Great conductors of the 20TH century EMI VOL.31 - Rodzinsky

CD1 [74.59]

Rimsky-Korsakov: Russian Easter Festival Overture April 1958
Mussorgsky: Prelude ‘Khovanshchina’ May 1958
Abbey Road Studios, London
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

Rachmaninov: Symphony No.2
Carnegie Hall, New York, November 1945
New York Philharmonic

Rossini: Overture ‘Guillaume Tell’
30th Street Studios, New York, November 1950
Columbia Symphony Orchestra

CD2 [77.37]

Wagner: The Ride of the Valkyries & Magic Fire Music (‘Die Walküre’)
Wagner: Dawn and Siegfried’s Rhine Journey
& Siegfried’s Funeral March (‘Götterdämmerung’)
Walthamstow Town Hall, London, April 1955
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

Wagner: Prelude & Liebestod (‘Tristan und Isolde’)
Orchestra Hall, Chicago, December 1947
Chicago Symphony Orchestra

Richard Strauss: Dance of the Seven Veils (‘Salome’) September 1957
Richard Strauss: Tod und Verklärung April 1958
Abbey Road Studios
Philharmonia Orchestra



THE BIOGRAPHY
Artur Rodzinski was born into a Polish military family in Dalmatia. He spent the First World War in Vienna, studying law and music. He made his conducting debut in 1920 and established himself in opera and concert in Warsaw, where Leopold Stokowski heard him and invited him to become his assistant in Philadelphia (1926-9). Rodzinski then led four of the major American orchestras in succession [Los Angeles (1929-33), Cleveland (1933-43), New York (1943-47) and Chicago (1947-48)] and became known as one of the greatest orchestra builders in the US. He also helped Toscanini form the NBC Symphony Orchestra. Poor health interrupted his career from 1948-52 but, having settled in Italy, he enjoyed an ‘Indian Summer’ of recordings from 1954-58. His final performances were of Tristan und Isolde in Chicago in 1958.

THE RECORDINGS
The programme can roughly be divided into two halves: Russian and German repertoire in which Rodzinski excelled. The powerful account of Rachmaninov’s Second Symphony with the New York Philharmonic in 1945 makes its first appearance on CD. The remaining Russian works, Mussorgsky’s Khovanshchina Prelude and Rimsky-Korsakov’s Russian Easter Festival Overture, are the familiar stereo recordings from 1958. Also new to CD is the 1947 Chicago recording of the Prelude and Liebestod from Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde, an opera of central importance to Rodzinski, who enjoyed enormous success with it in the US. The remaining Wagner extracts were recorded in 1955 with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and have previously appeared on CD only in Japan. Rossini’s William Tell Overture with the Columbia Symphony Orchestra from 1950 makes its first appearance on CD. The famous stereo accounts of Richard Strauss’s Dance of the Seven Veils and Tod und Verklärung from 1957-58 with the Philharmonia Orchestra are essential to Rodzinski’s discography. All the recordings have been newly remastered.

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Great conductors of the 20TH century EMI VOL.30 - Mravinsky

 CD1 (67.26) 

Mozart: Overture ‘Don Giovanni’, November 1968

Bruckner: Symphony No.7, February 1967
Live recordings; Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra; Philharmonic Hall, Leningrad

 CD2 (77.29)

Haydn: Symphony No.88, November 1968

Tchaikovsky: Francesca da Rimini, March 1983

Glazunov: Symphony No.5, September 1968
Live recordings; Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra; Philharmonic Hall, Leningrad


 THE BIOGRAPHY - Evgeny Mravinsky (1903-1988)
Evgeny Mravinsky was born in St Petersburg in 1903, the son of artistic and aristocratic parents. He studied at Petrograd University and at the Leningrad Conservatoire, and made his debut as a conductor in 1929. He was with the Leningrad Opera from 1931 to 1938, the year he won the All-Union Conductors’ Competition in Moscow and was appointed chief conductor of the Leningrad Philharmonic, a position he held for 50 years until his death in 1988. In 1937 he premiered the Fifth Symphony of Shostakovich and subsequently developed a close working relationship with the composer, whose Symphony No.8 is dedicated to Mravinsky. With his Leningrad orchestra, he toured regularly within Central Europe and visited Japan, Britain and the USA. Mravinsky, the most distinguished Soviet conductor of his time, built the Leningrad Philharmonic into one of the world’s greatest orchestras. He is remembered as one of the finest interpreters not only of the great Russian composers, such as Tchaikovsky, Glazunov, Prokofiev and Shostakovich, but also of the masters of the Austro-German school, including Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms and Bruckner.

