Leopold Stokowski: The Columbia Stereo Recordings

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

Rimsky Korsakov: Disc 6

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Rimsky-Korsakov: Flight of the Bumblebee

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Debussy: Clair de Lune

Track length2:16

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Chopin: Marzurka in B-Flat Minor

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Debussy: La Soirée dans Grenade

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

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

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Brahms: Disc 10

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Allegro ma non troppo

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

Track length26:03

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Tchaikovsky: Disc 6

Work length36:07

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Tchaikovsky: Humoresque

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Albéniz: Fête Dieu à Séville

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Shostakovich: Prelude in E-FLat Minor

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Rimsky-Korsakov: Ivan the Terrible

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Chopin: Prelude in D Minor

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I. Allegro

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II. Affettuoso

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III. Allegro

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Wagner: Disc 1

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

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Ich ruf zu Dir, Herr Jesu Christ

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Nun komm der Heiden Heiland

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Wir glauben all' an einen Gott

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

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I. Allegro

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II. Adagio un poco mosso

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III. Rondo. Allegro

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Ives, C: Symphony No. 4

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I. Prelude. Maestoso

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II. Allegretto

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III. Fugue. Andante moderato

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IV. Very slowly. Largo maestoso

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Ives, C: Robert Browning Overture

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Ives, C: 4 Songs

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Majority (or The Masses) - First Stereo Recording

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

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Election (It Strikes Me That) - Première Recording

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Lincoln, the Great Commoner - First Stereo Recording

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Bizet: Carmen Suite No. 1

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VI. Les toréadors

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I. Prélude

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II. Aragonaise

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III. Intermezzo

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IV. Séguedille

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V. Les dragons d'Alcala

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Bizet: Carmen Suite No. 2

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I. Marche des contrabandiers

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II. Habanera

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V. La garde montante

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VI. Danse bohème

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Bizet: L'Arlesienne Suite No. 1

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I. Prelude

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II. Minuet

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III. Adagietto

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IV. Carillon

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Excerpt, Bizet: L'Arlésienne Suite No. 2

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I. Pastorale

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III. Minuet

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IV. Farandole

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Rimsky Korsakov: Flight of the Bumble Bee

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Debussy: Suite bergamasque: Clair de lune

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Chopin: Chopin: Marzurka in B-Flat Minor

Work length2:36

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Debussy: Debussy: La Soirée dans Grenade

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

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Tchaikovsky: Humoresque, Op. 10 No. 2

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Albéniz: Albéniz: Fête Dieu à Séville

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Shostakovich: Shostakovich: Prelude in E-FLat Minor

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Rimsky Korsakov: Rimsky-Korsakov: Ivan the Terrible

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Chopin: Chopin: Prelude in D Minor

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

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I. Andante, ma non troppo; Allegro energico

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II. Andante (ma non troppo lento)

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III. Scherzo. Allegro

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IV. Finale (Quasi una Fantasia). Andante

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

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Tchaikovsky: Tchaikovsky: Aurora's Wedding Ballet Music

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Introduction (Prologue)

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Act III: Polacca

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Pas de Six (Prolgue)

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

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Act II: Farandole; Danse - Tempo di Mazurka

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Act III: Pas de Quatre

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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

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Act III: Coda - The Three Ivans

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Act III: Pas de Deux

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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'

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I. Allegro vivace

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II. Andante con moto

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III. Con moto moderato

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IV. Saltarello: Presto

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Bizet: Symphony in C

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I - Allegro vivo

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II - Adagio

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III - Allegro vivace

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IV - Allegro vivace

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

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I. Allegro non troppo

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II. Adagio non troppo

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III. Allegretto grazioso

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IV. Allegro con spirito

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

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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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