Stokowski
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Mussorgsky-Stokowski: Pictures at an Exhibition
RecommendedBournemouth Symphony Orchestra, José Serebrier
Serebrier's own imposing, heavyweight style yields different results to the volatile Knussen… but it's always absorbing. Something of the Stokowski sound is filtered through the refined texturing... —
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2005, Disc of the Month
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Special offer. Leopold Stokowski: The Art of Orchestral Transcription
Patrick Addinall (trumpet), Cynthia Millar (ondes martenot)
BBC Philharmonic, Matthias Bamert
Bamert brings much commitment to these performances —
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Special offer. Leopold Stokowski: Great Recordings from the BBC Legends Archive, Vol. 2
Berit Lindholm, Heather Harper (soprano), Helen Watts (contralto), Alexander Young, Donald McIntyre (bass-baritone), Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Band of the Grenadier Guards, John Alldis Choir, Welsh National Opera Chorus, London Symphony Orchestra, London Symphony Chorus, New Philharmonia Orchestra,...
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…even more impressive is the extraordinarily powerful version of the great C minor Passacaglia and Fugue, here given a thrilling, thrusting performance. The orchestra respond superbly to Serebrier's... —
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Mahler Pioneers
Dame Joan Sutherland (soprano), Norma Procter (contralto), Peter Pears (tenor), Leopold Stokowski (narrator), Teresa Stich-Randall (soprano), Alfred Friese (narrator), Goldsmiths Choral Union, London Symphony Orchestra, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Walter Goehr, Hermann Scherchen
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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... —
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Grammy Awards, 8th Awards (1965), Best Contemporary Classical Composition
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Grammy Awards, 8th Awards (1965), Best Orchestral Performance
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Special offer. 20th-Century Bach
Transcriptions by Stokowski, Schoenberg, Stravinsky & Webern
Boston Symphony Orchestra, Tanglewood Festival Chorus, Seiji Ozawa
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First Releases
Philadelphia Orchestra
NBC Symphony Orchestra, New York City Symphony Orchestra, Leopold Stokowski
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Stokowski and St. Bartholomew's Choir - A Prodigious Pairing
St. Bartholomew's Choir, Paolo Bordignon
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Listening to these discs in such close succession reminded me of just how much fun these transcriptions are —
