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Dimitri Mitropoulos conducts New York Philharmonic in rehearsal and concert
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- Duration: 9:37
- Updated: 29 Apr 2013
Best conductor of all era... List: Faust (third movement)
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Dimitri Mitropoulos Greek Sonata 1920 part 1
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- Duration: 14:07
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Dimitri Mitropoulos Greek Sonata (1920) part 1 1. Allegro non troppo (ma con passion) 13'58 piano Charis Dimaras www.iridaclassical.com.
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Dimitri Mitropoulos Greek Sonata (1920) part 1 1. Allegro non troppo (ma con passion) 13'58 piano Charis Dimaras www.iridaclassical.com.
- published: 18 Nov 2011
- views: 1658
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Touring with Dimitri Mitropoulos
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- Duration: 2:04
- Updated: 03 Apr 2013
Philharmonic percussionist Elden "Buster" Bailey filmed home movies of the Orchestra and its Music Director on its 1958 South American tour.
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Philharmonic percussionist Elden "Buster" Bailey filmed home movies of the Orchestra and its Music Director on its 1958 South American tour.
- published: 22 Oct 2010
- views: 3452
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Dimitri Mitropoulos and the N.Y Philarmonic-La forza del destino/ in Greece 1955
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- Duration: 9:00
- Updated: 04 May 2013
Recording of the concert given in Athens by the New York Philharmonic under the direction of Dimimti Mitropoulos (1st Athens Festival/Orpheus hall) in Octobe...
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Recording of the concert given in Athens by the New York Philharmonic under the direction of Dimimti Mitropoulos (1st Athens Festival/Orpheus hall) in Octobe...
- published: 07 Sep 2011
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Overture - Forza del destino - Dimitri Mitropoulos
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- Duration: 7:40
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Dimitri Mitropoulos overture de "la forza del destino" di Verdi "the force of destiny" Firenze 1953.
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Dimitri Mitropoulos overture de "la forza del destino" di Verdi "the force of destiny" Firenze 1953.
- published: 10 Jun 2008
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- author: Alexpasini93
DIMITRI MITROPOULOS "Funeral-March" Götterdämmerung
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- Duration: 6:03
- Updated: 01 Apr 2013
Dimitri Mitropoulos conducts the Funeral-March from Götterdämmerung by Richard Wagner New York Philharmonic Orchestra New York 30.X.1955.
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Dimitri Mitropoulos conducts the Funeral-March from Götterdämmerung by Richard Wagner New York Philharmonic Orchestra New York 30.X.1955.
- published: 01 Dec 2010
- views: 5135
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Dimitri Mitropoulos "Overture Coriolan" Beethoven
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- Duration: 7:53
- Updated: 26 Apr 2013
Overture Coriolan, op. 62 by Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra Dimitri Mitropoulos, conductor 10.I.1940.
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Overture Coriolan, op. 62 by Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra Dimitri Mitropoulos, conductor 10.I.1940.
- published: 18 Mar 2011
- views: 1252
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Dimitri Mitropoulos, 1947 - Rackmaninov, Symphony No. 2 in E minor, Op. 27
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- Duration: 44:26
- Updated: 01 Nov 2012
Sergei Rachmaninov (Rachmaninoff) Серге́й Васи́льевич Рахма́нинов Symphony No. 2 in E minor, Op. 27 1.Largo — Allegro moderato 2.Allegro molto 3.Adagio 4.All...
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Sergei Rachmaninov (Rachmaninoff) Серге́й Васи́льевич Рахма́нинов Symphony No. 2 in E minor, Op. 27 1.Largo — Allegro moderato 2.Allegro molto 3.Adagio 4.All...
- published: 26 Aug 2012
- views: 528
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Dmitri Shostakovich: Symphony No.5 Op.47 (1937)/ Mitropoulos
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- Duration: 45:19
- Updated: 02 May 2013
Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975): Sinfonia n.5 op.47 (1937) -- Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra of New York diretta da Dimitri Mitropoulos -- I. Moderato II. A...
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Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975): Sinfonia n.5 op.47 (1937) -- Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra of New York diretta da Dimitri Mitropoulos -- I. Moderato II. A...
- published: 13 Feb 2012
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Myra Hess & Dimitri Mitropoulos - Brahms Concerto 1 in D minor Op. 15
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- Duration: 47:41
- Updated: 02 May 2013
1. Maestoso 2. Adagio 3. Rondò - Allegro non troppo New York Philharmonic Orchestra rec. 1955.
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1. Maestoso 2. Adagio 3. Rondò - Allegro non troppo New York Philharmonic Orchestra rec. 1955.
- published: 29 Jun 2012
- views: 1145
- author: gullivior
Dimitri Mitropoulos plays Piano & conducts Prokofiev Piano Concerto no.3 3mov.wmv
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- Duration: 8:34
- Updated: 12 Apr 2013
3mov.Allegro ma non troppo piano: Dimitri Mitropoulos orch: The RobinHood Dell Orchestra of Pholadelphia date:26.6.1946.
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3mov.Allegro ma non troppo piano: Dimitri Mitropoulos orch: The RobinHood Dell Orchestra of Pholadelphia date:26.6.1946.
- published: 07 Feb 2010
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Tchaikovsky / Dimitri Mitropoulos, 1957: Славянский марш - Marche Slave, Op. 31 - NYPO
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- Duration: 9:52
- Updated: 21 Apr 2013
Recorded November 11, 1957 at the St. George Hotel in Brooklyn, New York. From the LP you see above, issued by Columbia in 1959. Mitropoulos was 61 years old...
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Recorded November 11, 1957 at the St. George Hotel in Brooklyn, New York. From the LP you see above, issued by Columbia in 1959. Mitropoulos was 61 years old...
- published: 05 Jun 2011
- views: 2435
- author: davidhertzberg
DIMITRI MITROPOULOS--DON GIOVANNI OVERTURE--MOZART
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- Duration: 6:17
- Updated: 29 Apr 2013
Mozart, Don Giovanni, Overture, Salzburg Festspiel 24 Juillet 1956.Live.
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Mozart, Don Giovanni, Overture, Salzburg Festspiel 24 Juillet 1956.Live.
- published: 31 Dec 2009
- views: 6525
- author: jacquesurlus
Prokofiev / Dimitri Mitropoulos, Piano, 1951: Piano Concerto No. 3 in C major, Op. 26 - Complete
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- Duration: 25:25
- Updated: 02 May 2013
Dimitri Mitropoulos is soloist and conductor in this performance. From the LP shown above, issued in 1951 on the Columbia Masterworks label, catalogue number...
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Dimitri Mitropoulos is soloist and conductor in this performance. From the LP shown above, issued in 1951 on the Columbia Masterworks label, catalogue number...
- published: 09 Nov 2012
- views: 425
- author: davidhertzberg
DIMITRI MITROPOULOS " Intermezzo" Manon Lescaut
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- Duration: 5:31
- Updated: 26 Apr 2013
Dimitri Mitropoulos conducts the wonderful"Intermezzo" from Manon Lescaut by Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924) Orchestra of the Metropolitan Opera House New York, ...
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Dimitri Mitropoulos conducts the wonderful"Intermezzo" from Manon Lescaut by Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924) Orchestra of the Metropolitan Opera House New York, ...
- published: 18 Oct 2010
- views: 3157
- author: Addiobelpassato
Dimitri Mitropoulos "Symphony No 6" Mahler (1. Mov.)
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- Duration: 18:51
- Updated: 01 Nov 2012
Symphony No 6 in A minor by Gustav Mahler 1. Movement "Allegro energico" Kölner Rundfunk - Sinfonieorchester Dimitri Mitropoulos, conductor Köln, 1959.
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Symphony No 6 in A minor by Gustav Mahler 1. Movement "Allegro energico" Kölner Rundfunk - Sinfonieorchester Dimitri Mitropoulos, conductor Köln, 1959.
- published: 01 Jun 2012
- views: 171
- author: Addiobelpassato
Dimitri Mitropoulos "The Sorcerer`s Apprentice" Dukas
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- Duration: 9:43
- Updated: 07 Apr 2013
The Sorcerer`s Apprentice by Paul Dukas (1865-1935) Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra Dimitri Mitropoulos, conductor 03.XII.1940.
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The Sorcerer`s Apprentice by Paul Dukas (1865-1935) Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra Dimitri Mitropoulos, conductor 03.XII.1940.
- published: 18 Mar 2011
- views: 516
- author: Addiobelpassato
Dimitri Mitropoulos "Symphony No 3 " Mendelssohn (1. Mov.)
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- Duration: 12:08
- Updated: 20 Apr 2013
Symphony No 3 in A minor Op 56 "Scottish" by Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy 1. Movement "Introduzione (Andante con moto) Allegro un poco agitato" Kölner Rundfun...
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Symphony No 3 in A minor Op 56 "Scottish" by Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy 1. Movement "Introduzione (Andante con moto) Allegro un poco agitato" Kölner Rundfun...
- published: 10 Aug 2011
- views: 1058
- author: Addiobelpassato
Dimitri Mitropoulos "Overture Leonore III " Beethoven
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- Duration: 13:28
- Updated: 29 Mar 2013
Overture Leonore III, op. 72a by Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra Dimitri Mitropoulos, conductor 10.I.1940.
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Overture Leonore III, op. 72a by Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra Dimitri Mitropoulos, conductor 10.I.1940.
- published: 18 Mar 2011
- views: 408
- author: Addiobelpassato
Dimitri Mitropoulos "Symphonic Elegy" Krenek
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- Duration: 15:23
- Updated: 11 Jan 2013
"Symphonic Elegy for Strings", in Memoriam of Anton Webern by Ernst Krenek New York Philharmonic Dimitri Mitropoulos, conductor 1951.
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"Symphonic Elegy for Strings", in Memoriam of Anton Webern by Ernst Krenek New York Philharmonic Dimitri Mitropoulos, conductor 1951.
- published: 01 Jan 2012
- views: 1094
- author: gioiellidellamusica
Dimitri Mitropoulos Greek Sonata 1920 part 4
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- Duration: 12:15
- Updated: 17 Apr 2013
Dimitri Mitropoulos Greek Sonata (1920) part 4 4. Maestoso -- Allegro (non troppo) 12'01 www.iridaclassical.com piano Charis Dimaras.
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Dimitri Mitropoulos Greek Sonata (1920) part 4 4. Maestoso -- Allegro (non troppo) 12'01 www.iridaclassical.com piano Charis Dimaras.
- published: 18 Nov 2011
- views: 498
- author: tiestiousia
Dimitri Mitropoulos, 1958 (Live) Richard Strauss, Salome, Inge Borkh
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- Duration: 92:48
- Updated: 25 Mar 2013
Richard Strauss Salome Salome - Inge Borkh Jochanaan - Mack Harrell Herodes - Ramón Vinay Herodias - Blanche Thebom Narraboth - Giulio Gari Ein Page - Margar...
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Richard Strauss Salome Salome - Inge Borkh Jochanaan - Mack Harrell Herodes - Ramón Vinay Herodias - Blanche Thebom Narraboth - Giulio Gari Ein Page - Margar...
- published: 20 Aug 2012
- views: 522
- author: jacquesurlus
Dimitri Mitropoulos Greek Sonata 1920 part 2
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- Duration: 10:30
- Updated: 13 Jan 2013
Dimitri Mitropoulos Greek Sonata (1920) part 2 2.Allegretto -- Presto 10'27 www.iridaclassical.com.
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Dimitri Mitropoulos Greek Sonata (1920) part 2 2.Allegretto -- Presto 10'27 www.iridaclassical.com.
- published: 18 Nov 2011
- views: 694
- author: tiestiousia
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Glenn Gould & Dmitri Mitropoulos, live Bach D minor Concerto (1958) 3/3.
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- Duration: 7:00
- Updated: 25 Mar 2013
3rd movement. Reuploaded with improved audio quality. My favorite performance of this masterwork. With Dmitri Mitropoulos and Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra.
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3rd movement. Reuploaded with improved audio quality. My favorite performance of this masterwork. With Dmitri Mitropoulos and Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra.
- published: 07 Jul 2011
- views: 1774
- author: micheldvorsky
Mitropoulos - 1960 (Live) Mahler, Symphony No. 5
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- Duration: 69:26
- Updated: 12 Apr 2013
Gustav Mahler Symphony No. 5 I: Trauermarsch (Funeral March). In gemessenem Schritt. Streng. Wie ein Kondukt II: Stürmisch bewegt, mit größter Vehemenz (Movi...
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Gustav Mahler Symphony No. 5 I: Trauermarsch (Funeral March). In gemessenem Schritt. Streng. Wie ein Kondukt II: Stürmisch bewegt, mit größter Vehemenz (Movi...
- published: 28 Feb 2012
- views: 3855
- author: jacquesurlus
Dimitri Mitropoulos, 1958 (Live) Richard Strauss, Salome, Inge Borkh
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- Duration: 92:48
- Updated: 25 Mar 2013
Richard Strauss Salome Salome - Inge Borkh Jochanaan - Mack Harrell Herodes - Ramón Vinay Herodias - Blanche Thebom Narraboth - Giulio Gari Ein Page - Margar...
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Richard Strauss Salome Salome - Inge Borkh Jochanaan - Mack Harrell Herodes - Ramón Vinay Herodias - Blanche Thebom Narraboth - Giulio Gari Ein Page - Margar...
- published: 20 Aug 2012
- views: 522
- author: jacquesurlus
Jussi Björling | Grieg: Jeg elsker dig - with Dimitri Mitropoulos (live 1945)
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- Duration: 2:55
- Updated: 27 Apr 2013
Grieg: Jeg elsker deg (dig) Jussi Björling, Dimitri Mitropoulos Recorded in October 1945 (Broadcast, USA) My apologies for the poor sound. This comes from an...
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Grieg: Jeg elsker deg (dig) Jussi Björling, Dimitri Mitropoulos Recorded in October 1945 (Broadcast, USA) My apologies for the poor sound. This comes from an...
- published: 25 Feb 2013
- views: 537
- author: AfroPoli
Dimitri Mitropoulos, 1953 (Live) Brahms, Symphony no 3 in F major op. 90
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- Duration: 32:44
- Updated: 15 Aug 2012
Johannes Brahms Symphony no 3 in F major op. 90 I: Allegro con brio II: Andante III: Poco Allegretto IV: Allegro Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino Dim...
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Johannes Brahms Symphony no 3 in F major op. 90 I: Allegro con brio II: Andante III: Poco Allegretto IV: Allegro Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino Dim...
- published: 01 Apr 2012
- views: 256
- author: jacquesurlus
Dimitri Mitropoulos plays Piano & conducts Prokofiev Piano Concerto no.3 3mov.wmv
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- Duration: 8:34
- Updated: 12 Apr 2013
3mov.Allegro ma non troppo piano: Dimitri Mitropoulos orch: The RobinHood Dell Orchestra of Pholadelphia date:26.6.1946.
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3mov.Allegro ma non troppo piano: Dimitri Mitropoulos orch: The RobinHood Dell Orchestra of Pholadelphia date:26.6.1946.
- published: 07 Feb 2010
- views: 4331
- author: hiro nyanko
11 INTERMEZZO I PAGLIACCI LIVE 1959Mario Del Monaco,Lucine Amara,Dimitri Mitropoulos
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- Duration: 3:20
- Updated: 14 Apr 2013
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DIMITRIS MiTROPOULOS Brahms piano concerto 1 MVM 2 Live recording New York April 12 1953
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- Duration: 15:01
- Updated: 29 Apr 2013
DIMITRIS MITROPOULOS 1896-1960 GREAT INTERNATIONA HELLEN CONDUCTOR . Live recording New York April 12 1953. William Kapell on piano.
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DIMITRIS MITROPOULOS 1896-1960 GREAT INTERNATIONA HELLEN CONDUCTOR . Live recording New York April 12 1953. William Kapell on piano.
- published: 23 Dec 2010
- views: 1913
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Mitropoulos - 1959 (Live) Mahler, Symphony No. 6 in A minor "Tragic"
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- Duration: 74:20
- Updated: 27 Apr 2013
Gustav Mahler Symphony No. 6 in A minor "Tragic" I: Allegro energico, ma non troppo. Heftig, aber markig II: Scherzo. Wuchtig III: Andante moderato IV: Final...
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Gustav Mahler Symphony No. 6 in A minor "Tragic" I: Allegro energico, ma non troppo. Heftig, aber markig II: Scherzo. Wuchtig III: Andante moderato IV: Final...
- published: 29 Feb 2012
- views: 2450
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Touring with Dimitri Mitropoulos
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- Duration: 2:04
- Updated: 03 Apr 2013
Philharmonic percussionist Elden "Buster" Bailey filmed home movies of the Orchestra and its Music Director on its 1958 South American tour.
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Philharmonic percussionist Elden "Buster" Bailey filmed home movies of the Orchestra and its Music Director on its 1958 South American tour.
- published: 22 Oct 2010
- views: 3452
- author: NewYorkPhilharmonic
Dimitri Mitropoulos "Overture Leonore III " Beethoven
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- Duration: 13:28
- Updated: 29 Mar 2013
Overture Leonore III, op. 72a by Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra Dimitri Mitropoulos, conductor 10.I.1940.
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Overture Leonore III, op. 72a by Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra Dimitri Mitropoulos, conductor 10.I.1940.
- published: 18 Mar 2011
- views: 408
- author: Addiobelpassato
DIMITRI MITROPOULOS " Intermezzo" Manon Lescaut
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- Duration: 5:31
- Updated: 26 Apr 2013
Dimitri Mitropoulos conducts the wonderful"Intermezzo" from Manon Lescaut by Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924) Orchestra of the Metropolitan Opera House New York, ...
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Dimitri Mitropoulos conducts the wonderful"Intermezzo" from Manon Lescaut by Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924) Orchestra of the Metropolitan Opera House New York, ...
- published: 18 Oct 2010
- views: 3157
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DIMITRI MITROPOULOS - OSTINATA IN TRE PARTI - LIVE - VIOLIN & PIANO
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- Duration: 12:35
- Updated: 05 Apr 2013
Spyros Gikontis, violin Christos Sakellaridis, piano.
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Spyros Gikontis, violin Christos Sakellaridis, piano.
- published: 24 Dec 2012
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- author: Spyros Gikontis
Tchaikovsky / Dimitri Mitropoulos, 1957: Славянский марш - Marche Slave, Op. 31 - NYPO
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- Duration: 9:52
- Updated: 21 Apr 2013
Recorded November 11, 1957 at the St. George Hotel in Brooklyn, New York. From the LP you see above, issued by Columbia in 1959. Mitropoulos was 61 years old...
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Recorded November 11, 1957 at the St. George Hotel in Brooklyn, New York. From the LP you see above, issued by Columbia in 1959. Mitropoulos was 61 years old...
- published: 05 Jun 2011
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1a Brahms piano concerto no 2 LIVE 1952 ,Dimitri Mitropoulos & New York Philarmonic orch R Casadesus on piano'allegro non troppo'part 1
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- Duration: 8:09
- Updated: 03 Oct 2012
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Mitropoulos - 1960 (Live) Mahler, Symphony No. 9 in D major
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- Duration: 80:12
- Updated: 25 Apr 2013
Gustav Mahler Symphony No. 9 in D major I: Andante comodo II: Im Tempo eines gemächlichen Ländlers. Etwas täppisch und sehr derb III: Rondo-Burleske: Allegro...
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Gustav Mahler Symphony No. 9 in D major I: Andante comodo II: Im Tempo eines gemächlichen Ländlers. Etwas täppisch und sehr derb III: Rondo-Burleske: Allegro...
- published: 29 Feb 2012
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DIMITRI MITROPOULOS - UN MORCEAU DE CONCERT- LIVE
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- Duration: 10:35
- Updated: 04 Jan 2013
Spyros Gikontis, violin Christos Sakellaridis, piano.
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Spyros Gikontis, violin Christos Sakellaridis, piano.
- published: 23 Dec 2012
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Intermezzo Cavalleria Rusticana - MITROPOULOS Met 1960
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- Duration: 4:04
- Updated: 07 Mar 2013
Ah quei violini!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Mitropoulos, 1949, Artrid Varnay - Strauss, Elektra
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- Duration: 91:20
- Updated: 28 Apr 2013
Richard Strauss Elektra ASTRID VARNAY - Elektra ELENA NICOLAIDI - Klytemnestra IRENE JASSNEER - Chryusothemis FREDERICK JAGEL - Aegisthos HERBERT JANSSEN - O...
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Richard Strauss Elektra ASTRID VARNAY - Elektra ELENA NICOLAIDI - Klytemnestra IRENE JASSNEER - Chryusothemis FREDERICK JAGEL - Aegisthos HERBERT JANSSEN - O...
- published: 07 Apr 2012
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Dimitri Mitropoulos, 1947 - Rackmaninov, Symphony No. 2 in E minor, Op. 27
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- Duration: 44:26
- Updated: 01 Nov 2012
Sergei Rachmaninov (Rachmaninoff) Серге́й Васи́льевич Рахма́нинов Symphony No. 2 in E minor, Op. 27 1.Largo — Allegro moderato 2.Allegro molto 3.Adagio 4.All...
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Sergei Rachmaninov (Rachmaninoff) Серге́й Васи́льевич Рахма́нинов Symphony No. 2 in E minor, Op. 27 1.Largo — Allegro moderato 2.Allegro molto 3.Adagio 4.All...
- published: 26 Aug 2012
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DIMITRI MITROPOULOS "Funeral-March" Götterdämmerung
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- Duration: 6:03
- Updated: 01 Apr 2013
Dimitri Mitropoulos conducts the Funeral-March from Götterdämmerung by Richard Wagner New York Philharmonic Orchestra New York 30.X.1955.
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Dimitri Mitropoulos conducts the Funeral-March from Götterdämmerung by Richard Wagner New York Philharmonic Orchestra New York 30.X.1955.
- published: 01 Dec 2010
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Dimitri Mitropoulos "Overture" La Forza del Destino
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- Duration: 7:28
- Updated: 04 Apr 2013
Overture to La Forza del Destino by Giuseppe Verdi Orchester der Wiener Staatsoper Dimitri Mitropoulos, conductor Wien, 23.IX.1960.
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Overture to La Forza del Destino by Giuseppe Verdi Orchester der Wiener Staatsoper Dimitri Mitropoulos, conductor Wien, 23.IX.1960.
- published: 29 Jan 2012
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Dimitri Mitropoulos "Overture Coriolan" Beethoven
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- Duration: 7:53
- Updated: 26 Apr 2013
Overture Coriolan, op. 62 by Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra Dimitri Mitropoulos, conductor 10.I.1940.
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Overture Coriolan, op. 62 by Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra Dimitri Mitropoulos, conductor 10.I.1940.
- published: 18 Mar 2011
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Dimitri Mitropoulos, 1947 - Rackmaninov, Symphony No. 2 in E minor, Op. 27
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- Duration: 44:26
- Updated: 01 Nov 2012
Sergei Rachmaninov (Rachmaninoff) Серге́й Васи́льевич Рахма́нинов Symphony No. 2 in E minor, Op. 27 1.Largo — Allegro moderato 2.Allegro molto 3.Adagio 4.All...
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Sergei Rachmaninov (Rachmaninoff) Серге́й Васи́льевич Рахма́нинов Symphony No. 2 in E minor, Op. 27 1.Largo — Allegro moderato 2.Allegro molto 3.Adagio 4.All...
- published: 26 Aug 2012
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Dmitri Shostakovich: Symphony No.5 Op.47 (1937)/ Mitropoulos
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- Duration: 45:19
- Updated: 02 May 2013
Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975): Sinfonia n.5 op.47 (1937) -- Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra of New York diretta da Dimitri Mitropoulos -- I. Moderato II. A...
