Étiquette : Dimitri Mitropoulos

• Furtwangler conducts Wagner

  

  The original podcast (narration in French, English and German subtitles) When people talk about Furtwängler, a certain cliché springs to mind for far too many music lovers. Furtwängler is supposedly a ponderous, slow conductor, embodying the Germanic tradition and a sweeping, extreme expressiveness. He is thus often compared to Otto Klemperer and contrasted with Toscanini.…

  Guilhem Chameyrat

  10 avril 2026

  Discographies & Comparisons, In partnership with the Furtwängler Society, Orchestra, Reviews

  Arturo Toscanini, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Conducting, Die Walkure, Dimitri Mitropoulos, Erich Kleiber, Golden Age, Gotterdamerung, Historical Recordings, History, interpretation, kleiber, La Scala, Leopold Stokowski, Lohengrin, London Symphony Orchestra, Meistersinger, New York Philharmonic, Philharmonia Orchestra, Podcast, Ring, Tannhauser, Teatro Colon, Tristan und Isolde, Wagner, Wilhelm Furtwangler

• A legendary recording: Mitropoulos conducts Mahler’s Tragic Symphony 

  

  The career of Mitropoulos, the great conductor of the prestigious New York Philharmonic, took a tragic turn when, in 1957, he was attacked by the press for his private life – he was homosexual. He was forced to resign and was replaced by his protégé Leonard Bernstein, and his recordings gradually fell into oblivion. Yet…

  Guilhem Chameyrat

  2 février 2024

  Legendary recordings, Orchestra

  Dimitri Mitropoulos, Historical Recordings, Mahler, New York Philharmonic