 THE RECORDINGS
Since Mravinsky’s death in 1988, much of his recorded legacy (mostly of live performances, because he disliked recording in the studio) has appeared, either officially or unofficially, on discs emanating from Russia. However, this present compilation offers two live recordings – of Bruckner’s Seventh Symphony and of the overture to Mozart’s Don Giovanni (from 1967 and 1968 respectively) – that are new to the Mravinsky discography. The Bruckner is particularly important because it is the only known recording of the conductor’s reading of the work. The tape of Glazunov’s Symphony No.5, recorded in 1968, comes from a private collection and is in much better sound than the version listed in the current catalogue. Tchaikovsky’s Francesca da Rimini was a Mravinsky speciality to which he brought great passion and excitement, while in Haydn’s Symphony No.88 the conductor demonstrates his mastery of classical interpretation.

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Great conductors of the 20TH century EMI VOL.29 - Mitropolous

CD1 (74.42)

Mahler: Symphony No.6
Live studio recording; WDR Sinfonieorchester Köln;
Klaus-von-Bismarck-Saal, WDR, Cologne, August 1959

CD2 (78.18)

Berlioz: ‘Roméo et Juliette’ – Orchestral excerpts, October 1952

Debussy: La Mer, November 1950

Richard Strauss: Dance of the Seven Veils (‘Elektra’), November 1956
New York Philharmonic Orchestra; 30th Street Studios, New York



THE BIOGRAPHY - Dimitri Mitropoulos (1896-1960)
Born in Athens in 1896, Dimitri Mitropoulos may well have become a priest, but instead became first a composer and gifted pianist and then a conductor with an extraordinary musical memory. Busoni, his teacher in Berlin, advised Mitropoulos to abandon composition and concentrate on being an interpreter. From 1921 to 1924, he worked under Erich Kleiber as a répétiteur at the Berlin Staatsoper. On his return to Athens he taught at the conservatory and conducted its orchestra (1924-29). In 1930, he was invited by the Berlin Philharmonic and created a sensation by playing and conducting from the keyboard Prokofiev’s Piano Concerto No.3, a feat he later repeated in Paris, London and the USSR. In 1937, having made a guest appearance with the Boston Symphony Orchestra the previous year, he was appointed musical director of the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra (1937-49). Subsequently, he moved to the New York Philharmonic, first as joint chief conductor with Stokowski and then, one year later, as the orchestra’s sole music director (1949-1958). From 1954 until his death, he conducted in every season of the New York Metropolitan Opera. He died in Milan in 1960 while rehearsing Mahler’s Symphony No.3 with the La Scala Orchestra.

THE RECORDINGS
Mitropoulos is under-represented in the current catalogue. This compilation features commercial recordings not previously available on CD and a rare live studio broadcast of Mahler’s Symphony No.6 from Cologne. Mitropoulos was a renowned interpreter of Mahler (he made the premiere recording of the First Symphony) and for its first official release this celebrated recording of the Sixth Symphony has been superbly remastered from the original WDR tapes. The orchestral extracts from Berlioz’s Roméo et Juliette, in a recording that has not been available for at least 40 years, show Mitropoulos at his best: passionate, exciting and intense. The same qualities inform the Dance of the Seven Veils from Salome, which represents Mitropoulos’s close affinity with the music of Richard Strauss. Debussy’s La Mer was a favourite work of the conductor, though this version from 1950 is his only studio recording of the work.



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Great conductors of the 20TH century EMI VOL.28 - Kempe

CD1 (77.07)

Brahms: Tragic Overture
Berliner Philharmoniker; Grunewaldkirche, Berlin, January 1960

Bruckner: Symphony No.4 ‘Romantic’
Live studio recording; Münchner Philharmoniker; Herkulessaal, Munich, November 1972

CD2 (79.07)

Beethoven: Symphony No.3 ‘Eroica’
Live recording; Royal Philharmonic Orchestra; Smetana Hall, Prague, May 1974

Wolf: Italian Serenade
Live studio recording; Münchner Philharmoniker; Herkulessaal, Munich, June 1971

Ravel: ‘Daphnis et Chloé’ – Suite No.2
Live studio recording; Philharmonischer Chor & Münchner Philharmoniker;
Herkulessaal, Munich, December 1974