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Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975): Sinfonia n.5 op.47 (1937) -- Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra of New York diretta da Dimitri Mitropoulos -- I. Moderato II. A...
- published: 13 Feb 2012
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Myra Hess & Dimitri Mitropoulos - Brahms Concerto 1 in D minor Op. 15
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- Duration: 47:41
- Updated: 02 May 2013
1. Maestoso 2. Adagio 3. Rondò - Allegro non troppo New York Philharmonic Orchestra rec. 1955.
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1. Maestoso 2. Adagio 3. Rondò - Allegro non troppo New York Philharmonic Orchestra rec. 1955.
- published: 29 Jun 2012
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Prokofiev / Dimitri Mitropoulos, Piano, 1951: Piano Concerto No. 3 in C major, Op. 26 - Complete
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- Duration: 25:25
- Updated: 02 May 2013
Dimitri Mitropoulos is soloist and conductor in this performance. From the LP shown above, issued in 1951 on the Columbia Masterworks label, catalogue number...
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Dimitri Mitropoulos is soloist and conductor in this performance. From the LP shown above, issued in 1951 on the Columbia Masterworks label, catalogue number...
- published: 09 Nov 2012
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Dimitri Mitropoulos, 1958 (Live) Richard Strauss, Salome, Inge Borkh
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- Duration: 92:48
- Updated: 25 Mar 2013
Richard Strauss Salome Salome - Inge Borkh Jochanaan - Mack Harrell Herodes - Ramón Vinay Herodias - Blanche Thebom Narraboth - Giulio Gari Ein Page - Margar...
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Richard Strauss Salome Salome - Inge Borkh Jochanaan - Mack Harrell Herodes - Ramón Vinay Herodias - Blanche Thebom Narraboth - Giulio Gari Ein Page - Margar...
- published: 20 Aug 2012
- views: 522
- author: jacquesurlus
Mitropoulos, 1949, Artrid Varnay - Strauss, Elektra
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- Duration: 91:20
- Updated: 28 Apr 2013
Richard Strauss Elektra ASTRID VARNAY - Elektra ELENA NICOLAIDI - Klytemnestra IRENE JASSNEER - Chryusothemis FREDERICK JAGEL - Aegisthos HERBERT JANSSEN - O...
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Richard Strauss Elektra ASTRID VARNAY - Elektra ELENA NICOLAIDI - Klytemnestra IRENE JASSNEER - Chryusothemis FREDERICK JAGEL - Aegisthos HERBERT JANSSEN - O...
- published: 07 Apr 2012
- views: 844
- author: jacquesurlus
Dimitri Mitropoulos, 1953 (Live) Brahms, Symphony no 3 in F major op. 90
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- Duration: 32:44
- Updated: 15 Aug 2012
Johannes Brahms Symphony no 3 in F major op. 90 I: Allegro con brio II: Andante III: Poco Allegretto IV: Allegro Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino Dim...
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Johannes Brahms Symphony no 3 in F major op. 90 I: Allegro con brio II: Andante III: Poco Allegretto IV: Allegro Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino Dim...
- published: 01 Apr 2012
- views: 256
- author: jacquesurlus
Mitropoulos - 1960 (Live) Mahler, Symphony No. 5
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- Duration: 69:26
- Updated: 12 Apr 2013
Gustav Mahler Symphony No. 5 I: Trauermarsch (Funeral March). In gemessenem Schritt. Streng. Wie ein Kondukt II: Stürmisch bewegt, mit größter Vehemenz (Movi...
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Gustav Mahler Symphony No. 5 I: Trauermarsch (Funeral March). In gemessenem Schritt. Streng. Wie ein Kondukt II: Stürmisch bewegt, mit größter Vehemenz (Movi...
- published: 28 Feb 2012
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Mahler "Symphony No 3" Dimitri Mitropoulos (1. Mov.)
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- Duration: 34:38
- Updated: 01 Feb 2013
Symphony No 3 in D minor by Gustav Mahler 1. Movement "Kräftig. Entschieden" Kölner Rundfunk - Sinfonie - Orchester Dimitri Mitropoulos, conductor Köln, 31.X...
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Symphony No 3 in D minor by Gustav Mahler 1. Movement "Kräftig. Entschieden" Kölner Rundfunk - Sinfonie - Orchester Dimitri Mitropoulos, conductor Köln, 31.X...
- published: 31 Jan 2013
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Mahler "Symphony No 3" Dimitri Mitropoulos (6. Mov.)
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- Duration: 20:59
- Updated: 01 Mar 2013
Symphony No 3 in D minor by Gustav Mahler 6. Movement "Langsam. Ruhevoll. Empfunden" Kölner Rundfunk - Sinfonie - Orchester Dimitri Mitropoulos, conductor Kö...
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Symphony No 3 in D minor by Gustav Mahler 6. Movement "Langsam. Ruhevoll. Empfunden" Kölner Rundfunk - Sinfonie - Orchester Dimitri Mitropoulos, conductor Kö...
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Mitropoulos - 1960 (Live) Mahler, Symphony No. 9 in D major
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- Duration: 80:12
- Updated: 25 Apr 2013
Gustav Mahler Symphony No. 9 in D major I: Andante comodo II: Im Tempo eines gemächlichen Ländlers. Etwas täppisch und sehr derb III: Rondo-Burleske: Allegro...
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Gustav Mahler Symphony No. 9 in D major I: Andante comodo II: Im Tempo eines gemächlichen Ländlers. Etwas täppisch und sehr derb III: Rondo-Burleske: Allegro...
- published: 29 Feb 2012
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Dimitri Mitropoulos "Symphony No 6" Mahler (4. Mov.)
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- Duration: 29:31
- Updated: 08 Aug 2012
Symphony No 6 in A minor by Gustav Mahler 4. Movement "Finale. Allegro moderato" Kölner Rundfunk - Sinfonieorchester Dimitri Mitropoulos, conductor Köln, 1959.
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Symphony No 6 in A minor by Gustav Mahler 4. Movement "Finale. Allegro moderato" Kölner Rundfunk - Sinfonieorchester Dimitri Mitropoulos, conductor Köln, 1959.
- published: 01 Jun 2012
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Mitropoulos - 1959 (Live) Mahler, Symphony No. 6 in A minor "Tragic"
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- Duration: 74:20
- Updated: 27 Apr 2013
Gustav Mahler Symphony No. 6 in A minor "Tragic" I: Allegro energico, ma non troppo. Heftig, aber markig II: Scherzo. Wuchtig III: Andante moderato IV: Final...
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Gustav Mahler Symphony No. 6 in A minor "Tragic" I: Allegro energico, ma non troppo. Heftig, aber markig II: Scherzo. Wuchtig III: Andante moderato IV: Final...
- published: 29 Feb 2012
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Dimitri Mitropoulos "Chopiniana" Rogal-Lewitzky
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- Duration: 23:02
- Updated: 27 Feb 2013
"Chopiniana" arranged by Dimitri Rogal-Lewitzky Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra Dimitri Mitropoulos, conductor o2.IX.1945.
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"Chopiniana" arranged by Dimitri Rogal-Lewitzky Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra Dimitri Mitropoulos, conductor o2.IX.1945.
- published: 27 Jan 2013
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Dimitri Mitropoulos Borodin & Mahler I & III .wmv
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- Duration: 152:56
- Updated: 24 Apr 2013
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Richard Tucker - Eugene Onegin - Complete in English
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- Duration: 92:47
- Updated: 18 Apr 2013
Richard Tucker - Eugene Onegin - Complete in English Onegin Frank Guarrera Tatyana Lucine Amara Lenski Richard Tucker Olga Rosalind Elias Madame Larina Marth...
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Richard Tucker - Eugene Onegin - Complete in English Onegin Frank Guarrera Tatyana Lucine Amara Lenski Richard Tucker Olga Rosalind Elias Madame Larina Marth...
- published: 21 Jul 2012
- views: 498
- author: Nico35
Dimitri Mitropoulos "Erwartung" Schoenberg
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- Duration: 27:53
- Updated: 22 Mar 2013
"Erwartung" from Arnold Schoenberg Dorothy Dow, soprano New York Philharmonic Dimitri Mitropoulos, conductor 1951 Time: Night Place: A forest A woman is in a...
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"Erwartung" from Arnold Schoenberg Dorothy Dow, soprano New York Philharmonic Dimitri Mitropoulos, conductor 1951 Time: Night Place: A forest A woman is in a...
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Mitropoulos - 1949 (Live) Beethoven, Symphony No. 3 in E flat major, Op. 55 "Eroica"
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- Duration: 43:58
- Updated: 24 Apr 2013
Ludwig van Beethoven Symphony No. 3 in E flat major, Op. 55 "Eroica" I - Allegro con brio II - Marcia funebre : Adagio assai III - Scherzo : Allegro vivace -...
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Ludwig van Beethoven Symphony No. 3 in E flat major, Op. 55 "Eroica" I - Allegro con brio II - Marcia funebre : Adagio assai III - Scherzo : Allegro vivace -...
- published: 19 Feb 2012
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Rachmaninoff : Isle of the Dead Op. 29
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- Duration: 20:14
- Updated: 15 Apr 2013
Sergei Rachmaninoff : Isle of the Dead Op. 29 Dimitris Mitropoulos (Conductor) Minnesota Orchestra (Rec.1945) Public Domain For other uses, see Isle of the D...
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Sergei Rachmaninoff : Isle of the Dead Op. 29 Dimitris Mitropoulos (Conductor) Minnesota Orchestra (Rec.1945) Public Domain For other uses, see Isle of the D...
- published: 26 Jul 2012
- views: 589
- author: RichardHilo
Shostakovich Violin Concerto No. 1 A minor Oistrakh Mitropoulos NY Philharmonic
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- Duration: 36:33
- Updated: 03 May 2013
Shostakovich Violin Concerto No. 1 A minor Oistrakh Mitropoulos New York Philharmonic.
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Shostakovich Violin Concerto No. 1 A minor Oistrakh Mitropoulos New York Philharmonic.
- published: 21 Apr 2012
- views: 8358
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Mendelssohn's "Scottish" Symphony (Mitropoulos, 1941)
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- Duration: 32:33
- Updated: 31 Mar 2013
Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 3 in A Minor, Op. 56 ("Scottish") Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra Dimitri Mitropoulos, conductor Recorded December 6, 1941, in North...
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Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 3 in A Minor, Op. 56 ("Scottish") Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra Dimitri Mitropoulos, conductor Recorded December 6, 1941, in North...
- published: 01 Mar 2013
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Shostakovich: Tenth Symphony (Mitropoulos, 1954)
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- Duration: 48:36
- Updated: 16 Apr 2013
Shostakovich: Symphony No. 10 in E Minor, Op. 93 Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra of New York Dimitri Mitropoulos, conductor Recorded October 18, 1954, in Col...
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Shostakovich: Symphony No. 10 in E Minor, Op. 93 Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra of New York Dimitri Mitropoulos, conductor Recorded October 18, 1954, in Col...
- published: 06 Jul 2012
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Brahms - Symphony n°2 - NYP / Mitropoulos
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- Duration: 36:27
- Updated: 03 Apr 2013
Johannes Brahms Symphony n°2 op.73 I. Allegro non troppo 0:00 II. Adagio non troppo 13:50 III. Allegretto grazioso 22:28 IV. Allegro con spirito 27:55 New Yo...
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Johannes Brahms Symphony n°2 op.73 I. Allegro non troppo 0:00 II. Adagio non troppo 13:50 III. Allegretto grazioso 22:28 IV. Allegro con spirito 27:55 New Yo...
- published: 12 Dec 2012
- views: 117
- author: incontrario motu
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Dimitri Mitropoulos conducts New York Philharmonic in rehearsal and concert
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- Duration: 9:37
- Updated: 29 Apr 2013
Best conductor of all era... List: Faust (third movement)
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Best conductor of all era... List: Faust (third movement)
- published: 03 Sep 2009
- views: 37306
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Dimitri Mitropoulos Greek Sonata 1920 part 1
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- Duration: 14:07
- Updated: 15 Apr 2013
Dimitri Mitropoulos Greek Sonata (1920) part 1 1. Allegro non troppo (ma con passion) 13'58 piano Charis Dimaras www.iridaclassical.com.
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Dimitri Mitropoulos Greek Sonata (1920) part 1 1. Allegro non troppo (ma con passion) 13'58 piano Charis Dimaras www.iridaclassical.com.
- published: 18 Nov 2011
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Touring with Dimitri Mitropoulos
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- Duration: 2:04
- Updated: 03 Apr 2013
Philharmonic percussionist Elden "Buster" Bailey filmed home movies of the Orchestra and its Music Director on its 1958 South American tour.
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Philharmonic percussionist Elden "Buster" Bailey filmed home movies of the Orchestra and its Music Director on its 1958 South American tour.
- published: 22 Oct 2010
- views: 3452
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Dimitri Mitropoulos and the N.Y Philarmonic-La forza del destino/ in Greece 1955
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- Duration: 9:00
- Updated: 04 May 2013
Recording of the concert given in Athens by the New York Philharmonic under the direction of Dimimti Mitropoulos (1st Athens Festival/Orpheus hall) in Octobe...
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Recording of the concert given in Athens by the New York Philharmonic under the direction of Dimimti Mitropoulos (1st Athens Festival/Orpheus hall) in Octobe...
- published: 07 Sep 2011
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Overture - Forza del destino - Dimitri Mitropoulos
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- Duration: 7:40
- Updated: 01 Apr 2013
Dimitri Mitropoulos overture de "la forza del destino" di Verdi "the force of destiny" Firenze 1953.
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Dimitri Mitropoulos overture de "la forza del destino" di Verdi "the force of destiny" Firenze 1953.
- published: 10 Jun 2008
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DIMITRI MITROPOULOS "Funeral-March" Götterdämmerung
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- Duration: 6:03
- Updated: 01 Apr 2013
Dimitri Mitropoulos conducts the Funeral-March from Götterdämmerung by Richard Wagner New York Philharmonic Orchestra New York 30.X.1955.
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Dimitri Mitropoulos conducts the Funeral-March from Götterdämmerung by Richard Wagner New York Philharmonic Orchestra New York 30.X.1955.
- published: 01 Dec 2010
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Dimitri Mitropoulos "Overture Coriolan" Beethoven
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- Duration: 7:53
- Updated: 26 Apr 2013
Overture Coriolan, op. 62 by Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra Dimitri Mitropoulos, conductor 10.I.1940.
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Overture Coriolan, op. 62 by Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra Dimitri Mitropoulos, conductor 10.I.1940.
- published: 18 Mar 2011
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Dimitri Mitropoulos, 1947 - Rackmaninov, Symphony No. 2 in E minor, Op. 27
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- Duration: 44:26
- Updated: 01 Nov 2012
Sergei Rachmaninov (Rachmaninoff) Серге́й Васи́льевич Рахма́нинов Symphony No. 2 in E minor, Op. 27 1.Largo — Allegro moderato 2.Allegro molto 3.Adagio 4.All...
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Sergei Rachmaninov (Rachmaninoff) Серге́й Васи́льевич Рахма́нинов Symphony No. 2 in E minor, Op. 27 1.Largo — Allegro moderato 2.Allegro molto 3.Adagio 4.All...
- published: 26 Aug 2012
- views: 528
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Dmitri Shostakovich: Symphony No.5 Op.47 (1937)/ Mitropoulos
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- Duration: 45:19
- Updated: 02 May 2013
Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975): Sinfonia n.5 op.47 (1937) -- Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra of New York diretta da Dimitri Mitropoulos -- I. Moderato II. A...
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Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975): Sinfonia n.5 op.47 (1937) -- Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra of New York diretta da Dimitri Mitropoulos -- I. Moderato II. A...
- published: 13 Feb 2012
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Myra Hess & Dimitri Mitropoulos - Brahms Concerto 1 in D minor Op. 15
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- Duration: 47:41
- Updated: 02 May 2013
1. Maestoso 2. Adagio 3. Rondò - Allegro non troppo New York Philharmonic Orchestra rec. 1955.
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1. Maestoso 2. Adagio 3. Rondò - Allegro non troppo New York Philharmonic Orchestra rec. 1955.
- published: 29 Jun 2012
- views: 1145
- author: gullivior
Prokofiev / Dimitri Mitropoulos, Piano, 1951: Piano Concerto No. 3 in C major, Op. 26 - Complete
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 25:25
- Updated: 02 May 2013
Dimitri Mitropoulos is soloist and conductor in this performance. From the LP shown above, issued in 1951 on the Columbia Masterworks label, catalogue number...
http://wn.com/Prokofiev_Dimitri_Mitropoulos,_Piano,_1951_Piano_Concerto_No_3_in_C_major,_Op_26_Complete
Dimitri Mitropoulos is soloist and conductor in this performance. From the LP shown above, issued in 1951 on the Columbia Masterworks label, catalogue number...
- published: 09 Nov 2012
- views: 425
- author: davidhertzberg
Tchaikovsky / Dimitri Mitropoulos, 1957: Славянский марш - Marche Slave, Op. 31 - NYPO
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 9:52
- Updated: 21 Apr 2013
Recorded November 11, 1957 at the St. George Hotel in Brooklyn, New York. From the LP you see above, issued by Columbia in 1959. Mitropoulos was 61 years old...
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Recorded November 11, 1957 at the St. George Hotel in Brooklyn, New York. From the LP you see above, issued by Columbia in 1959. Mitropoulos was 61 years old...
- published: 05 Jun 2011
- views: 2435
- author: davidhertzberg
Dimitri Mitropoulos "Symphony No 6" Mahler (1. Mov.)
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 18:51
- Updated: 01 Nov 2012
Symphony No 6 in A minor by Gustav Mahler 1. Movement "Allegro energico" Kölner Rundfunk - Sinfonieorchester Dimitri Mitropoulos, conductor Köln, 1959.
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Symphony No 6 in A minor by Gustav Mahler 1. Movement "Allegro energico" Kölner Rundfunk - Sinfonieorchester Dimitri Mitropoulos, conductor Köln, 1959.
- published: 01 Jun 2012
- views: 171
- author: Addiobelpassato
Dimitri Mitropoulos "Symphony No 3 " Mendelssohn (1. Mov.)
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 12:08
- Updated: 20 Apr 2013
Symphony No 3 in A minor Op 56 "Scottish" by Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy 1. Movement "Introduzione (Andante con moto) Allegro un poco agitato" Kölner Rundfun...
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Symphony No 3 in A minor Op 56 "Scottish" by Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy 1. Movement "Introduzione (Andante con moto) Allegro un poco agitato" Kölner Rundfun...
- published: 10 Aug 2011
- views: 1058
- author: Addiobelpassato
Mahler "Symphony No 3" Dimitri Mitropoulos (4. Mov.)
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 9:45
- Updated: 12 Apr 2013
Symphony No 3 in D minor by Gustav Mahler 4. Movement "Sehr langsam. Misterioso. Durchaus ppp" "O Mensch! Gib acht!" (Contralto-Solo) Lucretia West, contralt...
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Symphony No 3 in D minor by Gustav Mahler 4. Movement "Sehr langsam. Misterioso. Durchaus ppp" "O Mensch! Gib acht!" (Contralto-Solo) Lucretia West, contralt...
- published: 31 Jan 2013
- views: 107
- author: Addiobelpassato
Dimitri Mitropoulos plays Piano & conducts Prokofiev Piano Concerto no.3 3mov.wmv
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 8:34
- Updated: 12 Apr 2013
3mov.Allegro ma non troppo piano: Dimitri Mitropoulos orch: The RobinHood Dell Orchestra of Pholadelphia date:26.6.1946.
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3mov.Allegro ma non troppo piano: Dimitri Mitropoulos orch: The RobinHood Dell Orchestra of Pholadelphia date:26.6.1946.
- published: 07 Feb 2010
- views: 4331
- author: hiro nyanko
Dimitri Mitropoulos "The Sorcerer`s Apprentice" Dukas
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 9:43
- Updated: 07 Apr 2013
The Sorcerer`s Apprentice by Paul Dukas (1865-1935) Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra Dimitri Mitropoulos, conductor 03.XII.1940.
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The Sorcerer`s Apprentice by Paul Dukas (1865-1935) Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra Dimitri Mitropoulos, conductor 03.XII.1940.
- published: 18 Mar 2011
- views: 516
- author: Addiobelpassato
Dimitri Mitropoulos "Symphony No 5" Mahler (5. Mov.)
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 16:32
- Updated: 31 Jan 2013
Symphony No 5 in C-sharp minor by Gustav Mahler 5. Movement "Rondo-Finale. Allegro - Allegro giocoso.Frisch" New York Philharmonic Dimitri Mitropoulos, condu...
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Symphony No 5 in C-sharp minor by Gustav Mahler 5. Movement "Rondo-Finale. Allegro - Allegro giocoso.Frisch" New York Philharmonic Dimitri Mitropoulos, condu...
- published: 01 Jun 2012
- views: 169
- author: Addiobelpassato
Mahler "Symphony No 3" Dimitri Mitropoulos (1. Mov.)
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 34:38
- Updated: 01 Feb 2013
Symphony No 3 in D minor by Gustav Mahler 1. Movement "Kräftig. Entschieden" Kölner Rundfunk - Sinfonie - Orchester Dimitri Mitropoulos, conductor Köln, 31.X...
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Symphony No 3 in D minor by Gustav Mahler 1. Movement "Kräftig. Entschieden" Kölner Rundfunk - Sinfonie - Orchester Dimitri Mitropoulos, conductor Köln, 31.X...
- published: 31 Jan 2013
- views: 103
- author: Addiobelpassato
Mahler "Symphony No 3" Dimitri Mitropoulos (6. Mov.)
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 20:59
- Updated: 01 Mar 2013
Symphony No 3 in D minor by Gustav Mahler 6. Movement "Langsam. Ruhevoll. Empfunden" Kölner Rundfunk - Sinfonie - Orchester Dimitri Mitropoulos, conductor Kö...
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Symphony No 3 in D minor by Gustav Mahler 6. Movement "Langsam. Ruhevoll. Empfunden" Kölner Rundfunk - Sinfonie - Orchester Dimitri Mitropoulos, conductor Kö...
- published: 31 Jan 2013
- views: 96
- author: Addiobelpassato
Dimitri Mitropoulos Greek Sonata 1920 part 4
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 12:15
- Updated: 17 Apr 2013
Dimitri Mitropoulos Greek Sonata (1920) part 4 4. Maestoso -- Allegro (non troppo) 12'01 www.iridaclassical.com piano Charis Dimaras.
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Dimitri Mitropoulos Greek Sonata (1920) part 4 4. Maestoso -- Allegro (non troppo) 12'01 www.iridaclassical.com piano Charis Dimaras.
- published: 18 Nov 2011
- views: 498
- author: tiestiousia
Dimitri Mitropoulos "Overture Leonore III " Beethoven
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 13:28
- Updated: 29 Mar 2013
Overture Leonore III, op. 72a by Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra Dimitri Mitropoulos, conductor 10.I.1940.
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Overture Leonore III, op. 72a by Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra Dimitri Mitropoulos, conductor 10.I.1940.
- published: 18 Mar 2011
- views: 408
- author: Addiobelpassato
DIMITRI MITROPOULOS--DON GIOVANNI OVERTURE--MOZART
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 6:17
- Updated: 29 Apr 2013
Mozart, Don Giovanni, Overture, Salzburg Festspiel 24 Juillet 1956.Live.
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Mozart, Don Giovanni, Overture, Salzburg Festspiel 24 Juillet 1956.Live.
