Leopold Stokowski: The Columbia Stereo Recordings

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The sound has all of the Stokowski richness and body. The Bach, in particular, is fantastic with amazing solos from Kincaid and Brusilow. Stokowski recorded the de Falla several times and this... — Classical Net, 2013 More…

Release Date: 6th Aug 2012
Catalogue No: 88691971152
Label: Sony
Length: 8 hours 17 minutes

Grammy Awards

8th Awards (1965)

Best Contemporary Classical Composition
Grammy Awards

8th Awards (1965)

Best Orchestral Performance

Falla: El Amor Brujo

Work length26:38

$16.90

$22.10

Philadelphia Orchestra, Shirley Verrett (mezzo-soprano)
Leopold Stokowski

I. Introducción y escena (Introduction and Scene)

Track length0:32

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II. En la cueva - La Noche [in the Cave (Night-time)]

Track length2:16

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III. Canción del amor dolido (Song of Love's Sorrow)

Track length1:35

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IV. El Aparecido (The Apparition)

Track length0:14

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V. Danza del terror (Dance of Terror)

Track length2:00

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VI. El circulo mágico (The Magic Circle)

Track length2:28

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VII. A media noche - Los sortilegios (Midnight - Witchcraft)

Track length0:31

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VIII. Danza ritual del fuego (Ritual Fire Dance)

Track length3:20

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IX. Escena (Scene)

Track length2:17

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X. Canción del fuego fatuo (Song of the Will o' the Wisp)

Track length1:52

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XI. Pantomima (Pantomime)

Track length1:32

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XII. Danza del juego de amor (Dance of the Game of Love)

Track length6:43

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XIII. Final - Las campanes del amanecer (Finale - The Bells of Morning)

Track length1:18

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Wagner: Tristan und Isolde (Love Music from Acts II & III)

Work length26:03

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Philadelphia Orchestra
Leopold Stokowski

Bach, J S: Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 in D major, BWV1050

Work length25:39

Album only

Fernando Valenti (harpsichord), Anshel Brusilow (violin), William Kincaid (flute)
Philadelphia Orchestra
Leopold Stokowski

I. Allegro

Track length11:09

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II. Affettuoso

Track length8:30

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III. Allegro

Track length6:00

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Bach, J S: Three Choral Preludes

Work length12:37

$3.90

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Philadelphia Orchestra
Leopold Stokowski

Ich ruf zu Dir, Herr Jesu Christ

Track length4:02

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Nun komm der Heiden Heiland

Track length5:19

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Wir glauben all' an einen Gott

Track length3:16

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Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 5 in E flat major, Op. 73 'Emperor'

Work length42:32

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Glenn Gould (piano)
American Symphony Orchestra
Leopold Stokowski

I. Allegro

Track length21:57

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II. Adagio un poco mosso

Track length9:21

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III. Rondo. Allegro

Track length11:14

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Ives, C: Ives: Symphony No. 4

Work length30:46

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Schola Cantorum of New York
American Symphony Orchestra, New York Schola Cantorum
Leopold Stokowski, David Katz, José Serebrier

I. Prelude - Maestoso

Track length3:14

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II. Allegretto

Track length11:58

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III. Fugue - Andante moderato

Track length7:36

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IV. Largo maestoso

Track length7:58

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Ives, C: Robert Browning Overture

Work length23:00

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American Symphony Orchestra
Leopold Stokowski

Ives, C: 4 Songs

Work length15:53

$5.20

$6.80

American Symphony Orchestra, Gregg Smith Singers, Ithaca College Concert Choir
Leopold Stokowski

Majority (or The Masses) - First Stereo Recording

Track length4:29

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They are there! (A War Song March) - Première Recording

Track length3:11

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Election (It Strikes Me That) - Première Recording

Track length4:07

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Lincoln, the Great Commoner - First Stereo Recording