Johann Strauss II: Leichtes Blut – Polka
Wiener Philharmoniker; Musikvereinssaal, Wien, December 1960



THE BIOGRAPHY - Rudolf Kempe (1910-1976)
The German conductor Rudolf Kempe was born in 1910 at Niederpoyritz, near Dresden, where he studied (with Fritz Busch) at the city’s Musikhochschule. In 1928 he was appointed principal oboist with the Dortmund Opera orchestra and almost immediately to a similar position with the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra (1929-36). There he played under Furtwängler, Richard Strauss, Beecham, Walter, Klemperer and Erich Kleiber. He made his conducting debut in 1935 with the Leipzig Opera, where he was employed as répétiteur and assistant conductor (1936-42). After the war, he established his credentials as an opera conductor in Chemnitz (1945-48), Weimar (1948-49), Dresden, where he also conducted the Staatskapelle (1949-52), and Munich (1952-54). His international reputation was secured by guest appearances at the Vienna State Opera (1951), Covent Garden (1953), the Metropolitan Opera in New York (1954) and Bayreuth (1960). In 1961, he became chief conductor of the Royal Philharmonic at the invitation of Sir Thomas Beecham, becoming the Orchestra’s ‘principal conductor for life’ in 1970. He left the RPO in 1975 to become chief conductor of the BBC Symphony Orchestra but died one year later. He was also music director of the Zürich Tonhalle Orchestra (1965-72) and the Munich Philharmonic (1967-76). With his solid grounding in German opera houses it is not surprising that Kempe is remembered particularly as an outstanding interpreter of the works of Wagner and Richard Strauss.

THE RECORDINGS
With much of Kempe’s commercial discography currently available on CD, this compilation concentrates on the conductor’s live broadcasts. The 1972 studio performance of Bruckner’s ‘Romantic’ Symphony with the Munich Philharmonic appears on disc for the first time, as do the Munich performances of Wolf’s Italian Serenade (from 1971) and the Second Suite from Ravel’s ballet Daphnis et Chloé (from 1974). Elsewhere, Kempe’s associations with the Berlin and Vienna Philharmonic Orchestras are recognised in recordings from 1960 of Brahms’s Tragic Overture and Strauss’s Polka Leichtes Blut. The live recording of Beethoven’s ‘Eroica’ Symphony, from the 1974 Prague Festival, is also new to the catalogue and represents Kempe’s long and fruitful relationship with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. It also complements the conductor’s earlier EMI studio recordings in Berlin (1959) and Munich (1972) by supplying the added excitement of a live occasion.



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Great conductors of the 20TH century EMI VOL.27 - Bohm

 CD1 [78.50]

Mozart: Overture ‘Così fan tutte’
Kingsway Hall, London, September 1962
Philharmonia Orchestra

Bruckner: Symphony No.8 (Version: 1889-90; edited: Nowak)
Live studio recording: Klaus-von-Bismarck-Saal, WDR, Cologne, September 1974
WDR Sinfonieorchester Köln (Kölner Rundfunk-Sinfonie-Orchester)

CD2 [77.44]

Haydn: Symphony No.91
Musikverein, Vienna, September 1973
Wiener Philharmoniker

Schubert: Symphony No.9 ‘The Great C major’
Live recording: Kulturpalast, Dresden, January 1979
Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden



THE BIOGRAPHY

Karl Böhm was born in Graz, and studied both law and music. Though he had no formal training as a conductor, he made his debut in 1917 at the Graz Opera. He became assistant to Bruno Walter at the Munich State Opera and stayed there from 1921 to 1927, when he moved to Darmstadt as music director and then in 1931 to a similar post in Hamburg. In 1933, he made his debut with the Vienna Philharmonic and at the State Opera in Dresden, where he took over from Fritz Busch in 1934. In 1943 he was appointed music director of the Vienna State Opera. After the war, he slowly rebuilt his career and in 1954 resumed his position at the State Opera but resigned in 1956. From 1957 he conducted regularly at the Metropolitan Opera in New York and in 1962 he began a distinguished association with the Bayreuth Festival. For the rest of his life he guest-conducted the major European orchestras, especially the Vienna Philharmonic. In 1970 he was named General Music Director of Austria.


