Person · conductor
Eugene Ormandy
Albums
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Active
1899–1985
Origin
United States
Biography
Eugene Ormandy (November 18, 1899 – March 12, 1985) was a Hungarian-born conductor and violinist who became internationally famous as the music director and conductor of the Philadelphia Orchestra. The maestro's 44-year-long association with the Philadelphia is one of the longest enjoyed by any conductor with a single orchestra. Under his baton, the Philadelphia had three gold records and won two Grammy Awards.
Discography
Concertos for Wind Instruments
Paganini: Violin Concertos no. 1 & no. 4 / Bottesini: Gran duo concertant
Peer Gynt Suites / Piano Concerto
Pétrouchka / The Firebird (Suite 1919) / Daphnis Et Chloé
Piano Concerto no. 2 / Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini
Piano Concerto no. 5 “Emperor” / Triple Concerto
Piano Concertos
Piano Concertos nos. 1 & 4 / Rhapsody on a Theme by Paganini
Scheherazade / Russian Easter Overture / Capriccio Espagnol
Swan Lake (Excerpts)
Symphony No. 1 / Variations on a Theme by Haydn / 5 Hungarian Dances
Symphony No. 5 / Serenade for Strings
Symphony no. 9 "From the New World" / Scherzo Capriccioso / Carnival Overture
Three Tchaikovsky Masterpieces
Also sprach Zarathustra / Don Quixote
Boléro / Rapsodie espagnole / Alborada del gracioso / Le Tombeau de Couperin / Valses nobles et sentimentales
Carmen Suites / L'Arlésienne Suites / Dance of the Hours
Cello Concerto / Rococo Variations / Schelomo / Elegie
Concerto for Orchestra / The Miraculous Mandarin / Two Pictures
Finlandia / Valse Triste / Swan of Tuonela / Karelia Suite / En Saga / Pohjola’s Daughter
Messiah, HWV 56 (Highlights)
Piano Concerto / Ballade / Lyric Pieces
Piano Concerto No. 1 / Introduction And Allegro / Capriccio Brillant
Piano Concertos no. 1 & no. 2 / Totentanz / Hungarian Fantasy
Piano Concertos No. 2 & No. 4 / Cello Concerto No. 1
Pini di Roma / Fontane di Roma / Feste romane
Rodrigo: Concierto de Aranjuez / Fantasia para un gentilhombre / Giuliani, Vivaldi: Guitar Concertos
Symphony no. 4 "Romantic"
Symphony No. 5
The 5 Piano Concertos / Triple Concerto
The Grand Symphony no. 3 for Organ and Orchestra
Viennese Waltzes and Polkas
Violin Concerto / Piano Trio no. 2
Violin Concertos
Ave Maria Christmas Favorites
Berlioz: Harold en Italie / La Damnation de Faust (Excerpts) / Les Troyens (Excerpts)
Hindemith: Symphony "Mathis der Maler" / Symphonic Metamorphoses / Walton: Variations on a Theme by Hindemith
La Mer / Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune / Danse / Nocturnes
Piano Concerto No. 3
Schumann: Cello Concerto / Piano Trio No. 1 / 5 Stücke Im Volkston
Shostakovich: Symphony no. 5 / Prokofiev: The Love for Three Oranges (Suite)
Suites from Swan Lake & The Nutcracker / Excerpts from Sleeping Beauty
Symphony no. 1 "Classical" / Symphony no. 5
Symphony no. 1 / Variations on a Themy by Haydn
Symphony No. 3 "Eroica" / Wellington's Victory
Symphony No. 6 "Pathétique" / Marche Slave / Capriccio Italien
The Planets
Verdi: Messa da Requiem / Rossini: Stabat Mater
Appalachian Spring / Billy the Kid (RCA Victor Basic 100: Volume 51)
Das Lied von der Erde / Rückert Lieder
La Walkyrie (extraits) / Siegfried (extraits) / Tannhäuser (extraits)…
Lemminkäinen Suite / Tapiola
Missa Solemnis
Orchestral Music
Rachmaninoff Plays Rachmaninoff: The 4 Piano Concertos / Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini
Smetana: Moldau (Vlatava) / Dvořák: Symphony no. 9 "New World"
Symphonies no. 2 & no. 7
Symphony no. 2 / Isle of the Dead
Symphony no. 2 / Violin Concerto
Symphony no. 9 "From the New World" / Carnival Overture / Cello Concerto
Credits
Saint-Saëns Organ Symphony - Ormandy - Biggs
Piano Concerto No. 3 / Piano Sonata No. 2
Symphony no. 3 “Organ” / Encores à la française
Carls Bedste
Holst: The Planets, Op. 32 / Walton: Façade
Symphonies nos. 4 & 10
Das Lied von der Erde / Rückert Lieder
Boléro / Rapsodie espagnole / Alborada del gracioso / Le Tombeau de Couperin / Valses nobles et sentimentales
Piano Concertos no. 1 & no. 2 / Totentanz / Hungarian Fantasy
Pini di Roma / Fontane di Roma / Feste romane
Rodrigo: Concierto de Aranjuez / Fantasia para un gentilhombre / Giuliani, Vivaldi: Guitar Concertos
Piano Concerto no. 5 “Emperor” / Triple Concerto
Piano Concertos nos. 1, 2 / Violin Concerto, op. 64
Symphony no. 9 “From the New World” / Serenade for Strings, op. 22
The Great Tone Poems
Violin Concerto / Cello Concerto
Ballet Music
Symphony no. 5 / Cello Concerto
Symphony no. 6 “Pathetique”
The Three Symphonies / Vocalise
Rachmaninoff Plays Rachmaninoff: Concertos no. 1 & 4 / Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini
Tchaikovsky: 1812 Overture / Beethoven: Wellington's Victory
Concierto de Aranjuez / Fantasía para un gentilhombre
Greatest Hits
Rachmaninoff Plays Rachmaninoff: Concertos 2 & 3
Symphony no. 2 / Valse triste / The Swan of Tuonela / Pohjola’s Daughter
Violin Concerto / Sérénade mélancolique
Bach’s Greatest Hits, Vol. 2
Greatest Hits
Great Orchestral Music from Tannhauser / Lohengrin / Die Walkurie / Die Meistersinger / Tristan und Isolde
Rachmaninoff's Greatest Hits
The Most Famous Chinese Concertos: The Butterfly Lovers / The Yellow River
David Bowie Narrates Prokofiev’s Peter and the Wolf
Strauss: Also Sprach Zarathustra
Requiem
Symphony no. 10
Violin Concertos
Swan Lake / The Sleeping Beauty: Suites From the Ballets
The Glorious Sound of Christmas
Carmina Burana
Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto in D major / Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto in E minor
Bolero / La Valse
La damoiselle élue / Piano Concerto for the Left Hand
100th Anniversary: Frederick Delius
1812 Overture
1812 Overture
1812 Overture * Capriccio Italien * Marche Slave * Francesca Da Rimini
1812 Overture / Romeo And Juliet
1812 Overture / Serenade For Strings
1812 Overture, Tchaikovsky
3й Концерт
4 Concertos For Diverse Solo Instruments
7 Guitar Concertos
A Bach Program
A Christmas Festival
A Concert Of Russian Music
Adventures In A Perambulator (Suite For Orchestra)
A Festival Of Marches
Afternoon Of A Faun
Afternoon Of A Faun / Daphnis And Chloe, No. 2 / La Mer