Dimitri Mitropoulos

Dimitri Mitropoulos – Falla: El sombrero de tres picos & La vida breve – Interlude and Dance (Remastered) (1957/2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192,2 kHz | Time – 19:09 minutes | 409 MBGenre: Classical
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Dimitri Mitropoulos (1896-1960) was a Greek conductor who came to America in the 1930s and made many recordings with the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra and the New York Philharmonic Orchestra. Like Wilhelm Furtwangler of Arturo Toscanini, Mitropoulos’ height of popularity came just before the advent of modern sound technology, so that many of Mitropoulos’ finest recordings are marred by distortion and background noises that may make those recordings practically un-listenable to some classical music enthusiasts (although the new Sony Mitropoulos set has advertised that most of those very rough recordings have been “remastered”).
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Dimitri Mitropoulos – Dukas: The Sorcerer’s Apprentice – Weinberger: Schwanda – Liszt: Les Préludes – Strauss: Salome (Remastered) (1957/2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192,2 kHz | Time – 42:57 minutes | 926 MBGenre: Classical
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Dimitri Mitropoulos (1896-1960) was a Greek conductor who came to America in the 1930s and made many recordings with the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra and the New York Philharmonic Orchestra. Like Wilhelm Furtwangler of Arturo Toscanini, Mitropoulos’ height of popularity came just before the advent of modern sound technology, so that many of Mitropoulos’ finest recordings are marred by distortion and background noises that may make those recordings practically un-listenable to some classical music enthusiasts (although the new Sony Mitropoulos set has advertised that most of those very rough recordings have been “remastered”).
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Dimitri Mitropoulos – Dukas: L’Apprenti sorcier – Rimsky-Korsakov: Le Coq d’or Suite – Prokofiev: Symphony No. 1 (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 42:01 minutes | 408 MBGenre: Classical
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Dimitri Mitropoulos (1896-1960) was a Greek conductor who came to America in the 1930s and made many recordings with the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra and the New York Philharmonic Orchestra. Like Wilhelm Furtwangler of Arturo Toscanini, Mitropoulos’ height of popularity came just before the advent of modern sound technology, so that many of Mitropoulos’ finest recordings are marred by distortion and background noises that may make those recordings practically un-listenable to some classical music enthusiasts (although the new Sony Mitropoulos set has advertised that most of those very rough recordings have been “remastered”).
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Dimitri Mitropoulos – Brahms: Variations on a Theme by Haydn, Op. 56a – Weber: Jubilee Overture, Op. 59 – Beethoven Overtures (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 44:54 minutes | 500 MBGenre: Classical
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Dimitri Mitropoulos (1896-1960) was a Greek conductor who came to America in the 1930s and made many recordings with the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra and the New York Philharmonic Orchestra. Like Wilhelm Furtwangler of Arturo Toscanini, Mitropoulos’ height of popularity came just before the advent of modern sound technology, so that many of Mitropoulos’ finest recordings are marred by distortion and background noises that may make those recordings practically un-listenable to some classical music enthusiasts (although the new Sony Mitropoulos set has advertised that most of those very rough recordings have been “remastered”).
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Dimitri Mitropoulos – Borodin: Symphony No. 2 – Tchaikovsky: Suite No. 1 in D Major (1955/2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 55:53 minutes | 609 MBGenre: Classical
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Dimitri Mitropoulos (1896-1960) was a Greek conductor who came to America in the 1930s and made many recordings with the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra and the New York Philharmonic Orchestra. Like Wilhelm Furtwangler of Arturo Toscanini, Mitropoulos’ height of popularity came just before the advent of modern sound technology, so that many of Mitropoulos’ finest recordings are marred by distortion and background noises that may make those recordings practically un-listenable to some classical music enthusiasts (although the new Sony Mitropoulos set has advertised that most of those very rough recordings have been “remastered”).
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Dimitri Mitropoulos – Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 3 “Scottish” & Symphony No. 5 “Rheinish” (Remastered) (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192,2 kHz | Time – 01:15:18 minutes | 1,58 GBGenre: Classical
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Dimitri Mitropoulos (Greek: Δημήτρης Μητρόπουλος; 1 March [O.S. 18 February] 1896 – 2 November 1960) was a Greek conductor, pianist, and composer.

Mitropoulos was born in Athens, the son of Yannis and Angelikē Mitropoulos. His father owned a leather goods shop 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, finding that his soloist was sick he played the solo part of Prokofiev’s Piano Concerto No. 3 and conducted the orchestra from the keyboard, becoming one of the first to do so.
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Dimitri Mitropoulos – Berlioz: Romeo and Juliet – Dramatic Symphony, Op. 17 (Remastered) (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192,2 kHz | Time – 46:32 minutes | 946 MBGenre: Classical
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Roméo et Juliette is a symphonie dramatique, a large-scale choral symphony by French composer Hector Berlioz, which was first performed on 24 November 1839. The libretto was written by Émile Deschamps, and the completed work was assigned the catalogue numbers Op. 17 and H. 79. It is based on Shakespeare’s play Romeo and Juliet; it is regarded as one of Berlioz’s finest works, and it is among the most original in form. The score is Berlioz’s most comprehensive and detailed programmatic piece.
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