About
The Columbia Symphony Orchestra was an orchestra formed by Columbia Records strictly for the purpose of making recordings. It provided a vehicle for some of Columbia's better known conductors and recording artists to record using only company resources. The musicians in the orchestra were contracted as needed for individual sessions and consisted of free-lance artists and members of either the New York Philharmonic or the Los Angeles Philharmonic, depending on whether the recording was being made in Columbia's East Coast or West Coast studios. Bruno Walter : Perhaps the most important recordings the orchestra made were with conductor Bruno Walter, who recorded highly regarded interpretations of Beethoven's, Brahms's, Bruckner's, Mahler's and Mozart's symphonies. With this orchestra, Walter made his only stereo recording of Mahler's Symphony No. 9, which he had conducted at its world premiere.
Top Tracks
Flight of the Bumblebee
Humoresque - Favorite Violin Encores [Expanded Edition]Symphony No. 29 in A Major, K. 201: I. Allegro moderato
Les Dernières SymphoniesConcerto for Clarinet, Strings & Harp: I. Slowly and expressively
Copland: Concerto for Clarinet and Strings & Old American SongsII. Ma tu, cagion di quella: Madrigale XVIII, Libro quinto from Monumentum pro Gesualdo di Venosa as Cd Annum (Excerpt)
Essential Igor StravinskyNone but the lonely heart, Op. 6, No. 6
Humoresque - Favorite Violin Encores [Expanded Edition]3 Old Viennese Dances: No. 2, Liebesleid (Arr. for Violin & Orchestra)
Humoresque - Favorite Violin Encores [Expanded Edition]Petrushka Suite: Dance of the Wet-Nurses
Firebird Suite (1945 Version); Petrushka Suite (1945 Revised Version)Symphony No. 25 in G Minor, K. 183: I. Allegro con brio
One Chance (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)Keyboard Concerto No. 1 in D Minor, BWV 1052: I. Allegro
Glenn Gould plays Bach: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 - 5 BWV 1052-1056 & No. 7 BWV 1058Keyboard Concerto in D Major, BWV 1054: III. Allegro
Glenn Gould plays Bach: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 - 5 BWV 1052-1056 & No. 7 BWV 1058
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Discography
Berg & Webern & Schoenberg: Orchestral Works (2023 Remastered Version)
Album2023Stravinsky conducts Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring & The Firebird
Album2023Bruno Walter Conducts Wagner. The Columbia Symphony Orchestra
Album2019Symphony No. 5 In B-Flat Major / Rosamunde, Op. 26
Album2019Piano Concertos: no. 22 in E flat, K. 482 / no. 23 in A major, K488
Album2018Piano Concertos
Album2017Bruno Walter's Wagner
Album2017Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 1
Album2017Firebird Suite / Petrushka Suite
Album2016Symphony no. 3
Album2016
