The Philadelphia Orchestra
From its founding until 2001, the Philadelphia Orchestra gave its concerts at the Academy of Music. The orchestra continues to own the Academy, and returns there one week per year for the Academy of Music's annual gala concert and concerts for school children. The Philadelphia Orchestra's summer home is the Mann Center for the Performing Arts. It also has summer residencies at the Saratoga Performing Arts Center, and since July 2007 at the Bravo! Vail Valley Festival in Vail, Colorado. The orchestra also performs an annual series of concerts at Carnegie Hall. From its earliest days the orchestra has been active in the recording studio, making extensive numbers of recordings, primarily for RCA Victor and Columbia Records.
The orchestra's music director is Yannick Nézet-Séguin, since 2012. The current president and chief executive officer of the Philadelphia Orchestra Association is Allison Vulgamore, since 2010. Charles Dutoit, chief conductor of the orchestra from 2008 to 2012, has the title of conductor laureate.
The Philadelphia Orchestra
From its founding until 2001, the Philadelphia Orchestra gave its concerts at the Academy of Music. The orchestra continues to own the Aca...
GRIEG Peer Gynt Suite No. 1
SIBELIUS Lemminkäinen Suite
Recorded 1947-1951
Total duration: 56:52
The Philadelphia Orchestra
conductor Eugene Ormandy
SIBELIUS En Saga, Op.9
SIBELIUS Pohjola's Daughter, Op.49
SIBELIUS Oceanides, Op.73
SIBELIUS Tapiola, Op.112
ALFVÉN Swedish Rhapsody No.1
Recorded 1953 and 1955
Total duration: 65:58
The Philadelphia Orchestra
conducted by Eugene Ormandy
STRAVINSKY Petrushka Suite
STRAVINSKY The Rite of Spring
RACHMANINOV Preludes
Recorded in 1950. 1954 and 1955
Total duration: 66:10
The Philadelphia Orchestra
conducted by Eugene Ormandy
Recorded in the Academy of Music, Philadelphia, 1952
Total duration: 72:12
Vera Zorina, narrator (Joan of Arc)
The Philhadelphia Orchestra, soloists & choruses
Eugene Ormandy, conductor
SIBELIUS Symphony No. 4
SIBELIUS Symphony No. 5
SIBELIUS The Swan of Tuonela
SIBELIUS Finlandia
Recorded in 1954 and 1950
Total duration: 77:40
The Philadelphia Orchestra
conducted by Eugene Ormandy
RACHMANINOV Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor
The legendary 1929 recording in two different versions
and an additional alternate take
Recorded in 1929
Total duration: 66:39
Sergei Rachmaninov piano
The Philadelphia Orchestra
conducted by Leopold Stokowski