CD 1 The Early Hi-Fi Wide Range & Stereo Recordings, vol. 2

Bell Laboratories; see CD 35

all-Wagner programme

1 Speech by Stokowski

2 Walkürenritt from Die Walküre

3 Wotans Abschied & Feuerzauber from Die Walküre

4 Waldweben from Siegfried

5 Trauermarsch & Finale from Götterdämmerung

Philadelphia Orchestra, rec. live 29-30/04/32, partially stereo

53.35 min.

 

CD 2 Haydn / Mozart

-Symphony No. 53 L’Impériale (Haydn) NYPO 1949

-Symphony No. 53 L’Impériale (Haydn) His SO 1949

-Violin Concerto in C (Haydn) NYPO 1949

Isaac Stern, violin

-Symphony No. 35 ‘Haffner’ (Mozart) NYPO 1949

-German Dance and Turkish March (Mozart) His SO

77.43 min.

 

CD 3 Tchaikovsky’s Fifth Symphony, 2 CD

International Festival Youth Orchestra 1973

Jeroen Vermeulen, solo horn

CD 1 Rehearsal 66.07 min.

CD 2 Performance 43.20 min.

 

CD 4 Rehearsal Alexander Nevsky Cantata opus 78

(Prokofieff)

ASO Carnegie Hall, 24 February 1964

Nell Rankin, mezzo-soprano

79.14 min.

 

CD 5 Residentie Orkest Den Haag (The Hague)

Holland Festival, Kurhaus Scheveningen 1951

-Recordare (Lukas Foss)

-Prelude No. 14 in e flat minor (Shostakovich)

-Romeo & Juliet, fantasy-overture (Tchaikovsky)

 

plus: Rehearsal Emperor Concerto (Beethoven) (45 min.)

American Symphony Orchestra, Carnegie Hall 1970

Rudolf Serkin, piano

78.21 min.

 

CD 6 Concertgebouworkest Amsterdam

Holland Festival, Concertgebouw 1951

-Le carnaval romain overture (Berlioz)

-Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune (Debussy)

-El amor brujo, orchestral version (De Falla)

-Symphony No. 2 in D opus 73 (Brahms)

78.34 min.

 

CD 7 Four Great Symphonies, 2 CD

-Symphony No. 2 opus 61 (Schumann) His SO 1950

-Symphony No. 5 opus 100 (Prokofieff) USSR SO 1958

-Symphony No. 2 opus 43 (Sibelius) NBC SO 1954

-Symphony No. 2 opus 16 ‘The Four Temperaments’ (Nielsen) Danish State Radio SO 1967

77.46; 76.06 min.

 

CD 8 Masquerade Suite / Swan Lake

-Masquerade Suite (Khachaturian) NYPO 1947

-Swan Lake acts 2 & 3 complete (Tchaikovsky) NBC SO 1955

74.20 min.

 

CD 9 Debussy / Borodin / Ben Haim / Stravinsky

-Children’s corner suite (Debussy) His SO 1949

-Polovtsian dances from Prince Igor (Borodin) His SO 1950

-From Israel (Ben Haim) Symphony of the Air 1959

-Petrouchka suite (Stravinsky) Philadelphia live 1962

71.50 min.

 

CD 10 Gurrelieder live Edinburgh Festival, 2 CD

Usher Hall Edinburgh

London SO 20 August 1961

James McCracken, tenor (Waldemar)

Gré Brouwenstijn, soprano (Tove)

Nell Rankin, mezzo-soprano (Waldtaube)

Forbes Robinson, baritone (Bauer)

John Lanigan, tenor (Klaus-Narr)

Alvar Lidell (Sprecher)

74.45 / 42.56 min.

 

CD 11 Gurrelieder live Philadelphia, 2 CD

Academy of Music 6 March 1961

Rudolf Petrack, Waldemar

Margarita Zambrana, Tove

Nell Rankin, Waldtaube

George Hoffman, Bauer

Thomas Hagemann, Klaus-Narr

version without Sprecher

61.20 / 44.50 min.

 

CD 12 The Heart of the Ballet / Rhapsodies / Russian Music, 2 CD

CD 1          77.28 min.

