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Performer: Virgil Thomson

EUGENE ORMANDY AND THE PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA:... (Eugene Ormandy) (Review by Richard A. Kaplan)

conductor 

MODERN AMERICAN VOCAL WORKS: PREMIERE RECORDINGS... (Eleanor Steber) (Review by James H. North)

piano 

BARBER, SAMUEL: Adagio for Strings (Tennstedt) (Review by James Miller)

conductor 

BARTÓK: Dance Suite (Kertész) (Review by James Miller)

conductor 

BEETHOVEN, LUDWIG VAN: Choral Fantasy (Sawallisch). Piano Concerto No. 4 (Hofmann/Ormandy). Symphony No. 5 (Stokowski) (Review by James Miller)

conductor 

BERG, ALBAN: Violin Concerto (Kogan/Ormandy) (Review by James Miller)

conductor 

BERLIOZ: Roman Carnival Overture (Muti) (Review by James Miller)

conductor 

BERLIOZ: Romeo and Juliet (Review by James Miller)

conductor 

BLOCH, ERNEST: Three Jewish Poems (Review by James H. North)

conductor 

BRAHMS-CAILLIET: Von ewiger Liebe, op. 43 (Anderson/Ormandy) (Review by James Miller)

conductor 

BRAHMS, JOHANNES: Hungarian Dance No. 5 (Stokowski). Haydn Variations (Sawallisch). Piano Concerto No. 1 (Kapell/Ormandy) (Review by James Miller)

conductor 

BRITTEN: Peter Grimes (Review by James Miller)

conductor 

CHARPENTIER, GUSTAVE: Louise (Review by James Miller)

conductor 

CHOPIN, FRÉDÉRIC: Piano Concerto No. 2 in f (Review by Henry Fogel)

narrator 

COPLAND, AARON: A Lincoln Portrait (Anderson/Copland) (Review by James Miller)

conductor 

COPLAND, AARON: Piano Variations (Review by Henry Fogel)

narrator 

DEBUSSY: Prélude à L’Après-midi d’un faune (Walter) (Review by James Miller)

conductor 

DONIZETTI: Lucia di Lammermoor (Review by James Miller)

conductor 

GIORDANO, UMBERTO: Andrea Chénier (Review by James Miller)

conductor 

GOUNOD, CHARLES: Faust (Review by James Miller)

conductor 

IVES, CHARLES: Piano Sonata No. 1 (Review by Henry Fogel)

narrator 

KODÁLY: Peacock Variations (Kodály) (Review by James Miller)

conductor 

MAHLER, GUSTAV: Symphony No. 5 (Scherchen) (Review by James Miller)

conductor 

MARTINŮ: Symphony No. 4 (Sawallisch) (Review by James Miller)

conductor 

MOZART: Exsultate, jubilate (Sills/Ormandy). Piano Concerto No. 17, K 453 (Richter/Ormandy) (Review by James Miller)

conductor 

PENDERECKI: Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima (Ormandy) (Review by James Miller)

conductor 

PISTON, WALTER: Symphony No. 7 (Ormandy) (Review by James Miller)

conductor 

RACHMANINOFF: The Isle of the Dead (Ormandy) (Review by James Miller)

conductor 

RAVEL: Daphnis and Chloe (Review by James Miller)

conductor 

RESPIGHI, OTTORINO: The Pines of Rome (Muti) (Review by James Miller)

conductor 

RUDHYAR: Granites (Review by Henry Fogel)

narrator 

SAINT-SAËNS: Cello Concerto No. 1 (Du Pré/Barenboim) (Review by James Miller)

conductor 

SATIE: Sports et divertissements (Review by Henry Fogel)

narrator 

SCHOENBERG, ARNOLD: Verklärte Nacht (Ormandy) (Review by James Miller)

conductor 

SCHUMANN: Davidsbündlertänze (Review by Henry Fogel)

narrator 

SHOSTAKOVICH: Symphony No. 6 (Ormandy) (Review by James Miller)

conductor 

SIBELIUS: Violin Concerto (Heifetz/Stokowski). Symphony No. 2 (Stokowski) (Review by James Miller)

conductor 

STRAUSS, RICHARD: Arabella (Review by James Miller)

conductor 

STRAVINSKY, IGOR: The Fairy’s Kiss (Review by James Miller)

conductor 

TCHAIKOVSKY: Romeo and Juliet (Stokowski) (Review by James Miller)

conductor 

TCHAIKOVSKY: Violin Concerto (Rabin/Smith) (Review by James Miller)

conductor 

THOMSON, VIRGIL: Five Portraits (Thomson) (Review by James Miller)

conductor 

THOMSON, VIRGIL: Four Saints in Three Acts (abridged). The Plow that Broke the Plains (Review by James H. North)

conductor 

THOMSON, VIRGIL: Four Songs from William Blake (1951); Three Portraits; Three Pictures for Orchestra (Review by Peter Frank)

conductor 

THOMSON, VIRGIL: Three Pictures for Orchestra. Three Portraits for Orchestra. Four Songs from William Blake (Review by James H. North)

conductor 

VARÈSE: Arcana (Muti) (Review by James Miller)

conductor 

VERDI, GIUSEPPE: I vespri siciliani (Review by James Miller)

conductor 

WAGNER, RICHARD: Götterdämmerung (Review by James Miller)

conductor 

WAGNER, RICHARD: Parsifal (Review by James Miller)

conductor 

WAGNER/STOKOWSKI: Tristan and Isolde (Review by James Miller)

conductor 

WEBER, BEN: Fantasia Variations (Review by Henry Fogel)

narrator 

WEBERN: Variations, op. 27 (Review by Henry Fogel)

narrator 

 

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