Sunday, August 25, 2013

Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4 (Ormandy)

Cover design by Alex Steinweiss
The Ormandy series continues with what Columbia proudly hailed in its liner notes for this set as "the first recording of a Tchaikovsky symphony that Eugene Ormandy and The Philadelphia Orchestra have made for Columbia Masterworks" - the Fourth.  (Of course, they had already recorded the Fifth and Sixth - but that was for Victor.)  This is the first of four recordings the Fabulous Philadelphians were to make of Tchaikovsky's "Fate" symphony (the others were in 1953, 1963 and 1973):

Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4 in F Minor, Op. 36
Philadelphia Orchestra conducted by Eugene Ormandy
Recorded December 3-4, 1947
Columbia Masterworks set MM-736, five 78-rpm records
Link (FLAC files, 112.24 MB)
Link (MP3 files, 53.86 MB)

5 comments:

  1. I've tried many, many times to download this over the past couple of days, but FileFactory responds every time with: "All free downloads slots are in use. Please feel free to try again shortly." The same message is repeated every time I try again. I've never before seen this message in all the times I've been downloading your files (and I only use FileFactory for your files). Apparently FileFactory has greatly reduced their support of free downloads in order to force people to purchase Premium accounts.

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  2. Same here. Been trying to download the Maggie Teyte with the same lack of success.

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  3. Same here. Been trying to download the Maggie Teyte with the same lack of success.

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  4. Hi, Having problem downloading the Ormandy. FileFactory states there are no more download slots available..!!!

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  5. Well, this is discouraging news. I hope it's only temporary, because FileFactory has been talking a lot lately about "changes" and a "revamped account section."

    Meanwhile, I've put both the Teyte and Tchaikovsky up on Hotfile:

    https://hotfile.com/dl/242130070/e17df95/Ormandy_-_Tchaikovsky_4_FLACs.zip.html

    https://hotfile.com/dl/242134785/37233b8/Ormandy_-_Tchaikovsky_4_MP3s.zip.html

    https://hotfile.com/dl/242132714/bde80ca/Teyte_-_French_Operatic_Arias_FLACs.zip.html

    https://hotfile.com/dl/242133177/0c5d8b9/Teyte_-_French_Operatic_Arias_MP3s.zip.html

    The recordings can also be heard at my YouTube channel (shellackophile).

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