Track length4:06

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Bizet: Carmen Suite No. 1

Work length12:12

$7.80

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National Philharmonic Orchestra
Leopold Stokowski

VI. Les toréadors

Track length2:11

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I. Prélude

Track length0:59

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II. Aragonaise

Track length2:24

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III. Intermezzo

Track length3:08

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IV. Séguedille

Track length1:47

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V. Les dragons d'Alcala

Track length1:43

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Bizet: Carmen Suite No. 2

Work length15:30

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National Philharmonic Orchestra
Leopold Stokowski

I. Marche des contrabandiers

Track length5:01

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II. Habanera

Track length2:13

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V. La garde montante

Track length3:47

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VI. Danse bohème

Track length4:29

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Bizet: L'Arlesienne Suite No. 1

Work length18:22

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National Philharmonic Orchestra
Leopold Stokowski

I. Prelude

Track length6:46

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II. Minuet

Track length3:48

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III. Adagietto

Track length2:45

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IV. Carillon

Track length5:03

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Excerpt, Bizet: L'Arlésienne Suite No. 2

Work length9:32

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National Philharmonic Orchestra
Leopold Stokowski

I. Pastorale

Track length1:46

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III. Minuet

Track length4:11

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IV. Farandole

Track length3:35

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Rimsky Korsakov: Flight of the Bumble Bee

Work length1:22

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National Philharmonic Orchestra
Leopold Stokowski

Debussy: Suite bergamasque: Clair de lune

Work length4:48

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National Philharmonic Orchestra
Leopold Stokowski

Chopin: Chopin: Marzurka in B-Flat Minor

Work length2:36

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National Philharmonic Orchestra
Leopold Stokowski

Debussy: Debussy: La Soirée dans Grenade

Work length6:10

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National Philharmonic Orchestra
Leopold Stokowski

Novácek, O: Perpetuum mobile - Concert Caprice Op. 5 No. 4

Work length3:36

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National Philharmonic Orchestra
Leopold Stokowski

Tchaikovsky: Humoresque, Op. 10 No. 2

Work length1:54

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National Philharmonic Orchestra
Leopold Stokowski

Albéniz: Albéniz: Fête Dieu à Séville

Work length8:30

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National Philharmonic Orchestra
Leopold Stokowski

Shostakovich: Shostakovich: Prelude in E-FLat Minor

Work length3:12

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National Philharmonic Orchestra
Leopold Stokowski

Rimsky Korsakov: Rimsky-Korsakov: Ivan the Terrible

Work length4:08

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National Philharmonic Orchestra
Leopold Stokowski

Chopin: Chopin: Prelude in D Minor

Work length2:30

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National Philharmonic Orchestra
Leopold Stokowski

Sibelius: Symphony No. 1 in E minor, Op. 39

Work length37:27

Album only

National Philharmonic Orchestra
Leopold Stokowski

I. Andante, ma non troppo; Allegro energico

Track length10:42

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II. Andante (ma non troppo lento)

Track length11:19

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III. Scherzo. Allegro

Track length4:56

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IV. Finale (Quasi una Fantasia). Andante

Track length10:30

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Sibelius: The Swan of Tuonela (from Lemminkäinen Suite, Op. 22)

Work length8:13

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National Philharmonic Orchestra, Michael Windfield (english horn)
Leopold Stokowski

Tchaikovsky: Tchaikovsky: Aurora's Wedding Ballet Music

Work length42:47

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National Philharmonic Orchestra
Leopold Stokowski

Introduction (Prologue)

Track length3:12

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Act III: Polacca

Track length4:40

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Pas de Six (Prolgue)

Track length8:57

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Act II: Scene; Danse des Duchesses; Danse des Marquises

Track length2:10

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Act II: Farandole; Danse - Tempo di Mazurka

Track length2:17

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Act III: Pas de Quatre

Track length2:32

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Act III: Pas de Caratère - Chaperon Rouge et de Loup

