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ALBUMBeethoven: Piano Concerto No. 3 in C Minor, Op. 37 - Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 1 in B-Flat Minor, Op. 23, TH 55 (Remastered 2024)Claudio Arrau, Oscar Levant, The Philadelphia Orchestra & Eugene Ormandy
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ALBUMBeethoven: Piano Concerto No. 3 in C Minor, Op. 37 - Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 1 in B-Flat Minor, Op. 23, TH 55 (Remastered 2024)Claudio Arrau, Oscar Levant, The Philadelphia Orchestra & Eugene Ormandy
ALBUMSaint-Saens: Symphony No. 3 "Organ" & Le Carnaval des animaux (2023 Remastered Version)Eugene Ormandy, The Philadelphia Orchestra, E. Power Biggs, Claude Frank & Lilian Kallir
ALBUMVincent: Symphonic Poem after Descartes & Symphony in D (2023 Remastered Version)Eugene Ormandy & The Philadelphia Orchestra
ALBUMStereormandy, Vol. 7Eugene Ormandy & The Philadelphia Orchestra
ALBUMStereormandy, Vol. 8Eugene Ormandy & The Philadelphia Orchestra
ALBUMStereormandy, Vol. 3Eugene Ormandy & The Philadelphia Orchestra
ALBUMStereormandy, Vol. 4The Philadelphia Orchestra, Eugene Ormandy, Evelyn Mandac & Birgit Finillä
ALBUMStereormandy, Vol. 6Eugene Ormandy & The Philadelphia Orchestra
ALBUMSibelius: Symphonies Nos. 1,2,7 & Orchestral Works by Eugene OrmandyEugene Ormandy, The Philadelphia Orchestra & The Tabernacle Choir at Temple Square
ALBUMOrmandy Conducts Carpenter, Griffes, Grainger, Zemachson and Harris (2022 Remastered Version)Eugene Ormandy & Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
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Artist Biography
A master technician, a magician in sound—for some that was all there was to Ormandy—but for others, he was so much more. The highly renowned Hungarian American conductor and violinist was born Jenö Blau in Budapest in 1899. The musical prodigy tried a variety of musical jobs—violinist, concertmaster, professor—before settling on conducting after his arrival in the U.S. in 1921. His career really took off in 1936 when he took up the position of joint conductor alongside Leopold Stokowski at the latter’s already legendary Philadelphia Orchestra. Two years later, he became sole Music Director, a position he held for 42 years—and he continued to work with the orchestra almost up to his death in 1985. Few conductors have held a longer unbroken tenure with one orchestra, and as a result, Ormandy, a superb technician and trainer, built up his orchestra to the point where it was routinely compared with the internationally celebrated Berlin Philharmonic. Some critics and conductors questioned whether there was much more to Ormandy’s conducting than technical excellence and beautifully cultivated sound. But he had some striking admirers, notably the arch-Romantic Rachmaninoff and the arch-modernist Schoenberg. As well as excelling in late Romantic music, he was a tireless champion of contemporary music, both European and American.
Hometown
Budapest, Hungary
Genre
Classical