News & Latest Releases

 

The following Stokowski recordings have been released recently:

(25/09/08)
Enesco: Romanian Rhapsody No.1
Leopold Stokowski Symphony Orchestra, rec. 17/04/53
Enesco: Romanian Rhapsody No.2
Leopold Stokowski Symphony Orchestra, rec. 01/10/53
Debussy: Nocturnes
Robert Shaw Chorale / Leopold Stokowski Symphony Orchestra, rec. 11/10, 10/11/50
Stravinsky: Firebird Suite
Leopold Stokowski Symphony Orchestra, rec. 24/05, 07/06/50
Wagner: Ride of the Valkyries
All-American Youth Orchestra, rec. 1941 (binaural)
Cala CACD 0549
Produced in association with THE LEOPOLD STOKOWSKI SOCIETY.

 

(08/09/08)
Bach/Stokowski
Philadelphia Orchestra
Toccata and Fugue in d minor BWV 565, rec. 06/04/27
Chorale Prelude "Ich ruf' zu Dir, Herr Jesu Christ" BWV 639, rec. 13/10/27
Chorale Prelude "Nun komm der Heiden Heiland" BWV 599, rec. 07/04/34
Chorale Prelude "Wir glauben all an einen Gott" BWV 680, rec. 01/05/29
from "Das wohltemperierte Klavier":
Prelude No.24 in b minor BWV 869, rec. 02/05/29
Prelude No.8 in e flat minor BWV 853, rec. 12/10/27
Fugue No.2 in c minor BWV 847, rec. 07/04/34
Ciaccona from Partita for Violin No.2 in d minor BWV 1004, rec. 30/04/34
Chorale Prelude "Ein' feste Burg ist unser Gott" BWV 720, rec. 20/04/39
Adagio from Toccata, Adagio and Fugue in C major BWV 564, rec. 28/10/33
"Little Fugue" in g minor BWV 578, rec. 17/03/31
Passacaglia and Fugue in c minor BWV 582, rec. 16/11/36
Naxos 8.111297

 

(07/09/08)
Ravel: Fanfare from L'éventail de Jeanne
Franck: Symphony in d minor
Prokofiev: Alexander Nevsky (with Sophia van Sante and Groot Omroepkoor)
Radio Filharmonisch Orkest Hilversum, rec. live 22/08/70
Medici Arts MM026-2

 

(16/06/08)
Villa Lobos:
"Bachiana Brasileira" No.5, rec. 06,08/02/51
Tchaikovsky:
Letter Scene from Eugene Onegin, rec. 06/02/51
Licia Albanese / Leopold Stokowski Symphony Orchestra
+ other recordings by Licia Albanese
Testament SBT 1414

 

(16/06/08)
Wagner:
Wesendonck-Lieder
Eileen Farrell / Leopold Stokowski Symphony Orchestra, rec. 22/05/1950
+ Siegfried, Act III, Scene 3
Testament SBT 1415

 

(16/06/08)
Mussorgsky/Stokowski: A Night on the Bare Mountain
Mussorgsky/Stokowski: Pictures at an Exhibition
+ Wagner: Meistersinger Overture
+ Serebrier: Symphony No.3 (with Carole Farley, soprano)
+ Bizet: Farandole from L'Arlésienne
National Youth Orchestra of Spain / José Serebrier, rec. live 08/2007
Naxos 2.110230 (DVD)

 

(16/05/08)
Bizet: Symphony, rec. 20/03/52
Bizet: L'Arlésienne Suites, rec. 1952
Debussy/Caplet: Children's Corner, rec. 02,30/03/49
Leopold Stokowski Symphony Orchestra
 Cala CACD 0548
Produced in association with THE LEOPOLD STOKOWSKI SOCIETY.

 

(28/03/08)
Helsinki City Symphony Orchestra, 17 June 1953
All-Sibelius Programme:
Finlandia
Symphony No.1
Excerpts from Pelléas and Mélisande
Symphony No.7
 Guild GHCD 2341

 

(06/03/08)
Leimer: Piano Concerto No.4
 Kurt Leimer, piano / Symphony of the Air, rec. 03/1959
 +Gershwin: Piano Concerto
Kurt Leimer, piano / Skyline Symphony Orchestra / Günter Neidlinger
Colosseum COL 9202.2

 

(08/02/08)
Stokowski and the NBC Symphony Orchestra
Prokofiev: 3 excerpts from The Love for Three Oranges, rec. live 18/11/41
MacDowell: Piano Concerto No.2, 1st & 2nd movements (with Frances Nash, piano), rec. live 07/04/42
Brahms: Symphony No.4, rec. live 18/11/41
Taylor: Ballet Music from Ramuntcho, rec. live 26/12/43
 Guild GHCD 2335

