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Showing posts with label Leopold Stokowski. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Leopold Stokowski. Show all posts

Wednesday, August 20, 2025

Ernest Bloch - America (Leopold Stokowski)


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Composer: Ernest Bloch
  • America, an Epic Rhapsody
  • Speech by Ernest Bloch

Symphony of the Air
Leopold Stokowski, conductor

Date: 1960
Label: Vanguard

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Saturday, March 1, 2025

Tchaikovsky; Mussorgsky; Borodin - Orchestral Works (Leopold Stokowski)


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Composer: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky; Modest Mussorgsky; Alexander Borodin
  1. Tchaikovsky - 1812 Overture, Op. 49
  2. Mussorgsky - Night on the Bare Mountain (orch. Leopold Stokowski)
  3. Borodin -  Prince Igor, opera: Polovtsian Dances
  4. Mussorgsky - Boris Godunov (Symphonic Synthesis by Leopold Stokowski)
  5. Tchaikovsky - March slave, Op. 31

Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
London Symphony Orchestra
Orchestre de la Suisse Romande
Leopold Stokowski, conductor

Date: 1969; 1967; 1968
Label: Decca

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Friday, February 21, 2025

Modest Mussorgsky - Stokowski's Arrangements (Matthias Bamert)


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Composer: Modest Mussorgsky
  • A Night on the Bare Mountain (arr. Stokowski)
  • Boris Godunov: Symphonic Synthesis (arr. Stokowski)
  • Entr'acte to Act IV of Khovanshchina (arr. Stokowski)
  • Pictures at an Exhibition (orch. Stokowski)

BBC Philharmonic Orchestra
Matthias Bamert, conductor

Date: 1995
Label: Chandos

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Modest Mussorgsky; Igor Stravinsky; Alexander Scriabin - Orchestral Works (Leopold Stokowski)


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Composer: Modest Mussorgsky; Igor Stravinsky; Alexander Scriabin
  • Mussorgsky - Pictures at an Exhibition (orch. Stokowski)
  • Scriabin - Le Poème de l'extase, Op. 54
  • Stravinsky - Pastorale
  • Stravinsky - L'Oiseau de feu, ballet suite

New Philharmonia Orchestra
Czech Philharmonic Orchestra
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
London Symphony Orchestra
Leopold Stokowski, conductor

Date: 1965; 1972; 1969; 1967
Label: Decca

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Sunday, November 24, 2024

Sergei Rachmaninov - Piano Concertos Nos. 2 & 3


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Composer: Sergei Rachmaninov
  • Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor, Op. 18
  • Piano Concerto No. 3 in D minor, Op. 30

Sergei Rachmaninov, piano
Philadelphia Orchestra
Leopold Stokowski & Eugene Ormandy, conductors

Date: 1929; 1939-40
Label: Dutton

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Sergei Rachmaninov - Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 4; Paganini Rhapsody


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Composer: Sergei Rachmaninov
  • Piano Concerto No. 1 in F sharp minor, Op. 1
  • Piano Concerto No. 4 in G minor, Op. 40
  • Rhapsody on a theme of Paganini, Op. 43

Sergei Rachmaninov, piano
Philadelphia Orchestra
Eugene Ormandy & Leopold Stokowski, conductors

Date: 1939-40; 1941; 1934
Label: Dutton

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