THE RECORDINGS

Karl Böhm was mainly associated with the Viennese masters. Four of them – Mozart, Bruckner, Haydn and Schubert – are represented in this collection of stereo recordings featuring orchestras with which the conductor had strong connections: the Vienna Philharmonic, the Dresden Staatskapelle, of which he was music director from 1934 to 1943, and the Cologne Radio Symphony Orchestra, which he conducted regularly from 1947. There are two live performances: Bruckner’s Eighth Symphony recorded in Cologne in 1974 and the celebrated 1979 recording of Schubert’s Symphony No. 9 with the Staatskapelle Dresden, which makes a welcome reappearance in a new remastering. The Haydn Symphony No.91, recorded in Vienna in 1973, is rare on record and has only appeared on CD in Japan. The Overture to Così fan tutte comes from Böhm’s celebrated recording of the complete opera, made in London in 1962 with the Philharmonia Orchestra.



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Great conductors of the 20TH century EMI VOL.26 - Beinum

CD1 [75:43]

Thomas: Overture ‘Mignon’
Grotezaal, Concertgebouw, Amsterdam, April 1956

Schubert: Symphony No.6
Grotezaal, Concertgebouw, Amsterdam, May 1957

Brahms: Symphony No.2
Live recording: Staatstheater, Stuttgart, September 1955
Concertgebouw Orchestra

CD2 (78.54)

Nicolai: Overture ‘The Merry Wives of Windsor’
Grotezaal, Concertgebouw, Amsterdam, April 1956

Richard Strauss: Don Juan
Live recording: Staatstheater, Stuttgart, September 1955

Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade
Grotezaal, Concertgebouw, Amsterdam, May 1956
Concertgebouw Orchestra

Elgar: Concert Overture ‘Cockaigne’
London Philharmonic Orchestra; Kingsway Hall, London, May 1949



THE BIOGRAPHY - Eduard van Beinum (1900-1959)
The Dutch conductor Eduard van Beinum was born in Arnhem in 1900 and studied at the Amsterdam Conservatoire. His success in his first post as musical director – with the Haarlem Orchestral Society from 1927 – led to his appointment as second conductor of the Amsterdam Concertgebouw Orchestra in 1931. In 1938, he was promoted to ‘second principal conductor’ and in 1945 succeeded Willem Mengelberg as the orchestra’s chief conductor, a post he held until his premature death in 1959. He was also principal conductor of the London Philharmonic Orchestra (1949-51) and music director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra (1956-59). He enjoyed a considerable reputation as an interpreter of a wide range of repertoire. He was also a loyal champion of music by contemporary Dutch composers.

THE RECORDINGS
Very little of van Beinum’s discography is currently available. With the exception of Elgar’s Cockaigne, which has had limited availability, this compilation features material previously unissued on CD. The commercial recordings represent the conductor’s diversity in mainstream repertoire, ranging from Schubert to Rimsky-Korsakov, and his skill with lighter music, represented here by overtures by Ambroise Thomas and Otto Nicolai. The live recordings of Brahms’s Second Symphony and Richard Strauss’s Don Juan (the only van Beinum recording of this celebrated orchestral showpiece) were taped during a German tour in September 1955 and have remained in a private archive, unheard, for the past 48 years. The commercial recording of Elgar’s Cockaigne is a reminder of Eduard van Beinum’s successful period as principal conductor of the London Philharmonic Orchestra. 

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Great conductors of the 20TH century EMI VOL.25 - Beecham

CD1 [77.38]

Rossini: Overture ‘Guillaume Tell’
Abbey Road Studios, London, July 1934

Dvorák: Legend in G
Abbey Road Studios, April 1935
London Philharmonic Orchestra

Wagner: Entry of the Gods into Valhalla (‘Das Rheingold’)
Abbey Road Studios, October 1947

Mozart: Divertimento No.15 for 2 horns & strings
Abbey Road Studios, July 1947
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

Delius: Appalachia (revised & edited: Beecham)
Cuthbert Matthews & Royal Opera Amateur Chorus
Weber: Overture ‘Der Freischütz’
Live recordings: Queen’s Hall, London, November 1935
London Philharmonic Orchestra

CD2 [78.16]

Rimsky-Korsakov: Symphony No.2 (Symphonic Suite) ‘Antar’
Live studio recording: Shepperton Studios, London, December 1951
Mendelssohn: Songs Without Words Nos.44 & 45 (orchestrated: Del Mar)
Abbey Road Studios, November 1947

Tchaikovsky: Symphony No.4
Movement 1: Kingsway Hall, London, April 1958
Movements 2-4: Salle Wagram, Paris, October & November, 1957