 

(19/01/08)
Tchaikovsky:
Capriccio italien
Nutcracker Suite
Eugene Onegin: Polonaise, Waltz
London Philharmonic Orchestra, rec. 12/73
Francesca da Rimini
Serenade for Strings
London Symphony Orchestra, rec. 10/74
Philips 442 8335 (2 CDs)

 

(19/01/08)
Nielsen: Symphony No.2
Danmarks Radios Symfoniorkester, rec. live 04/08/67
+ Interview
VAI 4437 (DVD)

 

(05/10/07)
Mussorgsky/Stokowski: Prelude to Act IV from Khovanchina
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No.5
Wagner: Prelude and Liebestod from Tristan und Isolde
Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart, rec. live 20/05/55
Debussy: Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune
Radio-Sinfonieorchester Frankfurt, rec. live 31/05/55
Guild GHCD 2329
More Stokowski CDs from Guild in preparation!

 

(25/09/07)
The Heart of the Ballet
Leopold Stokowski and His Symphony Orchestra
Adam: Excerpt from Giselle, rec. 16/05/50
Weber/Berlioz: Aufforderung zum Tanz, rec. 09/05/50
Chopin/Anderson/Bodge: Les Sylphides, rec. 11/05/50
Delibes: Valse lento and Pizzicato Polka from Sylvia, rec. 16/05/50
Tchaikovsky: Pas d'action and Danses des petits cygnes from Swan Lake, rec. 11/05/50
Tchaikovsky: Nutcracker Suite, rec. 29/06/50
Debussy: Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune, rec. 04/10/49
Berlioz: Dance of the Sylphs from La damnation de Faust, rec. 15/02/51
Cala CACD 0547
 Produced in association with THE LEOPOLD STOKOWSKI SOCIETY.

 

(11/09/07)
Prokofiev: Violin Concerto No.2
Berl Senofsky, violin / American Symphony Orchestra, rec. live 10/01/66
+Beethoven: Violin Concerto
Berl Senofsky, violin / Boston Symphony Orchestra / Pierre Monteux, rec. live 09/08/58
Cembal d'amour CD 126

 

(08/09/07)
Wagner /Stokowski
Das Rheingold: Entrance of the Gods into Valhalla (ed. Stokowski)
Tristan and Isolde: Symphonic Synthesis - Prelude; Liebesnacht; Liebestod (arr. Stokowski)
Parsifal: Symphonic Synthesis Act 3 (arr. Stokowski)
Die Walküre: Magic Fire Music (arr. Stokowski)
Die Walküre: Ride of the Valkyries (ed. Stokowski)
Bournemouth Symphony / José Serebrier
Naxos 8.570293
 Produced in association with THE LEOPOLD STOKOWSKI SOCIETY.

 

(21/06/07)
Tchaikovsky: Romeo and Juliet
Orchestra della Radiotelevisione della Svizzera Italiana, rec. 07/08/68
Beethoven: Symphony No.7
International Festival of Youth Orchestra, rec. live 30/08/69
VAI 4408  (DVD)

 

(17/04/07)
Brahms: Serenade No.1
Symphony of the Air, rec. 07/61
Dawson: Negro Folk Symphony
American Symphony Orchestra, rec. 1963
+ works by Prokofiev and Swanson, conducted by Dimitri Mitropoulos
Deutsche Grammophon 477 650-2  (2 CDs)

 

(17/04/07)
Leopold Stokowski and His Symphony Orchestra
Mussorgsky: A Night on the Bare Mountain, rec. 02/53
Mussorgsky: Khovanchina Suite, rec. 1953
Rimsky-Korsakov: Russian Easter Festival Overture (with Nicola Moscona), rec. 16/04/53
Glière: Russian Sailors' Dance from The Red Poppy, rec. 14/02/53
Tchaikovsky: Polonaise from Eugene Onegin, rec. 01/10/53
Borodin: From the Steppes of Central Asia, rec. 14/04/53
Borodin: Polovtsian Dances from Prince Igor, rec. 08/02/50
Cala CACD 0546
Produced in association with THE LEOPOLD STOKOWSKI SOCIETY.

 

(04/03/07)
Klemperer: Merry Waltz from Das Ziel
Vaughan Williams: Fantasy on Theme by Thomas Tallis
Ravel: Rapsodie espagnole
Brahms: Symphony No.4
New Philharmonia Orchestra, rec. live 14/05/74
Novacek: Perpetuum mobile
London Symphony Orchestra, rec. live 21/09/64
BBC Legends BBCL 4205-2
 The 1974 concert had previously been issued about 10 years ago on the BBC Radio Classics label. This new reissue has been completely re-mastered from the original BBC tapes by Paschal Byrne (engineer for the Stokowski Series on Cala Records) and now sounds infinitely superior to the earlier release. This promises to be an historic and exciting restoration to the Stokowski CD Discography!

