alcuna licenza. Moderato con anima | | • | Valse | | • | Finale (Andante maestoso). Allegro vivace | | • | Pezzo in forma di sonatina | | • | Waltz | | • | Elegia | | • | Finale (Tema Russo) |
Disc 5
| • | Introduzione. Andante non troppo. Allegro vivace | | • | Giuoco delle coppie. Allegro scherzando | | • | Elegia. Andante non troppo | | • | Intermezzo interrotto. Allegretto | | • | Finale. Pesante. Presto | | • | In Full Flower | | • | Village Dance |
Disc 6
| • | Allegro molto appassionato | | • | Andante | | • | Allegretto ma non troppo. Allegro molto vivace | | • | Allegro moderato | | • | Conzonetta. Andante | | • | Finale. Allegro vivacissimo |
Disc 7
| • | Allegretto | | • | Allegro | | • | Lento | | • | Allegro molto | | • | Allegretto | | • | Moderato | | • | Cadenza | | • | Allegro con moto |
Disc 8
| • | Arioso | | • | Jesu, Joy Of Man's Desiring | | • | Air on the G String | | • | Sheep May Safely Graze | | • | Sleepers Awake |
Disc 9
| • | Allegro spiritoso | | • | Andante | | • | Allegro | | • | Allegro | | • | Andante | | • | Allegro assai | | • | Allegro moderato | | • | Andante lento molto | | • | Allegro |
Disc 10
| • | Intermezzo | | • | Notturno No. 5. Andante |
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| Customer Reviews:
BRAVA! ENCORE! AND ALL THOSE CLASSY WORDS! September 3, 2008
Alan W. Petrucelli (THE ENTERTAINMENT REPORT (ALAN W. PETRUCELLI))
1 out of 6 found this review helpful
Celebrating the "Philadelphia Sound"---the lushly expressiv e orchestral signature sound that Eugene Ormandy inspired from his background as a violinist--- this 10-disc limited-edition collection documents one of the greatest conductor/orchestra partnerships in musical history. Listen once again to Ormandy and the Philadelphia Orchestra performs true classical gems, from Bartok to Mendelssohn, Rachmaninoff to Rimsky-Korsakov. Encore!
Commemorating the diva's 75th birthday, the 15-disc collection includes works personally chosen by the operatic heavyweight. All aspects of her long career are here: famous Italian arias and rarities, German Lied repertoire, zarzuela arias and the complete operas of Salome and Norma. Like those in the companion Ormandy set, these recordings have been remastered in state-of-the-art sound from original sources, and presented with CD size reproductions of original LP jackets. Brava!
EUGENE ORMANDY FINALLY GETS HIS BOX SET! July 2, 2008
Dub Taylor (Paris, France)
29 out of 31 found this review helpful
It's hard to believe that the CD was introduced in 1982 and it has taken 26 years for Eugene Ormandy to have a proper box set released by Sony/BMG of some of his magical Columbia/CBS stereo recordings. How do you choose 10 CDs of Ormandy's Philadelphia Orchestra recordings to include in a box set? He was music director of the Philadelphia Orchestra from 1936 to 1980! His recordings ranged from the 78 era to the LP, stereophonic and up to the early 80's when he did digital recordings for CD. He created the standard for several eras of recording history in the 20th century. Many Americans grew to love and know classical music by hearing Eugene Ormandy and his Philadelphians over the years through his many recordings. I was one of them. As a teenager in the '60's many of my first LPs of classical music, which began my collection, were by Eugene Ormandy and the Philadelphia Orchestra on Columbia Masterworks (remember that great label?). His early stereo recordings of the standard repertoire were how many music lovers and audiophiles (in those days you were called a "Hifi nut"!) started their classical record collections and auditioned the sound on that new Stereophonic sound system! It's now 2008 and hearing these recordings again made me realize how good Ormandy really was! He was able to get at the essence of a composition without his own ego getting in the way. His performances are second to none and the sound of the Philadelphia Orchestra under Ormandy, particularly the strings, is unmatched to this day. The digital remastering of these stereo recordings by Sony/BMG is superb. They are packaged in mini LP replica sleeves with a booklet which contains track lists, recording dates, notes and a selection of photos of the maestro. The following works are contained in this Limited Edition set:
Disc 1 Respighi: The Pines of Rome, The Fountains of Rome, Roman Festivals
Disc 2 Moussorsky/Ravel: Pictures at an Exhibition/ Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade
Disc 3 Rachmaninoff: Symphony No. 2, Vocalise
Disc 4 Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5, Serenade for Strings
Disc 5 Bartok: Concerto for Orchestra, The Miraculous Manderin (Suite), Two Pictures
Disc 6 Mendelssohn & Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerti (with Isaac Stern)
Disc 7 Shostakovich: Symphony No. 1, Cello Concerto (with Mstislav Rostropovich)
Disc 8/9 Bach: Orchestral Transcriptions/ "The Bach Album"
Disc 10 "The Romantic Philadelphia Strings" including short works by Barber, Grieg, Tchaikovsky, Sibelius, Vaughan Williams and more
How does one pick just 10 CD's worth of Eugene Ormandy? It's an almost impossible feat. I would have chosen some of his Ravel recordings and then his wonderful "Symphonie Fantastique" by Berlioz. But that's just me. You can find many other of his excellent Columbia stereo era recordings on individual CDs at very reasonable prices. For now we have this wonderful box set as a tribute to a great musician and orchestra at their peak. Hey Sony/BMG, how about another one! Get it while you can!
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