The Complete Rca & Columbia

Sony Classical is proud to announce one of its most significant historic releases of recent years: a 69-CD box set containing the recorded legacy of Dimitri Mitropoulos (1896–1960), who ranks by consensus among the 20th century’s most brilliant conductors. Many of these legendary performances have never before been transferred from their analog masters and released on digital media. Dimitri Mitropoulos's American career was launched by sensational concerts with the Boston Symphony Orchestra in 1936, which promptly resulted in his appointment to succeed Eugene Ormandy as principal conductor of the Minneapolis Symphony (now the Minnesota Orchestra). He proceeded to bring that ensemble international fame through recordings that captured the force of his magnetic personality and electrifying musicianship. In Minneapolis, he enjoyed enormous success with critics and audiences, performing half of Mahler’s then still largely unfamiliar output (earning him an American Mahler Society Medal of H