The great and beloved Greek conductor Dimitri Mitropoulos had been music director of the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra for a dozen seasons when, in 1949, he departed its podium for an even more ...

The orchestra left Victor in 1943 simply because it felt that it had been relegated by the company to the No. 3 position, behind Koussevitzky’s Boston Symphony and Toscanini’s NBC Symphony ...

Sunburned Hand of the Man, "The Parakeet Beat" Isaac Watts, “Joy to the World,” performed by Robert Shaw, Robert Shaw Chorale and RCA Victor Symphony Orchestra Unknown, "O come, O come ...

Beethoven: Overtures:Leonore,Nos. 1, 2. and 3;Fidelio; Coriolan (Charles Munch conducting Boston Symphony Orchestra; RCA Victor LM-2015: 12″). The matchless sound of the BSO may never have been ...

The Boston Symphony Chamber Players were duly launched in 1964 during the Austrian conductor Erich Leinsdorf's music directorship. Starting that October, RCA Victor recorded them regularly in ...