- published: 31 Dec 2009
- views: 6525
- author: jacquesurlus
7:00
Glenn Gould & Dmitri Mitropoulos, live Bach D minor Concerto (1958) 3/3.
3rd movement. Reuploaded with improved audio quality. My favorite performance of this mast...
published: 07 Jul 2011
author: micheldvorsky
Glenn Gould & Dmitri Mitropoulos, live Bach D minor Concerto (1958) 3/3.
3rd movement. Reuploaded with improved audio quality. My favorite performance of this masterwork. With Dmitri Mitropoulos and Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra.
- published: 07 Jul 2011
- views: 1774
- author: micheldvorsky
69:26
Mitropoulos - 1960 (Live) Mahler, Symphony No. 5
Gustav Mahler Symphony No. 5 I: Trauermarsch (Funeral March). In gemessenem Schritt. Stren...
published: 28 Feb 2012
author: jacquesurlus
Mitropoulos - 1960 (Live) Mahler, Symphony No. 5
Gustav Mahler Symphony No. 5 I: Trauermarsch (Funeral March). In gemessenem Schritt. Streng. Wie ein Kondukt II: Stürmisch bewegt, mit größter Vehemenz (Movi...
- published: 28 Feb 2012
- views: 3855
- author: jacquesurlus
92:48
Dimitri Mitropoulos, 1958 (Live) Richard Strauss, Salome, Inge Borkh
Richard Strauss Salome Salome - Inge Borkh Jochanaan - Mack Harrell Herodes - Ramón Vinay ...
published: 20 Aug 2012
author: jacquesurlus
Dimitri Mitropoulos, 1958 (Live) Richard Strauss, Salome, Inge Borkh
Richard Strauss Salome Salome - Inge Borkh Jochanaan - Mack Harrell Herodes - Ramón Vinay Herodias - Blanche Thebom Narraboth - Giulio Gari Ein Page - Margar...
- published: 20 Aug 2012
- views: 522
- author: jacquesurlus
2:55
Jussi Björling | Grieg: Jeg elsker dig - with Dimitri Mitropoulos (live 1945)
Grieg: Jeg elsker deg (dig) Jussi Björling, Dimitri Mitropoulos Recorded in October 1945 (...
published: 25 Feb 2013
author: AfroPoli
Jussi Björling | Grieg: Jeg elsker dig - with Dimitri Mitropoulos (live 1945)
Grieg: Jeg elsker deg (dig) Jussi Björling, Dimitri Mitropoulos Recorded in October 1945 (Broadcast, USA) My apologies for the poor sound. This comes from an...
- published: 25 Feb 2013
- views: 537
- author: AfroPoli
32:44
Dimitri Mitropoulos, 1953 (Live) Brahms, Symphony no 3 in F major op. 90
Johannes Brahms Symphony no 3 in F major op. 90 I: Allegro con brio II: Andante III: Poco ...
published: 01 Apr 2012
author: jacquesurlus
Dimitri Mitropoulos, 1953 (Live) Brahms, Symphony no 3 in F major op. 90
Johannes Brahms Symphony no 3 in F major op. 90 I: Allegro con brio II: Andante III: Poco Allegretto IV: Allegro Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino Dim...
- published: 01 Apr 2012
- views: 256
- author: jacquesurlus
8:34
Dimitri Mitropoulos plays Piano & conducts Prokofiev Piano Concerto no.3 3mov.wmv
3mov.Allegro ma non troppo piano: Dimitri Mitropoulos orch: The RobinHood Dell Orchestra o...
published: 07 Feb 2010
author: hiro nyanko
Dimitri Mitropoulos plays Piano & conducts Prokofiev Piano Concerto no.3 3mov.wmv
3mov.Allegro ma non troppo piano: Dimitri Mitropoulos orch: The RobinHood Dell Orchestra of Pholadelphia date:26.6.1946.
- published: 07 Feb 2010
- views: 4331
- author: hiro nyanko
3:20
11 INTERMEZZO I PAGLIACCI LIVE 1959Mario Del Monaco,Lucine Amara,Dimitri Mitropoulos
...
published: 27 Jun 2011
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11 INTERMEZZO I PAGLIACCI LIVE 1959Mario Del Monaco,Lucine Amara,Dimitri Mitropoulos
- published: 27 Jun 2011
- views: 153
- author: stelinasmusic74
15:01
DIMITRIS MiTROPOULOS Brahms piano concerto 1 MVM 2 Live recording New York April 12 1953
DIMITRIS MITROPOULOS 1896-1960 GREAT INTERNATIONA HELLEN CONDUCTOR . Live recording New Yo...
published: 23 Dec 2010
author: stelinasmusic74
DIMITRIS MiTROPOULOS Brahms piano concerto 1 MVM 2 Live recording New York April 12 1953
DIMITRIS MITROPOULOS 1896-1960 GREAT INTERNATIONA HELLEN CONDUCTOR . Live recording New York April 12 1953. William Kapell on piano.
- published: 23 Dec 2010
- views: 1913
- author: stelinasmusic74
74:20
Mitropoulos - 1959 (Live) Mahler, Symphony No. 6 in A minor "Tragic"
Gustav Mahler Symphony No. 6 in A minor "Tragic" I: Allegro energico, ma non troppo. Hefti...
published: 29 Feb 2012
author: jacquesurlus
Mitropoulos - 1959 (Live) Mahler, Symphony No. 6 in A minor "Tragic"
Gustav Mahler Symphony No. 6 in A minor "Tragic" I: Allegro energico, ma non troppo. Heftig, aber markig II: Scherzo. Wuchtig III: Andante moderato IV: Final...
- published: 29 Feb 2012
- views: 2450
- author: jacquesurlus
2:04
Touring with Dimitri Mitropoulos
Philharmonic percussionist Elden "Buster" Bailey filmed home movies of the Orchestra and i...
published: 22 Oct 2010
author: NewYorkPhilharmonic
Touring with Dimitri Mitropoulos
Philharmonic percussionist Elden "Buster" Bailey filmed home movies of the Orchestra and its Music Director on its 1958 South American tour.
- published: 22 Oct 2010
- views: 3452
- author: NewYorkPhilharmonic
13:28
Dimitri Mitropoulos "Overture Leonore III " Beethoven
Overture Leonore III, op. 72a by Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) Minneapolis Symphony Orc...
published: 18 Mar 2011
author: Addiobelpassato
Dimitri Mitropoulos "Overture Leonore III " Beethoven
Overture Leonore III, op. 72a by Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra Dimitri Mitropoulos, conductor 10.I.1940.
- published: 18 Mar 2011
- views: 408
- author: Addiobelpassato
5:31
DIMITRI MITROPOULOS " Intermezzo" Manon Lescaut
Dimitri Mitropoulos conducts the wonderful"Intermezzo" from Manon Lescaut by Giacomo Pucci...
published: 18 Oct 2010
author: Addiobelpassato
DIMITRI MITROPOULOS " Intermezzo" Manon Lescaut
Dimitri Mitropoulos conducts the wonderful"Intermezzo" from Manon Lescaut by Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924) Orchestra of the Metropolitan Opera House New York, ...
- published: 18 Oct 2010
- views: 3157
- author: Addiobelpassato
12:35
DIMITRI MITROPOULOS - OSTINATA IN TRE PARTI - LIVE - VIOLIN & PIANO
Spyros Gikontis, violin Christos Sakellaridis, piano....
published: 24 Dec 2012
author: Spyros Gikontis
DIMITRI MITROPOULOS - OSTINATA IN TRE PARTI - LIVE - VIOLIN & PIANO
Spyros Gikontis, violin Christos Sakellaridis, piano.
- published: 24 Dec 2012
- views: 124
- author: Spyros Gikontis
9:52
Tchaikovsky / Dimitri Mitropoulos, 1957: Славянский марш - Marche Slave, Op. 31 - NYPO
Recorded November 11, 1957 at the St. George Hotel in Brooklyn, New York. From the LP you ...
published: 05 Jun 2011
author: davidhertzberg
Tchaikovsky / Dimitri Mitropoulos, 1957: Славянский марш - Marche Slave, Op. 31 - NYPO
Recorded November 11, 1957 at the St. George Hotel in Brooklyn, New York. From the LP you see above, issued by Columbia in 1959. Mitropoulos was 61 years old...
- published: 05 Jun 2011
- views: 2435
- author: davidhertzberg
Vimeo results:
4:37
LOCALS CHECKIN | DOWNTOWN PATRAS
Locals Checkin is a series of small videos were Local skaters checkin different spots each...
published: 04 Apr 2012
author: FIFTY-FIFTY boardshop
LOCALS CHECKIN | DOWNTOWN PATRAS
Locals Checkin is a series of small videos were Local skaters checkin different spots each time..This time various downtown Patras city spots...
this video is dedicated to the Beloved Memory of Nikolakis Papasotiriou 1986-2012.
Keep On Riding and Smiling wherever you are!!!
Local Riders | Platis Giorgos
Vasileiou Dimitris
Giakoumakis Panagiotis
Giannenas Takis
Mitropoulos Giannis
Kampouris Peris
Nikolikos Nikos
Mallioris Panagiotis
ALTO
Guest Rider | Karabelas Giorgos
Filmed/Edited | Rodrigo D. Valsamis
3:05
LOCALS CHECKIN | ITIES DIY
Locals Checkin is a series were locals skaters checkin different spots each time.This time...
published: 10 Nov 2012
author: FIFTY-FIFTY boardshop
LOCALS CHECKIN | ITIES DIY
Locals Checkin is a series were locals skaters checkin different spots each time.This time the DIY spot at Ities-Patras
Skaters:
-Giorgos platis
-Dimitris Vasileiou
-Nikos Nikolikos
-Giannis Mitropoulos
-Christos Saltas
Filmed-Edited : Rodrigo D. Valsamis
11:32
a Greek Summer
Our summer in Greece, 2010, with the Syeah crew.
Filmed & Edited by Daniel Rhodes
Rolle...
published: 29 Nov 2010
author: Daniel Rhodes | Yeah Duke! Prod.
a Greek Summer
Our summer in Greece, 2010, with the Syeah crew.
Filmed & Edited by Daniel Rhodes
Rollerbladers :-
George Sarantoulias, Odysseas Selelmazidis, Charilaos Emmanouil Papacostas, Giorgos "Trash" Mitropoulos, Nick Kouros, Nicholas Cornford, Loukas Sparos, Vangelis Bolanos, Andreas Tsam, George Sakoulas, Dimitris Kiriazakis, Leonidas, Mike, Koukos
kai alles, kserete pioi eiste :D
Tha sas doume to epmeno kalokairi malakes ;)
Songs in order:-
Danny Byrd - From Bath with love
Young Gully - Nite Shift
Souls of Mischief - Tour Stories
Youtube results:
8:09
1a Brahms piano concerto no 2 LIVE 1952 ,Dimitri Mitropoulos & New York Philarmonic orch R Casadesus on piano'allegro non troppo'part 1
...
published: 16 Jan 2011
author: stelinasmusic74
1a Brahms piano concerto no 2 LIVE 1952 ,Dimitri Mitropoulos & New York Philarmonic orch R Casadesus on piano'allegro non troppo'part 1
- published: 16 Jan 2011
- views: 220
- author: stelinasmusic74
80:12
Mitropoulos - 1960 (Live) Mahler, Symphony No. 9 in D major
Gustav Mahler Symphony No. 9 in D major I: Andante comodo II: Im Tempo eines gemächlichen ...
published: 29 Feb 2012
author: jacquesurlus
Mitropoulos - 1960 (Live) Mahler, Symphony No. 9 in D major
Gustav Mahler Symphony No. 9 in D major I: Andante comodo II: Im Tempo eines gemächlichen Ländlers. Etwas täppisch und sehr derb III: Rondo-Burleske: Allegro...
- published: 29 Feb 2012
- views: 1536
- author: jacquesurlus
10:35
DIMITRI MITROPOULOS - UN MORCEAU DE CONCERT- LIVE
Spyros Gikontis, violin Christos Sakellaridis, piano....
published: 23 Dec 2012
author: Spyros Gikontis
DIMITRI MITROPOULOS - UN MORCEAU DE CONCERT- LIVE
Spyros Gikontis, violin Christos Sakellaridis, piano.
- published: 23 Dec 2012
- views: 72
- author: Spyros Gikontis
4:04
Intermezzo Cavalleria Rusticana - MITROPOULOS Met 1960
Ah quei violini!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!...
published: 19 Jan 2011
author: discoverer05
Intermezzo Cavalleria Rusticana - MITROPOULOS Met 1960
Ah quei violini!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- published: 19 Jan 2011
- views: 924
- author: discoverer05
44:26
Dimitri Mitropoulos, 1947 - Rackmaninov, Symphony No. 2 in E minor, Op. 27
Sergei Rachmaninov (Rachmaninoff) Серге́й Васи́льевич Рахма́нинов Symphony No. 2 in E mino...
published: 26 Aug 2012
author: jacquesurlus
Dimitri Mitropoulos, 1947 - Rackmaninov, Symphony No. 2 in E minor, Op. 27
Sergei Rachmaninov (Rachmaninoff) Серге́й Васи́льевич Рахма́нинов Symphony No. 2 in E minor, Op. 27 1.Largo — Allegro moderato 2.Allegro molto 3.Adagio 4.All...
- published: 26 Aug 2012
- views: 528
- author: jacquesurlus
45:19
Dmitri Shostakovich: Symphony No.5 Op.47 (1937)/ Mitropoulos
Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975): Sinfonia n.5 op.47 (1937) -- Philharmonic Symphony Orches...
published: 13 Feb 2012
author: TheWelleszTheatre
Dmitri Shostakovich: Symphony No.5 Op.47 (1937)/ Mitropoulos
Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975): Sinfonia n.5 op.47 (1937) -- Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra of New York diretta da Dimitri Mitropoulos -- I. Moderato II. A...
- published: 13 Feb 2012
- views: 13384
- author: TheWelleszTheatre
47:41
Myra Hess & Dimitri Mitropoulos - Brahms Concerto 1 in D minor Op. 15
1. Maestoso 2. Adagio 3. Rondò - Allegro non troppo New York Philharmonic Orchestra rec. 1...
published: 29 Jun 2012
author: gullivior
Myra Hess & Dimitri Mitropoulos - Brahms Concerto 1 in D minor Op. 15
1. Maestoso 2. Adagio 3. Rondò - Allegro non troppo New York Philharmonic Orchestra rec. 1955.
- published: 29 Jun 2012
- views: 1145
- author: gullivior
25:25
Prokofiev / Dimitri Mitropoulos, Piano, 1951: Piano Concerto No. 3 in C major, Op. 26 - Complete
Dimitri Mitropoulos is soloist and conductor in this performance. From the LP shown above,...
published: 09 Nov 2012
author: davidhertzberg
Prokofiev / Dimitri Mitropoulos, Piano, 1951: Piano Concerto No. 3 in C major, Op. 26 - Complete
Dimitri Mitropoulos is soloist and conductor in this performance. From the LP shown above, issued in 1951 on the Columbia Masterworks label, catalogue number...
- published: 09 Nov 2012
- views: 425
- author: davidhertzberg
92:48
Dimitri Mitropoulos, 1958 (Live) Richard Strauss, Salome, Inge Borkh
Richard Strauss Salome Salome - Inge Borkh Jochanaan - Mack Harrell Herodes - Ramón Vinay ...
published: 20 Aug 2012
author: jacquesurlus
Dimitri Mitropoulos, 1958 (Live) Richard Strauss, Salome, Inge Borkh
Richard Strauss Salome Salome - Inge Borkh Jochanaan - Mack Harrell Herodes - Ramón Vinay Herodias - Blanche Thebom Narraboth - Giulio Gari Ein Page - Margar...
- published: 20 Aug 2012
- views: 522
- author: jacquesurlus
91:20
Mitropoulos, 1949, Artrid Varnay - Strauss, Elektra
Richard Strauss Elektra ASTRID VARNAY - Elektra ELENA NICOLAIDI - Klytemnestra IRENE JASSN...
published: 07 Apr 2012
author: jacquesurlus
Mitropoulos, 1949, Artrid Varnay - Strauss, Elektra
Richard Strauss Elektra ASTRID VARNAY - Elektra ELENA NICOLAIDI - Klytemnestra IRENE JASSNEER - Chryusothemis FREDERICK JAGEL - Aegisthos HERBERT JANSSEN - O...
- published: 07 Apr 2012
- views: 844
- author: jacquesurlus
32:44
Dimitri Mitropoulos, 1953 (Live) Brahms, Symphony no 3 in F major op. 90
Johannes Brahms Symphony no 3 in F major op. 90 I: Allegro con brio II: Andante III: Poco ...
published: 01 Apr 2012
author: jacquesurlus
Dimitri Mitropoulos, 1953 (Live) Brahms, Symphony no 3 in F major op. 90
Johannes Brahms Symphony no 3 in F major op. 90 I: Allegro con brio II: Andante III: Poco Allegretto IV: Allegro Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino Dim...
- published: 01 Apr 2012
- views: 256
- author: jacquesurlus
69:26
Mitropoulos - 1960 (Live) Mahler, Symphony No. 5
Gustav Mahler Symphony No. 5 I: Trauermarsch (Funeral March). In gemessenem Schritt. Stren...
published: 28 Feb 2012
author: jacquesurlus
Mitropoulos - 1960 (Live) Mahler, Symphony No. 5
Gustav Mahler Symphony No. 5 I: Trauermarsch (Funeral March). In gemessenem Schritt. Streng. Wie ein Kondukt II: Stürmisch bewegt, mit größter Vehemenz (Movi...
- published: 28 Feb 2012
- views: 3855
- author: jacquesurlus
34:38
Mahler "Symphony No 3" Dimitri Mitropoulos (1. Mov.)
Symphony No 3 in D minor by Gustav Mahler 1. Movement "Kräftig. Entschieden" Kölner Rundfu...
published: 31 Jan 2013
author: Addiobelpassato
Mahler "Symphony No 3" Dimitri Mitropoulos (1. Mov.)
Symphony No 3 in D minor by Gustav Mahler 1. Movement "Kräftig. Entschieden" Kölner Rundfunk - Sinfonie - Orchester Dimitri Mitropoulos, conductor Köln, 31.X...
- published: 31 Jan 2013
- views: 103
- author: Addiobelpassato
20:59
Mahler "Symphony No 3" Dimitri Mitropoulos (6. Mov.)
Symphony No 3 in D minor by Gustav Mahler 6. Movement "Langsam. Ruhevoll. Empfunden" Kölne...
published: 31 Jan 2013
author: Addiobelpassato
Mahler "Symphony No 3" Dimitri Mitropoulos (6. Mov.)
Symphony No 3 in D minor by Gustav Mahler 6. Movement "Langsam. Ruhevoll. Empfunden" Kölner Rundfunk - Sinfonie - Orchester Dimitri Mitropoulos, conductor Kö...
- published: 31 Jan 2013
- views: 96
- author: Addiobelpassato
80:12
Mitropoulos - 1960 (Live) Mahler, Symphony No. 9 in D major
Gustav Mahler Symphony No. 9 in D major I: Andante comodo II: Im Tempo eines gemächlichen ...
published: 29 Feb 2012
author: jacquesurlus
Mitropoulos - 1960 (Live) Mahler, Symphony No. 9 in D major
Gustav Mahler Symphony No. 9 in D major I: Andante comodo II: Im Tempo eines gemächlichen Ländlers. Etwas täppisch und sehr derb III: Rondo-Burleske: Allegro...
- published: 29 Feb 2012
- views: 1536
- author: jacquesurlus
29:31
Dimitri Mitropoulos "Symphony No 6" Mahler (4. Mov.)
Symphony No 6 in A minor by Gustav Mahler 4. Movement "Finale. Allegro moderato" Kölner Ru...
published: 01 Jun 2012
author: Addiobelpassato
Dimitri Mitropoulos "Symphony No 6" Mahler (4. Mov.)
Symphony No 6 in A minor by Gustav Mahler 4. Movement "Finale. Allegro moderato" Kölner Rundfunk - Sinfonieorchester Dimitri Mitropoulos, conductor Köln, 1959.
- published: 01 Jun 2012
- views: 112
- author: Addiobelpassato
74:20
Mitropoulos - 1959 (Live) Mahler, Symphony No. 6 in A minor "Tragic"
Gustav Mahler Symphony No. 6 in A minor "Tragic" I: Allegro energico, ma non troppo. Hefti...
published: 29 Feb 2012
author: jacquesurlus
Mitropoulos - 1959 (Live) Mahler, Symphony No. 6 in A minor "Tragic"
Gustav Mahler Symphony No. 6 in A minor "Tragic" I: Allegro energico, ma non troppo. Heftig, aber markig II: Scherzo. Wuchtig III: Andante moderato IV: Final...
- published: 29 Feb 2012
- views: 2450
- author: jacquesurlus
23:02
Dimitri Mitropoulos "Chopiniana" Rogal-Lewitzky
"Chopiniana" arranged by Dimitri Rogal-Lewitzky Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra Dimitri Mit...
published: 27 Jan 2013
author: Addiobelpassato
Dimitri Mitropoulos "Chopiniana" Rogal-Lewitzky
"Chopiniana" arranged by Dimitri Rogal-Lewitzky Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra Dimitri Mitropoulos, conductor o2.IX.1945.
- published: 27 Jan 2013
- views: 76
- author: Addiobelpassato
Vimeo results:
4:37
LOCALS CHECKIN | DOWNTOWN PATRAS
Locals Checkin is a series of small videos were Local skaters checkin different spots each...
published: 04 Apr 2012
author: FIFTY-FIFTY boardshop
LOCALS CHECKIN | DOWNTOWN PATRAS
Locals Checkin is a series of small videos were Local skaters checkin different spots each time..This time various downtown Patras city spots...
this video is dedicated to the Beloved Memory of Nikolakis Papasotiriou 1986-2012.
Keep On Riding and Smiling wherever you are!!!
Local Riders | Platis Giorgos
Vasileiou Dimitris
Giakoumakis Panagiotis
Giannenas Takis
Mitropoulos Giannis
Kampouris Peris
Nikolikos Nikos
Mallioris Panagiotis
ALTO
Guest Rider | Karabelas Giorgos
Filmed/Edited | Rodrigo D. Valsamis
3:05
LOCALS CHECKIN | ITIES DIY
Locals Checkin is a series were locals skaters checkin different spots each time.This time...
published: 10 Nov 2012
author: FIFTY-FIFTY boardshop
LOCALS CHECKIN | ITIES DIY
Locals Checkin is a series were locals skaters checkin different spots each time.This time the DIY spot at Ities-Patras
Skaters:
-Giorgos platis
-Dimitris Vasileiou
-Nikos Nikolikos
-Giannis Mitropoulos
-Christos Saltas
Filmed-Edited : Rodrigo D. Valsamis
11:32
a Greek Summer
Our summer in Greece, 2010, with the Syeah crew.
Filmed & Edited by Daniel Rhodes
Rolle...
published: 29 Nov 2010
author: Daniel Rhodes | Yeah Duke! Prod.
a Greek Summer
Our summer in Greece, 2010, with the Syeah crew.
