Article on Ormandy "The Columbia Stereo Collection: 1964-1983"

[brewski]

Here is my article for WRTI on the latest Ormandy box, The Columbia Stereo Collection: 1964-1983. For months, I've been listening to a ton of Ormandy/Philadelphia recordings, most of which I have never heard.

From the start, we wanted it to be a piece that readers would enjoy whether or not they intended to buy the set (94 CDs, around $140). There will be plenty of detailed, disc-by-disc reviews, but my editor was more interested in what the recordings say about Ormandy's work during that time.

I don't always put links to my articles here, but am pretty pleased with this one.

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Well-written and very informative article! Ives' Three Places in New England sounds interesting and I will check it out soon!

[brewski]

Well-written and very informative article! Ives' Three Places in New England sounds interesting and I will check it out soon!

Thank you so much for reading!

The Ives is a great piece, and has appeared reasonably often since Ormandy's recording, but it was a real surprise to hear it with these forces.

[Daverz]

Here is my article for WRTI on the latest Ormandy box, The Columbia Stereo Collection: 1964-1983. For months, I've been listening to a ton of Ormandy/Philadelphia recordings, most of which I have never heard.

From the start, we wanted it to be a piece that readers would enjoy whether or not they intended to buy the set (94 CDs, around $140). There will be plenty of detailed, disc-by-disc reviews, but my editor was more interested in what the recordings say about Ormandy's work during that time.

I don't always put links to my articles here, but am pretty pleased with this one.

Nice article.  Now listening to the Rach Symphony No. 1 in the box, which has a very wide dynamic range from what I'm used to for Columbia recordings of that era (this one from 1967).

[Karl Henning]

Here is my article for WRTI on the latest Ormandy box, The Columbia Stereo Collection: 1964-1983. For months, I've been listening to a ton of Ormandy/Philadelphia recordings, most of which I have never heard.

From the start, we wanted it to be a piece that readers would enjoy whether or not they intended to buy the set (94 CDs, around $140). There will be plenty of detailed, disc-by-disc reviews, but my editor was more interested in what the recordings say about Ormandy's work during that time.

I don't always put links to my articles here, but am pretty pleased with this one.

Nice!

[brewski]

Nice article.  Now listening to the Rach Symphony No. 1 in the box, which has a very wide dynamic range from what I'm used to for Columbia recordings of that era (this one from 1967).

Thank you. I was surprised, too (pleasantly), by the dynamic range in many of the recordings.

Nice!

Thanks! Appreciate your reading, which I don't take for granted these days.