Handel: Amaryllis Suite (arranged: Beecham)
Abbey Road Studios, June 1949
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra



THE BIOGRAPHY

Widely regarded as the finest conductor Great Britain has produced, Sir Thomas Beecham was born in April 1879 in St Helens, Lancashire, into the family of the pharmaceutical firm of Sir Joseph Beecham. After attending Rossall School and Wadham College, Oxford, he studied music in London and Paris, while travelling widely in Europe. He conducted his first concerts in 1899 and his first opera in 1902. He founded the first of his three orchestras, the Beecham Symphony Orchestra, in 1909 and his own opera company in 1915. He directed the Royal Opera House from 1932 to 1939, founded the London Philharmonic in 1932 and the Royal Philharmonic in 1946. He died in London in March 1961.


THE RECORDINGS

This 2CD set covers a wide range of composers associated with Beecham: Delius, Dvorák, Handel, Mendelssohn, Mozart, Rimsky-Korsakov, Rossini, Tchaikovsky and Wagner. The recordings, all published here for the first time, cover the conductor’s memorable pre-war performances with the London Philharmonic and also the post-war period with the Royal Philharmonic. The RPO featured such celebrated players as Dennis Brain, who is heard here in an extract from Wagner’s Das Rheingold and in Mozart’s Divertimento for two horns and strings. Some very rare live recordings are included: Delius’s Appalachia and the Overture to Weber’s Der Freischütz, both from the Queen’s Hall in 1935. Beecham did not record Rimsky-Korsakov’s Antar Symphony commercially so this 1951 live studio recording is an important addition to the Beecham discography. The Tchaikovsky Symphony No.4 was originally issued in mono only, but the stereo tapes of the first movement, recorded in London in 1958, have recently come to light and are included here for the first time.

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Great conductors of the 20TH century EMI VOL.24 - Talich

CD1 [77.34]

Smetana: _árka (from 'Má vlast'); Rudolfinum, Prague; June 1954

Dvorák: 'The Water Goblin', Op.107; Smetana Hall, Prague; May 1954 (Live)

Suk: Serenade for String Orchestra in E flat, Op.6; Rudolfinum; February 1951
Janá_ek: 'The Cunning Little Vixen' - Suite (arr. Talich); Rudolfinum; April 1954
Czech Philharmonic Orchestra


CD2 [79.46]

Benda: Symphony for String Orchestra in B flat; Studio Domovina, Prague; March 1954

Mozart: Symphony No.33 in B flat, K319; Smetana Hall; June 1954 (Live)
Czech Philharmonic Orchestra

Tchaikovsky: Suite No.4 in G, Op.61 'Mozartiana' - Preghiera
Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra; Bratislava; December 1951
Smetana: Prague Carnival; June 1953
Dvorák: Symphony No.9 in E minor, Op.95 'From the New World'; September 1954

Novák: Slovak Suite, Op.32 - Amorous Couple; June 1953
Czech Philharmonic Orchestra; Rudolfinum





THE BIOGRAPHY - VÁCLAV TALICH
Václav Talich (1883-1961) established himself during the inter-war years as the leading figure in Prague's musical life. At the helm of the Czech Philharmonic for nigh on a quarter of a century, and as the director of the Prague National Theatre for a decade (holding these posts concurrently for five years), he galvanised his musicians to give of their best, gaining for them international acclaim. Tragically, after the liberation of his country in 1945, Talich fell victim to the ruthless politics of the period, was falsely accused of 'unpatriotic conduct' during the German occupation and thrown into jail. Released from prison on the orders of President Benes, he was fully exonerated by the official 'purification' court, but after the Communist coup in February 1948 his arch enemy Zdenek Nejedly, Minister of Education, Science and the Arts, prevented Talich from appearing before Czech audiences for five bitter years. Talich was, however, allowed to work in Bratislava where he created, in the course of three seasons, the Slovak Philharmonic. Only in 1953, after Nejedly's retirement, could Talich re-enter Czech cultural life as artistic adviser to the Czech Philharmonic. In a triumphant return, matched only in recent times by that of the exiled Rafael Kubelik, he conducted his old orchestra in Smetana's cycle Má vlast for the opening concert of the 1954 Prague Spring Festival. Talich received a hero's welcome, but, sadly, his poor state of health, undermined by years of persecution, very soon forced him into retirement. In 1957, around the time of his 74th birthday, he was belatedly honoured with the well-deserved title 'National artist'.


