Mahler – Symphony No.8 – Dimitri Mitropolous

Gustav Mahler (1860-1911):
Symphony No.8 in E flat major

Mimi Coertse - soprano
Hilde Zadek - soprano
Lucretia West - contralto
Ira Malaniuk - contralto
Giuseppe Zampieri - tenor
Hermann Prey - baritone
Otto Edelmann - bass
Konzertvereinigung Wiener Staatsopernchor
Wiener Singverein
Wiener Sängerknaben
Wiener Philharmoniker
Dimitri Mitropolous - conductor

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Mahler – Symphony No.3 – Dimitri Mitropoulos

Gustav Mahler (1860-1911):
Symphony No.3 in D minor for solo Contralto, Choir and Orchestra

Beatrice Krebs - contralto
The Westminster Choir
New York Philharmonic
Dimitri Mitropoulos - conductor

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Mendelssohn, Bruch, Saint-Saëns, Tchaikovsky, Prokofiev – Violin Concertos – Francescatti

remembering Zino Francescatti on the anniversary of his death

(August 9, 1902 - September 17, 1991) 

CD 1:
Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1809-1847):
Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in E minor, op.64
Max Bruch (1838-1920):
Concerto No.1 for Violin and Orchestra in G minor, op.26
Camille Saint-Saëns (1835-1921):
Concerto No.3 for Violin and Orchestra in B minor, op.61

CD 2:
Piotr Ilitch Tchaikovsky (1840-1893):
Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in D major, op.35
Serguei Prokofiev (1891-1953):
Concerto No.2 for Violin and Orchestra in G minor, op.63
Ernest Chausson (1855-1899):
Poème for Violin and Orchestra, op.25 *

Zino Francescatti - violin
New York Philharmonic
Philadelphia Orchestra *
Dimitri Mitropoulos - conductor
Eugene Ormandy - conductor *

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Schoenberg – Violin Concerto; Prokofiev – Symphony No.5 – Mitropoulos

Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951):

Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, op.36

Serguei Prokofiev (1891-1953):

Symphony No.5 in B flat major, op.100

Louis Krasner - violin

Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks

Dimitri Mitropoulos - conductor

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