National Symphony Orchestra of Washington D.C & Antal Dorati - Tchaikovsky: Tone Poems (Remastered) (2020) [Hi-Res]

Antal Dorati was one of a select number of notable 20th-century conductors whose professional image was shaped largely by the record company he was most readily associated with. The distinctive way in which his performances were recorded (most importantly by Mercury) suggested, at least to those who knew him through listening at home, that the man was the sound they were hearing. And he wasn’t alone in that. If Herbert von Karajan on DG came across as the designer smoothy and Otto Klemperer on Columbia seemed the granitic sage, Dorati on Mercury Living Presence was the pushy middleweight: assertive, light on his feet, punching out rhythms with unflagging energy (especially in Bartók and Stravinsky).

National Symphony Orchestra of Washington D.C
Antal Dorati, conductor

Digitally remastered