Eugene Ormandy - Eugene Ormandy - the RCA Victor Recordings 1935-42 (CD)

Limited 21 CD set. American musical history. He first recorded the Second with the Philadelphians anonymously for the "World's Greatest Music" series in March 1939, and nine months later conducted a tauter, "official" version for release on RCA. Both are included here along with Ormandy's other recordings for "World's Greatest Music", all made in 1938: the Mozart G minor, Beethoven's Fifth, Schubert's "Unfinished" and the Brandenburg Concertos Nos. 2 and 3. Two other famous Brahms recordings from 1939 are the Alto Rhapsody with Marian Anderson and the Double Concerto with Jascha Heifetz and Emanuel Feuermann, about which Gramophone's original reviewer wrote: "Rarely can the powers of two string players have been so fully extended, so richly proved... The whole thing is tremendous: a manifestation, for all who have an ear of the soul, of the composer's greatness of heart and mind.

Track List:

Disc: 1

1. Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto in E Minor, Op. 64
2. Spohr: Violin Concerto No. 8 in A Minor, Op. 47 "Gesangscene"
3. Paganini: Violin Concerto No. 1 in D Major, Op. 6: I. Allegro maestoso - Tempo giusto

Disc: 2

1. Beethoven: Symphony No. 1 in C Major, Op. 21
2. Schumann: Symphony No. 2 in C Major, Op. 61

Disc: 3

1. Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6 in B Minor, Op. 74 "Pathétique"
2. Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker (suite), Op. 71a
3. Rimsky-Korsakov (arr. Ormandy): Christmas Eve, Act III: Church Scene (first release)

Disc: 4

1. Mussorgsky (arr. Cailliet): Pictures at an Exhibition
2. Liszt: Les Préludes, S. 97
3. Enescu: Romanian Rhapsody No. 1 in A Major, Op. 11
4. Debussy (arr. O'Connell) I: Préludes, Book I, L. 117: No. 12, Minstrels (first release)

Disc: 5

1. Beethoven: Ah perfido!, Op. 65 - Konzertarie für Sopran und Orchester
2. Weber: Oberon, Act II: "Ozean Du Ungeheuer"
3. Beethoven: Fidelio, Op. 72, Act I: "Abscheulicher, Wo Eilst Du Hin?"
4. Wagner: Die Walküre, WWV 86B, Act I: "Du bist der Lenz"
5. Wagner: Die Walküre, WWV 86B, Act II: "Ho-Yo-To-Ho" - Hans Lange, conductor
6. Wagner: Lohengrin, WWV 75, Act I: Elsas Traum - Hans Lange, conductor
7. Wagner: Lohengrin, WWV 75, Act II, Scene 2: "Euch Lüften, die mein Klagen "
8. Wagner: Tannhäuser, WWV 70, Act II: "Dich teure Halle, grüß ich wieder" - Hans Lange, conductor
9. Wagner: Tannhäuser, WWV 70, Act III: Elisabeths Gebet - Hans Lange, conductor
10. Wagner: Götterdämmerung, WWV 86D, Act III: "Starke Scheite schichtet mir dort" (Brünnhilde's Immolation)
11. Bach, J.S.: Cantata No. 140: Now Let Every Tongue Adore Thee
12. Charpentier: Louise, Act III: "Depuis le jour où je me suis donnée"
13. Debussy: L'enfant prodigue, L. 57: "L'année, en vain chasse l'année"

Disc: 6

1. Wagner: Die Walküre, WWV 86B, Act I: Winterstürme "Spring Song"
2. Wagner: Siegfried, WWV 86c, Act I: "Notung! Notung! Neidliches Schwert!"
3. Wagner: Siegfried, WWV 86c, Act I: Schmiedelied "Hoho! Hoho! Hohei" Schmiede, mein Hammer" - Edwin McArthur, conductor
4. Wagner: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, WWV 96, Act I: "Am stillen Herd"
5. Wagner: Die Meistersinger, WWV 96, Act III: Morgenlich leuchtend "Prize Song"
6. Wagner: Lohengrin, WWV 75, Act III: "In fernem Land" "Lohengrin's Narrative"
7. Wagner: Parsifal, WWV 111, Act III: "Nur eine Waffe taugt"
8. Wagner: Wesendonck Lieder, WWV 91: No. 4, Schmerzen
9. Wagner: Wesendonck Lieder, WWV 91: No. 5, Träume
10. Wagner: The Flying Dutchman, WWV 63, Act I: Steuermann Lied - Edwin McArthur, conductor
11. Wagner: Tannhäuser, WWV 70, Act I: "Dir töne Lob!" - Edwin McArthur, conductor
12. Wagner: Tannhäuser, WWV 70, Act III: Rome Narrative - Edwin McArthur, conductor
13. Wagner: Lohengrin, WWV 75, Act III: Mein lieber Schwan "Lohengrins Abschied und Finale"
14. Wagner: Parsifal, WWV 111, Act II: "Amfortas! Die Wunde!"
15. Wagner: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, WWV 96, Act III: "Tanz der Lehrbuben"

