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A random selection of music and clips from my collection which I hope others will like too ... NOTE: if anyone wishes an item to be removed for ownership reasons, please tell me and I'll immediately make the deletion. A 'Copyright take-down' won't be necessary!
Stokowski's First Recording - Brahms Hungarian Dance No. 5 (1917)
Leopold Stokowski began his musical life as a church organist in London. He took up a similar appointment in New York in 1905 and within a few years he moved to the orchestral podium. It was with the Philadelphia Orchestra, which he took over in 1912, that he became a world famous maestro, not least through the hundreds of recordings he made over the decades. He made his last recordings at the age of 95 in 1977 but here is the very first of them. It was recorded in 1917 using the pre-electric acoustic method, the players grouped around a large wooden horn. Stokowski was later to describe these old 78s as "just awful" but even so, one can hear that even in a Brahms Hungarian Dance, the Phi...
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Prokofiev 'Sleigh Ride' ('Troika') - André Previn conducts
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As I upload this, the temperature is in the heatwave area, so this little piece of music should help to cool things down! ... The 'Troika' movement from Prokofiev's "Lieutenant Kije" Suite has long had Christmas or winter associations, suggesting as it does a sleigh being drawn through the snow by three harnessed horses. The Suite derives from the soundtrack of the 1934 Soviet movie of the same...
Schubert 'Unfinished' Symphony - Stokowski conducts the LPO (1969)
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Leopold Stokowski conducted Schubert's 'Unfinished' Symphony for the first time on 7th March 1911 with the Cincinnati Orchestra. He was 28 years old. He conducted it for the last time on 30th September 1973 with the London Philharmonic at the age of 91. Here he is with that same orchestra a few years earlier, on 8th September 1969, performing the work in Croydon's Fairfield Hall. This was in pr...
Tchaikovsky 'Cherevichki' - Entr'acte and Dances
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Tchaikovsky's 'Cherevichki' is one of his dozen operas and has been known by several titles in English. These include 'The Little Shoes', 'The Golden Slippers' and 'Oxana's Caprices', as well as its original title ''Vakula the Smith' prior to its revision under the title it is known by today. The opera takes place during the Christmas period in the Ukraine and in St. Petersburg during the late ...
Stokowski conducts Puccini - 'Madame Butterfly' - Entr'acte ('Humming Chorus')
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Leopold Stokowski began making 78rpm records in 1917 utilising the primitive method of Philadelphia Orchestra members playing into a large wooden horn. Years later he was to dismiss these old 'acoustic' recordings as "just awful." However, with the advent of electrical recording in 1925 he began to take a great interest in the mechanics of the entire recording process. Even so, quite a few pre-...
César Cui: Prelude in E major - Margaret Fingerhut, piano
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César Cui was one of "The Mighty Handful," the name given to five Russian composers who formed a nationalist group in the 1860s which had a concept of music based in the songs and dances of the people. Cui was less well known as a composer than the others, being primarily noted for his criticisms of Tchaikovsky's music. In her recital of music by "The Mighty Handful," Margaret Fingerhut chose f...
Stokowski - Great Recordings from the BBC Legends Archive
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Leopold Stokowski's eminence as one of the truly great conductors of the 20th century, in a career which spanned six decades, is exemplified in this 6CD set. It features BBC performances in stereo of many of the symphonies and works he performed in concert during his final years and, in many cases, premiered on record in his early years. Of the many outstanding reviews of these live concerts, t...
Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 5 - Leinsdorf conducts the Boston Symphony
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Erich Leinsdorf was born in Vienna in 1912 and his early musical studies led him to become an aspiring young conductor. He was in America when the Nazis took Austria over in 1938, so he remained in the USA and soon became an American citizen. He enjoyed numerous directorships in the States and one of these was his appointment in 1962 as music director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. His tenur...
John Wilson conducts 'The Big Country' - Movie Title Music
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The John Wilson Orchestra concerts in pre-pandemic times were highlights of each year's Proms Season at London's Royal Albert Hall. Here from his "Hollywood Rhapsody" Prom in 2013 is the title music for "The Big Country" by Jerome Morross, given a typically splendid performance by John Wilson's hand-picked orchestra of top flight players.
Tchaikovsky 'May' ("The Seasons") - David Matthews, arranger; Carl Davis, conductor
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Tchaikovsky's twelve short 'character pieces' representing each month of the year were originally composed for solo piano. They were published as "The Seasons" and each had subtitles and poetic epigraphs. 'May' was subtitled "Starlit Nights" and its epitaph reads: "What a night! What bliss all about! I thank my native north country! From the kingdom of ice, from the kingdom of snowstorms and sn...
