Leopold Stokowski - Great Recordings from the BBC Legends Archive

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ICA Classics
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May 24, 2024
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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



Product Description:

  • Release Date: May 24, 2024


  • UPC: 5060244551800


  • Catalog Number: ICAB5180


  • Label: ICA Classics


  • Number of Discs: 6


  • Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven, Hector Berlioz, Johannes Brahms, Benjamin Britten, Manuel de Falla, Cesar Fran


  • Performer: Leopold Stokowski



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