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Stokowski: Philadelphia Rarities
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Leopold Stokowski

Stokowski: Philadelphia Rarities

Price: € 19.95
Format: CD
Label: Champs Hill
UPC: 0635212203323
Catnr: SIGCD 2033
Release date: 04 February 2022
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Champs Hill
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0635212203323
Catalogue number
SIGCD 2033
Release date
04 February 2022
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The Golden Age of Leopold Stokowski and the Philadelphia Orchestra" describes the 25 years from 1912 during which a London-born church organist took a provincial American ensemble and built it into one of the finest orchestras in the world, noted for its precision, virtuosity, and splendid tone-colour. With the advent of the microphone during the 1920s, Stokowski and the Philadelphia Orchestra made an enormous number of 78rpm discs that would become landmark recordings. For much of this time Stokowski concentrated on basic repertoire – including Beethoven, Brahms, Tchaikovsky, Sibelius, Debussy, Mussorgsky and many others.

However, side-by-side with familiar pieces went a number of works which no-one else had recorded before or, indeed, has recorded since! Although Stokowski was to record certain compositions several times over during his long career, there were a number which he recorded only once – on 78s made with the Philadelphia Orchestra. This unique collection of restored recordings brings together just those items which fall into this "rarities" category, and it demonstrates Stokowski's incredibly wide-ranging musical sympathies. It covers many periods and styles, from melodies centuries old to colourful Iberian and Oriental works, together with music of 20th-century America.

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Leopold Stokowski (conductor)

Leopold Stokowski, in full Leopold Antoni Stanislaw Boleslawawicz Stokowski, (born April 18, 1882, London, Eng.—died Sept. 13, 1977, Nether Wallop, Hampshire), virtuoso British-born U.S. conductor known for his flamboyant showmanship and the rich sonorities of his orchestras and for his influence as a popularizer of classical music. Stokowski was trained at the Royal College of Music, London, and Queen’s College, Oxford, and held positions as an organist before becoming conductor of the Cincinnati (Ohio) Symphony from 1909 to 1912. He gained an international reputation as musical director of the Philadelphia Orchestra from 1912 to 1936, and he frequently conducted concerts with them until 1941. He introduced youth concerts and performed contemporary works by Gustav Mahler, Edgard Varèse, and Igor Stravinsky and conducted the world premiere of Charles Ives’sSymphony No. 4 (1909–16). He also experimented with...
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Leopold Stokowski, in full Leopold Antoni Stanislaw Boleslawawicz Stokowski, (born April 18, 1882, London, Eng.—died Sept. 13, 1977, Nether Wallop, Hampshire), virtuoso British-born U.S. conductor known for his flamboyant showmanship and the rich sonorities of his orchestras and for his influence as a popularizer of classical music.

Stokowski was trained at the Royal College of Music, London, and Queen’s College, Oxford, and held positions as an organist before becoming conductor of the Cincinnati (Ohio) Symphony from 1909 to 1912. He gained an international reputation as musical director of the Philadelphia Orchestra from 1912 to 1936, and he frequently conducted concerts with them until 1941. He introduced youth concerts and performed contemporary works by Gustav Mahler, Edgard Varèse, and Igor Stravinsky and conducted the world premiere of Charles Ives’sSymphony No. 4 (1909–16). He also experimented with the placement of various sections of the orchestra and occasionally changed the written orchestration of the music he performed.

Organizer of the All-American Youth Orchestra, he conducted the NBC Symphony from 1941 to 1944 with Arturo Toscanini and inaugurated low-priced concerts at the New York City Center (1944–45). He directed the New York Philharmonic from 1946 to 1950 and the Houston (Texas) Symphony from 1955 to 1962; in 1962 he formed the American Symphony Orchestra in New York City.

Stokowski made three films with the Philadelphia Orchestra, including Walt Disney’s Fantasia(1940), and wrote a book,


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