Filmed & Edited by Daniel Rhodes
Rollerbladers :-
George Sarantoulias, Odysseas Selelmazidis, Charilaos Emmanouil Papacostas, Giorgos "Trash" Mitropoulos, Nick Kouros, Nicholas Cornford, Loukas Sparos, Vangelis Bolanos, Andreas Tsam, George Sakoulas, Dimitris Kiriazakis, Leonidas, Mike, Koukos
kai alles, kserete pioi eiste :D
Tha sas doume to epmeno kalokairi malakes ;)
Songs in order:-
Danny Byrd - From Bath with love
Young Gully - Nite Shift
Souls of Mischief - Tour Stories
Youtube results:
152:56
Dimitri Mitropoulos Borodin & Mahler I & III .wmv
...
published: 20 Jan 2012
author: mightysmeagol
Dimitri Mitropoulos Borodin & Mahler I & III .wmv
- published: 20 Jan 2012
- views: 714
- author: mightysmeagol
92:47
Richard Tucker - Eugene Onegin - Complete in English
Richard Tucker - Eugene Onegin - Complete in English Onegin Frank Guarrera Tatyana Lucine ...
published: 21 Jul 2012
author: Nico35
Richard Tucker - Eugene Onegin - Complete in English
Richard Tucker - Eugene Onegin - Complete in English Onegin Frank Guarrera Tatyana Lucine Amara Lenski Richard Tucker Olga Rosalind Elias Madame Larina Marth...
- published: 21 Jul 2012
- views: 498
- author: Nico35
27:53
Dimitri Mitropoulos "Erwartung" Schoenberg
"Erwartung" from Arnold Schoenberg Dorothy Dow, soprano New York Philharmonic Dimitri Mitr...
published: 01 Jan 2012
author: gioiellidellamusica
Dimitri Mitropoulos "Erwartung" Schoenberg
"Erwartung" from Arnold Schoenberg Dorothy Dow, soprano New York Philharmonic Dimitri Mitropoulos, conductor 1951 Time: Night Place: A forest A woman is in a...
- published: 01 Jan 2012
- views: 2344
- author: gioiellidellamusica
43:58
Mitropoulos - 1949 (Live) Beethoven, Symphony No. 3 in E flat major, Op. 55 "Eroica"
Ludwig van Beethoven Symphony No. 3 in E flat major, Op. 55 "Eroica" I - Allegro con brio ...
published: 19 Feb 2012
author: jacquesurlus
Mitropoulos - 1949 (Live) Beethoven, Symphony No. 3 in E flat major, Op. 55 "Eroica"
Ludwig van Beethoven Symphony No. 3 in E flat major, Op. 55 "Eroica" I - Allegro con brio II - Marcia funebre : Adagio assai III - Scherzo : Allegro vivace -...
- published: 19 Feb 2012
- views: 1198
- author: jacquesurlus
9:37
Dimitri Mitropoulos conducts New York Philharmonic in rehearsal and concert
Best conductor of all era... List: Faust (third movement)...
published: 03 Sep 2009
author: michalis6
Dimitri Mitropoulos conducts New York Philharmonic in rehearsal and concert
Best conductor of all era... List: Faust (third movement)
- published: 03 Sep 2009
- views: 37306
- author: michalis6
14:07
Dimitri Mitropoulos Greek Sonata 1920 part 1
Dimitri Mitropoulos Greek Sonata (1920) part 1 1. Allegro non troppo (ma con passion) 13'5...
published: 18 Nov 2011
author: tiestiousia
Dimitri Mitropoulos Greek Sonata 1920 part 1
Dimitri Mitropoulos Greek Sonata (1920) part 1 1. Allegro non troppo (ma con passion) 13'58 piano Charis Dimaras www.iridaclassical.com.
- published: 18 Nov 2011
- views: 1658
- author: tiestiousia
2:04
Touring with Dimitri Mitropoulos
Philharmonic percussionist Elden "Buster" Bailey filmed home movies of the Orchestra and i...
published: 22 Oct 2010
author: NewYorkPhilharmonic
Touring with Dimitri Mitropoulos
Philharmonic percussionist Elden "Buster" Bailey filmed home movies of the Orchestra and its Music Director on its 1958 South American tour.
- published: 22 Oct 2010
- views: 3452
- author: NewYorkPhilharmonic
9:00
Dimitri Mitropoulos and the N.Y Philarmonic-La forza del destino/ in Greece 1955
Recording of the concert given in Athens by the New York Philharmonic under the direction ...
published: 07 Sep 2011
author: Ariadnimusiclover
Dimitri Mitropoulos and the N.Y Philarmonic-La forza del destino/ in Greece 1955
Recording of the concert given in Athens by the New York Philharmonic under the direction of Dimimti Mitropoulos (1st Athens Festival/Orpheus hall) in Octobe...
- published: 07 Sep 2011
- views: 2754
- author: Ariadnimusiclover
7:40
Overture - Forza del destino - Dimitri Mitropoulos
Dimitri Mitropoulos overture de "la forza del destino" di Verdi "the force of destiny" Fir...
published: 10 Jun 2008
author: Alexpasini93
Overture - Forza del destino - Dimitri Mitropoulos
Dimitri Mitropoulos overture de "la forza del destino" di Verdi "the force of destiny" Firenze 1953.
- published: 10 Jun 2008
- views: 19107
- author: Alexpasini93
6:03
DIMITRI MITROPOULOS "Funeral-March" Götterdämmerung
Dimitri Mitropoulos conducts the Funeral-March from Götterdämmerung by Richard Wagner New ...
published: 01 Dec 2010
author: WeicheWotanWeiche
DIMITRI MITROPOULOS "Funeral-March" Götterdämmerung
Dimitri Mitropoulos conducts the Funeral-March from Götterdämmerung by Richard Wagner New York Philharmonic Orchestra New York 30.X.1955.
- published: 01 Dec 2010
- views: 5135
- author: WeicheWotanWeiche
7:53
Dimitri Mitropoulos "Overture Coriolan" Beethoven
Overture Coriolan, op. 62 by Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) Minneapolis Symphony Orchest...
published: 18 Mar 2011
author: Addiobelpassato
Dimitri Mitropoulos "Overture Coriolan" Beethoven
Overture Coriolan, op. 62 by Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra Dimitri Mitropoulos, conductor 10.I.1940.
- published: 18 Mar 2011
- views: 1252
- author: Addiobelpassato
44:26
Dimitri Mitropoulos, 1947 - Rackmaninov, Symphony No. 2 in E minor, Op. 27
Sergei Rachmaninov (Rachmaninoff) Серге́й Васи́льевич Рахма́нинов Symphony No. 2 in E mino...
published: 26 Aug 2012
author: jacquesurlus
Dimitri Mitropoulos, 1947 - Rackmaninov, Symphony No. 2 in E minor, Op. 27
Sergei Rachmaninov (Rachmaninoff) Серге́й Васи́льевич Рахма́нинов Symphony No. 2 in E minor, Op. 27 1.Largo — Allegro moderato 2.Allegro molto 3.Adagio 4.All...
- published: 26 Aug 2012
- views: 528
- author: jacquesurlus
45:19
Dmitri Shostakovich: Symphony No.5 Op.47 (1937)/ Mitropoulos
Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975): Sinfonia n.5 op.47 (1937) -- Philharmonic Symphony Orches...
published: 13 Feb 2012
author: TheWelleszTheatre
Dmitri Shostakovich: Symphony No.5 Op.47 (1937)/ Mitropoulos
Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975): Sinfonia n.5 op.47 (1937) -- Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra of New York diretta da Dimitri Mitropoulos -- I. Moderato II. A...
- published: 13 Feb 2012
- views: 13384
- author: TheWelleszTheatre
47:41
Myra Hess & Dimitri Mitropoulos - Brahms Concerto 1 in D minor Op. 15
1. Maestoso 2. Adagio 3. Rondò - Allegro non troppo New York Philharmonic Orchestra rec. 1...
published: 29 Jun 2012
author: gullivior
Myra Hess & Dimitri Mitropoulos - Brahms Concerto 1 in D minor Op. 15
1. Maestoso 2. Adagio 3. Rondò - Allegro non troppo New York Philharmonic Orchestra rec. 1955.
- published: 29 Jun 2012
- views: 1145
- author: gullivior
25:25
Prokofiev / Dimitri Mitropoulos, Piano, 1951: Piano Concerto No. 3 in C major, Op. 26 - Complete
Dimitri Mitropoulos is soloist and conductor in this performance. From the LP shown above,...
published: 09 Nov 2012
author: davidhertzberg
Prokofiev / Dimitri Mitropoulos, Piano, 1951: Piano Concerto No. 3 in C major, Op. 26 - Complete
Dimitri Mitropoulos is soloist and conductor in this performance. From the LP shown above, issued in 1951 on the Columbia Masterworks label, catalogue number...
- published: 09 Nov 2012
- views: 425
- author: davidhertzberg
9:52
Tchaikovsky / Dimitri Mitropoulos, 1957: Славянский марш - Marche Slave, Op. 31 - NYPO
Recorded November 11, 1957 at the St. George Hotel in Brooklyn, New York. From the LP you ...
published: 05 Jun 2011
author: davidhertzberg
Tchaikovsky / Dimitri Mitropoulos, 1957: Славянский марш - Marche Slave, Op. 31 - NYPO
Recorded November 11, 1957 at the St. George Hotel in Brooklyn, New York. From the LP you see above, issued by Columbia in 1959. Mitropoulos was 61 years old...
- published: 05 Jun 2011
- views: 2435
- author: davidhertzberg
18:51
Dimitri Mitropoulos "Symphony No 6" Mahler (1. Mov.)
Symphony No 6 in A minor by Gustav Mahler 1. Movement "Allegro energico" Kölner Rundfunk -...
published: 01 Jun 2012
author: Addiobelpassato
Dimitri Mitropoulos "Symphony No 6" Mahler (1. Mov.)
Symphony No 6 in A minor by Gustav Mahler 1. Movement "Allegro energico" Kölner Rundfunk - Sinfonieorchester Dimitri Mitropoulos, conductor Köln, 1959.
- published: 01 Jun 2012
- views: 171
- author: Addiobelpassato
12:08
Dimitri Mitropoulos "Symphony No 3 " Mendelssohn (1. Mov.)
Symphony No 3 in A minor Op 56 "Scottish" by Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy 1. Movement "Intr...
published: 10 Aug 2011
author: Addiobelpassato
Dimitri Mitropoulos "Symphony No 3 " Mendelssohn (1. Mov.)
Symphony No 3 in A minor Op 56 "Scottish" by Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy 1. Movement "Introduzione (Andante con moto) Allegro un poco agitato" Kölner Rundfun...
- published: 10 Aug 2011
- views: 1058
- author: Addiobelpassato
Vimeo results:
4:37
LOCALS CHECKIN | DOWNTOWN PATRAS
Locals Checkin is a series of small videos were Local skaters checkin different spots each...
published: 04 Apr 2012
author: FIFTY-FIFTY boardshop
LOCALS CHECKIN | DOWNTOWN PATRAS
Locals Checkin is a series of small videos were Local skaters checkin different spots each time..This time various downtown Patras city spots...
this video is dedicated to the Beloved Memory of Nikolakis Papasotiriou 1986-2012.
Keep On Riding and Smiling wherever you are!!!
Local Riders | Platis Giorgos
Vasileiou Dimitris
Giakoumakis Panagiotis
Giannenas Takis
Mitropoulos Giannis
Kampouris Peris
Nikolikos Nikos
Mallioris Panagiotis
ALTO
Guest Rider | Karabelas Giorgos
Filmed/Edited | Rodrigo D. Valsamis
3:05
LOCALS CHECKIN | ITIES DIY
Locals Checkin is a series were locals skaters checkin different spots each time.This time...
published: 10 Nov 2012
author: FIFTY-FIFTY boardshop
LOCALS CHECKIN | ITIES DIY
Locals Checkin is a series were locals skaters checkin different spots each time.This time the DIY spot at Ities-Patras
Skaters:
-Giorgos platis
-Dimitris Vasileiou
-Nikos Nikolikos
-Giannis Mitropoulos
-Christos Saltas
Filmed-Edited : Rodrigo D. Valsamis
11:32
a Greek Summer
Our summer in Greece, 2010, with the Syeah crew.
Filmed & Edited by Daniel Rhodes
Rolle...
published: 29 Nov 2010
author: Daniel Rhodes | Yeah Duke! Prod.
a Greek Summer
Our summer in Greece, 2010, with the Syeah crew.
Filmed & Edited by Daniel Rhodes
Rollerbladers :-
George Sarantoulias, Odysseas Selelmazidis, Charilaos Emmanouil Papacostas, Giorgos "Trash" Mitropoulos, Nick Kouros, Nicholas Cornford, Loukas Sparos, Vangelis Bolanos, Andreas Tsam, George Sakoulas, Dimitris Kiriazakis, Leonidas, Mike, Koukos
kai alles, kserete pioi eiste :D
Tha sas doume to epmeno kalokairi malakes ;)
Songs in order:-
Danny Byrd - From Bath with love
Young Gully - Nite Shift
Souls of Mischief - Tour Stories
Youtube results:
9:45
Mahler "Symphony No 3" Dimitri Mitropoulos (4. Mov.)
Symphony No 3 in D minor by Gustav Mahler 4. Movement "Sehr langsam. Misterioso. Durchaus ...
published: 31 Jan 2013
author: Addiobelpassato
Mahler "Symphony No 3" Dimitri Mitropoulos (4. Mov.)
Symphony No 3 in D minor by Gustav Mahler 4. Movement "Sehr langsam. Misterioso. Durchaus ppp" "O Mensch! Gib acht!" (Contralto-Solo) Lucretia West, contralt...
- published: 31 Jan 2013
- views: 107
- author: Addiobelpassato
8:34
Dimitri Mitropoulos plays Piano & conducts Prokofiev Piano Concerto no.3 3mov.wmv
3mov.Allegro ma non troppo piano: Dimitri Mitropoulos orch: The RobinHood Dell Orchestra o...
published: 07 Feb 2010
author: hiro nyanko
Dimitri Mitropoulos plays Piano & conducts Prokofiev Piano Concerto no.3 3mov.wmv
3mov.Allegro ma non troppo piano: Dimitri Mitropoulos orch: The RobinHood Dell Orchestra of Pholadelphia date:26.6.1946.
- published: 07 Feb 2010
- views: 4331
- author: hiro nyanko
9:43
Dimitri Mitropoulos "The Sorcerer`s Apprentice" Dukas
The Sorcerer`s Apprentice by Paul Dukas (1865-1935) Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra Dimitri...
published: 18 Mar 2011
author: Addiobelpassato
Dimitri Mitropoulos "The Sorcerer`s Apprentice" Dukas
The Sorcerer`s Apprentice by Paul Dukas (1865-1935) Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra Dimitri Mitropoulos, conductor 03.XII.1940.
- published: 18 Mar 2011
- views: 516
- author: Addiobelpassato
16:32
Dimitri Mitropoulos "Symphony No 5" Mahler (5. Mov.)
Symphony No 5 in C-sharp minor by Gustav Mahler 5. Movement "Rondo-Finale. Allegro - Alleg...
published: 01 Jun 2012
author: Addiobelpassato
Dimitri Mitropoulos "Symphony No 5" Mahler (5. Mov.)
Symphony No 5 in C-sharp minor by Gustav Mahler 5. Movement "Rondo-Finale. Allegro - Allegro giocoso.Frisch" New York Philharmonic Dimitri Mitropoulos, condu...
- published: 01 Jun 2012
- views: 169
- author: Addiobelpassato
photo: AP Photo/Baz Ratner
05 May 2013
BEIRUT -- A look at the reasons for and possible implications of the escalation of Israel's involvement in Syria's civil war. WHY NOW?. Israel has said repeatedly it does not want to get dragged into Syria's civil war but has also warned that it will not allow so-called "game-changing" sophisticated weapons to flow across the border to Lebanon's Hezbollah, an Islamic militant group allied with the Syrian regime ... WHAT IS THE U.S. VIEW? ... ....(size: 15.2Kb)
photo: US Army
05 May 2013
KABUL, Afghanistan. Seven US soldiers and a member of the NATO-led coalition were killed on Saturday in one of the deadliest days for Americans and other foreign troops in Afghanistan in recent months, as the Taliban continued attacks as part of their spring offensive ... The coalition did not disclose the location of the roadside bombing ... It did not provide any further details of the incident ... The CIA declined to comment on Saturday ... ....(size: 6.0Kb)
photo: AP / Aleppo Media Center AMC
06 May 2013
GENEVA. Syrian rebels have used the deadly nerve agent sarin in their fight against President Bashar al-Assad's regime, according to testimony from victims, UN human rights investigator Carla del Ponte said. "According to the testimonies we have gathered, the rebels have used chemical weapons, making use of sarin gas," del Ponte, a former war crimes prosecutor, said in an interview with Swiss radio late on Sunday ... ....(size: 3.1Kb)
photo: AP / Ugarit News via AP video
05 May 2013
May 5, 2013 -- Updated 0726 GMT (1526 HKT). An image taken from a YouTube video purportedly shows an explosion on a mountain filmed from a Damascus suburb Saturday. Damascus, Syria (CNN) -- A series of massive explosions illuminated the predawn sky in Damascus, prompting more claims that Israel has launched attacks into the war-torn country ... The report comes shortly after U.S ... Two U.S ... Syria ... A U.S ... Lebanese President Gen ... But the U.S ... U.S ... ... ....(size: 6.4Kb)
my SA
28 Feb 2013
Van Cliburn, the American pianist whose first-place award at the 1958 Tchaikovsky International Competition in Moscow made him an overnight sensation and propelled him to a phenomenally successful career, died Wednesday in Fort Worth. He was 78 ... He won the Leventritt Foundation Award in 1954, which earned him debuts with five major orchestras, including the New York Philharmonic under Dimitri Mitropoulos ... a period when U.S ... 3. Every U.S ... ....(size: 8.3Kb)
The New York Times
27 Feb 2013
He was 78. Enlarge This Image. Chang W. Lee/The New York Times. Van Cliburn last year with the 100-year-old Steinway concert grand that he grew up playing. More Photos ». Multimedia. Slide Show. Remembering Van Cliburn. Van Cliburn 50th Anniversary Tribute ... Close Video ... Mr ... He won the Leventritt Foundation Award in 1954, which earned him debuts with five major orchestras, including the New York Philharmonic under Dimitri Mitropoulos ... Mr ... ....(size: 7.1Kb)
noodls
28 Jan 2013
(Source. Singapore Symphony Orchestra). Jason Lai Joshua Tan ... Says Lai ... Since winning the Second Prize at the 2008 Dimitri Mitropoulos International Competition, Tan's rise to prominence on the international scene has been marked by recent successful debuts in Carnegie Hall, Philharmonie Berlin, Mariinsky Hall, Shanghai, Beijing, Japan and Taiwan ... "I literally grew up with the SSO," says Tan ... Patron Sponsors. Official Hotel Official ... Email....(size: 4.9Kb)
Kathimerini
09 Dec 2012
MONDAY ... (Info. www.acci.gr) ... to 4.30 p.m. (Info. www.sevt.gr) ... (Info ... The Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy (ELIAMEP), the Foundation for Economic and Industrial Research (IOBE), Kantor Management Consultants, the Citizens’ Movement and Transparency International Hellas are organizing an open debate titled “Toward a New Greek University,” starting at 7 p.m., in the Dimitris Mitropoulos Room of the Athens Concert Hall (Vas....(size: 4.4Kb)
The Independent
05 Nov 2012
The team produced what became the de facto universal technical standard for the recording and dissemination of music over the succeeding 35 years ... It was a sensation ... and left in a huff." ... Other major recordings included Bruno Walter's Beethoven Choral Symphony in 1953, Shostakovich with Dimitri Mitropoulos, Bernstein, Beecham, Cantelli, Igor Stravinsky, and Robert Craft conducting the complete works of Webern on four LPs ... ....(size: 6.0Kb)
Kathimerini
18 Oct 2012
He has been the artistic director of the Tenerife Opera Festival since 2009 ... She comes across as more liberated.” ... Unavoidably, del Monaco’s relationship with Greece has been filtered through his father’s close collaborations with Maria Callas and Dimitri Mitropoulos ... At the same time, he added, “Mitropoulos worked on his most important productions together with my father, who happened to be his favorite interpreter.” ... ------------- ... ....(size: 4.2Kb)
Wall Street Journal
23 Aug 2012
By DAVID MERMELSTEIN. Lenox, Mass. The composer John Harbison has received a Pulitzer Prize, a MacArthur "genius" grant and a Heinz Award. But more significant are the commissions bestowed on him by major American orchestras for a wide variety of intricate, tonal works that often bear the stamp of his three great influences ... Mr ... Mr ... Mr ... Except for Leopold Stokowski and Dimitri Mitropoulos, the European conductors weren't like that ... Mr ... ....(size: 6.7Kb)
The Examiner
04 Jun 2012
Most important, however, is that the conductor for this broadcast was Dimitri Mitropoulos ... In this ICA Classics recording, on the other hand, all of the calculating can be traced back to Mitropoulos ... An autographed photograph of the conductor Dimitri Mitropoulos from his stay as a guest at the Locanda Cipriani inn Photo credit. from the "Memories" Web site of Locanda Cipriani Related topics.....(size: 7.7Kb)
The Guardian
08 Mar 2012
Carlos Kleiber, for many the greatest conductor of all time, is an enigma ... There are musical myths – and then there's Carlos Kleiber ... And they're a revelation ... Knowing exactly what is (supposed to be) going on is something, I believe, only [Dimitri] Mitropoulos could honestly claim to. With the right band in a good, condescending mood, there'd be no audible difference between Sally and Dimitri, if Sally had digested the overall ductus." ... ....(size: 8.0Kb)
The Daily Telegraph
08 Feb 2012
Ahead of the New York Philharmonic’s visit, its conductor tells Ivan Hewett about his bold plans for the orchestra . Alan Gilbert. the orchestra's first New York-born music director tag -->. By Ivan Hewett. 6.24PM GMT 08 Feb 2012. Comments. Brace yourselves – New York’s finest are coming ... Gustav Mahler, Willem Mengelberg, Dimitri Mitropoulos and Arturo Toscanini are among them ... Related Articles ... Dolores O'Riordan ... -->....(size: 15.7Kb)
The New York Times
21 Jan 2012
For insatiable opera buffs, there can never be too much of a good thing. These consumers are certainly in the sights of Sony Classical and the Metropolitan Opera, who are collaborating on a project to release no-frills, remastered recordings of historic live Saturday afternoon broadcasts from the Met. Related. Times Topic. Metropolitan Opera ArtsBeat ... Go to Arts Beat » ... The great Dimitri Mitropoulos conducted ... 4, 1961, with Ms ... With Ms ... N.Y ... ....(size: 9.8Kb)
Chicago Sun-Times
11 Nov 2011
The guy is a genius. And if you are wondering who is being labeled as such — the title figure in “Maestro ... Both ... “I still remember making that recording with Bernstein, and this guy just nailed him.” That is high praise, indeed ... As for Felder’s reenactment of a crucial lunch with conductor Dimitri Mitropoulos that climaxes with the proffering of an oyster — well, it might just be the most erotic moment you have seen on any stage ... ....(size: 2.9Kb)
Chicago Sun-Times
11 Nov 2011
Updated. November 11, 2011 2.44PM. The guy is a genius. And if you are wondering who is being labeled as such — the title figure in “Maestro ... Both ... And accurate ... The “genius” of Felder’s portrayal has little to do with impersonation ... As for Felder’s reenactment of a crucial lunch with conductor Dimitri Mitropoulos that climaxes with the proffering of an oyster — well, it might just be the most erotic moment you have seen on any stage ... ....(size: 3.0Kb)
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Dimitri Mitropoulos
Dimitri Mitropoulos (Greek: Δημήτρης Μητρόπουλος) (1 March [O.S. 18 February] 1896[1] – 2 November 1960), was a Greek conductor, pianist, and composer. He received international fame, in the classical music world, both as a major conductor and composer of the 20th century. Also known as Dimitris Mitropoulos.