 

(29/10/06)
Leopold Stokowski conducts the NBC Symphony Orchestra
Beethoven: Symphony No.6, rec. 18,19/03/54
+ The Sounds of Nature: Introduction to the Pastoral Symphony by Leopold Stokowski
Liszt/Doppler: Hungarian Rhapsody No.1 in f minor, rec. 10/02/55
Liszt/Müller-Berghaus: Hungarian Rhapsody No.2 in c sharp minor, rec. 09/02/55
Liszt/Doppler: Hungarian Rhapsody No.3 in D major, rec. 13/01,09/02/55
Cala CACD 0545
Produced in association with THE LEOPOLD STOKOWSKI SOCIETY.

 

(27/09/06) Now available as download!  
NBC Symphony Orchestra, 15 November 1942 (broadcast date) 
* Dorothy Maynor, soprano / ** Misha Elman, violin

Liszt: Hungarian Rhapsody No.2 in c sharp minor [listen]
Traditional: The Last Rose of Summer*
Strauss: Zueignung op.10,1 (sung in English)*
Bach: Air from Suite No.3 in D major BWV 1068**
Gould: Guaracha from Latin-American Symphonette

Completely announced Command Performance program. Please see The Stokowski Concert Collection for details and a sound sample.

Alternatively to the conventional CD, the entire program is available to PayPal members as high-quality MP3 file (30 minutes, ~42 MB) for only $7.99. To download, please follow the instructions here.

 

(06/09/06)
Experimental Stereo Recordings
Avshalomov: The Taking of T'ung Kuan
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No.5
Detroit Symphony Orchestra, rec. live 20/11/52
+ Smetana: Tábor from Má vlast
Chicago Symphony Orchestra / Rafael Kubelik, rec. live 06/12/52
 Music & Arts CD-1190

 

(01/09/06)
Bach/Stokowski
Air on the G string; Sheep May Safely Graze; Little Fugue in G minor; Komm susser Tod; Chorale from the Easter Cantata; Es ist vollbracht; Wir glauben all an einen Gott; Num komm der Heiden Heiland; Passacaglia and Fugue in C minor
+Pastoral Symphony from Handel's Messiah
+Dido's Lament from Purcell's Dido and Aeneas
+Two Ancient Liturgical Melodies.
José Serebrier / Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, rec. 09/2004
Naxos 8.557883

 

(20/08/06) 
Brahms: Symphony No.1
Philadelphia Orchestra, rec. 25,26,27/04/27
Brahms: Symphony No.3
Philadelphia Orchestra, rec. 25,26/09/28
Weber: Aufforderung zum Tanz
Philadelphia Orchestra, rec. 02/05/27
Cameo C-C9009CD

 

(20/08/06)
Leopold Stokowski live in Bucharest
Bach/Stokowski: Toccata and Fugue in d minor
Beethoven: Symphony No.7
Mussorgski: Khovanchina Prelude
Stravinsky: Petrushka Suite
Bucharest Symphony Orchestra, rec. live 19/01/67
Cameo C-C9008CD

 

(20/08/06)
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No.5
International Festival Youth Orchestra, rec. live 19/08/73
+ rehearsal
Cameo C-C9007CD

 

 (31/05/06)
Berlioz: Le carnaval romain
Sinfonieorchester des Nordwestdeutschen Rundfunks, rec. live 07/07/52
+ Symphonie fantastique
Kölner Rundfunksinfonieorchester / André Cluytens
Archipel ARPCD0290

 

 (09/05/06)
Monteverdi: Orfeo
Gérard Souzay / Judith Raskin / Doris Yarick / Regina Sarfati / Joy Clements / Andrew Frierson / Joshua Recht / Frank Doretta / Mary Lesawyer / Maurice Stern / John Dennison / Orchestra and Chorus of the New York City Center Opera, rec. live 29/09/60
Ponto PO-1046

 

 (29/04/06)
NBC Symphony Orchestra 
Tchaikovsky: Excerpts from Swan Lake, rec. 1954/55
Strauß, J. II: An der schönen blauen Donau, rec. 13/01/55
Strauß, J. II: Geschichten aus dem Wiener Wald, rec. 09/02/55
Beethoven: Turkish March from Die Ruinen von Athen, rec. 09/02/55
Mozart/Stokowski: Rondo alla turca, rec. 09/02/55
Cala CACD 0543

 Produced in association with THE LEOPOLD STOKOWSKI SOCIETY.

 

(18/04/06)
Leopold Stokowski in Hollywood
Private CD - for details and ordering information please see here.

