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In the late 1940s Shura Cherkassky made his first major solo piano recordings in the form of three 78 rpm albums for the newly formed
Some of the music on this disc has been kicking around various pirate labels for a while, and none of it need trouble anyone but
Stoki’s Planets doesn’t monkey around with Holst’s orchestration as much as might be expected: a tam-tam crescendo at the end of “Mars”, some fiddling in
This latest reissue of a reissue re-couples Stoki’s Carmina Burana, formerly attached to Stravinsky’s Firebird Suite, with Loeffler’s A Pagan Poem, last seen alongside Gliere’s
On balance, this 1945 Hollywood Bowl Brahms First is the least satisfying of Stokowski’s five recorded versions. It’s not as well recorded or played as
William Kapell’s 1953 New York Philharmonic performance of the Brahms D minor Concerto reveals the extent to which the short-lived pianist had internalized this gnarly
Even in its day, Rachmaninov’s 1929 recording of his popular Second Concerto was not quite state-of-the-art, sound wise. However, its newest sonic facelift via the
Here are some of Leopold Stokowski’s greatest hits from his salad days as music director of the Philadelphia Orchestra. He wields a flamboyant yet miraculously
As impossible as it seems, orchestral wizard Leopold Stokowski neglected Berlioz’s Symphonie Fantastique throughout most of his long career. This 1968 live recording with the
None of these recordings were particularly well engineered for their time, yet Mark Obert-Thorn wrings more sonic information from them than BMG’s over-processed transfers reveal.
