Robert Stumpf, II <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Well, he gutted the Philadelphia Orchestra of its rich Stokowski-Ormandy
> sound...I found his interpretations hectic at best...he seemed to play
> all of the notes and miss the music...I avoid any recordings of his...

I'm not sure that's a negative.  Toward the end of his tenure, Ormandy's
Philadelphia was best at playing Tchaikovsky and, let's see...Tchaikovsky
and, oh yeah, Tchaikovsky.  Muti, I think, recorded a very credible
Beethoven cycle, better than Ormandy's.  The 7th is particularly good.
The Sacre he did still works for me, too.

"Ernest Robles" <[log in to unmask]>

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