 

(01/03/06)
Naxos's new release of Manon Lescaut with Licia Albanese and Jussi Björling contains as a bonus track this Stokowski recording:
Villa-Lobos: Aria from Bachianas brasileiras No. 5
Licia Albanese / Leopold Stokowski Symphony Orchestra, rec. 02/51
Naxos 8.111030-31

Please note, however, that this is only the "Aria". The "Dansa" from the same work, which has been recorded during the same session, is not included.

 

(01/03/06)
Andante has released a 4-CD set with broadcast recordings from the Prague Spring Festival 1947-1968. The set contains one Stokowski recording:
Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No.3
Lev Oborin, piano / Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, rec. 21/05/61
Andante AN 2150

 

 (19/01/06)
Radio-Sinfonieorchester Frankfurt, 31/05/55 
Messiaen: Hymne au Saint-Sacrement
Stravinsky: Mass
Debussy: Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune

 Please see The Stokowski Concert Collection for details.

 

 (19/01/06)
Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart, 20/05/55 
Mussorgsky/Stokowski: Prelude to Act IV from Khovanchina
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No.5
Wagner: Prelude and Liebestod from Tristan und Isolde

Please see The Stokowski Concert Collection for details.

 

 (19/01/06)
SWF-Sinfonieorchester, 15/05/55 
Egk: French Suite after Rameau
Milhaud: Concerto for percussion and small orchestra
Prokofiev: 3 excerpts from Romeo and Juliet
Blacher: Variations on a theme of Paganini (rec. 06/06/54)

Please see The Stokowski Concert Collection for details.

 

(18/01/06)
Philadelphia Orchestra, 8 December 1935
RCA Magic Key Concert
Wagner: Prelude to Act III of Lohengrin
Bizet: Danse provençale from L’Arlésienne
Debussy: Fêtes from Trois nocturnes
McDonald: Rhumba from Symphony No.2
Sibelius: The Swan of Tuonela
Wagner: Prelude and Liebestod from Tristan und Isolde

 Private CD which can be ordered from T.W.van.der.Burg@hro.nl

 

(27/11/05)
Leopold Stokowski and The Philadelphia Orchestra
Music & Arts has released this 4-CD set with rare 78 rpm recordings from 1927-1940 which have never been released on CD before. For a complete list of its contents please see here.
Music & Arts CD 1173

 

(20/11/05)
Leopold Stokowski and His Symphony Orchestra
Debussy:
Nocturnes
with The Robert Shaw Chorale, rec. 1950
Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune, rec. 04/10/49
Clair de lune from Suite bergamasque, rec. 24/05/47
Children's Corner, rec. 03/49
Private CD which can be ordered from T.W.van.der.Burg@hro.nl

 

(20/11/05)
Guarnieri:
Dansa brasileira, Flôr de Tremembé, Dansa selvagem
Fernandez:
Batuque from Reisado do pastoreio
NBC Symphony Orchestra, rec. live 09/01/44
Zimbalist: American Rhapsody
NBC Symphony Orchestra, rec. live 16/01/44
Siegmeister:
Harvest Evening from Prairie Legend
Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra New York, rec. live 29/12/46
Symphony No.1
Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra New York, rec. live 02/11/47
Private CD which can be ordered from T.W.van.der.Burg@hro.nl

 

(20/11/05)
Copland: Symphony No. 2 - "Short Symphony"
NBC Symphony Orchestra, rec. live 09/01/44
Hanson: Symphony No.4 - "Requiem"
NBC Symphony Orchestra, rec. live 02/01/44
Hindemith: Symphony in E flat major
Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra New York, rec. live 03/01/47
Sibelius: Finlandia
Hollywood Bowl Symphony Orchestra, rec. live 11/08/46
Private CD which can be ordered from T.W.van.der.Burg@hro.nl

 

(05/11/05)
Leopold Stokowski and His Symphony Orchestra
Grainger:
Country Gardens, Mock Morris, Early One Morning, Shepherd's Hey, Irish Tune from County Derry, Molly on the Shore, Handel in the Strand
rec. 1950
Sibelius:
Berceuse from The Tempest, rec. 15/03/50
Valse triste, rec. 04/10/49
Vaughan Williams: Fantasy on a Theme of Thomas Tallis, rec. 03/09/52
Rachmaninov: Vocalise, rec. 25/02/53
Granados: Intermezzo from Goyescas, rec. 11/12/47
Debussy: Clair de lune, rec. 25/04/47
Ibert: Escales, rec. 15/02/51
Cala CACD 0542
Produced in association with THE LEOPOLD STOKOWSKI SOCIETY.

 

(13/09/05)
Sibelius:
Symphony No.1
Leopold Stokowski Symphony Orchestra, rec. 07/50
Symphony No.2
NBC Symphony Orchestra, rec. 09/54
Cala CACD 0541
Produced in association with THE LEOPOLD STOKOWSKI SOCIETY.

