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In Memoriam - Ormandy

Tower Records Definition Serie  TDSA-23 (3 discs)

Stereo Hybrid

Classical - Orchestral

Strauss: Also sprach Zarathustra
Sibelius: Lemminkäinen Suite
Bartók: Miraculous Mandarin (suite); Music for Strings, Percussion & Celeste
Schubert: Wanderer Fantasy (orch. Liszt)
Hindemith: Symphonic Metamorphosis on a theme of Weber; Konzertmusik für Streichorchester und Blechbläser, Op. 50
Liszt: Fantasie über ungarische Volksmelodien, S. 123; Piano Concerto in the Hungarian Style (orch. Tchaikovsky)
Barber: Adagio for strings

Cyprien Katsaris (piano)
The Philadelphia Orchestra
Eugene Ormandy (conductor)

All

Works (11)

• Béla Bartók: Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta, Sz. 106 BB 114
• Béla Bartók: The Miraculous Mandarin, Sz. 73 BB 82 Op. 19 Suite
• Franz Liszt: Fantasia on Hungarian Folk Melodies, S. 123
• Franz Liszt: Piano Concerto, S. 714 'in the Hungarian Style'
• Franz Liszt: Schubert: Wanderer Fantasy, S. 366 'Grosse Fantasie'
• Franz Schubert: Fantasia in C major, D 760 'Wanderer'
• Jean Sibelius: Lemminkäinen Suite, Op. 22
• Paul Hindemith: Konzertmusik, Op. 50 for Brass and Strings
• Paul Hindemith: Symphonic Metamorphosis of Themes by Weber (1943)
• Richard Strauss: Also sprach Zarathustra, TrV 176
• Samuel Barber: Adagio for Strings, Op. 11a

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