Free Stokowski: The Maverick Conductor (Box set) (2009) | Date: 18 March 2011, 20:37
|
Stokowski: The Maverick Conductor (Box set) (2009) | 3.3 Gb
EAC rip | Flac(image) - Cue - Log | No scan | Rar 5% recovery | 10 CDs
Genre: Classical
Guy Gardner (Performer), George Neikrug (Performer), Johann Sebastian Bach (Composer), Bela Bartok (Composer), Jacques Ibert (Composer), Frank Martin (Composer), Harold Farberman (Composer), Vincent Persichetti (Composer), Claude Debussy (Composer), Dmitry Shostakovich (Composer), Samuel Barber (Composer), Gustav Holst (Composer), Arnold Schoenberg (Composer), Reinhold Gliere (Composer), Igor Stravinsky (Composer), Paul [Composer] Dukas (Composer), Joaquin Turina (Composer), Charles Martin Loeffler (Composer), Maurice Ravel (Composer), Jean Sibelius (Composer)
This is one of an exciting series that pays homage to some of the greatest recording artists of the recent past, with these elegantly-packaged multi-CD sets devoted to their finest recordings.
There are many reasons to acquire this boxed set. Firstly, these 10 well filled discs contain generally excellent and sometimes outstanding performances of works familiar and obscure. Secondly most of these stereo recordings, originally taped (mostly in 1957/8) by the EMI/Capitol label, would be unfamiliar to most current listeners and collectors. Thirdly, the sound on these half century old issues is generally superb; warm, clear, transparent with a clear bass and good string tone. Forthly, these 10 CDs are very reasonably priced.
I could honestly report that I found none of the performances of the many items in this set less than engaging to listen to. Even the Carmina Burana, featuring a less that ideal chorus and soloists, is interesting for its orchestral contribution. It must be admitted that the Houston Symphony Orchestra (Shostakovich 11, Carmina Burana)is hardly a world class orchestra, however Stokowski manages to get above average results from them.
As would be expected, given Stokowski's reputation, the string tone in many of these performances is rich and luxurious; eg in Schonberg's Transfigured Night, Holst's The Planets and Bartok's Music for Strings Percussion and Celeste. The Debussy disc is memorable and the Shostakovich 11 is a searing performance. And who better to perform the conductor's arrangements of Bach, however bloated and unfashionable they migh be nowadays.
Some of the less familiar pieces are less to my taste; Loeffler's A Pagan Poem for instance, but a number (eg Gliere Symphony 3) are well worth a listen.
On initial hearing I could only detect a few instances where Stokowski has made his own alterations to the musical scores.
In summary, this set is a great buy and should be snapped up by enquiring classical music enthusiasts.
One of the most flamboyant conductors of the 20th century, Leopold Stokowski was born at Marylebone in London in 1882, the son of a Polish father and Irish mother. As a young boy he started taking violin, piano and organ lessons and, at 13, became one of the youngest students to be admitted to the Royal College of Music, where his teachers included Sir Hubert Parry and Sir Charles Villiers Stanford. He later went to Queen's College, Oxford, where he gained a Bachelor of Music degree in 1903.
He paid his first visit to the United States in 1905 as organist of St. Bartholomew's Church in New York but returned to Europe to continue his studies. He made his conducting début in Paris in 1908 and his London début a year later. 1909 was also the year that Stokowski took up his first official conducting post, with the Cincinatti Symphony Orchestra. After three successful years at Cincinnatti Stokowski became music director of the Philadelphia Orchestra, where he remained for the next 25 years, building for himself and the orchestra an enviable international reputation; creating what became known as the 'Philadelphia Sound'. Stokowski took up US citizenship in 1915.
Stokowski conducted a wide range of contemporary music, many of his performances being either world or American premières. The music of Schoenberg, Shostakovich, Mahler, Rachmaninov, Sibelius and Stravinsky featured prominently in his concerts and he gave the first US performances of the music of a whole host of other contemporary composers.
Stokowski made his first Hollywood appearances in 1937 in the films 'The Big Broadcast' and, with Deanna Durbin and Adolphe Menjou, 'One Hundred Men and a Girl'. His best-known film role was as the conductor in Disney's 'Fantasia'. He was awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. He married three times, his third wife being the railroad heiress, Gloria Vanderbilt. At the end of his life he returned to live in England and died, aged 95, at his home in Nether Wallop, Hampshire. His grave can be found in the cemetery at East Finchley in north London.
His collaboration with Capitol Records resulted in a crop of some of Stokowski's most famous recordings, made using three-track stereo tape recorders. Always the great innovator, Stokowski was more than happy to cooperate with the Capitol engineers to ensure the best recorded result and these, together with those he made for United Artists with the Symphony of the Air, can be heard in this unique 10-CD Icon set.
Tracklist
CD 1
Bach/Stokowski: Orchestral Transcriptions
CD 2
Bartók: Music for Strings, Percussion & Celesta, Sz106 (1936)
Ibert: Escales
Martin: Petite Symphonie Concertante (1945)
Farberman: Evolution (part 1)
Persichetti: Divertimento for band – March
CD 3
Debussy:
Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune;
Trois Nocturnes
Suite bergamasque – Clair de lune;
Images pour orchestre No.2 – Ibéria
CD 4
Shostakovich: Symphony No.11 in G minor, Op.103 'The Year 1905'
Barber: Adagio for Strings
CD 5
Holst: The Planets, Op.32
Schoenberg: Verklärte Nacht
CD 6
Glière/Stokowski: Symphony No.3 in B minor, Op.42 'Ilya Murometz'
Stravinsky:
Petrushka – Suite
The Firebird – Suite
CD 7
Dukas: La Péri – Fanfare
Turina: La Oración del torero, Op.34
Loeffler: A Pagan Poem, Op.14
Ravel: Alborada del gracioso; Rapsodie espagnole
Sibelius: Four Legends, Op.22 – The Swan of Tuonela; Finlandia, Op.26
CD 8
Orff: Carmina Burana
Strauss: Suite in B flat for Wind Instruments, Op.4 – Gavotte
Vaughan Williams: Symphony No.8 in D minor – Scherzo
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No.4 in F minor, Op.36 – Scherzo
Mussorgsky/Ravel:
Pictures at an Exhibition – The Hut on Fowl's Legs;
The Great Gate of Kiev
CD 9
Respighi: Pini di Roma
Khachaturian: Symphony No.2 "The Bell'
Frescobaldi: Gagliarda
Palestrina/ Stokowski: Adoramus te Christe, motet for 4 voices
CD 10
Shostakovich:
Symphony No.1, Op.10;
Prelude & Fugue for piano No.14 in E flat minor, Op.87
Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District, Op.29 – Entr' Acte
Bloch: Schelomo (Hebrew rhapsody for Cello & Orchestra)
Cesti/Stokowski: Tu mancavi a tormentarmi – arranged for strings & harp
Gabrielli/Stokowski: Sacrae Symphoniae No.6 – Sonata pian e forte for 8 parts
""
|
DISCLAIMER:
This site does not store Free Stokowski: The Maverick Conductor (Box set) (2009) on its server. We only index and link to Free Stokowski: The Maverick Conductor (Box set) (2009) provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete Free Stokowski: The Maverick Conductor (Box set) (2009) if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.
|
 |
|
![Free Great Conductors of the 20th Century - Leopold Stokowski (2002) [2CDs Set] [FLAC]](http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1592008682.01._SX355_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg)
Comments (0)
All