Sir Andrew Davis (1944-2024) conducts Bach-Stokowski 'Komm süsser Tod' - BBC Symphony Orchestra
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Sir Andrew Davis had a remarkably wide repertoire which included a number of orchestrations of Bach's music by such musicians as Leopold Stokowski, Sir Edward Elgar and Sir Henry Wood. Indeed, Sir Andrew himself made several arrangements of Bach's music and was working on them at the time of his death in April 2024. In 2001, the BBC Symphony mounted a "Tribute to Stokowski" concert in London's ...
Stokowski conducts Beethoven's 'Egmont' Overture at the age of 91 (1973)
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Leopold Stokowski had one of the widest orchestral repertoires of any 20th Century conductor, ranging from Bach, Handel and Vivaldi all the way through to Shostakovich, Schoenberg and Ives. Beethoven was also firmly in his repertoire right from the very beginning, his first concert with the Cincinnati Orchestra in 1909 featuring the 5th Symphony. He programmed the "Egmont" Overture for the firs...
Temirkanov conducts 'Death of Tybalt' from Prokofiev's "Romeo and Juliet"
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Yuri Temirkanov and the St. Petersburg Philharmonic made two appearances at the BBC Proms during the 1992 season and the second of their concerts ended with three encores. The programme was filmed by BBC Television and the director decided to let the camera keep the conductor in view throughout the dramatic "Death of Tybalt" in which Temirkanov adopted the fastest speed possible at the outset a...
Tchaikovsky 'Manfred' - Rozhdestvensky conducts - Finale - Coda with Organ entry
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Tchaikovsky's "Manfred" Symphony has been subjected to quite a few changes over the years. The most notable was Toscanini's many amendments to the scoring and his deletion of about five minutes of music from the finale. There is also a Soviet version, performed by Svetlanov and Temirkanov, which replaces the quiet closing moments of the last movement with the fortissimo ending of the first one....
Bach - 'Easter Cantata' Chorale - Stokowski arranger / conductor
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Leopold Stokowski was one of the few great 20th century maestros who lived to a ripe old age and he was still conducting just a few months before he died at the age of 95. Inevitably he had become very frail by then and although he could still give vital and exciting performances in his 90s, there were occasions when his frailty was more in evidence. One such occasion occurred in April 1973, th...
Vivaldi 'Spring' ("The Four Seasons") - Stokowski conducts
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Vivaldi 'Spring' ("The Four Seasons") - Stokowski conducts
Dvorak 'New World' Symphony - Largo - Rudolf Kempe conducts the BBCSO
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Dvorak 'New World' Symphony - Largo - Rudolf Kempe conducts the BBCSO
Tchaikovsky 'March' ("The Seasons") - David Matthews, arranger; Carl Davis, conductor
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Tchaikovsky 'March' ("The Seasons") - David Matthews, arranger; Carl Davis, conductor
Debussy 'Clair de lune' - Stokowski arranger / conductor
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Debussy 'Clair de lune' - Stokowski arranger / conductor
Elgar 'Nimrod' ("Enigma Variations") - Tugan Sokhiev / Bolshoi Theatre Symphony Orchestra
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Elgar 'Nimrod' ("Enigma Variations") - Tugan Sokhiev / Bolshoi Theatre Symphony Orchestra
Handel 'Arrival of the Queen of Sheba' - Fritz Reiner conducts
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Handel 'Arrival of the Queen of Sheba' - Fritz Reiner conducts
Tchaikovsky 'Intermezzo' - Orchestral Suite No. 1 - Dmitriev conducts
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Tchaikovsky 'Intermezzo' - Orchestral Suite No. 1 - Dmitriev conducts
Wagner 'Parsifal' - Symphonic Synthesis Act 3 - Stokowski arranger / conductor
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Wagner 'Parsifal' - Symphonic Synthesis Act 3 - Stokowski arranger / conductor
John Wilson conducts the 'Youth of Britain' march from Eric Coates' "Three Elizabeths" Suite
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John Wilson conducts the 'Youth of Britain' march from Eric Coates' "Three Elizabeths" Suite
Tchaikovsky 'January' ("The Seasons") - David Matthews, arranger; Carl Davis, conductor
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Tchaikovsky 'January' ("The Seasons") - David Matthews, arranger; Carl Davis, conductor
Stokowski - 'Evening Prayer' ("Hansel and Gretel") - Norman Luboff Choir
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Stokowski - 'Evening Prayer' ("Hansel and Gretel") - Norman Luboff Choir
'We Wish You a Merry Christmas' - Clare College Cambridge Choir - Geoffrey Simon / London Cellos
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'We Wish You a Merry Christmas' - Clare College Cambridge Choir - Geoffrey Simon / London Cellos
Prokofiev 'Troika' - "Lieutenant Kijé" - Soundtrack Music excerpt
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Prokofiev 'Troika' - "Lieutenant Kijé" - Soundtrack Music excerpt
For an acoustic recording that sounds amazing.
