Leopold Stokowski - Great Recordings from the BBC Legends Archive

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ICA Classics
Release Date
May 24, 2024
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      Ludwig van Beethoven, Hector Berlioz, Johannes Brahms, Benjamin Britten, Manuel de Falla, Cesar Fran
    • PERFORMER
      Leopold Stokowski
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      May 24, 2024
    • UPC
      5060244551800
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      ICAB5180
    • LABEL
      ICA Classics
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      6
    • GENRE
      Orchestral & Symphonic
    Works ⌄

    1. Symphony No. 2 in C minor ‘Resurrection’

      Composer: Gustav Mahler

      Ensemble: London Symphony Orchestra, BBC Chorus, BBC Choral Society, Goldsmith’s Choral Union, Harrow Choral Society

      Performer: Rae Woodland (Soprano), Janet Baker (Mezzo-Soprano)

      Conductor: Leopold Stokowski

    2. Symphony No. 5 in D minor, Op. 47

      Composer: Dmitri Shostakovich

      Ensemble: London Symohony Orchestra

      Conductor: Leopold Stokowski

    3. Symphony No. 8 in D minor

      Composer: Ralph Vaughan Williams

      Ensemble: BBC Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Leopold Stokowski

    4. Le Poème de l’extase, Op. 54

      Composer: Alexander Scriabin

      Ensemble: New Philharmonia Orchestra

      Conductor: Leopold Stokowski

    5. Symphonie fantastique, Op. 14

      Composer: Hector Berlioz

      Ensemble: New Philharmonia Orchestra

      Conductor: Leopold Stokowski

    6. The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra, Op. 34

      Composer: Benjamin Britten

      Ensemble: BBC Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Leopold Stokowski

    7. Symphony No. 7 in A, Op.92

      Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven

      Ensemble: BBC Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Leopold Stokowski

    8. El amor brujo

      Composer: Manuel de Falla

      Ensemble: BBC Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Gloria Lane (Mezzo-Soprano)

      Conductor: Leopold Stokowski

    9. Das Ziel: Merry Waltz

      Composer: Otto Klemperer

      Ensemble: New Philharmonia Orchestra

      Conductor: Leopold Stokowski

    10. Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis

      Composer: Ralph Vaughan Williams

      Ensemble: New Philharmonia Orchestra

      Conductor: Leopold Stokowski

    11. Rapsodie espagnole

      Composer: Maurice Ravel

      Ensemble: New Philharmonia Orchestra

      Conductor: Leopold Stokowski

    12. Symphony No. 4 in E minor, Op. 98

      Composer: Johannes Brahms

      Ensemble: New Philharmonia Orchestra

      Conductor: Leopold Stokowski

    13. Perpetuum mobile, Op. 5, No. 4

      Composer: Ottokar Nováček

      Ensemble: London Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Leopold Stokowski

    14. L’Éventail de Jeanne: Fanfare

      Composer: Maurice Ravel

      Ensemble: Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra

      Conductor: Leopold Stokowski

    15. Symphony in D minor

      Composer: César Franck

      Ensemble: Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra

      Conductor: Leopold Stokowski

    16. Alexander Nevsky, Op. 78

      Composer: Sergei Prokofiev

      Ensemble: Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, Netherlands Radio Choir

      Performer: Sophia van Sante (Mezzo-Soprano)

      Conductor: Leopold Stokowski


Leopold Stokowski’s eminence as one of the truly great conductors of the 20th century over a career spanning more than six decades is exemplified in this set, which features live performances in stereo of symphonies and other works he conducted in concert during his final years and which, in many cases, he had premiered on record as well. In one of the many outstanding reviews of these live concerts, the distinguished Times critic William Mann wrote of the 1963 ‘Proms’ premiere of Mahler’s Symphony No.2: “A performance which was superb by any standards, meticulously loyal, noble and deeply felt out of long and thoughtful experience.” The set has been newly remastered to reflect Stokowski’s instructions on how he wanted his recordings to sound.

REVIEW:

A complete concert that the conductor gave in 1970 with the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic in 1970 makes for a particularly gratifying disc, because it contains a work that exists in no other Stokowski recording, Prokofiev’s Alexander Nevsky. It is a wild reading, with mostly quick tempos, although there are extremes in both directions.

— Fanfare