-Le Spectre de la Rose / Aufforderung zum Tanz (Von Weber)

-Excerpts from Les Sylphides (Chopin)

-Excerpts from Swan Lake (Tchaikovsky)

-Two Rumanian rhapsodies (Enesco)

-Three Hungarian rhapsodies (Liszt)

CD 2          70.33 min.

-Suite from L’amour des trois oranges (Prokofieff)

-Vocalise (Rachmaninov)

-In the Steppes of Central Asia (Borodin)

-Russian Easter overture (Rimsky-Korsakov)

Nicola Moscona, bass

-Russian sailor’s dance from The red poppy (Glière)

-Night on the bare mountain (Mussorgsky)

-Prelude, Dance and Entr’acte from Khovanshchina (Mussorgsky)

 

CD 13 Boris Godunov / Samson et Dalila, 2 CD

CD 1          67.43 min.

-Boris Godunov (Mussorgsky), Operatic Highlights

1  Rehearsal  16.00

2  Prologue: In the courtyard of the Novodievitch

Monastery: Coronation scene  15.01

3  Act 1 – Tchudov Monastery: Varlaam’s song  6.48

4  Act 2 – I have attained the greatest power  5.43

5  Act 2 – The clock scene  3.41

6  Act 3 – Polonaise  3.19

7  Act 4 – Revolutionary scene  6.38

8  Farewell and death of Boris  10.29

San Francisco Symphony Orchestra

San Francisco Opera Chorus, Kurt Adler

Nicola Rossi-Lemeni, bass

San Francisco, December 1952

 

CD 2          66.55 min.

-Samson et Dalila (Saint-Saëns), Operatic Highlights

1   Bacchanale Philadelphia Orchestra 13-11-1927, 4.30

2   Arrêtez, o mes frères  8.46

3   Printemps qui commence  5.21

4   Amour! Viens aider ma faiblesse!  3.36

5   La Victoire facile  6.22

6   Se pourrait-il?  1.35

7   C’est toi!  7.54

8   Mon coeur s’ouvre à ta voix  8.19

9   Vois ma misère  6.23

10  Bacchanale  7.20

11  Gloire à Dagon  6.44

NBC Symphony Orchestra

Robert Shaw Chorale, Robert Shaw

Risë Stevens, soprano (Dalila)

Jan Peerce, tenor (Samson)

Robert Merrill, baritone (High Priest)

Manhattan Center New York, September 1954

 

CD 14 Lalo / Bartók / Grainger

-Symphonie Espagnole opus 21 (Lalo) NYPO Carnegie Hall 1947

Jacques Thibaud, violin

-Sonata for two pianos and percussion (Bartók) March-April 1952

Gerson Yessin and Raymond Viola, pianists

Elayne Jones and Alfred Howard, percussion

-Molly on the shore / Irish tune from County Derry / Handel in the Strand / Country gardens

Shepherd’s hey / Mock Morris (Grainger) 1945-1950

Percy Grainger, piano

71.17 min.

 

CD 15 His Symphony Orchestra, vol. 1, 2 CD

CD 1          73.17 min.

-Sicilienne from Armide (Von Gluck)

-L’Arlésienne Suites Nos. 1 & 2 (Bizet)

-Rumanian rhapsody No. 1 (Enesco)

CD 2          74.18 min.

-Suite No. 2 in b BWV 1067 (Bach)

Julius Baker, flute solo

-Symphony No. 1 in e opus 39 (Sibelius)

-Berceuse from The Tempest (Sibelius)

-Valse triste from Kuolema (Sibelius)

-Intermezzo from Goyescas (Granados / arr. Langey)

 

CD 16 His Symphony Orchestra, vol. 2

-Prelude to Hänsel und Gretel (Humperdinck)

-Symphony No. 53 L’Impériale (Haydn)

-German dance Die Schlittenfahrt (Mozart)

-Turkish march (Mozart / Stokowski) NBC SO

-Turkish march (Beethoven) NBC SO

-Overture, Entr’acte and Ballet music from Rosamunde (Schubert)

-Tiroler Tänze D 783 (Schubert/ Stokowski)

67.50 min.

