Eugene Ormandy & the Philadelphia Orchestra: The RCA Victor Recordings 1935-42

1931 was the breakthrough year for 32-year-old Hungarian immigrant Eugene Ormandy. First, he was engaged by the Philadelphia Orchestra to deputize for his idol Toscanini, who was briefly indisposed. Then, a few months later, he was asked to step in for the conductor of the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra, also indisposed - but in this case permanently. Soon Ormandy was hired to take over that rising Midwestern orchestra. At the end of his five-year tenure in Minneapolis, which produced a considerable discography for RCA Victor (available in an 11-CD Sony Classical box set), Ormandy was called back to Philadelphia, this time to become its co-conductor with Leopold Stokowski. In 1936, he began recording regularly for Victor with his new orchestra, picking up the pace in 1938 when he became its sole music director. Sony Classical is pleased to continue its comprehensive documentation of Eugene Ormandy's discography with a new 21-CD release of everything he set down in Philadelphia before the ban on commercial recording instigated by the musicians' union in 1942. By the time the strike ended in 1944, Ormandy and the orchestra had moved to Columbia Masterworks.

Conductor: Eugene Ormandy

Number of Discs: 21

Orchestra: The Philadelphia Orchestra

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