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Life and career[link]
Mitropoulos was born in Athens, the son of Yannis (John) and Angelikē (Angelica) Mitropoulos. His father owned a leather goods shop at 15, St. Mark Street, in downtown Athens. He was musically precocious, demonstrating his abilities at an early age. From the ages of eleven to fourteen, when Mitropoulos was in secondary school, he would host and preside over informal musical gatherings at his house every Saturday afternoon. His earliest acknowledged composition - a sonata for violin and piano, now lost - dates from this period.
He studied music at the Athens Conservatoire as well as in Brussels and Berlin, with Ferruccio Busoni among his teachers. From 1921 to 1925 he assisted Erich Kleiber at the Berlin State Opera and then took a number of posts in Greece. At a 1930 concert with the Berlin Philharmonic, he played the solo part of Prokofiev's Piano Concerto No. 3 and conducted the orchestra from the keyboard, becoming one of the first modern musicians to do so.
United States[link]
Mitropoulos made his U.S. debut in 1936 with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, and he later settled in the country, becoming a citizen in 1946. From 1937 to 1949 he served as principal conductor of the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra (forerunner of today's Minnesota Orchestra).
In 1949 Mitropoulos began his association with the New York Philharmonic, the peak of his orchestral career. He was initially co-conductor with Leopold Stokowski and became the sole music director in 1951. Mitropoulos recorded extensively with the Philharmonic for Columbia Records and sought to reach new audiences in the city through appearances on television and by conducting a week of performances at the Roxy Theatre, a popular movie theatre. Mitropoulos expanded the Philharmonic's repertoire, commissioning works by new composers and championing the symphonies of Gustav Mahler. In 1958, he was succeeded as the Philharmonic's conductor by a protégé, Leonard Bernstein. In January 1960, he guest conducted the Philharmonic in a performance of Mahler's fifth symphony, which was recorded.
Work in Opera[link]
In addition to his orchestral career, Mitropoulos was an equally important force in the operatic repertoire. He conducted opera extensively in Italy and from 1954 until his death in 1960 was the principal conductor of the Metropolitan Opera in New York, although the Met did not officially use that title at the time. His musically incisive and dramatically vivid performances of Puccini, Verdi, Richard Strauss and others remain models of the opera conductor's art. The Met's extensive archive of recorded broadcasts preserves many of these fine performances.
Mitropoulos's series of recordings for Columbia Records with the New York Philharmonic included a rare complete performance of Alban Berg's Wozzeck. Many of these have been reissued by Sony Classics on CD, including most recently his stereo recordings of excerpts from Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet. For RCA he recorded with the Minneapolis Symphony during the 78-rpm era. He was also represented on the Cetra label, most notably with an early recording of Richard Strauss's Elektra.
Mitropoulos premiered many contemporary works. The interpretation of Cemal Reşit Rey's Concerto chromatique with Orchestre de Paris is one of them.
He was noted for having a photographic memory (which enabled him to conduct without a score, even during rehearsals) and for his monk-like life style due to his deeply religious, Greek Orthodox beliefs.
Mitropoulos never married. He was "quietly known to be homosexual" and "felt no need for a cosmetic marriage".[2] Among his relationships reportedly was one with Leonard Bernstein.[3]
He died in Milan, Italy at the age of 64 of heart failure, while rehearsing Gustav Mahler's 3rd Symphony. One of his very last recorded performances was Verdi's La forza del destino with Giuseppe Di Stefano, Antonietta Stella and Ettore Bastianini at Vienna on 23 September 1960. A recording exists of the performance of Mahler's 3rd Symphony given by Mitropoulos with the Cologne Radio Symphony on 31 October 1960, just two days before his death.
Impact on the music profession[link]
Mitropoulos was noted as a champion of modern music, such as that by the members of the Second Viennese School. He wrote a number of pieces for orchestra and solo works for piano, and also arranged some of Johann Sebastian Bach's organ works for orchestra. In addition he was very influential in encouraging Leonard Bernstein's interest in conducting performances of Mahler's symphonic works. He also premiered and recorded a piano concerto of Ernst Krenek as soloist (available on CD), and works by composers in the U.S. such as Roger Sessions and Peter Mennin. In 1952 he commissioned American composer Philip Bezanson to write a piano concerto, which he premiered the following year. His compositions include a piano sonata, the opera "Soeur Béatrice" (1918), and other works.
References[link]
- ^ The dates 18 February 1896 and 1 March 1896 both appear in the literature. Many of Mitropoulos's early interviews and program notes gave 18 February. In his later interviews, however, the conductor said he was born on 1 March, and most American sources also show this birthdate. The reason for the different dates is that Greece was still using the Julian calendar in 1896, and did not adopt the Gregorian calendar until 1923, when Mitropulos was 27. By then, the calendars were 13 days apart, but in 1896 they were only 12 days apart. The date 18 February 1896 under the Julian calendar corresponded to 1 March 1896 in the Gregorian. The earlier sources used the original Julian calendar date, and the later sources used the equivalent Gregorian date.
- ^ Horowitz, Joseph (2005), Classical Music In America: A History Of Its Rise And Fall, W. W. Norton & Company, p. 323, ISBN 0-393-05717-8
- ^ Lebrecht, Norman (2001), The Maestro Myth: Great Conductors in Pursuit of Power, Citadel Press, p. 259, ISBN 0-8065-2088-4
- Arfanis, Stathis A. The Complete Discography of Dimitri Mitropoulos. Athens: Irinna S.A., 1990. ISBN 960-7110-00-5.
- Mitropoulos, Dimitri, and Katsoyanis, Katy: A correspondence, 1930–1960. New York: Martin Dale, 1973. Introductions by Louis Biancolli and Katy Katsoyanis. LC Number 73075338.
- Trotter, William R. Priest of Music: The Life of Dimitri Mitropoulos. Portland, Oregon: Amadeus Press, 1995. ISBN 0-931340-81-0.
- "Baton for Bernstein", Time Magazine, November 25, 1957, http://www.time.com/time/archive/preview/0,10987,891838,00.html, retrieved 2007-11-17
- Alessandro Zignani, Dimitri Mitropoulos. Una luce che incatena il cielo, 2008, Zecchini Editore, pagg. 240 con discografia, ISBN 88-87203-67-9
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Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich Russian pronunciation: [ˈdmʲitrʲɪj ˈdmʲitrʲɪɪvʲɪt͡ɕ ʂəstɐˈkovʲɪt͡ɕ] (Russian: Дмитрий Дмитриевич Шостакович;[1] 25 September 1906 – 9 August 1975) was a Soviet Russian composer and pianist and was one of the most celebrated composers of the 20th century.
Shostakovich achieved fame in the Soviet Union under the patronage of Leon Trotsky's chief of staff Mikhail Tukhachevsky, but later had a complex and difficult relationship with the government. Nevertheless, he received accolades and state awards and served in the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR (1947–1962) and the USSR (from 1962 until death).
After a period influenced by Sergei Prokofiev and Igor Stravinsky, Shostakovich developed a hybrid style, as exemplified by Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District (1934). This single work juxtaposed a wide variety of trends, including the neo-classical style (showing the influence of Stravinsky) and post-Romanticism (after Gustav Mahler). Sharp contrasts and elements of the grotesque[2] characterize much of his music.
Shostakovich's orchestral works include 15 symphonies and six concerti. Music for chamber ensembles includes 15 string quartets, a piano quintet, two pieces for a string octet, and two piano trios. His piano works include two solo sonatas, an early set of preludes, and a later set of 24 preludes and fugues. Other works include three operas, and a substantial quantity of film music.
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Biography[link]
Early life[link]
Born at 2 Podolskaya Ulitsa in Saint Petersburg, Russia, Shostakovich was the second of three children born to Dmitri Boleslavovich Shostakovich and Sofiya Vasilievna Kokoulina. Shostakovich's paternal grandfather (originally surnamed Szostakowicz) was of Polish Roman Catholic descent (his family roots trace to the region of the town of Vileyka in Belarus), but his immediate forebears came from Siberia.[3] His paternal grandfather, a Polish revolutionary in the January Uprising of 1863–4, had been exiled to Narim (near Tomsk) in 1866 in the crackdown that followed Dmitri Karakozov's assassination attempt on Tsar Alexander II.[4] When his term of exile ended, Boleslaw Szostakowicz decided to remain in Siberia. He eventually became a successful banker in Irkutsk and raised a large family. His son, Dmitriy Boleslavovich Shostakovich, the composer's father, was born in exile in Narim in 1875 and attended Saint Petersburg University, graduating in 1899 from the faculty of physics and mathematics. After graduation, Dmitriy Boleslavovich went to work as an engineer under Dmitriy Mendeleyev at the Bureau of Weights and Measures in Saint Petersburg. In 1903, he married Sofiya Vasilievna Kokoulina, another Siberian transplant to the capital.[4] Sofiya herself was one of six children born to Vasiliy Yakovlevich Kokoulin, a Russian Siberian native.
Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich was a child prodigy as a pianist and composer, his talent becoming apparent after he began piano lessons with his mother at the age of nine. (On several occasions, he displayed a remarkable ability to remember what his mother had played at the previous lesson, and would get "caught in the act" of pretending to read, playing the previous lesson's music when different music was placed in front of him.)[5] In 1918, he wrote a funeral march in memory of two leaders of the Kadet party, murdered by Bolshevik sailors.[6]
In 1919, at the age of 13, he was allowed to enter the Petrograd Conservatory, then headed by Alexander Glazunov. Glazunov monitored Shostakovich's progress closely and promoted him.[7] Shostakovich studied piano with Leonid Nikolayev, after a year in the class of Elena Rozanova, composition with Maximilian Steinberg, and counterpoint and fugue with Nikolay Sokolov, with whom he became friends.[8] Shostakovich also attended Alexander Ossovsky's history of music classes.[9] However, he suffered for his perceived lack of political zeal, and initially failed his exam in Marxist methodology in 1926. His first major musical achievement was the First Symphony (premiered 1926), written as his graduation piece at the age of nineteen.
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Early career[link]
After graduation, Shostakovich initially embarked on a dual career as concert pianist and composer, but his dry style of playing (his American biographer, Laurel Fay, comments on his "emotional restraint" and "riveting rhythmic drive") was often unappreciated. He nevertheless won an "honorable mention" at the First International Frederic Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw in 1927. After the competition Shostakovich met the conductor Bruno Walter, who was so impressed by the composer's First Symphony that he conducted it at its Berlin premiere later that year. Leopold Stokowski was equally impressed and gave the work its U.S. premiere the following year in Philadelphia and also made the work's first recording.
Thereafter, Shostakovich concentrated on composition, and soon limited his performances primarily to those of his own works. In 1927 he wrote his Second Symphony (subtitled To October), a patriotic piece with a great pro-Soviet choral finale. Due to its experimental nature, as with the subsequent Third Symphony, the pieces were not critically acclaimed with the enthusiasm as granted to the First.
1927 also marked the beginning of Shostakovich's relationship with Ivan Sollertinsky, who remained his closest friend until the latter's death in 1944. Sollertinsky introduced the composer to the music of Gustav Mahler, which had a strong influence on his music from the Fourth Symphony onwards.
While writing the Second Symphony, Shostakovich also began work on his satirical opera The Nose, based on the story by Gogol. In June 1929, the opera was given a concert performance, against Shostakovich's own wishes, and was ferociously attacked by the Russian Association of Proletarian Musicians (RAPM).[10] Its stage premiere on 18 January 1930 opened to generally poor reviews and widespread incomprehension amongst musicians.[11]
Shostakovich composed his first film score for the 1929 silent movie, The New Babylon, set during the 1871 Paris Commune.
In the late 1920s and early 1930s, Shostakovich worked at TRAM, a proletarian youth theatre. Although he did little work in this post, it shielded him from ideological attack. Much of this period was spent writing his opera, Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District, which was first performed in 1934. It was immediately successful, on both popular and official levels. It was described as "the result of the general success of Socialist construction, of the correct policy of the Party", and as an opera that "could have been written only by a Soviet composer brought up in the best tradition of Soviet culture."[12]
Shostakovich married his first wife, Nina Varzar, in 1932. Initial difficulties led to a divorce in 1935, but the couple soon remarried when Nina became pregnant with their first child.[13]
First denunciation[link]
In 1936, Shostakovich fell from official favour. The year began with a series of attacks on him in Pravda, in particular an article entitled, "Muddle Instead of Music". Shostakovich was away on a concert tour in Arkhangel’sk when he heard news of the first Pravda article. Two days before the article was published on the evening of 28 January,[14] a friend had advised Shostakovich to attend the Bolshoi Theatre production of Lady Macbeth. When he arrived, he saw that Stalin and the Politburo were there. In letters written to Ivan Sollertinsky, a close friend and advisor, Shostakovich recounted the horror with which he watched as Stalin shuddered every time the brass and percussion played too loudly. Equally horrifying was the way Stalin and his companions laughed at the love-making scene between Sergei and Katerina. Eyewitness accounts testify that Shostakovich was "white as a sheet" when he went to take his bow after the third act.[15]
The article, which condemned Lady Macbeth as formalist, "coarse, primitive and vulgar,"[16] was thought to have been instigated by Stalin. Consequently, commissions began to fall off, and his income fell by about three quarters. Even Soviet music critics who had praised the opera were forced to recant in print, saying they "failed to detect the shortcomings of Lady Macbeth as pointed out by the Pravda".[17] Shortly after the "Muddle Instead of Music" article, Pravda published another, "Ballet Falsehood," that criticized Shostakovich’s ballet The Limpid Stream. Shostakovich did not expect this second article because the general public and press already accepted this music as "democratic" - that is, tuneful and accessible. However, Pravda criticized The Limpid Stream for incorrectly displaying peasant life on the collective farm.[18]
More widely, 1936 marked the beginning of the Great Terror, in which many of the composer's friends and relatives were imprisoned or killed: these included his patron Marshal Tukhachevsky (shot months after his arrest); his brother-in-law Vsevolod Frederiks (a distinguished physicist, eventually released but died before he got home); his close friend Nikolai Zhilyayev (a musicologist who had taught Tukhachevsky; shot shortly after his arrest); his mother-in-law, the astronomer Sofiya Mikhailovna Varzar (sent to a camp in Karaganda); his friend, the Marxist writer Galina Serbryakova (20 years in camps); his uncle, Maxim Kostrykin (died); and his colleagues Boris Kornilov and Adrian Piotrovsky (executed).[19] His only consolation in this period was the birth of his daughter Galina in 1936; his son Maxim was born two years later.
Withdrawal of the Fourth Symphony[link]
The publication of the Pravda editorials coincided with the composition of Shostakovich's Fourth Symphony. The work was a great shift in style for the composer, due to the substantial influence of Gustav Mahler, as well as multiple Western-style elements. The symphony gave Shostakovich compositional trouble, as he attempted to reform his style into a new idiom. The composer was well into the work when the fatal articles appeared. Despite this, Shostakovich continued to compose the symphony and planned a premiere at the end of 1936. Rehearsals began that December, but after a number of rehearsals Shostakovich, for reasons still debated today, decided to withdraw the symphony from the public. A number of his friends and colleagues, such as Isaak Glikman, have suggested that it was in fact an official ban which Shostakovich was persuaded to present as a voluntary withdrawal.[20] Whatever the case, it seems possible that this action saved the composer's life: during this time Shostakovich feared for himself and his family. Yet Shostakovich did not repudiate the work: it retained its designation as his Fourth Symphony. A piano reduction was published in 1946, and the work was finally premiered in 1961, well after Stalin's death.
During the years of 1936 and 1937, in order to maintain as low a profile as possible between the Fourth and Fifth symphonies, Shostakovich mainly composed film music, a genre favored by Stalin and lacking in dangerous personal expression.[21]
"An artist's creative response to just criticism"[link]
The composer's response to his denunciation was the Fifth Symphony of 1937, which was musically more conservative than his earlier works. Premiering on 21 November 1937 in Leningrad, it was a phenomenal success: many in the Leningrad audience had lost family or friends to the mass executions. The Fifth drove many to tears and welling emotions. Later Shostakovich wrote in his memoirs: "I'll never believe that a man who understood nothing could feel the Fifth Symphony. Of course they understood, they understood what was happening around them and they understood what the Fifth was about."[22]
The success put Shostakovich in good standing once again. Music critics and the authorities alike, including those who had earlier accused Shostakovich of formalism, claimed that he had learned from his mistakes and had become a true Soviet artist. The composer Dmitry Kabalevsky, who had been among those who disassociated himself from Shostakovich when the Pravda article was published, praised the Fifth Symphony and congratulated Shostakovich for "not having given into the seductive temptations of his previous ‘erroneous’ ways."[23]
It was also at this time that Shostakovich composed the first of his string quartets. His chamber works allowed him to experiment and express ideas which would have been unacceptable in his more public symphonic pieces. In September 1937, he began to teach composition at the Leningrad Conservatory, which provided some financial security but interfered with his own creative work.
Second World War[link]
In 1939, before the Soviet forces invaded Finland, the Party Secretary of Leningrad Andrei Zhdanov commissioned a celebratory piece from Shostakovich, entitled Suite on Finnish Themes to be performed as the marching bands of the Red Army would be parading through the Finnish capital Helsinki. The Winter War was a humiliation for the Red Army, and Shostakovich would never lay claim to the authorship of this work.[24] It was not performed until 2001.[25]
After the outbreak of war between the Soviet Union and Germany in 1941, Shostakovich initially remained in Leningrad. He tried to enlist for the military but was turned away because he had bad eyesight. To compensate, Shostakovich became a volunteer for the Leningrad Conservatory’s firefighter brigade and delivered a radio broadcast to the Soviet people 
listen (help·info). The photograph for which he posed was published in newspapers throughout the country.[26]
But his greatest and most famous wartime contribution was the Seventh Symphony. The composer wrote the first three movements in Leningrad and completed the work in Kuibyshev, now a settlement in Volgograd Oblast, where he and his family had been evacuated. Whether or not Shostakovich really conceived the idea of the symphony with the siege of Leningrad in mind, it was officially claimed as a representation of the people of Leningrad’s brave resistance to the German invaders and an authentic piece of patriotic art at a time when morale needed boosting. The symphony was first premiered at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow and was soon performed abroad in London and the United States. However, the most compelling performance was by the Radio Orchestra in besieged Leningrad. The orchestra only had fourteen musicians left, so the conductor Karl Eliasberg had to recruit anyone who could play a musical instrument to perform the symphony.[27]
In spring 1943, the family moved to Moscow. At the time of the Eighth Symphony's premiere, the tide had turned for the Red Army. Therefore the public, and most importantly the authorities, wanted another triumphant piece from the composer. Instead, they got the Eighth Symphony, perhaps the ultimate in sombre and violent expression within Shostakovich's output. In order to preserve the image of Shostakovich (a vital bridge to the people of the Union and to the West), the government assigned the name "Stalingrad" to the symphony, giving it the appearance of a mourning of the dead in the bloody Battle of Stalingrad. However, the symphony did not escape criticism. Shostakovich is reported to have said: "When the Eighth was performed, it was openly declared counter-revolutionary and anti-Soviet. They said, 'Why did Shostakovich write an optimistic symphony at the beginning of the war and a tragic one now? At the beginning we were retreating and now we're attacking, destroying the Fascists. And Shostakovich is acting tragic, that means he's on the side of the fascists.'"[28] The work was unofficially but effectively banned until 1956.[29]
The Ninth Symphony (1945), in contrast, is an ironic Haydnesque parody, which intentionally failed to satisfy Stalin's demands for a "hymn of victory". The war was won, and Shostakovich’s "pretty" symphony was interpreted as a mockery of the Soviet Union’s victory rather than a celebratory piece. Shostakovich continued to compose chamber music, notably his Second Piano Trio (Op. 67), dedicated to the memory of Sollertinsky, with a bitter-sweet, Jewish-themed totentanz finale.
Second denunciation[link]
In 1948 Shostakovich, along with many other composers, was again denounced for formalism in the Zhdanov decree. Andrei Zhdanov, Chairman of the RSFSR Supreme Soviet, accused Shostakovich and other composers (such as Sergei Prokofiev and Aram Khachaturian) for writing inappropriate and formalist music. This was part of an ongoing anti-formalism campaign intended to root out all Western compositional influence as well as any perceived "non-Russian" output. The conference resulted in the publication of the Central Committee’s Decree "On V. Muradeli’s opera The Great Friendship," which was targeted towards all Soviet composers and demanded that they only write "proletarian" music, or music for the masses. The accused composers, including Shostakovich, were summoned to make public apologies in front of the committee.[30][31] Most of Shostakovich's works were banned, and his family had privileges withdrawn. Yuri Lyubimov says that at this time "he waited for his arrest at night out on the landing by the lift, so that at least his family wouldn't be disturbed."[32]
The consequences of the decree for composers were harsh. Shostakovich was among those who were dismissed from the Conservatoire altogether. For Shostakovich, the loss of money was perhaps the largest blow. Others still in the Conservatory experienced an atmosphere that was thick with suspicion. No one wanted their work to be understood as formalist, so many resorted to accusing their colleagues of writing or performing anti-proletarian music.[33]
In the next few years he composed three categories of work: film music to pay the rent, official works aimed at securing official rehabilitation, and serious works "for the desk drawer". The latter included the Violin Concerto No. 1 and the song cycle From Jewish Folk Poetry. The cycle was written at a time when the post-war anti-Semitic campaign was already under way, with widespread arrests including of I. Dobrushin and Yiditsky, the compilers of the book from which Shostakovich took his texts.[34]
The restrictions on Shostakovich's music and living arrangements were eased in 1949, when Stalin decided that the Soviets needed to send artistic representatives to the Cultural and Scientific Congress for World Peace in New York City, and that Shostakovich should be amongst them. For Shostakovich, it was a humiliating experience culminating in a New York press conference where he was expected to read a prepared speech. Nicolas Nabokov, who was present in the audience, witnessed Shostakovich starting to read "in a nervous and shaky voice" before he had to break off "and the speech was continued in English by a suave radio baritone".[35] Fully aware that Shostakovich was not free to speak his mind, Nabokov publicly asked the composer whether he supported the then recent denunciation of Stravinsky's music in the Soviet Union. Shostakovich, who was a great admirer of Stravinsky and had been influenced by his music, had no alternative but to answer in the affirmative. Nabokov did not hesitate to publish that this demonstrated that Shostakovich was "not a free man, but an obedient tool of his government."[36] Shostakovich never forgave Nabokov for this public humiliation.[37] That same year Shostakovich was obliged to compose the cantata Song of the Forests, which praised Stalin as the "great gardener." In 1951 the composer was made a deputy to the Supreme Soviet of RSFSR.
Stalin's death in 1953 was the biggest step towards Shostakovich's rehabilitation as a creative artist, which was marked by his Tenth Symphony. It features a number of musical quotations and codes (notably the DSCH and Elmira motifs, Elmira Nazirova being a pianist and composer who had studied under Shostakovich in the year prior to his dismissal from the Moscow Conservatoire),[38] the meaning of which is still debated, whilst the savage second movement, according to Testimony, is intended as a musical portrait of Stalin himself. The Symphony ranks alongside the Fifth and Seventh as one of his most popular works. 1953 also saw a stream of premieres of the "desk drawer" works.