 

CD 17 His Symphony Orchestra, vol. 3

-Sensemaya (Revueltas)

-Symphony in C (Bizet)

-Escales, Ports of Call (Ibert)

-Musette & Sicilienne from Armide (Von Gluck)

-In the Steppes of Central Asia (Borodin)

-Polonaise from Eugen Onegin (Tchaikovsky)

-An der schönen blauen Donau (Strauss)

75.20 min.

 

CD 18 Orchestre de la Suisse Romande 1968

-Egmont overture opus 84 (Beethoven)

-Symphony No. 4 opus 120 (Schumann)

-Romeo & Juliet, fantasy-overture (Tchaikovsky)

-Boris Godunov, symphonic synthesis (Mussorgsky / Stokowski)

Live Montreux 11 September 1968

74.40 min.

 

CD 19 Leningrad Symphony

Symphony No. 7 opus 60 (Shostakovich) NBC SO, 13 December 1942

72.43 min.

 

CD 20 Hungarian State Orchestra 1967

1-2  Toccata & Fugue in d BWV 565 (Bach / Stokowski)  3.29; 6.54

-Symphony No. 7 in A opus 92 (Beethoven)

3  poco sostenuto – vivace  11.28

4  allegretto  9.37

5  presto  4.53

6  allegro con brio  6.48

7  Stokowski interviewed  4.33

8  Entr’acte IV from Khovanshchina (Mussorgsky)  4.41

9-10  Petrouchka Suite (Stravinsky)  6.43; 9.09

Live in Budapest 2 February 1967

68.24 min.

 

CD 21 Philadelphia Return Concert, 2 CD

Philadelphia Orchestra live, 12 February 1960

CD 1          56.14 min.

-Le nozze di Figaro overture (Mozart)

-El amor brujo (De Falla)

Shirley Verrett, mezzo-soprano

-Pini di Roma (Respighi)

CD 2          49.05 min.

-Symphony No. 5 in d opus 47 (Shostakovich)

-Return speech by Stokowski

Academy of Music, Philadelphia

 

CD 22 Philadelphia Orchestra 13 December 1963, 2 CD

Philadelphia Orchestra live

CD 1      55.47 min.

1  Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme BWV 645 (Bach / Stokowski)  5.14

-Symphony No. 3 in E-flat major opus 55 ‘Eroica’ (Beethoven)

3  allegro con brio  16.39

4  marcia funebre: adagio assai  16.06

5  scherzo: allegro vivace  4.22

6  finale: allegro molto  13.10

CD 2      45.46 min.

-Die Götterdämmerung excerpts (Wagner)

2  Siegfrieds Rheinfahrt  11.45

3  Siegfrieds Tod und Trauermarsch  11.40

4  Brünnhildes Schlußgesang  19.33

Academy of Music, Philadelphia

 

CD 23 Prokofieff / Panufnik

-Symphony No. 6 opus 111 (Prokofieff) NYPO 1949

American Radio Première

-Universal prayer (Panufnik) London 1970

68.07 min.

 

CD 24 The Stokowski Wagner album

CD 1          72.18 min.

-Prelude III from Lohengrin Philadelphia 1962

-Suite from Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg Philadelphia 1964

-Overture, Bacchanale and Prelude III from Tannhäuser His SO 1950

-Wesendonk Lieder His SO 1950

Eileen Farrell, soprano

CD 2          68.44 min.

-Wotans Abschied & Feuerzauber NYPO 1947

-Rienzi overture NYPO 1949

-Symphonic synthesis from Tristan und Isolde, His SO 1950

-Finale from Götterdämmerung Philadelphia 1927

 

CD 25 New York Philharmonic, vol. 1

Wagner: Der fliegende Holländer overture, rec. 21/02/49
Bach / Stokowski: Passacaglia & Fugue in c minor BWV 582, rec. live 04/12/49
Beethoven: Finale from Symphony No. 9 opus 125, rec. live 12/04/49
Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on a theme by Thomas Tallis, rec. live 28/03/48
Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on Greensleeves, rec. 21/02/49
Strauss: An der schönen blauen Donau, rec. live 23/10/49
Shostakovitch / Stokowski: Prelude No.14 in e flat minor, rec. live 19/10/47

78.25 min.

