An Evening With Leopold Stokowski / Richard Egarr, Brussels Philharmonic

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This is a hybrid Super Audio CD playable on both regular and Super Audio CD players.

The charm and sheer full-blooded pleasure offered by Leopold Stokowski’s transcriptions continues to hold sway today – complete with opulent and resonant strings – some three decades after the dynamic conductor’s death. The “Stokowski Sound” was particularly, indeed deliberately, well-suited to the possibilities offered with the development of stereo recording of the maestro’s day, a challenge which Glossa’s engineer Manuel Mohino has happily embraced as much as the Brussels Philharmonic, whose members have taken to the style like ducks to water in this modern-day “Evening with Leopold Stokowski”.

Leading the way with a classy swagger in transcriptions of Bach, Purcell and Palestrina is a conductor in Richard Egarr, perhaps better known for his work with the unadorned originals (he is the Music Director of the Academy of Ancient Music, after all), but in reality equally at home in much later music – and he makes no bones about his appreciation of the Stokowski style. About the transcription of Dido’s Lament Egarr says, “It is still Purcell, even in Stokowski's fur coat.” and, for added emphasis, he conjures up his own orchestral confection of Handel’s Water Music. An evening’s entertainment of unalloyed pleasure culminating in a triumphant rendition of the Slavonic March by Tchaikovsky, à la Stokowski, naturally.


Product Description:


  • Catalog Number: GCD922209


  • UPC: 8424562222090


  • Label: Glossa


  • Composer: Antonio Cesti, George Frideric Handel, Giovanni Palestrina, Henry Purcell, Johann Sebastian Bach, Johannes Ockeghem, Leopold Stokowski, Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Pietro Antonio Cesti


  • Conductor: Richard Egarr


  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Brussels Philharmonic Orchestra