THE RECORDINGS
This compilation includes two live broadcasts, made with the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra in 1954, of Dvorák's The Water Goblin and of Mozart's Symphony No.33 (a favourite of the conductor), which are even more impressive than Talich's studio recordings and therefore of particular interest and importance. Talich was chief conductor of the Czech Philharmonic between 1919-1931 and 1933-1941, when he established the orchestra's world-class status, and he returned as guest conductor in 1952 until 1954, during which period he recorded all the works heard in this compilation. The Benda Symphony and Smetana's Prague Carnival are extremely rare and appear here for the first time on CD. The extract from Tchaikovsky's Mozartiana Suite gives the collector the opportunity to hear a 1951 recording made by Talich's 'other' orchestra, the Slovak Philharmonic, which he founded in 1949 when in political exile in Bratislava. 



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Great conductors of the 20TH century EMI VOL.23 - Stokowski

CD1 [78.43]

Sibelius: Symphony No.1 in E minor, Op.39
National Philharmonic Orchestra; West Ham Central Mission, London; November 1976

Nielsen: Symphony No.2, Op.16 'The Four Temperaments'
Danish State Radio Symphony Orchestra; Odd Fellow Palæt, Copenhagen; August 1967 (Live)

Grainger: Handel in the Strand, Country Gardens & Shepherd's Hey
Percy Grainger & Leopold Stokowski & His Symphony Orchestra;
The Manhattan Center, New York City; May 1950

CD2 [78.45]

Dukas: Fanfare ('La Péri')
Leopold Stokowski & His Symphony Orchestra; Riverside Plaza Hotel, New York City;
February 1957

Brahms: 'Tragic' Overture, Op.81
National Philharmonic Orchestra; Abbey Road Studios, London; April 1977

Liszt: Hungarian Rhapsody in F minor, S359 No.1
Members of the NBC Symphony Orchestra; The Manhattan Center; February 1956
Turina: La oración del torero, Op.34
Leopold Stokowski & His Symphony Orchestra; Riverside Plaza Hotel; February 1958
Ibert: Escales
Orchestre National de la Radiodiffusion Française; Salle Wagram, Paris; May 1958

Wagner: 'Love Music' from 'Tristan und Isolde' (arr. Stokowski)
The Philadelphia Orchestra; Broadwood Hotel, Philadelphia; February 1960
Glière: Russian Sailors' Dance ('The Red Poppy' - Suite, Op.70)
Leopold Stokowski & His Symphony Orchestra; The Manhattan Center; February 1953





THE BIOGRAPHY - LEOPOLD STOKOWSKI (1882-1977)
Leopold Stokowski, born in London in 1882, began his long career as an organist but realised his desire to become a conductor in 1909. In 1912 he was appointed conductor of the Philadelphia Orchestra and over the course of nearly three decades built it into one of the finest of all symphonic ensembles. He championed modern composers, brought classical music to cinemagoers in Walt Disney's Fantasia, and during the 1940s formed the All-American Youth Orchestra, the New York City Symphony and the Hollywood Bowl Symphony, then guest-conducted the New York Philharmonic. In 1951 returned to England and began an illustrious international career. In 1962, he founded the American Symphony Orchestra in New York. When he died in England at the age of 95, he was still one of the most celebrated and beloved conductors in the world.

THE RECORDINGS
The rarities in this lively anthology include, pre-eminently, Stokowski's live performance of Nielsen's Second Symphony, given in the composer's native city when the 85-year-old conductor visited Copenhagen in 1967. This recording is released internationally for the first time. Throughout Stokowski's long career, another Scandinavian composer, Sibelius, was an abiding passion. The conductor premiered the last three of the composer's symphonies in the US. He first performed the First Symphony in 1910 in Cincinnati in his late 20s, but the astonishingly vigorous and deeply felt performance included here was recorded in London in 1976, when the conductor was nearly 95. In 1950, Stokowski asked the composer Percy Grainger to make special orchestral arrangements of a number of his most famous compositions and recorded them with Grainger himself as pianist. These 'Versions for Stokowski' are issued here for the first time on CD. The recordings of Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsody No.1, a notable addition to the conductor's discography, and Glière's invigorating Russian Sailors' Dance are also new to CD. Elsewhere, Stokowski's wizardry is brought to bear on colourful scores by Dukas, Ibert and Turina and in his own arrangement of the 'love music' from Wagner's Tristan und Isolde. 



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