 

CD 26 New York Philharmonic, vol. 2

Bach / Stokowski:
Jesus Christus, Gottes Sohn from Cantata BWV 4, rec. live 06/04/47
Ich ruf’ zu Dir, Herr Jesu Christ BWV 639, rec. live 20/02/49
Wir glauben all’ an einen Gott BWV 680, rec. live 20/02/49
Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 21 KV 467 (Myra Hess, piano), rec. live 06/02/49
Tchaikovsky: Francesca da Rimini, rec. 03/11/47
Copland: Prairie night and Celebration dance from Billy the Kid, rec. 03/11/47
Hupfeld: When Yuba Plays the Rhumba on the Tuba Down in Cuba (William Bell, tuba), rec. live 12/03/49

69.13 min.

 

CD 27 New York Philharmonic, vol. 3

New York Philharmonic 1947 – 1949

Symphonie Espagnole opus 21 (Lalo)

2  allegro non troppo  7.46

3  scherzando  4.46

4  andante  7.10

5  rondo  8.21

Jacques Thibaud, violin

5 January 1947

Masquerade Suite (Khachaturian)

6  waltz  3.42

7  nocturne  4.35

8  mazurka  2.27

9  romance  3.51

10  galop  2.34

John Corigliano, violin solo

3 November 1947

11  American piper (Cowell)  4.00

23 January 1949

Schwanda der Dudelsackpfeifer (Weinberger)

12  Polka  2.11

13  Fugue  5.26

16 January 1949

From film score Spitfire / The First of the Few (Walton)

14  Prelude  3.05

15  Fugue  4.04

6 February 1949

16 Rienzi overture (Wagner)  10.44

4 April 1949

TT 75.15 min.

 

CD 28 Ludwig van Beethoven

-Symphony No. 5 opus 67 Philadelphia Orchestra 1931

-Symphony No. 6 opus 68 ‘Pastoral’ NBC SO 1954

-The sounds of nature, narrated by Stokowski

-Turkish march NBC SO, 9 February 1955

84.00 min.

 

CD 29 Still / Cowell / Creston / Gould / Bloch

-The San Francisco interview 1936

AAYO 1940-1941:

-Scherzo from Afro-American Symphony (Still)

-Tales of our countryside (Cowell)

Henry Cowell, piano

-Scherzo from Symphony No. 1 (Creston)

-Guaracha from Latin-American Symphonette (Gould)

San Francisco Symphony Orchestra 22 November 1953:

-Dance variations for two pianos and orchestra (Gould)

Arthur Whittemore and Jack Lowe, duo-pianists

Houston Symphony Orchestra 4 April 1956:

-Symphony for trombone (Bloch)

David Schuman, trombone

72.18 min.

 

CD 30 Rehearsal Mendelssohn / Bach / Haydn / Orff, 2 CD

Dress-Rehearsal ASO Carnegie Hall, 7 May 1966

CD 1          56.59 min.

-Ruy Blas overture opus 95 (Mendelssohn)

-Little Fugue in g (Bach/ Stokowski)

-Symphony No. 31 ‘Hornsignal’ (Haydn)

-Carmina Burana (Orff), beginning

CD 2          73.24 min.

-Carmina Burana, conclusion

Lucile Parrett; Henry Nason; Leslie Gwynne

 

CD 31 Bach

-Passacaglia & Fugue in c BWV 582, Chicago SO 24 March 1966

-Rehearsal and Performance Suite No. 2 in b BWV 1067, ASO May 1968

Sophie Sollberger, flute solo

62.40 min.

