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In Reply to: RE: On the contrary: It's more like Dutoit is the Ormandy of Canada! [nt] ;-) posted by Chris from Lafayette on July 18, 2016 at 23:28:48
I have owned a lot of Ormandy records over the years, and even saw him live once. With the amount of recording he did, there are bound to be a few worthy recordings, but they are few and far between, IMO. In general, his conducting can be described as prosaic. I find Dutoit to be much more interesting.
Being the somewhat compulsive collector I am, I managed to acquire the complete Franklin Mint Great Conductors series last year after becoming aware that it even existed when I came across two volumes in a used book store in Oakland (we were waiting to get into Fenton's for lunch on Mothers' Day). There were 15 volumes in total, featuring some of the more prolific conductors of the day circa 1980, each with five LPs. There are some surprise omissions - no Bernstein, no Karajan, and no Bohm - he passed away before they could get to him, I suspect. But Eugene is there, and sad to say, it is one of the volumes of lesser interest.
The major surprise to me was how good the Leinsdorf set was.....I had him pegged as another boring conductor, but they chose his selections well, including a mid-60s Mahler 1 that had appeared on Phase 4 - quite a good reading.
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Yes - that was my point! ;-)(And I think it was jdaniel's point too.)
Edits: 07/19/16
Your first point is that Ormandy was a boring conductor. Your second point is that Dutoit is the Ormandy of Canada. Full agreement on the first, but not on the second.
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