During the forties and fifties Shostakovich had close relationships with two of his pupils: Galina Ustvolskaya and Elmira Nazirova. In the background to all this remained Shostakovich's first, open marriage to Nina Varzar until her death in 1954. He taught Ustvolskaya from 1937 to 1947. The nature of their relationship is far from clear: Mstislav Rostropovich described it as "tender". Ustvolskaya rejected a proposal of marriage from him after Nina's death.[39] Shostakovich's daughter, Galina, recalled her father consulting her and Maxim about the possibility of Ustvolskaya being their stepmother.[40] Ustvolskaya's friend, Viktor Suslin, said that she had been "deeply disappointed" in Shostakovich by the time of her graduation in 1947. The relationship with Nazirova seems to have been one-sided, expressed largely through his letters to her, and can be dated to around 1953 to 1956. He married his second wife, Komsomol activist Margarita Kainova, in 1956; the couple proved ill-matched, and divorced three years later.
In 1954, Shostakovich wrote the Festive Overture, opus 96, that was used as the theme music for the 1980 Summer Olympics.[41] In addition his '"Theme from the film Pirogov, Opus 76a: Finale" was played as the cauldron was lit at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece.
In 1959, Shostakovich appeared on stage in Moscow at the end of a concert performance of his Fifth Symphony, congratulating Leonard Bernstein and the New York Philharmonic Orchestra for their performance (part of a concert tour of the Soviet Union). Bernstein recorded the symphony later that year in New York for Columbia Records.
Joining the Party[link]
The year 1960 marked another turning point in Shostakovich's life: his joining of the Communist Party. The government wanted to appoint him General Secretary of the Composer’s Union, but in order to hold that position Shostakovich was required to attain Party membership. It was understood that Nikita Khrushchev, the First Secretary of the Communist Party from 1958 to 1964, was looking for support from the leading ranks of the intelligentsia in an effort to create a better relationship with the Soviet Union’s artists.[42] This event has been interpreted variously as a show of commitment, a mark of cowardice, the result of political pressure, and as his free decision. On the one hand, the apparat was undoubtedly less repressive than it had been before Stalin's death. On the other, his son recalled that the event reduced Shostakovich to tears,[43] and he later told his wife Irina that he had been blackmailed.[44] Lev Lebedinsky has said that the composer was suicidal.[45] Once he joined the Party, several articles denouncing individualism in music were published in Pravda under his name, though he did not actually write them. In addition, in joining the party, Shostakovich was also committing himself to finally writing the homage to Lenin that he had promised before. His Twelfth Symphony, which portrays the Bolshevik Revolution and was completed in 1961, was dedicated to Vladimir Lenin and called "The Year 1917."[46] Around this time, his health also began to deteriorate.
Shostakovich's musical response to these personal crises was the Eighth String Quartet, composed in only three days. Shostakovich subtitled the piece, "To the victims of fascism and war",[47] ostensibly in memory of the Dresden fire bombing that took place in 1945. Yet, like the Tenth Symphony, this quartet incorporates quotations from several of his past works and his musical monogram: Shostakovich confessed to Glikman, "I started thinking that if some day I die, nobody is likely to write a work in memory of me, so I had better write one myself."[48] Several of Shostakovich's colleagues, including Natalya Vovsi-Mikhoels[49] and the cellist Valentin Berlinsky[50] were also aware of the Eighth Quartet's biographical intent.
In 1962 he married for the third time, to Irina Supinskaya. In a letter to his friend Isaak Glikman, he wrote, "her only defect is that she is 27 years old. In all other respects she is splendid: clever, cheerful, straightforward and very likeable."[51] According to Galina Vishnevskaya, who knew the Shostakoviches well, this marriage was a very happy one: "It was with her that Dmitri Dmitriyevich finally came to know domestic peace... Surely, she prolonged his life by several years."[52] In November Shostakovich made his only venture into conducting, conducting a couple of his own works in Gorky:[53] otherwise he declined to conduct, citing nerves and ill health as his reasons.
That year saw Shostakovich again turn to the subject of anti-Semitism in his Thirteenth Symphony (subtitled Babi Yar). The symphony sets a number of poems by Yevgeny Yevtushenko, the first of which commemorates a massacre of the Jews during the Second World War. Opinions are divided how great a risk this was: the poem had been published in Soviet media, and was not banned, but it remained controversial. After the symphony's premiere, Yevtushenko was forced to add a stanza to his poem which said that Russians and Ukrainians had died alongside the Jews at Babi Yar.
In 1965 Shostakovich raised his voice in defense of poet Joseph Brodsky, who was sentenced to five years of exile and hard labor. Shostakovich co-signed protests together with Yevtushenko and fellow Soviet artists Kornei Chukovsky, Anna Akhmatova, Samuil Marshak, and the French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre. After the protests the sentence was commuted, and Brodsky returned to Leningrad. Shostakovich joined the group of 25 distinguished intellectuals in signing the letter to Leonid Brezhnev asking not to rehabilitate Stalin.[citation needed]
Later life[link]
In later life, Shostakovich suffered from chronic ill health, but he resisted giving up cigarettes and vodka. Beginning in 1958 he suffered from a debilitating condition that particularly affected his right hand, eventually forcing him to give up piano playing; in 1965 it was diagnosed as polio. He also suffered heart attacks the following year and again in 1971, and several falls in which he broke both his legs; in 1967 he wrote in a letter:
"Target achieved so far: 75% (right leg broken, left leg broken, right hand defective). All I need to do now is wreck the left hand and then 100% of my extremities will be out of order."[54]
A preoccupation with his own mortality permeates Shostakovich's later works, among them the later quartets and the Fourteenth Symphony of 1969 (a song cycle based on a number of poems on the theme of death). This piece also finds Shostakovich at his most extreme with musical language, with twelve-tone themes and dense polyphony used throughout. Shostakovich dedicated this score to his close friend Benjamin Britten, who conducted its Western premiere at the 1970 Aldeburgh Festival. The Fifteenth Symphony of 1971 is, by contrast, melodic and retrospective in nature, quoting Wagner, Rossini and the composer's own Fourth Symphony.
Shostakovich died of lung cancer on 9 August 1975 and after a civic funeral was interred in the Novodevichy Cemetery, Moscow. Even before his death he had been commemorated with the naming of the Shostakovich Peninsula on Alexander Island, Antarctica.
He was survived by his third wife, Irina; his daughter, Galina; and his son, Maxim, a pianist and conductor who was the dedicatee and first performer of some of his father's works. Shostakovich himself left behind several recordings of his own piano works, while other noted interpreters of his music include his friends Emil Gilels, Mstislav Rostropovich, Tatiana Nikolayeva, Maria Yudina, David Oistrakh, and members of the Beethoven Quartet.
Shostakovich's musical influence on later composers outside the former Soviet Union has been relatively slight, although Alfred Schnittke took up his eclecticism, and his contrasts between the dynamic and the static, and some of André Previn's music shows clear links to Shostakovich's style of orchestration. His influence can also be seen in some Nordic composers, such as Lars-Erik Larsson.[55] Many of his Russian contemporaries, and his pupils at the Leningrad Conservatory, however, were strongly influenced by his style (including German Okunev, Boris Tishchenko, whose 5th Symphony of 1978 is dedicated to Shostakovich's memory, Sergei Slonimsky, and others). Shostakovich's conservative idiom has nonetheless grown increasingly popular with audiences both within and beyond Russia, as the avant-garde has declined in influence and debate about his political views has developed.
Music[link]
- For a complete list, see List of compositions by Dmitri Shostakovich.
- See also: Category:Compositions by Dmitri Shostakovich (thematical selection of works by Shostakovich).
Shostakovich's works are broadly tonal and in the Romantic tradition, but with elements of atonality and chromaticism. In some of his later works (e.g., the Twelfth Quartet), he made use of tone rows. His output is dominated by his cycles of symphonies and string quartets, each numbering fifteen. The symphonies are distributed fairly evenly throughout his career, while the quartets are concentrated towards the latter part. Among the most popular are the Fifth and Seventh Symphonies and the Eighth and Fifteenth Quartets. Other works include the operas Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, The Nose and the unfinished The Gamblers based on the comedy of Nikolai Gogol; six concertos (two each for piano, violin and cello); two piano trios; and a large quantity of film music.
Shostakovich's music shows the influence of many of the composers he most admired: Bach in his fugues and passacaglias; Beethoven in the late quartets; Mahler in the symphonies and Berg in his use of musical codes and quotations. Among Russian composers, he particularly admired Modest Mussorgsky, whose operas Boris Godunov and Khovanshchina he re-orchestrated; Mussorgsky's influence is most prominent in the wintry scenes of Lady Macbeth and the Eleventh Symphony, as well as in his satirical works such as "Rayok".[56] Prokofiev's influence is most apparent in the earlier piano works, such as the first sonata and first concerto.[57] The influence of Russian church and folk music is very evident in his works for unaccompanied choir of the 1950s.
Shostakovich's relationship with Stravinsky was profoundly ambivalent; as he wrote to Glikman, "Stravinsky the composer I worship. Stravinsky the thinker I despise."[58] He was particularly enamoured of the Symphony of Psalms, presenting a copy of his own piano version of it to Stravinsky when the latter visited the USSR in 1962. (The meeting of the two composers was not very successful, however; observers commented on Shostakovich's extreme nervousness and Stravinsky's "cruelty" to him.)[59]
Many commentators have noted the disjunction between the experimental works before the 1936 denunciation and the more conservative ones that followed; the composer told Flora Litvinova, "without 'Party guidance' ... I would have displayed more brilliance, used more sarcasm, I could have revealed my ideas openly instead of having to resort to camouflage."[60] Articles published by Shostakovich in 1934 and 1935 cited Berg, Schoenberg, Krenek, Hindemith, "and especially Stravinsky" among his influences.[61] Key works of the earlier period are the First Symphony, which combined the academicism of the conservatory with his progressive inclinations; The Nose ("The most uncompromisingly modernist of all his stage-works"[62]); Lady Macbeth. which precipitated the denunciation; and the Fourth Symphony, described by Grove as "a colossal synthesis of Shostakovich's musical development to date".[63] The Fourth Symphony was also the first in which the influence of Mahler came to the fore, prefiguring the route Shostakovich was to take to secure his rehabilitation, while he himself admitted that the preceding two were his least successful.[64]
In the years after 1936, Shostakovich's symphonic works were outwardly musically conservative, regardless of any subversive political content. During this time he turned increasingly to chamber works, a field that permitted the composer to explore different and often darker ideas without inviting external scrutiny.[65] While his chamber works were largely tonal, they gave Shostakovich an outlet for sombre reflection not welcomed in his more public works. This is most apparent in the late chamber works, which portray what Groves has described as a "world of purgatorial numbness";[66] in some of these he included the use of tone rows, although he treated these as melodic themes rather than serially. Vocal works are also a prominent feature of his late output, setting texts often concerned with love, death and art.
Women's Rights[link]
Shostakovich's works have quite a few social justice themes. For example, in Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District, the protagonist is doomed by the patriarchal society, and the opera ends with her tragic death. Shostakovich had actually been brought up with feminism; his godmother, Klavdia Lukashevich, was a feminist activist and was also a powerful influence on the young Dmitri Shostakovich.[67]
Jewish themes[link]
Even before the Stalinist anti-Semitic campaigns in the late 1940s and early 1950s, Shostakovich showed an interest in Jewish themes. He was intrigued by Jewish music’s "ability to build a jolly melody on sad intonations."[68] Examples of works that included Jewish themes are the Fourth String Quartet (1949), the First Violin Concerto (1948), and the Four Monologues on Pushkin Poems (1952). He was further inspired to write with Jewish themes when he examined Moiser Beregovsky’s thesis on the theme of Jewish folk music in 1946.
In 1948, Shostakovich acquired a book of Jewish folk songs, and from this he composed the song cycle From Jewish Poetry. He initially wrote eight songs that were meant to represent the hardships of being Jewish in the Soviet Union. However in order to disguise this, Shostakovich ended up adding three more songs meant to demonstrate the great life Jews had under the Soviet regime. Despite his efforts to hide the real meaning in the work, the Union of Composers refused to approve his music in 1949 under the pressure of the anti-Semitism that gripped the country. From Jewish Poetry could not be performed until after Stalin’s death in March 1953, along with all the other works that were forbidden.[69]
Posthumous publications[link]
In 2004, the musicologist Olga Digonskaya discovered a trove of Shostakovich manuscripts at the Glinka State Central Museum of Musical Culture, Moscow. In a cardboard file were some "300 pages of musical sketches, pieces and scores" in the hand of Shostakovich. "A composer friend bribed Shostakovich's housemaid to regularly deliver the contents of Shostakovich's office waste bin to him, instead of taking it to the garbage. Some of those cast-offs eventually found their way into the Glinka. ... The Glinka archive 'contained a huge number of pieces and compositions which were completely unknown or could be traced quite indirectly,' Digonskaya said."[70]
Among these were Shostakovich's piano and vocal sketches for a prologue to an opera, Orango (1932). They have been orchestrated by the British composer Gerard McBurney and this work was premiered in December 2011 by the Los Angeles Philharmonic.[70][71][72][73][74]
Criticism[link]
According to Shostakovich scholar Gerard McBurney, opinion is divided on whether his music is "of visionary power and originality, as some maintain, or, as others think, derivative, trashy, empty and second-hand."[75] William Walton, his British contemporary, described him as "The greatest composer of the 20th century."[76] Musicologist David Fanning concludes in Grove that, "Amid the conflicting pressures of official requirements, the mass suffering of his fellow countrymen, and his personal ideals of humanitarian and public service, he succeeded in forging a musical language of colossal emotional power."[77]
Some modern composers have been critical. Pierre Boulez dismissed Shostakovich's music as "the second, or even third pressing of Mahler."[78] The Romanian composer and Webern disciple Philip Gershkovich called Shostakovich "a hack in a trance."[79] A related complaint is that Shostakovich's style is vulgar and strident: Stravinsky wrote of Lady Macbeth: "brutally hammering ... and monotonous."[80] English composer and musicologist Robin Holloway described his music as "battleship-grey in melody and harmony, factory-functional in structure; in content all rhetoric and coercion."[81]
In the 1980s, the Finnish conductor and composer Esa-Pekka Salonen was critical of Shostakovich and refused to conduct his music. For instance, he said in 1987:
Shostakovich is in many ways a polar counter-force for Stravinsky. [...] When I have said that the 7th symphony of Shostakovich is a dull and unpleasant composition, people have responded: "Yes, yes, but think of the background of that symphony." Such an attitude does no good to anyone.[82]
It is certainly true that Shostakovich borrows extensively from the material and styles both of earlier composers and of popular music; the vulgarity of "low" music is a notable influence on this "greatest of eclectics".[83] McBurney traces this to the avant-garde artistic circles of the early Soviet period in which Shostakovich moved early in his career, and argues that these borrowings were a deliberate technique to allow him to create "patterns of contrast, repetition, exaggeration" that gave his music the large-scale structure it required.[84]
Personality[link]
File:ShostakovichwithIvan Sollertinsky.jpg
Shostakovich with close friend Ivan Sollertinsky
Shostakovich was in many ways an obsessive man: according to his daughter he was "obsessed with cleanliness";[85] he synchronised the clocks in his apartment; he regularly sent cards to himself to test how well the postal service was working. Elizabeth Wilson's Shostakovich: A Life Remembered (1994 edition) indexes 26 references to his nervousness. Mikhail Druskin remembers that even as a young man the composer was "fragile and nervously agile".[86] Yuri Lyubimov comments, "The fact that he was more vulnerable and receptive than other people was no doubt an important feature of his genius".[87] In later life, Krzysztof Meyer recalled, "his face was a bag of tics and grimaces".[88]
In his lighter moods, sport was one of his main recreations, although he preferred spectating or umpiring to participating (he was a qualified football referee). His favourite football club was Zenit Leningrad, which he would watch regularly.[89] He also enjoyed playing card games, particularly patience. He was fond of satirical writers such as Gogol, Chekhov and Mikhail Zoshchenko. The influence of the latter in particular is evident in his letters, which include wry parodies of Soviet officialese. Zoshchenko himself noted the contradictions in the composer's character: "he is ... frail, fragile, withdrawn, an infinitely direct, pure child ... [but he is also] hard, acid, extremely intelligent, strong perhaps, despotic and not altogether good-natured (although cerebrally good-natured)".[90]
He was diffident by nature: Flora Litvinova has said he was "completely incapable of saying 'No' to anybody."[91] This meant he was easily persuaded to sign official statements, including a denunciation of Andrei Sakharov in 1973; on the other hand he was willing to try to help constituents in his capacities as chairman of the Composers' Union and Deputy to the Supreme Soviet. Oleg Prokofiev commented that "he tried to help so many people that ... less and less attention was paid to his pleas."[92] When asked if he believed in God, Shostakovich said "No, and I am very sorry about it."[93]
Orthodoxy and revisionism[link]
Main article: Testimony (book)
Shostakovich's response to official criticism and, what is more important, the question of whether he used music as a kind of covert dissidence is a matter of dispute. He outwardly conformed to government policies and positions, reading speeches and putting his name to articles expressing the government line.[94] But it is evident he disliked many aspects of the regime, as confirmed by his family, his letters to Isaak Glikman, and the satirical cantata "Rayok", which ridiculed the "anti-formalist" campaign and was kept hidden until after his death.[95] He was a close friend of Marshal of the Soviet Union Mikhail Tukhachevsky, who was executed in 1937 during the Great Purge.
It is also uncertain to what extent Shostakovich expressed his opposition to the state in his music. The revisionist view was put forth by Solomon Volkov in the 1979 book Testimony, which was claimed to be Shostakovich's memoirs dictated to Volkov. The book alleged that many of the composer's works contained coded anti-government messages, that would place Shostakovich in a tradition of Russian artists outwitting censorship that goes back at least to the early 19th century poet Pushkin. It is known that he incorporated many quotations and motifs in his work, most notably his signature DSCH theme.[96] His longtime collaborator Evgeny Mravinsky said that "Shostakovich very often explained his intentions with very specific images and connotations."[97]
The revisionist perspective has subsequently been supported by his children, Maxim and Galina, and many Russian musicians. Volkov has further argued, both in Testimony and in Shostakovich and Stalin, that Shostakovich adopted the role of the yurodivy or holy fool in his relations with the government. Other prominent revisionists are Ian MacDonald, whose book The New Shostakovich put forward further revisionist interpretations of his music, and Elizabeth Wilson, whose Shostakovich: A Life Remembered provides testimony from many of the composer's acquaintances.
Musicians and scholars including Laurel Fay[98] and Richard Taruskin contest the authenticity and debate the significance of Testimony, alleging that Volkov compiled it from a combination of recycled articles, gossip, and possibly some information direct from the composer. Fay documents these allegations in her 2002 article 'Volkov's Testimony reconsidered',[99] showing that the only pages of the original Testimony manuscript that Shostakovich had signed and verified are word-for-word reproductions of earlier interviews given by the composer, none of which are controversial. (Against this, it has been pointed out by Allan B. Ho and Dmitry Feofanov that at least two of the signed pages contain controversial material: for instance, "on the first page of chapter 3, where [Shostakovich] notes that the plaque that reads 'In this house lived [Vsevolod] Meyerhold' should also say 'And in this house his wife was brutally murdered'.")[100] More broadly, Fay and Taruskin argue[citation needed] that the significance of Shostakovich is in his music rather than his life, and that to seek political messages in the music detracts from, rather than enhances, its artistic value.
Recorded legacy[link]
In May 1958, during a visit to Paris, Shostakovich recorded his two piano concertos with André Cluytens, as well as some short piano works. These were issued by EMI on an LP, reissued by Seraphim Records on LP, and eventually digitally remastered and released on CD. Shostakovich recorded the two concertos in stereo in Moscow for Melodiya. Shostakovich also played the piano solos in recordings of the Cello Sonata, Op. 40 with cellist Daniil Shafran and also with Mstislav Rostropovich; the Violin Sonata, Op. 134, with violinist David Oistrakh; and the Piano Trio, Op. 67 with violinist David Oistrakh and cellist Miloš Sádlo. There is also a short sound film of Shostakovich as soloist in a 1930s concert performance of the closing moments of his first piano concerto. A colour film of Shostakovich supervising one of his operas, from his last year, was also made.[101]
Awards[link]
- Soviet Union
Hero of Socialist Labor (1966)
Order of Lenin (1946, 1956, 1966)
Order of the October Revolution (1971)
Order of the Red Banner of Labour (1940)
Order of Friendship of Peoples (1972)
People's Artist of the USSR (1954)
People's Artist of the RSFSR (1948)- International Peace Prize (1954)
Lenin Prize (1958 - for the 11th symphony "1905")
State Stalin Prize in arts (1941 - 1st class, for piano quintet; 1942 - 1st class, 7th ("Leningrad") Symphony; 1946 - 2nd class, a trio, 1948, 1949, 1949, 1949, 1950 - 1st class, for the music for the film Meeting on the Elbe, 1952 - 2nd class, 10 poems for chorus)
USSR State Prize (1968 - for the poem "The Execution of Stepan Razin" for bass, chorus and orchestra)- Glinka State Prize of the RSFSR (1974 - for the 14th string quartet and choral cycle "Fidelity")
National Prize of Ukraine Taras Shevchenko (posthumously, 1976 - USSR State Prize named after Taras Shevchenko - for the opera "Katerina Ismailov," staged in KUGATOB Shevchenko)
- Finland
- Sibelius Award (1958)
- United States
- Oscar nomination for Khovanshchina, Best Score (Musical) in 1961
- United Kingdom
- Gold Medal of the Royal Philharmonic Society (1966)
- Austria
Decoration for Services to the Republic of Austria in Silver (1967)
- Denmark
- Léonie Sonning Music Prize (1974)
List of compositions[link]
Notes[link]
- ^ Russian: Дмитрий Дмитриевич Шостакович (help·info), tr. Dmitrij Dmitrievič Šostakovič
- ^ Sheinberg (2000) pp.207–309
- ^ Laurel Fay (2000), Shostakovich: A Life, p. 7
- ^ a b Elizabeth Wilson, Shostakovich: A Life Remembered (2006), p. 4
- ^ Laurel Fay (2000), p. 9
- ^ Laurel Fay (2000), p. 12
- ^ Laurel Fay (2000), p. 17
- ^ Laurel Fay (2000), p. 18
- ^ The Cambridge Companion to Shostakovich, Cambridge Companions to Music by Pauline Fairclough (Editor), David Fanning (Editor). Cambridge University Press; 1 edition (17 November 2008) p.73
- ^ Wilson (2006): p. 84
- ^ Wilson (2006): p. 85
- ^ Dmitrii Shostakovich. Shostakovich: About Himself and His Times, compiled by L. Grigoryev and Y.. Platek, trans. Angus and Neilian Roxburgh (Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1981), p. 33
- ^ Laurel Fay (2000), p. 80
- ^ Classical Music (8 March 2004). "When opera was a matter of life or death". London: Telegraph. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/classicalmusic/3613515/When-opera-was-a-matter-of-life-or-death.html. Retrieved 2011-11-07.
- ^ Elizabeth Wilson, Shostakovich: A Life Remembered (Princeton, NJ: Princeton UP, 2006), 128–129
- ^ McBurney, p. 287.
- ^ Downes, Olin. "Shostakovich Affair shows shift in point of view in the U.S.S.R.", The New York Times. 12 April 1936. p. X5.