Track length1:08

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Act III: Pas de Quatre

Track length4:51

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Act III: Coda - The Three Ivans

Track length1:22

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Act III: Pas de Deux

Track length3:56

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Act III: Finale - Tempo di Mazurka; Apothéose

Track length7:42

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Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 4 in A major, Op. 90 'Italian'

Work length29:22

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National Philharmonic Orchestra
Leopold Stokowski

I. Allegro vivace

Track length10:46

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II. Andante con moto

Track length5:48

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III. Con moto moderato

Track length6:31

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IV. Saltarello: Presto

Track length6:17

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Bizet: Symphony in C

Work length26:57

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David Theodore (oboe)
National Philharmonic Orchestra
Leopold Stokowski

I - Allegro vivo

Track length7:24

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II - Adagio

Track length9:02

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III - Allegro vivace

Track length4:44

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IV - Allegro vivace

Track length5:47

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Brahms: Symphony No. 2 in D major, Op. 73

Work length43:53

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National Philharmonic Orchestra
Leopold Stokowski

I. Allegro non troppo

Track length19:08

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II. Adagio non troppo

Track length9:29

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III. Allegretto grazioso

Track length5:41

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IV. Allegro con spirito

Track length9:35

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Brahms: "Tragic" Overture, Op. 81: Allegro ma non troppo

Work length11:37

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National Philharmonic Orchestra
Leopold Stokowski

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In 1960, CBS recorded two LPs as souvenirs of Leopold Stokowski’s return to the Philadelphia Orchestra after an absence of nearly two decades. This included Falla’s El amor brujo, which he had introduced to America in 1922, and one of his celebrated “Symphonic Syntheses” of music from Wagner’s operas. In the original Gramophone review Edward Greenfield wrote: “Never before on disc have I heard a performance of the vividly atmospheric Falla ballet anything like as involving as this …” In the second of his “Philadelphia return” concerts of 1960, Stokowski played three of his famous Bach Transcriptions. He began orchestrating Bach’s organ works in the 1920s, bringing his keyboard music to a wider concert hall audience. His early Philadelphia Orchestra 78s of these arrangements were best-sellers in their day.

Glenn Gould was a great admirer of Stokowski, citing him as a significant influence in his teenage years. He wrote articles about the Maestro and interviewed him for Canadian radio, so it was not surprising that they should get together for a concerto recording. Biographies of Glenn Gould invariably refer to his “eccentricities” as well as his talent, so his collaboration with Stokowski, whose own musical career also had its controversial aspects, inevitably provided posterity with one of the more idiosyncratic readings of Beethoven’s “Emperor” Concerto.

When Stokowski gave the World Premiere of Ives’s Fourth Symphony in 1965, he pronounced it one of the most difficult works he had ever conducted. In the New York Times, Harold C. Schonberg wrote that the music “throws up spiky walls of sound, the simplest of songs, wild poly-rhythms, clumps of tonalities, and suddenly the quiet of a New England church.”.

The remaining recordings in this set were made during Stokowski’s final years in England. His last public concert in the UK took place in 1974 when he was 92 but he then decided to take a respite from the rigours of live concerts and concentrate on recordings instead. These were made with specially selected musicians who came together for Stokowski’s sessions as the National Philharmonic.

The Maestro’s final recording sessions were devoted to two of the most youthful symphonies ever written, Mendelssohn’s Fourth and Bizet’s Symphony in C. On the final day of the recording, 4 June 1977 the Bizet finale was taped in one complete take which needed no editing. It is that complete take which went onto the finished recording and – since it was the very last time Stokowski conducted – it has considerable historic significance.

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Classical Net 2013

The sound has all of the Stokowski richness and body. The Bach, in particular, is fantastic with amazing solos from Kincaid and Brusilow. Stokowski recorded the de Falla several times and this may be his finest...the Stokowski transcriptions...is simply amazing

Leopold Stokowski: The Columbia Stereo Recordings

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