 

 (16/08/05)
Contemporary Music Society, 03/12/58 
El-Dabh: Fantasia-Tahmeel (with Halim El-Dabh, derabucca) [listen]
Cowell: Persian Set
Partos: Yizkor (with Harry Zaratzian, viola)
Mitsukuri: Ten Haikais by Basho [listen]
McPhee: Nocturne
Chou Wen-Chung: To a Wayfarer
Piston: Divertimento
+ Miller: Prelude
+ Hovhaness: October Mountain
(played by the Percussion Ensemble of the Manhattan School of Music)

 Please see The Stokowski Concert Collection for details.

 

(10/08/05)
Mussorgsky/Stokowski: Pictures at an Exhibition; Night on Bare Mountain; Boris Godunov Symphonic Synthesis; Entracte to Khovantchina
Tchaikovsky/Stokowski: Solitude and Humoresque
transc. Stokowski: Traditional Slavic Christmas Music
José Serebrier / Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, rec. 09/2004
Naxos 8.557645

 

 (02/07/05)
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No.5
Philadelphia Orchestra, rec. 12/11/34

Available on CD and as MP3 download from Pristine Audio.

 

 (06/06/05)
The 20th Century Concert Hall, Vol.2
CBS Radio Orchestra
* Maurice Wilk, violin / ** Julius Baker, flute
7 February 1954
Ives: Largo cantabile
Vaughan Williams: Five Variants of "Dives and Lazarus"
Bartók: 3 Roumanian Folk Dances [listen]
Förster: Air in Form of a Sarabande*
21 February 1954
Creston: Partita for Flute, Violin and String Orchestra, movements 1-3* **
Ives: Washington's Birthday

Two half-hour live radio broadcasts. Please see The Stokowski Concert Collection for details.

 

(29/03/05)
Rimsky-Korsakov:
Scheherazade
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, rec. 1975
Russian Easter Overture
Chicago Symphony Orchestra, rec. 02/68
RCA RCA 82876658432

 

(16/03/05)
Stravinsky: L'histoire du soldat (English version)
Martial Singher / Madeleine Milhaud / Jean-Pierre Aumont / Gerald Tarack, violin / Charles Russo, clarinet / Theodore Weis, trumpet / Julius Levine, double bass / Loren Glickman, bassoon / John Swallow, trombone / Raymond Desroches, percussion
Vanguard ATMSC 1559 (SACD)

 

(16/03/05)
Dvorák: Symphony No.9
Philadelphia Orchestra, rec. 05,08/10/27
+ spoken introduction by Stokowski
Berlioz: Hungarian March from La damnation de Faust
Philadelphia Orchestra, rec. 12/10/27
Brahms: Hungarian Dance No.1
Philadelphia Orchestra, rec. 17/03/34
Enescu: Roumanian Rhapsody No.1
Leopold Stokowski Symphony Orchestra, rec. 22/03/47
Liszt: Hungarian Rhapsody No.2
Philadelphia Orchestra
Novacek/Stokowski: Perpetuum mobile
Philadelphia Orchestra, rec. 08/12/40
Living Era AJC 8552

 

(16/03/05)
Saint-Saëns: Excerpts from Samson et Dalila
Jan Peerce / Risë Stevens / Robert Merrill / Robert Shaw Chorale / NBC Symphony Orchestra, rec. 09/54
Tchaikovsky: Tatiana's Letter Scene from Eugene Onegin
Licia Albanese / Leopold Stokowski Symphony Orchestra, rec. 06/02/51
Cala CACD 0540
Produced in association with THE LEOPOLD STOKOWSKI SOCIETY.

 

(16/03/05)
Stokowski's Symphonic Bach, Vol.2
 Fantasia and Fugue in G minor
Arioso from Concerto for Harpsichord and Strings, BWV 1056
Wachet auf!, BWV 645
Ein' feste Burg
Chaconne from Partita No.2, BWV 1004
Andante sostenuto from Sonata No.2, BWV 1003
Preludio from Partita No.3, BWV 1006
Aus tiefer Not, BWV 686
Jesu bleibet meine Freude from Cantata BWV 147
Wenn ich einmal soll scheiden from Matthäus-Passion, BWV 244
Sarabande from Partita No.1, BWV 1002
Aus der Tiefe rufe ich, BWV 745
Fugue in C minor, BWV 847
BBC Philharmonic
Matthias Bamert, cond.
Chandos 10282

 

(27/02/05)
Vaughan Williams: Symphony No.8
BBC Symphony Orchestra, rec. live 15/09/64
Shostakovich: Symphony No.5
London Symphony Orchestra, rec. live 17/09/64
BBC Legends BBCL 4165-2

 