- ^ Wilson, Shostakovich: A Life Remembered, 130
- ^ Wilson (2006): pp. 145-46
- ^ Wilson (2006): pp. 143-44
- ^ Volkov, Solomon. Testimony. New York: Harper & Row, 1979: p.59
- ^ Volkov. Testimony: p.173
- ^ Wilson (2006): p. 152
- ^ Edwards 2006, p. 98
- ^ MTV3: Shostakovitshin kiistelty teos kantaesitettiin (in Finnish)
- ^ Wilson, Shostakovich: A Life Remembered. 171
- ^ Blokker, Shostakovich: The Symphonies,31
- ^ Volkov. Testimony: p.162
- ^ Wilson (2006): p. 203
- ^ Blokker, Shostakovich: The Symphonies, 33–34.
- ^ Wilson,Shostakovich: A Life Remembered (2006): p. 241
- ^ Wilson,Shostakovich: A Life Remembered (1994), p. 183.
- ^ Wilson, Shostakovich: A Life Remembered, 252
- ^ Wilson (2006): p.269.
- ^ Nabokov, Nicolas. Old Friends and New Music. London: Hamish Hamilton, 1951: p. 204
- ^ Nabokov: p. 205
- ^ Wilson (2006): p. 274
- ^ Wilson (2006): p. 304
- ^ Fay (2000): p. 194
- ^ Fay (2000): p. 194; Wilson (2006): p. 297
- ^ "1980 Summer Olympics Official Report from the Organizing Committee, vol. 2" (PDF). p. 283. http://www.la84foundation.org/5va/reports_frmst.htm. Retrieved 16 October 2007. 40-megabyte document.
- ^ Wilson, Shostakovich: A Life Remembered, 373–380
- ^ Ho and Feofanov, p. 390.
- ^ Manashir Yakubov, programme notes for the 1998 Shostakovich seasons at the Barbican, London).
- ^ Wilson (1994), p. 340.
- ^ Ian MacDonald, The New Shostakovich (London:Plimlico, 2006), 247
- ^ Blokker, Shostakovich: The Symphonies, 37
- ^ Letter dated 19 July 1960, reprinted in Glikman: pp. 90-91
- ^ Wilson (2006): p. 263
- ^ Wilson (2006): p. 281
- ^ Glikman: p. 102.
- ^ Galina Vishnevskaya, Galina, A Russian Story p. 274.
- ^ Wilson (2006): pp. 426-27
- ^ Glikman p. 147.
- ^ Musicweb International. Lars-Erik Larsson. Retrieved on 18 November 2005.
- ^ Fay (2000), pp. 119, 165, 224.
- ^ Grove pp. 288, 290.
- ^ Glikman p. 181.
- ^ Wilson (1994), pp. 375–377.
- ^ Wilson (1994), p. 426.
- ^ Fay (2000), p. 88.
- ^ Grove p. 289.
- ^ Grove p. 290.
- ^ Glikman p. 315.
- ^ See also Grove p. 294.
- ^ Grove p. 300.
- ^ Volkov, Solomon (2004). Shostakovich and Stalin: The Extraordinary Relationship Between the Great Composer and the Brutal Dictator. Chapter 1: Alfred A. Knopf. ISBN 0-375-41082-1. http://books.google.com/?id=x__ntDIlYGYC&lpg=PT47&dq=Shostakovich%20feminism&pg=PT47#v=onepage&q=feminism&f=false.
- ^ Wilson, Shostakovich: A Life Remembered, 268
- ^ Wilson, Shostakovich: A Life Remembered, 267–269
- ^ a b "Shostakovich's 'Orango' found, finished, set for Disney Hall". Los Angeles Times. 27 November 2011. http://articles.latimes.com/2011/nov/27/entertainment/la-ca-orango-opera-20111127. Retrieved 17 February 2012.
- ^ Ayala, Ted (2011-12-07). "No Monkey Business with LAPO’s World Premiere of Shostakovich’s ‘Orango’". Crescenta Valley Weekly. http://www.crescentavalleyweekly.com/leisure/12/07/2011/no-monkey-business-with-lapo’s-world-premiere-of-shostakovich’s-‘orango’/. Retrieved 2012-04-10.
- ^ Sirén, Vesa (6 April 2009). "Šostakovitšin apinaooppera löytyi ('The ape opera by Shostakovich was found')" (in fi). Helsingin Sanomat (Helsinki: Sanoma Oy): pp. C1. http://www.hs.fi/kulttuuri/artikkeli/%C5%A0ostakovit%C5%A1in+kadonnut+apina-ooppera+kes%C3%A4ll%C3%A4+esityskuntoon/1135244971728. Retrieved 6 April 2009.
- ^ Artsjournal accessed 5 April 2009 (English)
- ^ Philadephia Orchestra program, October 27, 2011.
- ^ McBurney, p. 283.
- ^ British Composers in Interview by R Murray Schafer (Faber 1960)
- ^ Grove p. 280.
- ^ McBurney, p. 288.
- ^ McBurney, p. 290.
- ^ McBurney, p. 286.
- ^ Holloway, Robin. "Shostakovich horrors." The Spectator, 26 August 2000. Available at Find articles. Retrieved on 14 October 2007.
- ^ Salonen, Esa-Pekka & Otonkoski, Lauri: Kirja – puhetta musiikitta, p. 73. Helsinki: Tammi. ISBN 951-30-6599-5
- ^ Haas, Shostakovich's Eighth: C minor Symphony against the Grain p. 125.
- ^ McBurney
- ^ Michael Ardov,Memories of Shostakovich p. 139.
- ^ Wilson (1994), pp. 41–45.
- ^ Wilson (1994), p. 183.
- ^ Wilson (1994), p. 462.
- ^ Mentioned in his personal correspondence (Shostakovich, tr. Phillips (2001)), as well as other sources.
- ^ Quoted in Fay (2000): p. 121.
- ^ Wilson (1994), p. 162.
- ^ Wilson (1994): p. 40.
- ^ Laurel Fay (2000), p. 263
- ^ Wilson (2006): pp. 369-70.
- ^ Wilson (2006): p. 336
- ^ This appears in several of his works including the Pushkin Monologues, Symphony No. 10, and String Quartets Nos 5, 8 & 11.
- ^ Wilson (1994), p. 139.
- ^ Fay (2000), p. 4. "Whether Testimony faithfully reproduces Shostakovich's confidences ... in a form and context he would have recognized and approved for publication remains doubtful. Yet even were [its] claim to authenticity not in doubt, it would still furnish a poor source for the serious biographer.""
- ^ Fay, 2002
- ^ Ho & Feofanov, p. 211
- ^ "Dmitri Shostakovich filmed in 1975 during rehearsals". YouTube. 2008-01-09. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5P4x2POjSM. Retrieved 2011-11-07.
References[link]
- Kovnatskaya, Liudmila (ed.) (2000). D. D. Shostakovich: Between the moment and Eternity. Documents. Articles. Publications. St Petersburg: Kompozitor.
- Kovnatskaya, Liudmila (ed.) (1996). D. D. Shostakovich: Collections to the 90th anniversary. St Petersburg: Kompozitor.
- Ardov, Michael (2004). Memories of Shostakovich. Short Books. ISBN 1-904095-64-X.
- Edwards, Robert (2006). White Death: Russia's War on Finland 1939–40. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. ISBN 0-297-84630-2.
- Fay, Laurel (2002). "Volkov's Testimony Reconsidered". In Hamrick Brown, Malcolm (ed). A Shostakovich Casebook. Indiana University Press. ISBN 0-253-21823-3. http://books.google.com/books?id=-bn4yMWnpOAC&pg=PA22&dq=Volkov's+Testimony+Reconsidered&hl=en&sa=X&ei=Bq2ET6-kKNGQiQeSvfjTBw&sqi=2&ved=0CC8Q6AEwAA.
- Fay, Laurel (2001). "Dmitri Shostakovich". Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. Macmillan Publishers.
- Fay, Laurel (2000). Shostakovich: A Life. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-513438-9.
- Haas, David. "Shostakovich's Eighth: C minor Symphony against the Grain". In Bartlett (ed). Shostakovich in Context.
- Ho, Allan; Dmitry Feofanov (1998). Shostakovich Reconsidered. Toccata Press. ISBN 0-907689-56-6.
- MacDonald, Ian (1990). The New Shostakovich. Northeastern University Press. ISBN 1-55553-089-3.
- MacDonald, Ian. "Shostakovichiana". Music Under Soviet Rule. http://www.siue.edu/~aho/musov/dmitri.html. Retrieved 17 August 2005.
- McBurney, Gerard (2002). "Whose Shostakovich?". In Hamrick Brown, Malcolm (ed). A Shostakovich Casebook. Indiana University Press. ISBN 0-253-21823-3.
- Nabokov, Nicolas (1951). Old Friends and New Music. Hamish Hamilton.
- van Rijen, Onno. "Opus by Shostakovich". Shostakovich & Other Soviet Composers. http://home.wanadoo.nl/ovar/shosopus/shosopus.htm. Retrieved 17 August 2005.
- Sheinberg, Esti (29 December 2000). Irony, satire, parody and the grotesque in the music of Shostakovich. UK: Ashgate. p. 378. ISBN 0-7546-0226-5.
- Shostakovich, Dmitri; Glikman, Isaak; tr. Phillips, Anthony (2001). Story of a Friendship: The Letters of Dmitry Shostakovich to Isaak Glikman. Cornell University Press. ISBN 0-8014-3979-5.
- Shostakovich, Dmitri; Volkov, Solomon (2000). Testimony (7th ed.). Proscenium (publisher). ISBN 0-87910-021-4.
- Volkov, Solomon (2004). Shostakovich and Stalin: The Extraordinary Relationship Between the Great Composer and the Brutal Dictator. Knopf. ISBN 0-375-41082-1.
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- "Lev A. Russov. The Leningrad Symphony. Conducted by Yevgeny Mravinsky. 1980. // Sergei V. Ivanov. Unknown Socialist Realism. The Leningrad School. – Saint-Petersburg: NP – Print, 2007, plate 86. ISBN 5-901724-21-6, ISBN 978-5-901724-21-7.
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- Complete catalogue of works, with many additional comments by Sikorski
- The Shostakovich Debate: Interpreting the composer's life and music
- Journey of Dmitri Shostakovich – an interview with filmmaker Helga Landauer
- Epitonic.com: Dimitri Shostakovich featuring tracks from Written With The Heart's Blood
- Video of Shostakovich, at a rehearsal of his opera The Nose in 1975
- BBC Presenter Stephen Johnson on Shostakovich and Depression
- Altovaya sonata. Dmitriy Shostakovich (1981) (Sonata for Viola), documentary film on Shostakovich's life, and difficulties with Khrennikov and Stalin
- Complete opus list, comprehensive discography, bibliography, filmography, list of first performances and links by Yosuke Kudo
- Archive of BBC's "Discovering Music" radio show, featuring Shostakovich's Symphony No. 5, Symphony No. 10, String Quartet No. 8, and Cello Concerto No. 1.
- Various pieces by Shostakovich in streaming media by Classical Music Archives
- Shostakovich: the 24 preludes Op. 34
- University of Houston Moderated Discussion List: Dmitri Shostakovich and other Russian Composers
- Shostakovich: the string quartets
- Shostakovich: the quartets in context
- Interview with the composer's son, conductor Maxim Shostakovich by Bruce Duffie, July 10, 1992
- Paterson, Harry (21 December 2000). "Shostakovich: Revolutionary life, revolutionary legacy". Weekly Worker. http://www.cpgb.org.uk/article.php?article_id=1000592. Retrieved 31 August 2011.
- "Shostakovich's Tenth Symphony: The Azerbaijani Link – Elmira Nazirova" by Aida Huseinova, in Azerbaijan International, Vol. 11:1 (Spring 2003), pp. 54–59.
- Ho, Allan B. & Feofanov, Dmitry (2011). "The Shostakovich Wars" (PDF). Southern Illinois University. http://www.siue.edu/~aho/ShostakovichWars/SW.pdf. Retrieved 31 August 2011.
- Three Words for Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich by Wendy Lesser
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| Name | Shostakovich, Dmitri |
| Alternative names | Russian: Дмитрий Дмитриевич Шостакович, Dmitrij Dmitrievič Šostakovič |
| Short description | Russian composer |
| Date of birth | (1906-09-25)25 September 1906 |
| Place of birth | Saint Petersburg, Russia |
| Date of death | 9 August 1975(1975-08-09) |
| Place of death | Moscow, USSR |
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Dame Myra Hess DBE (25 February 1890 – 25 November 1965) was a British pianist.
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Career[link]
She was born in London as Julia Myra Hess, but was best known by her middle name. At the age of five she began to study the piano and two years later entered the Guildhall School of Music, where she graduated as winner of the Gold Medal. She studied at the Royal Academy of Music under Tobias Matthay. Her debut came in 1907 when she played Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 4 with Sir Thomas Beecham conducting. She went on to tour through Britain, the Netherlands and France. Upon her American debut (New York, 24 January 1922) she became a prime favourite in the United States, not only as a soloist, but also as a fine ensemble player. She also has a surprising link to jazz, having given lessons in the '20s to Ivy Brubeck, mother of Dave Brubeck.
Hess garnered greater fame during World War II when, with all concert halls blacked out at night to avoid being targets of German bombers, she organized what would turn out to be some 1700 lunchtime concerts spanning a period of six years, starting during the London Blitz. The concerts were held at the National Gallery, in Trafalgar Square; Hess herself played in 150 of them. For this contribution to maintaining the morale of the populace of London, King George VI awarded her with the Dame Commander of the British Empire (DBE) in 1941; having previously been created a CBE in 1936. Hess makes a brief appearance performing at one of her lunchtime concerts in the 1942 wartime documentary Listen to Britain (directed by Humphrey Jennings and Stuart McAllister).[1]
In 1946, Arturo Toscanini invited Hess to perform with the NBC Symphony Orchestra in New York City. Toscanini biographer Mortimer Frank wrote that, after Toscanini and Hess failed to agree on tempos for Beethoven's fifth piano concerto, they decided instead to perform Beethoven's third concerto. The 24 November 1946 broadcast concert was preserved on transcription discs and later issued on CD by Naxos.[2]
Hess was most renowned for her interpretations of the works of Mozart, Beethoven and Schumann, but had a wide repertoire ranging from Domenico Scarlatti to contemporary works. She gave the premiere of Howard Ferguson's Piano Sonata and his Piano Concerto. She also played a good amount of chamber music, and performed in a piano duo with Irene Scharrer. She promoted public awareness of the piano duo and two-piano works of Schubert.
She arranged the chorale prelude of "Jesus bleibet meine Freude" (known in English as "Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring") from Johann Sebastian Bach's Cantata Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben, BWV 147 for piano. Her protégés included Clive Lythgoe and Richard and John Contiguglia. She was a teacher of Steven Kovacevich.
Hess' lunchtime concerts influenced the formation of City Music Society.
Last concert and retirement[link]
In September 1961, Hess played her final public concert at London's Royal Festival Hall. She was forced to retire after suffering a stroke in early 1961 while in New York on her annual concert tour in America. Although she courageously fought the debilitating effects of this, by the end of the summer of that year it became clear that her pubic playing days were over. She continued to teach a handful of students (notably Stephen Bishop-Kovacevich) during her last years.
Death[link]
On November 25, 1965 Hess died at age 75 of a heart attack in her London home.[3]
Chicago Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concerts[link]
In 1977, the Chicago Cultural Center began a series of free lunchtime concerts held at its Preston Bradley Hall every Wednesday from 12:15–1pm, named in Hess's honor as The Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concerts. These are still broadcast live on radio station WFMT and streamed at WFMT.com.[4]
References[link]
- ^ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0034978/
- ^ http://books.google.com/books?id=wBD_ujAW520C&pg=PA87&lpg=PA87&dq=toscanini,+hess,+mortimer+frank&source=bl&ots=L8PLf3WufW&sig=znBRm0gPYsm_HbUp1VvADkXF0FY&hl=en#v=onepage&q&f=false
- ^ Reading Eagle newspaper - Heart Attack Brings Death To Myra Hess
- ^ International Music Foundation - About Dame Myra Hess
External links[link]
- International Music Foundation - The Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concerts
- Rosenfelder, Ruth. "Dame Myra Hess." Jewish Women: A Comprehensive Historical Encyclopedia. 20 March 2009. Jewish Women's Archive. January 5, 2010
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This article is about the German opera and tone poem composer. For others with the same name, see Strauss (disambiguation).
Richard Georg Strauss (11 June 1864 – 8 September 1949) was a leading German composer of the late Romantic and early modern eras. He is known for his operas, which include Der Rosenkavalier and Salome; his Lieder, especially his Four Last Songs; and his tone poems and other orchestral works, such as Death and Transfiguration, Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks, Also sprach Zarathustra, An Alpine Symphony, and Metamorphosen. Strauss was also a prominent conductor throughout Germany and Austria.
Strauss, along with Gustav Mahler, represents the late flowering of German Romanticism after Richard Wagner, in which pioneering subtleties of orchestration are combined with an advanced harmonic style.
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Life and works[link]
Early life and family[link]
Strauss was born on 11 June 1864, in Munich, the son of Franz Strauss, who was the principal horn player at the Court Opera in Munich. In his youth, he received a thorough musical education from his father. He wrote his first composition at the age of six, and continued to write music almost until his death.
During his boyhood Strauss attended orchestra rehearsals of the Munich Court Orchestra, and he also received private instruction in music theory and orchestration from an assistant conductor there. In 1874 Strauss heard his first Wagner operas, Lohengrin and Tannhäuser. The influence of Wagner's music on Strauss's style was to be profound, but at first his musically conservative father forbade him to study it. Indeed, in the Strauss household, the music of Richard Wagner was viewed with deep suspicion, and it was not until the age of 16 that Strauss was able to obtain a score of Tristan und Isolde. In later life, Richard Strauss said that he deeply regretted the conservative hostility to Wagner's progressive works.[1] Nevertheless, Strauss's father undoubtedly had a crucial influence on his son's developing taste, not least in Strauss's abiding love for the horn.
In 1882 he entered Munich University, where he studied Philosophy and Art History, but not music. He left a year later to go to Berlin, where he studied briefly before securing a post as assistant conductor to Hans von Bülow, who had been enormously impressed by the young composer's Serenade for wind instruments, composed when he was only 16 years of age. Strauss learned the art of conducting by observing Bülow in rehearsal. Bülow was very fond of the young man and decided that Strauss should be his successor as conductor of the Meiningen orchestra when Bülow resigned in 1885. Strauss's compositions at this time were indebted to the style of Robert Schumann or Felix Mendelssohn, true to his father's teachings. His remarkably mature Horn Concerto No. 1, Op. 11, is representative of this period and is a staple of modern horn repertoire.
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Richard Strauss married soprano Pauline de Ahna on 10 September 1894. She was famous for being irascible, garrulous, eccentric and outspoken, but the marriage, to all appearances, was essentially happy and she was a great source of inspiration to him. Throughout his life, from his earliest songs to the final Four Last Songs of 1948, he preferred the soprano voice to all others, and all his operas contain important soprano roles.
The Strausses had one son, Franz, in 1897. Franz married Alice von Grab, a Jewish woman, in a Catholic ceremony in 1924. Franz and Alice had two sons, Richard and Christian.
Works[link]
Solo and chamber works[link]
Some of Strauss's first compositions were solo and chamber works. These pieces include: early compositions for piano solo in a conservative harmonic style, many of which are lost; a string quartet (opus 2); a cello sonata; a piano quartet; Violin Sonata in E flat (1888); as well as a handful of late pieces.
After 1890 Strauss composed very infrequently for chamber groups, his energies being almost completely absorbed with large-scale orchestral works and operas. Four of his chamber pieces are actually arrangements of portions of his operas, including the Daphne-Etude for solo violin, and the string Sextet which is the overture to his final opera Capriccio. His last independent chamber work, an Allegretto in E for violin and piano, dates from 1940.
Tone poems and other orchestral works[link]
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Strauss with his wife and son, 1910.
Strauss's style began to truly develop and change when, in 1885, he met Alexander Ritter, a noted composer and violinist, and the husband of one of Richard Wagner's nieces. It was Ritter who persuaded Strauss to abandon the conservative style of his youth, and begin writing tone poems. He also introduced Strauss to the essays of Richard Wagner and the writings of Arthur Schopenhauer. Strauss went on to conduct one of Ritter's operas, and at Strauss's request Ritter later wrote a poem describing the events depicted in Strauss's tone poem Death and Transfiguration.
The new influences from Ritter resulted in what is widely regarded[2] as Strauss's first piece to show his mature personality, the tone poem Don Juan (1888), which displays a new kind of virtuosity in its bravura orchestral manner. Strauss went on to write a series of increasingly ambitious tone poems: Death and Transfiguration (1889), Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks (1895), Thus Spoke Zarathustra (1896), Don Quixote (1897), A Hero's Life (1898), Symphonia Domestica (1903) and An Alpine Symphony (1911–1915). One commentator has observed of these works that "no orchestra could exist without his tone poems, written to celebrate the glories of the post-Wagnerian symphony orchestra."[3]
Solo instrument with orchestra[link]
Strauss's output of works for solo instrument or instruments with orchestra was fairly extensive. The most famous include two concertos for horn, which are still part of the standard repertoire of most horn soloists; a Violin Concerto in D minor; the Burleske for piano and orchestra; the tone poem Don Quixote for cello, viola and orchestra; the well-known late Oboe Concerto in D major; and the Duet-Concertino for bassoon, clarinet and orchestra, which was one of his last works (1947).
Opera[link]
Around the end of the 19th century, Strauss turned his attention to opera. His first two attempts in the genre, Guntram (1894) and Feuersnot (1901), were controversial works: Guntram was the first significant critical failure of Strauss's career, and Feuersnot was considered obscene by some critics.[4]
In 1905, Strauss produced Salome, a somewhat dissonant modernist opera based on the play by Oscar Wilde, which produced a passionate reaction from audiences. The premiere was a major success, with the artists taking more than 38 curtain calls.[5] Many later performances of the opera were also successful, not only with the general public but also with Strauss's peers: Maurice Ravel said that Salome was "stupendous",[6] and Mahler described it as "a live volcano, a subterranean fire".[7] Strauss reputedly financed his house in Garmisch-Partenkirchen completely from the revenues generated by the opera.
Strauss's next opera was Elektra (1909), which took his use of dissonance even further, in particular with the Elektra chord. Elektra was also the first opera in which Strauss collaborated with the poet Hugo von Hofmannsthal. The two subsequently worked together on numerous occasions. For his later works with Hofmannsthal, Strauss moderated his harmonic language: he used a more lush, melodic late-Romantic style based on Wagnerian chromatic harmonies that he had used in his tone poems, with much less dissonance, and exhibiting immense virtuosity in orchestral writing and tone color. This resulted in operas such as Der Rosenkavalier (1911) having great public success. Strauss continued to produce operas at regular intervals until 1942. With Hofmannsthal he created Ariadne auf Naxos (1912), Die Frau ohne Schatten (1918), Die ägyptische Helena (1927), and Arabella (1932). For Intermezzo (1923) Strauss provided his own libretto. Die schweigsame Frau (1934), was composed with Stefan Zweig as librettist; Friedenstag (1935–6) and Daphne (1937) both had a libretto by Joseph Gregor and Stefan Zweig; and Die Liebe der Danae (1940) was with Joseph Gregor. Strauss's final opera, Capriccio (1942), had a libretto by Clemens Krauss, although the genesis for it came from Stefan Zweig and Joseph Gregor.
Lieder[link]
All his life Strauss produced Lieder. The Four Last Songs are among his best known, along with "Zueignung", "Cäcilie", "Morgen!", "Allerseelen", and others. In 1948, Strauss wrote his last work, the masterful and haunting Four Last Songs for soprano and orchestra. He reportedly composed them with Kirsten Flagstad in mind, and she gave the first performance, which was recorded. Strauss's songs have always been popular with audiences and performers, and are generally considered[by whom?] – along with many of his other compositions – to be masterpieces of the first rank.
