An Evening With Leopold Stokowski

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This vivid act of reclamation has so much to teach, and to enjoy. It shows that Stokowski's arrangements were made not only with love but acuity; that their flair and poetry may survive beyond... — Gramophone Magazine, July 2011 More…

Release Date: 6th Dec 2010
Catalogue No: GCD922209
Label: Glossa
Length: 68 minutes

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Bach, J S: Toccata & Fugue in D minor, BWV565

Work length9:43

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Brussels Philharmonic Orchestra
Richard Egarr

Toccata

Track length3:37

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Fugue

Track length6:06

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Cesti: Tu mancavi a tormentarmi, crudelissima speranza (arr. L. Stokowski)

Work length7:01

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Brussels Philharmonic Orchestra
Richard Egarr

Handel: Water Music: Suites Nos. 1 and 2, HWV 348, 349 (excerpts) (arr. R. Egarr)

Work length15:04

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Brussels Philharmonic Orchestra
Richard Egarr

I. Prelude (Water Music: Suite No. 2 in D major, HWV 349: I. Overture)

Track length1:57

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II. Alla Hornpipe (Water Music: Suite No. 2 in D major, HWV 349: II. Alla Hornpipe)

Track length3:27

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III. Allegro (Water Music: Suite No. 1 in F major, HWV 348: X. Allegro)

Track length4:10

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IV. Menuet (Water Music: Suite No. 2 in D major, HWV 349: III. Minuet)

Track length1:10

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V. Lentement (Water Music: Suite No. 2 in D major, HWV 349: IV. Lentement)

Track length2:26

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VI. Bourree (Water Music: Suite No. 2 in D major, HWV 349: V. Bourree)

Track length1:54

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Bach, J S: Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D major, BWV1068: Air ('Air on a G String')

Work length5:12

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Brussels Philharmonic Orchestra
Richard Egarr

Purcell: Concert Suite (arr. L. Stokowski)

Work length11:54

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Brussels Philharmonic Orchestra
Richard Egarr

I. Trumpet Tune (A Choice Collection of Lessons: Trumpet Tune in C, Z. 678, "The Cebell")

Track length1:27

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II. Echo Pastorale (The Fairy Queen, Z. 629, Act II: Echo)

Track length2:34

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III. Hornpipe (The Fairy Queen, Z. 629: First Music: Hornpipe)

Track length1:11

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IV. When I am laid in earth (Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626, Act III: When I am laid in earth, "Dido's Lament")

Track length3:38

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V. Largo and Allegro: Largo (The Fairy Queen, Z. 629, Act IV: Largo)

Track length1:50

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V. Largo and Allegro: Allegro (The Fairy Queen, Z. 629, Act IV: Allegro)

Track length1:14

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Palestrina: Adoramus te Christe (arr. L. Stokowski)

Work length2:54

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Brussels Philharmonic Orchestra
Richard Egarr

Ockeghem: Intemerata Dei mater (arr. R. Egarr for orchestra)

Work length6:55

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Brussels Philharmonic Orchestra
Richard Egarr

Tchaikovsky: Marche slave, Op. 31

Work length9:30

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Brussels Philharmonic Orchestra
Richard Egarr

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The charm and sheer full-blooded pleasure offered by Leopold Stokowski’s transcriptions continues to hold sway today – complete with opulent and resonant strings – some three decades after the dynamic conductor’s death. The ‘Stokowski Sound’ was particularly, indeed deliberately, well-suited to the possibilities offered with the development of stereo recording of the maestro’s ay, a challenge which Glossa’s engineer Manuel Mohino has happily embraced as much as the Brussels Philharmonic, whose members have taken to this style like ducks to water, in this modern-day “Evening with Leopold Stokowski”.

Leading the way with a classy swagger in transcriptions of Bach, Purcell and Palestrina is conductor Richard Egarr, perhaps better known for his work with the unadorned originals (he is the Music Director of the Academy of Ancient Music, after all), but in reality equally at home in much later music – and he makes no bones about his appreciation of the Stokowski style. About the transcription of Dido’s Lament Egarr says, “It is still Purcell, even in Stokowski's fur coat.” and, for added emphasis, he conjures up his own orchestral confection of Handel’s Water Music. An evening’s entertainment of unalloyed pleasure culminating in a triumphant rendition of the Slavonic March by Tchaikovsky, à la Stokowski, naturally.

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July 2011

This vivid act of reclamation has so much to teach, and to enjoy. It shows that Stokowski's arrangements were made not only with love but acuity; that their flair and poetry may survive beyond his own performances, given the flair and commitment displayed by the Brussels Philharmonic

8th January 2011

What’s a period-instrument specialist doing conducting the notoriously inauthentic orchestral arrangements of Stokowski? Having fun, that’s what. Baroque wonders by Bach, Handel and Purcell become dressed in showmanship...The Brussels Philharmonic plays persuasively for Egarr, and the programme’s terrific

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