Stokowski conducts Tchaikovsky, Vaughan Williams and Shostakovich: recorded 1954-1961

Release Date: 15th Apr 2016
Catalogue No: GHCD2426
Label: Guild

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Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5 in D minor, Op. 47

recorded Edinburgh Festival, 22nd August 1961
London Symphony Orchestra
Leopold Stokowski

Vaughan Williams: Five Variants of ‘Dives and Lazarus'

recorded New York, 7th February 1954
CBS Radio Orchestra
Leopold Stokowski

Tchaikovsky: Hamlet - Fantasy overture, Op. 67

recorded Royal Festival Hall, London, 30th June 1959
London Symphony Orchestra
Leopold Stokowski

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This latest release in the increasingly important series of Guild CDs devoted to the art of the great conductor Leopold Stokowski combines music by Russian masters of succeeding generations and a unique recording of music by the English composer Ralph Vaughan Williams, who was a fellow-pupil of Stokowski at London's Royal College of Music in the 1890s. The three performances are all live recordings, and the Tchaikovsky Overture and Shostakovich Fifth Symphony, both with the London Symphony Orchestra have to be counted amongst the greatest and most impressive performances of these masterpieces ever captured through the medium of recording. The Vaughan Williams work for harp and strings was first performed in New York in 1939 and this is the only available recording of a Stokowski performance of this great work.

Stokowski conducts Tchaikovsky, Vaughan Williams and Shostakovich

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