The great Greek conductor Dimitri Mitropoulos (1896-1960) was renowned as an interpreter of 20th century music, but one hardly associates him at all with music before Beethoven (except for a few orchestral transcriptions of Bach organ works). He made only one commercial recording of Mozart's music, other than a concerto accompaniment (for
Vronsky and Babin in the concerto for two pianos), and that was of a piece so obscure that it represented a first on records at the time. This was of two entr'actes from his incidental music for "Thamos, King of Egypt" - a play by Tobias Philipp von Gelber that is only remembered today because of Mozart's music:
Mozart: Thamos, King of Egypt, K. 345 - Entr'actes 1 and 2
Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra conducted by Dimitri Mitropoulos
Recorded December 3, 1940
Columbia Masterworks 11578-D, one 78-rpm record
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Many thanks for this one, Bryan. I love Mitropoulos' recordings, and this is a real rarity.
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