The Philadelphia Orchestra

The Philadelphia Orchestra
The Philadelphia Orchestra is an American symphony orchestra, based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. One of the "Big Five" American orchestras, the orchestra is based at the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts, where it performs its subscription concerts, numbering over 130 annually, in Verizon Hall.

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.
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The Philadelphia Orchestra

The Philadelphia Orchestra

The Philadelphia Orchestra is an American symphony orchestra, based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. One of the "Big Five" American orchestras, the orchestra is based at the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts, where it performs its subscription concerts, numbering over 130 annually, in Verizon Hall.

From its founding until 2001, the Philadelphia Orchestra gave its concerts at the Academy of Music. The orchestra continues to own the Aca...
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GRIEG Peer Gynt Suite No. 1
SIBELIUS Lemminkäinen Suite
Recorded 1947-1951
Total duration: 56:52

The Philadelphia Orchestra
conductor Eugene Ormandy

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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

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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

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HONEGGER Jeanne D'Arc au Bûcher (Joan of Arc at the Stake)

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

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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

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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