 

CD 32 Philadelphia Baroque Music / HBSO

Philadelphia Orchestra 1930 – 1937

-Concerto grosso No. 11 in D minor (Vivaldi)

1  allegro  1.07

2  adagio  3.46

3  largo  4.15

4  allegro  3.28

5  Adoramus te (Palestrina)  3.10

12 November 1934

6  Gagliarda (Frescobaldi)  3.19

22 October 1934

7  Nocturne from Le triomphe de l’amour (Lully)  4.42

8  Prelude to Alceste (Lully)  1.24

9  Marche des sacrificateurs from Thésée (Lully)  1.00

30 April 1930

10  Pavane from The Marquis of Salisbury (Byrd)  2.19

11  Gigue from The Fitzwilliam Virginal Book (Byrd)  2.20

19 April 1937

12  Overture in d (Händel)  6.22

16 December 1935

-Water Music suite (Händel)

13  allegro  3.03

14  air  3.52

15  bourrée  0.58

16  hornpipe  1.16

17  andante  3.40

18  allegro deciso  3.41

30 April 1934

Hollywood Bowl Symphony Orchestra, 26 August 1946

20  March from William Tell (Rossini)  1.38

21  Waltzes from Die Fledermaus (Strauss)  5.08

22  Marche slave opus 31 (Tchaikovsky)  8.42

70.55 min.

 

CD 33 American Symphony Orchestra, vol. 1

live recordings 1965-1969

-Rehearsal Oberon overture (Von Weber) 1965

-The Star-spangled Banner (Smith) 1966

-The Tempest overture (Diamond) 1966

-Symphony No. 4 in B-flat major opus 60 (Beethoven) 1966

-The mountain song (Stringfield) 1968

-Pictures at an Exhibition (Mussorgsky / Stokowski) 1969

75.25 min.

 

CD 34 Leopold Stokowski at the Movies

musical excerpts from The Big Broadcast of 1937, 100 Men and a Girl (1937) and Carnegie Hall (1947)

Deanna Durbin, vocalist

70.55 min.

 

CD 35 Early Hi-Fi Wide Range & Stereo Recordings, 2 CD

Bell Laboratories 1931-1932, complete (see CD 1)

CD 1 (vol. 1)          56.14 min.

Berlioz: Le carnaval romain overture, rec. 01/12/31
Von Weber / Berlioz: Aufforderung zum Tanz, rec. 04/12/31
Mendelssohn: Scherzo from Ein Sommernachtstraum, rec. 05/12/31
Wagner: Vorspiel und Liebestod from Tristan und Isolde, rec. 19/12/31
Scriabin: Excerpts from Promethée, le Poème du Feu, rec. 12/03/32 (stereo)
Mussorgsky / Ravel: Pictures at an Exhibition, rec. 03/32
CD 2 (vol. 2)          53.26 min.

Wagner: Excerpts from Der Ring des Nibelungen, rec. 04/32 (partially stereo)

Speech by Stokowski

Recorded by Bell Laboratories in the Academy of Music

 

CD 36 Stokowski, Kostelanetz & Earl Wild

-Hungarian Fantasia (Liszt) Columbia SO / Kostelanetz/ Wild 1973

-Piano Concerto in a opus 17 (Paderewski) ASO / Stokowski/ Wild 1970 live

-Hungarian Fantasia (Liszt) ASO/ Stokowski / Wild 1969 live

-Symphonic synthesis from Boris Godunov (Mussorgsky / Stokowski) ASO 1969 live

82.00 min.

 

CD 37 BBC Studio Concert

BBC Studio Concert London, Thursday 7 June 1973

1 Egmont overture opus 84 (Beethoven)  9.02

2 Symphony No. 28 in c minor (Brian)  14.42

-Symphony No. 9 in e opus 95 ‘Z Nového světa’ (Dvořák)

4 adagio – allegro molto  10.13

5 largo  13.56

6 scherzando – molto vivace  7.08

7 allegro con fuoco  13.01

New Philharmonia Orchestra

69.50 min.

 

CD 38 Restful Music

His Symphony Orchestra 1950-1952

NBC Symphony Orchestra 1954 (8)

1 Tu mancavi a tormentarmi (Cesti)  6.20  (28-2-1952)

2 Gagliarda (Frescobaldi)  3.30  (4-4-1952)

3 Nocturne from Le Triomphe de l’amour (Lully)  5.35  (4-4-1952)

4 When I am laid in earth from Dido and Aeneas (Purcell)  4.59

(25-7-1950)

5 Mein Jesu, was für Seelenweh (Bach)  4.59  (25-3-1950)

6 Siciliano from Sonata No. 4 in c (Bach)  3.55  (25-3-1950)

7 Sarabande from Suite No. 2 in b (Bach)  3.20  (12/14-9-1950)

8 Szene am Bach, andante molto mosso from Symphony No. 6 in F opus 68 ‘Pastoral’ (Beethoven)  16.59  (18/19-3-1954)

9 Adagietto from L’Arlésienne Suite No. 1 (Bizet)  2.59  (29-2-1952)

EMI/HMV ALP 1387

52.40 min.

