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  • richardfinegold
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    • Sep 2012
    • 7666

    Ormandy Tchaikovsky Set

    I have been listening to the 12 disc Ormandy Tchaikovsky set released by Sony. It goes for $22 on Amazon plus P+H. It is a mix of CBS and RCA recordings. It features the 6 numbered Symphonies, Manfred, a couple of oddball symphonies (reconstructions?) that I was previously unfamiliar with, extended discs of Ballet excerpts, the String Serenade, the Violin Concerto, 3 Piano Concertos, and the Rococco Variations.
    I had cut my teeth on the Ballet discs, learning this music from long gone Ormandy/Philly lps, and it's great to have them again. The Orchestra is the perfect instrument for this composers music. Ormandy doesn't interpret as such, he seems to mainly the musicians play, and that is a good thing. I likewise had learned the Violin Concerto from the Stern/Ormandy recording and while I have many others it is good to have this again as well. These are CBS recordings and they still show signs of compression--quite audibly--in climaxes.
    Ican't comment on the oddball Symphonies, having never heard them before. Of the numbered and the Manfred, I can say that these won't displace my favorites, but they are vaery enjoyable and always well played. The only clinker is the Polish, and that is my least favorite Tchaik Symphony anyway.
  • Roehre

    #2
    AFAIK there exists only one "oddball" symphony, Bogatyryev's orchestration of no.7 in E-flat, which is based on the piano concerto no.3 op.75/79, the concerto being the work based on the symphony (not vice versa).

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    • Petrushka
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      • Nov 2010
      • 12252

      #3
      Originally posted by Roehre View Post
      AFAIK there exists only one "oddball" symphony, Bogatyryev's orchestration of no.7 in E-flat, which is based on the piano concerto no.3 op.75/79, the concerto being the work based on the symphony (not vice versa).
      I had the '7th Symphony' on an old Melodiya LP many years ago with Leo Ginzburg conducting the USSR Symphony Orchestra. Can't remember a thing about it. The disc also included the 'Piano Concerto No 3' with Igor Zhukov and Gennadi Rozhdestvensky conducting the Moscow Radio SO.
      "The sound is the handwriting of the conductor" - Bernard Haitink

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      • richardfinegold
        Full Member
        • Sep 2012
        • 7666

        #4
        Originally posted by Roehre View Post
        AFAIK there exists only one "oddball" symphony, Bogatyryev's orchestration of no.7 in E-flat, which is based on the piano concerto no.3 op.75/79, the concerto being the work based on the symphony (not vice versa).
        You are correct. Te E Flat is here along with the 3rd Piano Concerto. My error.

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        • richardfinegold
          Full Member
          • Sep 2012
          • 7666

          #5
          I've been greatly enjoying the Manfred from this set. It is beautifully played and recorded, and Ormandy plays it straight and doesn't try to over dramatize as many Conductors do (Svetlanov most egregiously, Toscanini as well).

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