Donald Voorhees
Donald Voorhees (1903-1989) was an American conductor, best known for his long association with radio and with the Bell Telephone Hour. He became a familiar musical presence to American broadcast audiences.
In the Pristine catalogue he appears with Jascha Heifetz and Fritz Kreisler, conducting concerto repertory in recordings and broadcasts from the middle decades of the twentieth century.
Voorhees’s conducting was clear, suppor...
J. S. BACH Concerto for 2 Violins
BEETHOVEN Violin Concerto
BRAHMS Violin Concerto
BRUCH Violin Concerto No. 1
KREISLER Violin Concerto (in the style of Vivaldi)
MENDELSSOHN Violin Concerto
MOZART Violin Concerto No. 4
PAGANINI (arr., KREISLER) Violin Concerto in One Movement
Studio recordings, 1915-1945
Total duration: 3hr 27:33
Fritz Kreisler, violin
Berlin State Opera Orchestra
The Philadelphia Orchestra
Victor String Orchestra
conductors: Sir Landon Ronald, Eugene Goossens, Leo Blech, Eugene Ormandy, Donald Voorhees
MOZART Violin Concerto No. 4
PROKOFIEV Violin Concerto No. 2
MENDELSSOHN Violin Concerto
Live recordings, 1947/49
Total duration: 68:30
Jascha Heifetz, violin
Boston Symphony Orchestra
conducted by Serge Koussevitzky
Bell Telephone Orchestra
conducted by Donald Voorhees