 (23/01/05)
Leopold Stokowski: Decca Recordings 1964–75
For a complete track list and full details, please see here.
Decca 475 6090 (6 CDs)

 

 (22/01/05)
The 20th Century Concert Hall, Vol.1
CBS Radio Chamber Orchestra
27 September 1953
Bach/Stokowski: Siciliano
Berezowsky: Adagio from Sextet Concerto
Hovhaness: Concerto for Orchestra - "Sivas"
25 October 1953
Cesti/Stokowski: Tu mancavi a tormentarmi, crudelissima speranza
Thomson: Cantabile for Strings
Cowell: Hymn and Fuguing Tune No.2
Moore: Polka and Cakewalk from Cotillion Suite [listen]
+ Luening/Ussachevsky: Incantation for Tapesichord

Two half-hour radio broadcasts. Please see The Stokowski Concert Collection for details.

 

(02/01/05)
Boston University Orchestra, 19 November 1954  
Lockwood: Prairie
Orff: Carmina Burana [listen]
Ruth Ann Tobin, soprano / Gwendolyn Belle, mezzo-soprano / Elmer Dickey, tenor / Kenneth Shelton & John Colleary, baritones / Boston University Chorus / Boys Choir from the Newton Public Schools

Fully announced original radio broadcast. Very good sound. Please see The Stokowski Concert Collection for details.

 

(18/12/04)
 Hollywood Bowl Symphony Orchestra, 22 July 1945
Liadov: Eight Russian Folk Songs [listen]
Rimsky Korsakov: Marfa’s Aria from The Tsar’s Bride
Rimsky Korsakov: The Nightingale and the Rose
Mussorgski: Aria and Dance from The Fair at Sorochinsky
Rachmaninov: Georgian Melody (all with Marina Koshetz, soprano)
Shostakovich/Stokowski: Prelude in e flat minor
Granados: Intermezzo from Goyescas
Delibes: Flower Dance from Naila
Boccherini/Stokowski: Menuetto
Debussy/Stokowski: La soirée dans Grénade

Fully announced original radio broadcast. Please see The Stokowski Concert Collection for details.

 

Hunt: Leopold Stokowski (30/11/04)
Pendragon Press has just released the book
Stokowski and the Organ
by Rollin Smith

A very detailed and well-investigated book about Stokowski, the organist, enriched with many pictures and interesting documents. The extensive appendix lists among other things Stokowski's organ repertoire and organ recitals performed by Stokowski (which indicate already a certain affinity to the orchestra - a pity that these were not recorded!), as well as the complete scores of four choral works by Stokowski. An invaluable source of information, not only for organ lovers!

Further details can be found here.

Pendragon is prepared to offer members of Stokowski Society a discount of 20% off the list price of the book, $46.

 

 (19/11/04)
Leopold Stokowski Symphony Orchestra, 16 October 1953
All-Canadian Concert:
Mercure: Pantomime
Brott: Violin Concerto (with Noël Brunet, violin) 
McPhee: Tabuh-Tabuhan [listen]
Morel: Antiphonie
Ridout: Two Mystical Songs of John Donne (with Lois Marshall, soprano) [listen]
Willan: Coronation Suite (with The Westminster Choir)

Fully announced original radio broadcast. Documentation and song texts included in booklet. Excellent sound. Please see The Stokowski Concert Collection for details.

 

(08/11/04)
Restful Music
Cesti: Tu mancavi a tormentarmi, crudelissima speranza
Leopold Stokowski Symphony Orchestra, rec. 28/02/52
Frescobaldi: Gagliarda No.2
Lully: Nocturne from "Le triomphe de l'amour"
Leopold Stokowski Symphony Orchestra, rec. 04/04/52
Purcell: "When I am Laid in Earth" from Dido and Aeneas
 Leopold Stokowski Symphony Orchestra, rec. 25/07/50
Bach/Stokowski: Mein Jesu, was für Seelenweh
Bach/Stokowski: Siciliano from Sonata No.4
Leopold Stokowski Symphony Orchestra, rec. 25/03/50
Bach/Stokowski: Sarabande from Suite No.2
Leopold Stokowski Symphony Orchestra, rec. 09/50
Beethoven: "Szene am Bach" from Symphony No.6
NBC Symphony Orchestra, rec. 03/54
Bizet: Adagietto from "L'Arlésienne" Suite No.1
Leopold Stokowski Symphony Orchestra, rec. 29/02/50
 Private CD which can be ordered from T.W.van.der.Burg@hro.nl

 

