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This release duplicates a short-lived Philips set, and it’s very nice to see it back at budget price. The performances are uneven, though never less
Not surprisingly, Leopold Stokowski’s recordings with the NBC Symphony have the orchestra sounding very different from the way it did for Toscanini, nowhere more so
Even when he doesn’t monkey around with the orchestration excessively, as here, Stokowski manages to brand virtually every performance with his own timbral stamp. In
Say what you will about Stokowski–he had fun, and it shows. At the end of Samson he has everyone in the NBC studio shrieking their
Although Sergei Rachmaninov considered himself first and foremost a composer, the last two decades of his life found him knee-deep in his “second career” as
Leopold Stokowski’s most famous, and best, Scheherazade was his London Symphony recording for Decca. This later RCA offering lacks that version’s sumptuous (some would say
The Brahms Third is one of those Stokowski performances wherein the conductor seeks to “improve” the score by subjecting it to a number of alterations
Leopold Stokowski’s exuberant Don Juan, boasting dizzying speeds on the order of Szell and Reiner, generates real excitement despite the rather harsh-sounding recording. Till Eulenspiegel
Leopold Stokowski gets off to a good start in Shostakovich’s Fifth Symphony, with sharp rhythmic stabs opening a first movement that builds to frenzied climax,
Leopold Stokowski leads a vibrant and colorful Bartók Concerto for Orchestra, emphasizing the work’s dramatic impetus while highlighting the music’s atmospheric contrasts, particularly so in
