Anyone else a big fan of Dimitri Mitropoulos?

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Mitropoulos was an amazing and rather protean musician / conductor.

It seems he had almost anything he conducted memorized. He was a profoundly intelligent musician whose knowledge, skill and taste also included the most current contemporary music as well as the more common era repertoire.

As a child of five or six years of age, one of the first LP recordings I owned was the Maestro conducting the 'New York Stadium Orchestra' performing Kodaly's Harry Janos Suite and Prokofiev's Lieutenant Kije.

Mitropoulos was my 'first' conductor - and my introduction to Kodaly and Prokofiev (before Mozart or Mahler!)

Perhaps I owe the Maestro a profound thank you for that recorded intro.... :-)

I see Debussy's La Mer is also on this CD - Lucky you indeed.


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I am/was, most of the time; but he did have his off days as I recall. I use to listen religiously every Sunday to the New York Philharmonic radio broadcast during his tenure with it.

And must say, that the best performance I've ever heard of the Tchaikovsky piano concerto #-1, was performed by the aforementioned, with Vladimir Horowitz: absolutely definitive (even better than Artur Rubinstein).

Alberich

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