(08/11/04)
Early Italian Music
Vivaldi: Concerto grosso op.3,11 [listen]
Cesti: Tu mancavi a tormentarmi, crudelissima speranza
Lully: Nocturne from "Le triomphe de l'amour"
Lully: Marche from "Thésée"
Frescobaldi: Gagliarda No.2
Palestrina: "Adoramus te"
Palestrina: "O bone Jesu"
Gabrieli: Canzon quarti toni a 15
Gabrieli: "In ecclesiis benedicite Domino"
Leopold Stokowski Symphony Orchestra / Brass Choir / A Capella Chorus, rec. 1952
Bonus Track:
Bach: Suite No.2
Leopold Stokowski Symphony Orchestra, rec. 09/50
Private CD which can be ordered from stokowskisite@gmx.net

 

(06/11/04)
 Bizet: "L'Arlésienne" Suite No.1
Leopold Stokowski Symphony Orchestra, rec. 29/02/52
Bizet: "L'Arlésienne" Suite No.2
Leopold Stokowski Symphony Orchestra, rec. 05/03/52
Bizet: Symphony
Leopold Stokowski Symphony Orchestra, rec. 20/03/52
Messiaen: L'Ascension
Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra New York, rec. 17/11/47, 21/02/49
Archipel ARPCD 0242 

 

(27/10/04)
 Leopold Stokowski and the Hollywood Bowl Symphony Orchestra
Wieniawski: Violin Concerto No.2 (with Camilla Wicks, violin), rec. live 14/07/46
Korngold: Marietta's Song from Die tote Stadt (with Nadine Connor), rec. live 28/07/46
Gershwin: "Summertime" from Porgy and Bess (with Nadine Connor), rec. live 28/07/46
Ravel: La Valse, rec. live 11/08/46
Shostakovich: Symphony No. 1, rec. live 23/07/46
Weber: Perpetuum Mobile (with Doris Stockton, marimba), rec. live 11/08/46

Private CD which can be ordered from Patrick.Kittel@gmx.de

 

(21/09/04)
Vaughan Williams: Symphony No.9 (U.S. Premiere)
Hovhaness: Mysterious Mountain
Riegger: New Dance
Creston: Toccata
Leopold Stokowski Symphony Orchestra, rec. live 25/09/58
 Cala CACD 0539
Produced in association with THE LEOPOLD STOKOWSKI SOCIETY.

 

(27/07/04)
Stokowski conducts Baroque Masterworks in 'Phase 4 Stereo'
Vivaldi: The Four Seasons
Hugh Bean, violin / New Philharmonia Orchestra, rec. 11/06/66
Handel: Excerpts from The Messiah
Sheila Armstrong / Norma Procter / Kenneth Bowen / John Cameron / Charles Spinks, harpsichord / Philip Ledger, organ / London Symphony Orchestra & Chorus, rec. 20/09/66
 Cala CACD 0538 (2 CDs)

New transfers from original Phase4 masters in 24 Bit/96 kHz technique. Released in celebration of the 25th anniversary of THE LEOPOLD STOKOWSKI SOCIETY.

 

 (04/06/04)
Bach/Stokowski: "Little" Fugue
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No.6
Wagner: Prelude to Act I from Lohengrin
Wagner: Prelude and Liebestod from Tristan und Isolde
USSR Large Radio Symphony Orchestra, rec. live 17/06/58
Scora scoracd 009

 

 (20/04/04)
Bach/Stokowski: Toccata & Fugue in d minor
Brahms: Haydn Variations
Rimsky-Korsakov: Capriccio espagnol
Chicago Symphony Orchestra, rec. live 03/01/62
+ recordings by Fritz Reiner and Paul Hindemith
VAI 4237 (DVD)

 

 (10/04/04)
Stokowski conducts the New York Philharmonic, Vol. 3
Vaughan Williams: Symphony No.6, rec. 21/02/49
Tchaikovsky: Romeo and Juliet, rec. 28/11/49
Mozart: Symphony No.35 -"Haffner Symphony", rec. live 20/11/49
T. Scott: From the Sacred Harp, rec. live 30/01/49
Weinberger: Polka and Fugue from Schwanda the Bagpiper, rec. live 16/01/49
Cala CACD 0537
Produced in association with THE LEOPOLD STOKOWSKI SOCIETY.

 

(13/03/04)
Mahler: Symphony No.2
Rae Woodland / Janet Baker / BBC Chorus / BBC Choral Society / Goldsmiths Choral Union / Harrow Choral Society / London Symphony Orchestra, rec. live 30/07/63.

BBC Legends BBCL 4136-2

 

(26/01/04)
Schubert: Rosamunde Suite, rec. 10/09/52
Sibelius: Symphony No.1, rec. 11,13/07/50
Leopold Stokowski Symphony Orchestra
Rediscovery RD 076
Private CD issue available from www.rediscovery.us

 

(11/01/04)
The Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra has in celebration of its 100th anniversary released an 8 CD box with many interesting historical recordings, among them one by Stokowski:
Bach/Stokowski: Toccata and Fugue in d minor, rec. live 25/05/39

Only the Toccata from this recording has been released earlier on LP. Details and ordering information can be found here.

