Word: dimitry
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Schumann: Symphony No. 2, in C Major (Minneapolis Symphony conducted by Dimitri Mitropoulos; Columbia; 10 sides). Both the beauties and the weaknesses of this least-played of Robert Schumann's romantic symphonies take on masterpiece dimensions under the direction of the Minneapolitans' Greek conductor. In part this is due to the orchestral balance achieved by Mitropoulos, in part to his judicious editing of Schumann's instrumentation (a conductor's privilege...
...guests: Stokowski, Bruno Walter, Artur Rodzinski, Dimitri Mitropoulos, Sergei Koussevitzky, Walter Damrosch, Fritz Busch, Eugene Goossens...
Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 1 in D Major (Minneapolis Symphony conducted by Dimitri Mitropoulos; Columbia; 12 sides; $6.50). Composer Mahler, who died in 1911, was the last and least appreciated of the great Central European symphonists. His fledgling work, songful and ironic (in a jocular funeral march on the round Frere Jacques), gets a rousing first recording...
...John Barbirolli (the Philharmonic's contracted conductor), Boston's Serge Koussevitzky, Cincinnati's Eugene Goossens, Minneapolis' Dimitri Mitropoulos, German Exiles Bruno Walter and Fritz Busch, Cleveland's Artur Rodzinski, Philadelphia's Stokowski, Manhattan's Walter Damrosch...
Bach: Toccata and Fugue in C (Dimitri Mitropoulos and the Minneapolis Symphony; Columbia; 4 sides; $2.50). Fine first recording in orchestral form of one of Bach's great organ works...