The Blue Danube Waltz and Music for Strings

Release Date: 18th Jun 2012
Catalogue No: GHCD2392
Label: Guild
Series: Historical

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Strauss, J, II: An der schönen, blauen Donau, Op. 314

Leopold Stokowski & His Symphony Orchestra
Leopold Stokowski

Borodin: String Quartet No. 2: 3rd Movement (Notturno)

Leopold Stokowski & His Symphony Orchestra
Leopold Stokowski

Paganini: Moto perpetuo, Op. 11, MS 72

Leopold Stokowski & His Symphony Orchestra
Leopold Stokowski

Rachmaninoff: Vocalise, Op. 34 No. 14

Leopold Stokowski & His Symphony Orchestra
Leopold Stokowski

Handel: Tamburino (from Alcina)

arr. William Gillies Whittaker
Leopold Stokowski & His Symphony Orchestra
Leopold Stokowski

Purcell: Third Act Hornpipe (From King Arthur)

Leopold Stokowski & His Symphony Orchestra
Leopold Stokowski

Gluck: Iphigénie en Aulide: Lento

arr. Stokowski
Leopold Stokowski & His Symphony Orchestra
Leopold Stokowski

Gluck: Musette (from Armide)

arr. Stokowski
Leopold Stokowski & His Symphony Orchestra
Leopold Stokowski

Gluck: Sicilienne

arr. Stokowski
Leopold Stokowski & His Symphony Orchestra
Leopold Stokowski

Gluck: Orphée et Euridice: Dance of the Blessed Spirits

arr. Stokowski
Leopold Stokowski & His Symphony Orchestra
Leopold Stokowski

Boccherini: String Quintet Op. 13 No. 5, G281: Menuet

arr. Stokowski
Leopold Stokowski & His Symphony Orchestra
Leopold Stokowski

Tchaikovsky: Andante Cantabile (from String Quartet No. 1 in D Op. 11)

arr. Stokowski
Leopold Stokowski & His Symphony Orchestra
Leopold Stokowski

Berger, T: Rondino giocoso for string orchestra, Op. 4

Leopold Stokowski & His Symphony Orchestra
Leopold Stokowski

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In the 1950s, Leopold Stokowski made a series of splendid LPs with a specially-selected orchestra of top-flight musicians. One of these was entitled "Landmarks of a Distinguished Career." It featuring pieces he had earlier recorded on best-selling 78s and included The Blue Danube Waltz. His previous recordings of this piece were abridged to fit the older discs side-lengths but for his 1957 stereo remake all the repeats were observed. However, only now is it making its official debut on CD. Stokowski wrote: "Although Johann Strauss's Blue Danube Waltz is light music, it is first class of its kind, a perfect picture of the gaiety of Vienna in his day, and a thing of joy forever." In his notes to this CD, Robert Matthew-Walker writes: "Stokowski's performance of the complete score raises it to the level of a short tone-poem, removed from the ballroom into the concert hall." It raises the curtain on a selection of beautifully played string pieces, recorded during the same period, and includes Borodin's Nocturne as arranged by Stokowski's fellow-conductor, Sir Malcolm Sargent.

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