 

 (07/01/04)
Helsinki City Symphony Orchestra, 17 June 1953
All-Sibelius Programme:
Finlandia
Symphony No.1 [listen]
Excerpts from Pelléas and Mélisande [listen]
Symphony No.7

Fully announced original radio broadcast. Documentation included in booklet. Please see The Stokowski Concert Collection for details.

 

 (03/12/03)
Anthology of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Volume II: 1950-1960
 This 14 CD set contains the following Stokowski recordings:
Debussy: Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune
Berlioz: Le carnaval romain
Falla: El amor brujo
Brahms: Symphony No.2
Concertgebouworkest Amsterdam, rec. live 05/07/51
Radio Netherlands Music MCCL97018 (14 CDs)
For a complete track list please see here.

 

 (04/11/03)
Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade
+ rehearsal
London Symphony Orchestra, rec. 22/09/64
Tchaikovsky: Marche slave
London Symphony Orchestra, rec. live 15/06/72
Cala CACD 0536
New transfers from original Phase4 masters in 24 Bit/96 kHz technique. Produced in association with THE LEOPOLD STOKOWSKI SOCIETY.

 

 (02/10/03)
Leopold Stokowski: Decca Recordings 1965–72
For a complete track list and full details, please see here.
Decca 475 145-2 (5 CDs)

 

 (03/08/03)
Wagner / Stokowski
Philadelphia Orchestra
For a complete track list and full details, please see here.
Andante 1130 (5 CDs)

 

 (06/07/03)
 Bach: St. Matthew Passion
Olive Mae Beach / Clemence Gifford / Joseph Sullivan / Tudor Williams / Leopold Wintner / Greater Los Angeles Choir / Hollywood Bowl Symphony Orchestra, rec. live 29/08/46
 Private CD which can be ordered from Patrick.Kittel@gmx.de

 

 (23/05/03)
 Mussorgski: Boris Godunov excerpts
Nicola Rossi-Lemeni / San Francisco Opera Chorus / San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, rec. 08,10/12/52
Wagner: Good Friday Spell from Parsifal
Leopold Stokowski Symphony Orchestra, rec. 17/09/52
Wagner/Stokowski: Symphonic Synthesis from Act III of Parsifal
Leopold Stokowski Symphony Orchestra, rec. 24/09/52
Cala CACD 0535
Produced in association with THE LEOPOLD STOKOWSKI SOCIETY.

 

 (12/04/03)
100 Men and a Girl
USA 1937
 DVD, Region 2, NTSC
 Universal UJSD-35356 (Japan only)
Can be ordered from www.cdjapan.co.jp, www.amazon.co.jp or www.hmv.co.jp

 

(12/04/03)
Brahms: Symphony No.2
Sinfonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, rec. live 16/07/51
 Berlioz: Le carnaval romain
Falla: El amor brujo
Raphael: Jabonah
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No.5 
Sinfonieorchester des Nordwestdeutschen Rundfunks, rec. live 07/07/52
 Tahra 485-486 (2CDs)

 

(31/03/03) 
Sibelius: Symphony No.2
BBC Symphony Orchestra, rec. live 15/09/64
Tchaikovsky: Excerpts from The Sleeping Beauty
New Philharmonia Orchestra, rec. live 12/09/65
Beethoven: Egmont Overture
New Philharmonia Orchestra, rec. live 07/06/73
BBC Legends BBCL 4115-2

 

(06/03/03)
Sibelius: Symphony No.2
NBC Symphony Orchestra, rec. 15,16/09/54
Stravinsky: Fire Bird Suite
Leopold Stokowski Symphony Orchestra, rec. 24/05/50, 07/06/50
Borodin: From the Steppes of Central Asia
Leopold Stokowski Symphony Orchestra, rec. 14/04/53
Rediscovery RD 061
Private CD issue available from www.rediscovery.us

 

 (09/01/03)
Wagner: Excerpts from Parsifal
Rose Bampton / Robert Steel / Nelson Eddy / Benjamin de Loache / Irra Petina / Alexis Tcherkassky / Dennis Healy / Dudley Marwick / Chorus / Philadelphia Orchestra, rec. live 1933

Private CD which can be ordered from T.W.van.der.Burg@hro.nl

 

 (01/01/03)
Berlioz: Le carnaval romain
Falla: El amor brujo
Raphael: Jabonah
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No.5 [listen]
Sinfonieorchester des Nordwestdeutschen Rundfunks, rec. live 07/07/52

Please see The Stokowski Concert Collection for details

 

 

For releases prior to 2003, please see the Archive

 

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