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Unique Stokowski,
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This review is from: The World of Leopold Stokowski (Audio CD)
You may as an individual listener love or hate what he does to the music but you have to admit the man had a way with orchestras and, as the sleeve note says, you cannot mistake a Stokowski performance for one by any other conductor. Whatever orchestra he conductied he brought to it his own unique, polished, high-voltage sound. Bach (THE Toccata and Fugue) and Rachmaninoff (THE C sharp minor Prelude) - as well as Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition (extract only) - undergo the Stokowski transcription treatment and none sound remotely as their composers would have intended - and yet they are also fantastic examples of the transcriber's art.Whatever orchestra he was conducting and whether recorded live or in the studio - the CD is a mix of both - this electrifying music-making is gripping. Maybe for Stokowski fans only but really everyone interested in conducting in the 20th century ought to at least hear this disc.
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Stokowski the show-man,
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This review is from: The World of Leopold Stokowski (Audio CD)
This collection focuses on his work for Decca in the 1960's & 70's, when the emphasis was on show-pieces, hence the rowdy 1812 with extra effects, including a choir! Some pieces (Pictures & Firebird Suite) are only represented by excerpts, and some of the louder passages suffer from slight distortion. However, as an intro to this legendary conductor, an indespensible collection.
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