IT'S!......
Happy July 4, from Italia!
That was Mozart?
Marilyn Monroe Loves me 😍😘💘🌹
While Ravel's version is better overall and probably more subtle in many ways it was very clearly influenced by Wood's orchestration. Also the world was a lot different in 1922 then it was in 1915 and that shows. Thanks for sharing this.
LOVED HIM!,
Great！Better than Czech version！
The best thing ever!!!
Michael is right. I’ve attempted to play the piano accompaniment; it is not easy to play.
This is the first time I’ve ever seen and heard someone make a comical performance out of probably one of the most frightening songs of all time. I’m not sure how either Schubert or Goethe would take to this. It was definitely creative and different.
What another snorter from Elgar. Honestly.... he's so undervalued in the pantheon of greats.... but i put him up there with the very very best of them.
Marilyn Monroe Went through a lot in her life I get it that's life She was a Strong Solider And Powered Through
O cara era um genio !!
Jack looked like a $3 pretzel 😂
Magnifique, envoûtant et nostalgique
Талантливый, дерзкий, притягательный и харизматичный. Прожил жизнь так, как хотел. Свободен и несвободен одновременно, страстен, любим и неповторим. Таких больше нет и можно сколько угодно говорить о его трусости и прочем.
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It’s Godzilla!!!!!
Kiev is RUSSIAN!
I loved it so much!!! Love the tempo!❤
sounds like a combination of Massenet, Montemezzi, and Richard Strauss
Super song.❤❤❤
¡Hermosa interpretación! ¡Majestuosa , vigorosa y virtuosa! Tesoro de la humanidad que perdurará a través del tiempo. Gracias por publicarla. Las interpretaciones del Maestro Stokovsky son sobervias!
The whole town came to farewell Stephen...RIP
Simon callow greatest roll and one of the greatest movies ever made was ACE VENTURA 2.
Shostakovich: 4,5,8,9,10,13,14,15,!!!
❤🎉❤🎉❤🎉❤ Bella y encantadora música 🎼 Es apta para disfrutar de una rica tasa de café ☕ Mil Gracias por su exelente trabajo 💗🙏💗
Thank you and I hope you enjoy your coffee!
Beautiful Movie! Mom’s favorite and therefore mine too as I remember Mom! A Rogers & Hammerstein GREAT “SOUTH PACIFIC!”
Bravisimo!
❤❤ive lved many years away from England but this music appeals to my English birth❤❤
❤wonderful British Music❤
Those of us lucky enough to have lived in the San Francisco Bay Area in the 1950s could have heard exactly this recording every night at midnight when the classical music station KSMO signed off.
Brings tears to my eyes, hearing the accent from which the words come
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Prefiero ver al Zar siempre
Such amazing content and control
Fantastic singing. Incredible, beautiful.
Thanks for listening
May God remember the dear Queen, and guide King Charles! Rule Britannia!
Outstanding !😊
Bloody hell...this ALWAYS makes me cry !!! 67yo male . Stroud, sw England
The good old days when homegrown talent was represented at the proms.
Capolavoro, eccezionale❤
Beautiful UK
Здорово!! И музыка классная! 👏👏👏
Interesting that Richard Strauss’s iconic Thus Spake Zarathustra was used for the opening music of this 1965 documentary a couple of years before Kubrick adopted it for his movie 2001 Space Odyssey in 1968!
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I think I have the encore, Tahiti Trot on a professional recording :-) I should also still have it on vhs somewhere. -oh, I said that as 'X"...
As an "ex - sound engineer" can I just say that the sound balance and dynamic is just spot on! How the BBC guys just come up and up with world class sound reproduction just goes to prove that the ole' Corp keeps on sorting and delivering.