Strauss in Nazi Germany[link]
[edit] The Nazi Reich forms the Reichsmusikkammer
In March 1933, when Richard Strauss was 68, Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party rose to power. Strauss never joined the Nazi party, and studiously avoided Nazi forms of greeting. For reasons of expediency, however, he was initially drawn into cooperating with the early Nazi regime in the hope that Hitler — an ardent Wagnerian and music lover who had admired Strauss's work since viewing Salome in 1907 — would promote German art and culture. Strauss's need to protect his Jewish daughter-in-law and Jewish grandchildren also motivated his behavior, in addition to his determination to preserve and conduct the music of banned composers such as Mahler and Debussy.
In 1933, Strauss wrote in his private notebook:
I consider the Streicher-Goebbels Jew-baiting as a disgrace to German honour, as evidence of incompetence — the basest weapon of untalented, lazy mediocrity against a higher intelligence and greater talent.[8]
Meanwhile, far from being an admirer of Strauss's work, Joseph Goebbels maintained expedient cordiality with Strauss only for a period. Goebbels wrote in his diary:
Unfortunately we still need him, but one day we shall have our own music and then we shall have no further need of this decadent neurotic.[9]
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Strauss was on the cover of TIME in 1927 and (here) 1938.
Nevertheless, because of Strauss's international eminence, in November 1933 he was appointed to the post of president of the Reichsmusikkammer, the State Music Bureau. Strauss, who had lived through numerous political regimes and had no interest in politics, decided to accept the position but to remain apolitical, a decision which would eventually become untenable. He wrote to his family, "I made music under the Kaiser, and under Ebert. I'll survive under this one as well."[10] In 1935 he wrote in his journal:
In November of 1933, the minister Goebbels nominated me president of the Reichsmusikkammer without obtaining my prior agreement. I was not consulted. I accepted this honorary office because I hoped that I would be able to do some good and prevent worse misfortunes, if from now onwards German musical life were going to be, as it was said, "reorganized" by amateurs and ignorant place-seekers.[10]
Strauss privately scorned Goebbels and called him "a pipsqueak."[11] In order to gain Goebbels' cooperation, however, in extending the German music copyright laws from 30 years to 50 years, in 1933 Strauss dedicated an orchestral song, Das Bächlein ("The Little Brook") to him.[12]
Strauss attempted to ignore Nazi bans on performances of works by Debussy, Mahler, and Mendelssohn. He also continued to work on a comic opera, Die schweigsame Frau, with his Jewish friend and librettist Stefan Zweig. When the opera was premiered in Dresden in 1935, Strauss insisted that Zweig's name appear on the theatrical billing, much to the ire of the Nazi regime. Hitler and Goebbels avoided attending the opera, and it was halted after three performances and subsequently banned by the Third Reich.[13]
On 17 June 1935, Strauss wrote a letter to Stefan Zweig, in which he stated:
Do you believe I am ever, in any of my actions, guided by the thought that I am 'German'? Do you suppose Mozart was consciously 'Aryan' when he composed? I recognise only two types of people: those who have talent and those who have none.[14]
This letter to Zweig was intercepted by the Gestapo and sent to Hitler. Strauss was subsequently dismissed from his post as Reichsmusikkammer president in 1935. The 1936 Berlin Summer Olympics nevertheless used Strauss's Olympische Hymne, which he had composed in 1934. Strauss's seeming relationship with the Nazis in the 1930s attracted criticism from some noted musicians, including Arturo Toscanini, who in 1933 had said, "To Strauss the composer I take off my hat; to Strauss the man I put it back on again," when Strauss had accepted the presidency of the Reichsmusikkammer.[15] Much of Strauss's motivation in his conduct during the Third Reich was, however, to protect his Jewish daughter-in-law Alice and his Jewish grandchildren from persecution. Both of his grandsons were bullied at school, but Strauss used his considerable influence to prevent the boys or their mother from being sent to concentration camps.[16]
[edit] Friedenstag
In 1938, when the entire nation was preparing for war, Strauss created Friedenstag (Peace Day), a one-act opera set in a besieged fortress during the Thirty Years' War. The work is essentially a hymn to peace and a thinly veiled criticism of the Third Reich. With its contrasts between freedom and enslavement, war and peace, light and dark, this work has a close affinity with Beethoven's Fidelio. Productions of the opera ceased shortly after the outbreak of war in 1939.
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Strauss at Garmisch in 1938.
When his Jewish daughter-in-law Alice was placed under house arrest in Garmisch-Partenkirchen in 1938, Strauss used his connections in Berlin, including the Berlin intendant Heinz Tietjen, to secure her safety. He drove to the Theresienstadt concentration camp in order to argue, albeit unsuccessfully, for the release of his son Franz's Jewish mother-in-law, Marie von Grab. Strauss also wrote several letters to the SS pleading for the release of her children who were also held in camps; his letters were ignored.[17]
In 1942, Strauss moved with his family back to Vienna, where Alice and her children could be protected by Baldur von Schirach, the Gauleiter of Vienna. Strauss was unable, however, to protect his Jewish relatives completely; in early 1944, while Strauss was away, Alice and his son Franz were abducted by the Gestapo and imprisoned for two nights. Only Strauss's personal intervention at this point was able to save them, and he was able to take the two of them back to Garmisch, where they remained under house arrest until the end of the war.
[edit] Metamorphosen
Strauss completed the composition of Metamorphosen, a work for 23 solo strings, in 1945. The title and inspiration for the work comes from a profoundly self-examining poem by Goethe, which Strauss had considered setting as a choral work.[18] Generally regarded as one of the masterpieces of the string repertoire, Metamorphosen contains Strauss's most sustained outpouring of tragic emotion. Conceived and written during the blackest days of World War II, the piece expresses in music Strauss's mourning of, among other things, the destruction of German culture — including the bombing of every great opera house in the nation. At the end of the war, Strauss wrote in his private diary:
The most terrible period of human history is at an end, the twelve year reign of bestiality, ignorance and anti-culture under the greatest criminals, during which Germany's 2000 years of cultural evolution met its doom.[19]
In April 1945, Strauss was apprehended by American soldiers at his Garmisch estate. As he descended the staircase he announced to Lieutenant Milton Weiss of the U.S. Army, "I am Richard Strauss, the composer of Rosenkavalier and Salome." Lt. Weiss, who, as it happened, was also a musician, nodded in recognition. An 'Off Limits' sign was subsequently placed on the lawn to protect Strauss.[20] The American oboist John de Lancie, who knew Strauss's orchestral writing for oboe thoroughly, was in the army unit, and asked Strauss to compose an oboe concerto. Initially dismissive of the idea, Strauss completed this late masterpiece, his Oboe Concerto, before the end of the year.
Final upsurge of genius[link]
The metaphor "Indian Summer" is often used by journalists, biographers, and music critics to describe Strauss's late upsurge of genius from 1942 through the end of his life. The horrifying events of World War II seemed to bring the composer — who had grown old, tired, and a little jaded — into focus. The major works of the last years of Strauss's life, written in his late 70s and 80s, have a luminosity which matches anything he had composed earlier in his life, and they surpass most of them in emotional depth.[21] These pieces include, among others, his Horn Concerto No. 2, Metamorphosen, his Oboe Concerto, and his masterful and haunting Four Last Songs.
The Four Last Songs, composed shortly before Strauss's death, deal poetically with the subject of dying. The last, "At Sunset" (Im Abendrot), ends with the line "Is this perhaps death?" The question is not answered in words, but instead Strauss quotes the "transfiguration theme" from his earlier tone poem, Death and Transfiguration — symbolizing the transfiguration and fulfillment of the soul after death.
Death and legacy[link]
Richard Strauss died at the age of 85 on 8 September, 1949, in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany. Georg Solti, who had arranged Strauss's 85th birthday celebration, also directed an orchestra during Strauss's burial.[22] During the singing of the famous trio from Rosenkavalier, Solti described how "each singer broke down in tears and dropped out of the ensemble, but they recovered themselves and we all ended together." Strauss's wife, Paulina, died eight months later, on 13 May, 1950, at the age of 88.[23]
During his lifetime Strauss was considered the greatest composer of the first half of the 20th century, and his music had a profound influence on the development of 20th-century music. There were few 20th-century composers who compared with Strauss in terms of orchestral imagination, and no composer since Wagner made a more significant contribution to the history of opera. And Strauss's late works, modelled on "the divine Mozart at the end of a life full of thankfulness,"[24] are perhaps the most remarkable works by any octogenarian composer.
Strauss himself declared in 1947 with characteristic self-deprecation, "I may not be a first-rate composer, but I am a first-class second-rate composer." The Canadian pianist Glenn Gould described Strauss in 1962 as "the greatest musical figure who has lived in this century."[25]
Strauss as a conductor[link]
Strauss, as conductor, made a large number of recordings, both of his own music as well as music by German and Austrian composers.
His 1929 performances of Till Eulenspiegel and Don Juan with the Berlin State Opera Orchestra have long been considered the best of his early electrical recordings; even the original 78 rpm discs had superior sound for their time, and the performances were top-notch and quite exciting at times, despite a noticeable mistake by the Horn soloist in the famous opening passage of Till Eulenspiegel.
One of the more interesting of Strauss's recordings is perhaps the first complete performance of his An Alpine Symphony, made in 1941 and later released by EMI, because Strauss used the full complement of percussion instruments required in this spectacular symphony. The intensity of the performance rivaled that of the digital recording Herbert von Karajan made many years later with the Berlin Philharmonic.
Music critic Harold C. Schonberg in The Great Conductors (1967), says that while Strauss was a very fine conductor, he often put scant effort into his recordings. Schonberg focused primarily on Strauss's recordings of Mozart's Symphony No. 40 and Beethoven's Symphony No. 7, as well as noting that Strauss played a breakneck version of Beethoven's 9th Symphony in about 45 minutes. Concerning the Beethoven 7th symphony, Schonberg wrote, "There is almost never a ritard or a change in expression or nuance. The slow movement is almost as fast as the following vivace; and the last movement, with a big cut in it, is finished in 4 minutes, 25 seconds. (It should run between 7 and 8 minutes.)" Schonberg also complained that the Mozart symphony had "no force, no charm, no inflection, with a metronomic rigidity."
Peter Gutmann's 1994 review for ClassicalNotes.com says the performances of the Beethoven 5th and 7th symphonies, as well as Mozart's last three symphonies, are actually quite good, even if they are sometimes unconventional. Gutman wrote:
The Koch CDs represent all of Strauss's recordings of works by other composers. The best of his readings of his own famous tone poems and other music are collected on DGG 429 925-2, 3 CDs. It is true, as the critics suggest, that the readings forego overt emotion, but what emerges instead is a solid sense of structure, letting the music speak convincingly for itself. It is also true that Strauss's tempos are generally swift, but this, too, contributes to the structural cohesion and in any event is fully in keeping with our modern outlook in which speed is a virtue and attention spans are defined more by MTV clips and news sound bites than by evenings at the opera and thousand page novels.
Koch Legacy has also released Strauss's recordings of overtures by Gluck, Carl Maria von Weber, Peter Cornelius, and Wagner. The preference for German and Austrian composers in Germany in the 1920s through the 1940s was typical of the German nationalism that existed after World War I. Strauss clearly capitalized on national pride for the great German-speaking composers.
There were many other recordings, including some taken from radio broadcasts and concerts, during the 1930s and early 1940s. The sheer volume of recorded performances would undoubtedly yield some definitive performances from a very capable and rather forward-looking conductor.
In 1944, Strauss celebrated his 80th birthday and conducted the Vienna Philharmonic in recordings of his own major orchestral works, as well as his seldom-heard Schlagobers ("Whipped Cream") ballet music. Some find more feeling in these performances than in Strauss's earlier recordings, which were recorded on the Magnetophon tape recording equipment. Vanguard Records later issued the recordings on LPs. Some of these recordings have been reissued on CD by Preiser and are of remarkable fidelity.
Strauss also made live-recording player piano music rolls for the Hupfeld system, all of which survive today.
Richard Strauss was the composer of the music on the first CD to be commercially released: Deutsche Grammophon's 1983 release of their 1980 recording of Herbert von Karajan conducting the Alpine Symphony.
Works[link]
See also: List of compositions by Richard Strauss
Selected major works[link]
Operas[link]
Ballet music[link]
- Josephslegende (The Legend of Joseph), Op. 63 (1914)
- Schlagobers (Whipped Cream), Op. 70 (1921/2)
Tone poems[link]
See also: Tone poems (Strauss)
- Aus Italien (From Italy), Op. 16 (1886)
- Don Juan, Op. 20 (1889)
- Macbeth, Op. 23 (1888/90)
- Tod und Verklärung (Death and Transfiguration), Op. 24 (1888–89)
- Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche (Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks), Op. 28 (1895)
- Also sprach Zarathustra (Thus Spake Zarathustra), Op. 30 (1896)
- Don Quixote, Op. 35 (1898)
- Ein Heldenleben (A Hero's Life), Op. 40 (1899)
- Symphonia Domestica (Domestic Symphony), Op. 53 (1904)
- Eine Alpensinfonie (An Alpine Symphony), Op. 64 (1915)
Other orchestral works[link]
- Symphony in D minor (1880)
- Symphony No. 2 in F minor, Op. 12 (1883)
- Festive Prelude for orchestra with organ (1913)
- Le Bourgeois gentilhomme, suite for orchestra Op. 60 (1917)
- Film music for Der Rosenkavalier (1925)
- Japanese Festival Music (1940)
- Metamorphosen, for 23 solo strings (1945)
Keyboard[link]
- Fünf Klavierstücke, Op. 3 (1880–81)
- Sonata for piano in B minor, Op. 5 (1880–81)
Concertante[link]
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- Romance for Clarinet and Orchestra (1879)
- Violin Concerto in D minor, Op. 8 (1882)
- Horn Concerto No. 1 in E flat major, Op. 11 (1882/83)
- Romance for Cello and Orchestra (1883)
- Burleske for piano and orchestra (1886–1890)
- Parergon zur Symphonia Domestica, for piano (left hand) and orchestra, Op. 73 (1925; ded. Paul Wittgenstein)
- Panathenäenzug, for piano (left hand) and orchestra, Op. 74 (1926–1927; ded. Wittgenstein)
- Horn Concerto No. 2 in E flat major (1942)
- Oboe Concerto in D major (1945)
- Duett-Concertino, for clarinet and bassoon with string orchestra (1947)
Vocal/Choral[link]
- Acht Lieder aus Letzte Blätter, Op. 10 (1885)
- Ruhe, meine Seele! ("Rest, My Soul!") Op. 27 No. 1
- Cäcilie, Op. 27 No. 2
- Heimliche Aufforderung ("Secret Invitation"), Op. 27 No. 3
- Morgen! ("Tomorrow!"), Op. 27 No. 4
- Zwei Gesänge, Op. 34 (1896/97) – 1. Der Abend 2. Hymne
- Wiegenlied ("Lullaby"), Op. 41 No. 1
- Deutsche Motette, Op. 62 (1913)
- Olympische Hymne, for chorus and orchestra (1934)
- Die Göttin im Putzzimmer (1935)
- Männerchöre (1935)
- An den Baum Daphne (1943)
- Vier letzte Lieder (Four Last Songs) (1948)
Chamber[link]
- Sonata for Cello and Piano in F, Op. 6 (1883)
- Violin Sonata in E-flat, Op. 18 (1888)
Notes[link]
- ^ Boyden, M (1999) "Richard Strauss". Weidenfeld & Nicolson
- ^ Kennedy, Michael. Richard Strauss, Man, Musician, Enigma (1999), page 69
- ^ Kennedy, Richard Strauss, Man, Musician, Enigma, page 395
- ^ Ashley, Tim. "Feuersnot". The Guardian (UK), 30 November 2000. Retrieved on 27 October 2007.
- ^ Puffett, Derrick; Tethys Carpenter, Craig Ayrey, et al. (1989). Richard Strauss, Salome. Cambridge University Press. p. 5. ISBN 978-0-521-35970-2. online at Google Books
- ^ Kennedy, page 145
- ^ Kennedy, page 149
- ^ Kennedy, p. 274
- ^ Kennedy, page 293
- ^ a b Quoted on Exploring Music episode 5 of 5 of "Richard Strauss", first aired January 9, 2004.
- ^ Reuth, Ralf Georg. Goebbels. Harcourt Brace, 1993. p. 402.
- ^ Kennedy, Michael. Richard Strauss: Man, Music, Enigma. Cambridge University Press, 2006. pp. 281–282.
- ^ Kennedy, page 285
- ^ Kennedy, page 297
- ^ Kennedy, Michael. Review of "A Confidential Matter: The Letters of Richard Strauss and Stefan Zweig, 1931–1935". Music & Letters, Vol. 59, No. 4, October 1978. pp. 472–475.
- ^ Kennedy, page 316
- ^ Kennedy, page 339
- ^ Alex Ross, p. 338
- ^ Kennedy, page 361
- ^ Ross, Alex. "The Rest is Noise: Listening to the 20th Century" (published by Fourth Estate)
- ^ Exploring Music, episode 5 of 5 of "Richard Strauss", first aired January 9, 2004.
- ^ Portrait of Sir Georg Solti., documentary (1984), directed by Valerie Pitts
- ^ Kennedy, 394
- ^ Kennedy, page 365
- ^ Kennedy, page 3
Sources[link]
- Kennedy, Michael (1999). Richard Strauss: Man, Musician, Enigma. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-58173-7.
- Kennedy, Michael. "Richard Strauss", in The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, ed. Stanley Sadie. 20 vol. London, Macmillan Publishers Ltd., 1980. ISBN 1-56159-174-2
- Kennedy, Michael (2006). The Oxford Dictionary of Music, 985 pages, ISBN 0-19-861459-4
- Gilliam, Bryan. "Richard Strauss", in Grove Music Online, ed. L. Macy (accessed 19 August 2005), (subscription access) (This article is very different from the one in the 1980 Grove; in particular, the analysis of Strauss's behavior during the Nazi period is more detailed.)
- Dubal, David. The Essential Canon of Classical Music, North Point Press, 2003. ISBN 0-86547-664-0
Selective bibliography[link]
- Kennedy, Michael (1999). Richard Strauss: Man, Musician, Enigma. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-58173-7.
- Del Mar, Norman (1962). Richard Strauss. London: Barrie & Jenkins. ISBN 0-214-15735-0.
- Tuchman, Barbara W. (1966, reprinted 1980). The Proud Tower chapter 6. Macmillan, London. ISBN 0-333-30645-7.
- Gilliam, Bryan (1999). The Life of Richard Strauss. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-57895-7.
- Osborne, Charles (1991). The Complete Operas of Richard Strauss. New York City: Da Capo Press. ISBN 0-306-80459-X.
- Wilhelm, Kurt (1989). Richard Strauss: An Intimate Portrait. London: Thames & Hudson. ISBN 0-500-01459-0.
- Youmans, Charles (2005). Richard Strauss's Orchestral Music and the German Intellectual Tradition: the Philosophical Roots of Musical Modernism. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. ISBN 0-253-34573-1.
- Karpath, Ludwig and Strauss, Richard (1905–1936). The handwritten correspondence between Richard Strauss and Ludwig Karpath, covering 31 years was acquired by the National Library of Austria in 1962 from the daughters of Dr. Alfred Marill who was Mr. Karpath's attorney.[citation needed] It consists of approximately 150 items covering Strauss relationships with the Vienna State Opera and other musical events of the period. It stops at the death of Ludwig Karpath in 1936. Dr. Alfred Marill was Mr. Karpath's executor. The terms of Karpath's will stipulated that the correspondence between Karpath and Strauss not be published until after Richard Strauss's death.[citation needed] In keeping with these terms Dr. Marill transported it to the United States when he emigrated in 1940. After Dr. Marill's death his daughters provided the letters to the library so that Mr. Karpath's wishes could be carried out. There is no evidence that these letters have been published.[citation needed]
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- Richard Strauss online
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- Free scores by Richard Strauss at the International Music Score Library Project
- Works by or about Richard Strauss in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
- Free scores by Richard Strauss in the Choral Public Domain Library (ChoralWiki)
- In America with Richard Strauss: Elisabeth Schumann's 1921 diary
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| Name | Strauss, Richard |
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| Short description | German composer and conductor |
| Date of birth | 11 June 1864 |
| Place of birth | Munich, Bavaria |
| Date of death | 8 September 1949 |
| Place of death | Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany |
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Inge Borkh (born 26 May 1921) is a German soprano.
Borkh was born Ingeborg Simon in Mannheim, Germany, in 1921. She was initially an actress and had some training in dance, both of which served her well in opera: she became known both for her voice and for her dramatic intensity - the "singing actress" exemplified, years before the term became common usage.
She studied singing in Milan and made her debut in 1940 at the opera in Lucerne as Czipra in Johann Strauss II's Der Zigeunerbaron. She remained in Switzerland until 1951, when she sang a sensational Magda in the first German-language performance of Gian Carlo Menotti's The Consul in Basel. It was her key to international stardom, leading to engagements in the world's great opera houses: Vienna, Munich, Berlin, London, New York, and San Francisco.
She triumphed in her portrayals of the most challenging dramatic roles: Aida and Lady Macbeth (Verdi); Tosca and Turandot (Puccini); Fidelio (Beethoven); Medea (Cherubini); Elsa, Sieglinde and Senta (Wagner); Helena, Empress and Dyer's Wife (Richard Strauss); Euryanthe (Weber); and Antigone (Carl Orff). But it was as Salome and Elektra - both by Richard Strauss - that she gained her greatest fame. None of her performances were captured on film but some of her great performances were recorded, and both complete works as well as excerpts from a wide array of performances are now available on CD. The complete works include Antigone, Turandot, Iphigénie, Medea (Gui), Die Frau ohne Schatten (Keilberth), Die Walkuere (Sieglinde / Bayreuth, Keilberth 1952) and her famed Elektra and Salome (Mitropoulos).
Borkh was one of the leading dramatic sopranos of the 1950s and 1960s, though she recorded infrequently. She can be heard on CD performing Scenes from Elektra and Salome, conducted by Fritz Reiner in the 1950s (RCA 09026 68636-2) as well as a famous 1960 version of Elektra with the Dresden Staatskapelle Opera Chorus and Orchestra conducted by Karl Böhm (Deutsche Grammophon 445 329-2). Her Turandot was recorded for DECCA, conducted by Erede, with del Monaco, Tebaldi and Zaccaria in the other leading roles. Also for DECCA, she recorded a famous recital in which she sings mostly arias from Italian operas.
Borkh retired from opera in 1973 after seven performances of Elektra in Italy, and briefly went back to the theater as an actress of the spoken word. She also for a while turned chanteuse, doing a unique cabaret act, a souvenir recording of which, Inge Borkh singt ihre Memoiren, is available on Preiser CD.
Personal[link]
She was married to the Yugoslav bass Alexander Welitsch (1906-1991).
Sources[link]
- Kutsch, Karl J. and Leo Riemens: Großes Sängerlexikon. Dritte, erweiterte Auflage. K. G. Saur, München 1999. Band 1: Aarden-Davis, p. 396.
- Rosenthal, H. and Warrack, J. (eds.), "Borkh, Inge", The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Opera, 2nd Edition, Oxford University Press, 1979. p. 58
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| Name | Borkh, Inge |
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| Short description | Singer |
| Date of birth | 26 May 1921 |
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