Yes, these are the definitive late-'50s recordings of Leopold Stokowski conducting his symphony orchestra in his transcriptions of Bach. In terms of sheer aural charisma, they are simply impossible to beat. Stokowski put all the showman and all the charlatan that was in him into his Bach transcriptions and his late-'50s recordings of them are ...
All taste abandon, you who listen here. The combination of some of the most banal music ever composed performed by one of the most vulgar men who ever conducted captured in some of the most vulgar sound ever recorded is enough to drive listeners with refined sensibilities to despair. But for less discriminating listeners, the disc called ...
Recorded when the conductor was a 93 years old, Leopold Stokowski's 1975 recording of Rimsky-Korsakov's Scheherazade with the Royal Philharmonic is still prime Stokowski. The instrumental colors are vivid and spectacular. The tone qualities are lush and ravishing. The long melodies are full and sensual. The formal shapes are strong and supple. ...
This is one of the true jewels of the Vanguard catalog; Leopold Stokowski's 1967 recording of Igor Stravinsky's L'histoire du soldat. It features actors Madeleine Milhaud (then-wife of composer Darius Milhaud), Jean Pierre Aumont, and baritone Martial Singher portraying playwright C.F. Ramuz's spoken dialogue as Narrator, Soldier, and Devil, ...
Recorded in quadraphonic surround sound in 1974, this disc has several things going for it. First is the sound. Not only were the original recordings marvelous -- the detail, the color, and especially the depth of the recordings is unsurpassable -- but the super audio remastering is fantastic -- one seems to be sitting in Wembly's Brent Town Hall ...
Music & Arts' Stokowski Conducts Tchaikovsky and Avshalomov experimental stereo recordings from 1952 is precisely the sort of thing historical recording buffs don't ever expect to see. Historically, stereo sound doesn't officially appear as a public medium until 1958, but as early as 1930 inventors at EMI in Germany and at Bell Labs were trying to ...
What a typically cool -- and typically weird -- Stokowski disc. What other conductor would start a concert with a lighthearted and gay Merry Waltz by Otto Klemperer -- yes, that Otto Klemperer, the iron-handed conductor of stern recordings of Beethoven's Missa Solemnis and Brahms' Ein deutsches Requiem? Who else would follow that curtain raiser ...
Archipel's Stokowski Conducts Bizet & Messiaen includes three of conductor Leopold Stokowski's studio recordings from the late 1940s and early 1950s; his Bizet Symphony in C and both L'Arlesienne suites recorded for RCA Victor with "his" orchestra in 1952 and his Messiaen L'Ascension, recorded with the New York Philharmonic in 1947 and 1949 for ...
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