Disc: 7

1. Strauss, R.: Sinfonia Domestica, Op. 53
2. Strauss, R.: Der Rosenkavalier, Suite, TrV 227d

Disc: 8

1. McDonald: Symphony No. 1 "The Santa Fé Trail"
2. McDonald: From Childhood "Suite for Harp and Orchestra" – Harl McDonald, conductor
3. McDonald: Cakewalk - Scherzo from Symphony No. 4
4. McDonald: 3 Poems on Aramaic Themes

Disc: 9

1. Vivaldi (arr. Cailliet): L'estro armonico, Op 3, No. 8: Concerto for 2 Violins in A Minor (Arr. Lucien Cailliet)
2. Purcell (arr. Cailliet): Suite from Dido and Aeneas
3. Mozart: Divertimento No. 10 in F Major for Strings and 2 Horns, K. 247
4. Telemann: Ouverture-Suite, TWV 55: a2
5. Jenkins (arr. Cailliet): Five-Part Fantasy in D Major (first release)

Disc: 10

1. Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 1 in F-Sharp Minor, Op. 1
2. Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 4 in G Minor, Op. 40

Disc: 11

1. Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 3 in D Minor, Op. 30
2. Grieg: Piano Concerto in A Minor, Op. 16

Disc: 12

1. Brahms: Concerto for Violin and Cello in A Minor, Op. 102
2. R. Strauss: Don Quixote, Op. 35: Fantastic Variations on a Theme of Knightly Character

Disc: 13

1. Brahms: Symphony No. 2 in D Major, Op. 73
2. Brahms: Alto Rhapsody, Op. 53 "Harzreise im Winter"
3. Brahms (orch. Hertz): 8 Lieder and Songs, Op. 59, No. 8: Dein blaues Auge hält so still
4. Brahms (orch. Hertz): 5 Poems, Op. 19, No. 4: Der Schmied
5. Brahms (orch. Hertz): 5 Lieder, Op. 105: "Immer leiser wird mein Schlummer"
6. Brahms (orch. Hertz): Von ewiger Liebe, Op. 43, No. 1

Disc: 14

1. Strauss, R.: Ein Heldenleben, Op. 40
2. Ravel: Daphnis et Chloé - Suite No. 2

Disc: 15

1. Sibelius: Finlandia, Op. 26
2. Sibelius: Lemminkäinen Suite, Op. 22, No. 2: The Swan of Tuonela
3. Sibelius: Lemminkäinen Suite, Op. 22, No. 4: Lemminkäinen's Return
4. Sibelius: Symphony No. 1 in E Minor, Op. 39

Disc: 16

1. Hindemith: Mathis der Maler Symphony
2. Menotti: Amelia Goes to the Ball - Overture
3. Barber: First Essay for Orchestra, Op. 12
4. Harris: 3 Pieces for Orchestra
5. Sousa: Washington Post March
6. Sousa: The Stars and Stripes Forever

Disc: 17

1. Bach, J.S. (arr. Cailliet): Prelude and Fugue in F Minor, BWV 534 (Arranged for Orchestra by Lucien Cailliet)
2. Bach, J.S. (arr. Cailliet): Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring (from Cantata No. 147, BWV 147)
3. Bach, J.S. (arr. Cailliet): Preludio in E Major from Partita No 3 for Violin Unaccompanied, BWV 1006 – Leopold Stokowski, conductor
4. Bach, J.S. (arr. Cailliet): Prelude and Fugue in B Minor, BWV 544
5. Bach, J.S. (arr. O'Connell): St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244: Herzliebster Jesu
6. Strauss, Johann II: Frühlingsstimmen - Walzer, Op. 410
7. Strauss, Johann II: Wiener Blut Walzer, Op. 354
8. Strauss, Johann II: Kaiser-Walzer, Op. 437

Disc: 18

1. Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker (suite), Op. 71a
2. Tchaikovsky: Symphony No 5. in E Minor, Op. 64

Disc: 19

1. Beethoven: Symphony No. 5 in C Minor, Op. 67
2. Schubert: Symphony No. 8 in B Minor, D.759 "Unfinished"

Disc: 20

1. Mozart: Symphony No. 40 in G Minor, K. 550
2. Bach, J.S.: Brandenburg Concerto No. 2 in F Major, BWV 1047
3. Bach, J.S.: Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 in G Major, BWV 1048

Disc: 21

1. Brahms: Symphony No. 2 in D Major, Op. 73