 

CD 39 Boston Symphony Orchestra, vol. 1

Berkshire Festival, Tanglewood 15 August 1965

Boston Symphony Orchestra live

-Passacaglia & Fugue in c minor BWV 582 (Bach / Stokowski)

2 Passacaglia  8.53

3 Fugue  6.00

-Symphony No. 8 in b minor ‘Unvollendete’ (Schubert)

5 allegro moderato  10.52

6 andante con moto  11.48

-Symphony No. 5 in d minor opus 47 (Shostakovich)

7 moderato  15.22

8 allegretto  5.05

9 largo  12.17

10 allegro non troppo  9.41

85.15 min.

 

CD 40 Boston Symphony Orchestra, vol. 2

Berkshire Festival, Tanglewood 21 August 1964

Boston Symphony Orchestra live

-Sinfonia Concertante in E flat major KV 297b (Mozart)  30.57

1 allegro  13.30

2 adagio  8.54

3 andantino con variazioni  8.33

Ralph Gomberg, oboe

Gino Cioffi, clarinet

Sherman Walt, bassoon

James Stagliano, French horn

4 Tod und Verklärung opus 24 (Strauss)  20.57

-Prelude and Quadruple Fugue opus 128 (Hovhaness)  6.39

5 Prelude  2.05

6 Quadruple Fugue  4.34

7 Eagles (Rorem)  6.58

8-15 Petrouchka suite (Stravinsky)  16.00

81.35 min.

 

CD 41 Live Recordings 1959-1971, vol. 1

-Water music suite (Händel / Stokowski) Houston 1959

-Paganini Rhapsody (Rachmaninoff) Philadelphia 19 January 1963

Susan Starr, piano

-Vorspiel Tristan und Isolde (Wagner) Philadelphia 1962

-Concertino for cello & orchestra (Prokofieff) ASO 14 December 1969

Natalia Gutman, cello

-Prelude Act III Ivan the Terrible (Rimsky-Korsakov) ASO 1971

79.57 min.

 

CD 42 Recordings 1941-1973

AAYO 1941:

-Träumerei (Schumann)

-Flight of the Bumblebee (Rimsky-Korsakov)

-Humoresque (Tchaikovsky)

-The Firebird suite (Stravinsky) BRSO München 1951

-Two Bach rehearsals (Ein’ feste Burg; Ich ruf’ zu Dir) ASO 5 October 1963

-Three encores (Jesus Christus, Gottes Sohn; O Haupt voll Blut und Wunden; Apothéose from The Sleeping Beauty) LSO 1973

-Petrouchka suite (Stravinsky) BSO 1964

-Berceuse for the fallen (Herrmann) ASO 1 November 1970

79.25 min.

 

CD 43 Live Recordings 1939-1967

-Toccata from Toccata & Fugue in d BWV 565 (Bach / Stokowski) Stockholm 1939

-Toccata & Fugue in d BWV 565 (Bach / Stokowski) Stockholm 1967

-Oboe Concerto in g minor (Händel) Houston 1958

Ray Weaver, oboe

-Pictures at an Exhibition (Mussorgsky / Stokowski) Houston 1959

-Scherzo féerique (Ibert) RAI Torino 1955

-Symphony No. 7 (Harris) Saint Louis 1955

78.00 min.

 

CD 44 Live Recordings 1943-1971

Folk dances of today (Harris) NBC 1943

-Fantasy for cor anglais, harp & strings (Piston) CBS 1954

Harry Schulvan, cor anglais

-Symphony No. 3 (Hovhaness) Symphony of the Air 1956

-Sárka from Má Vlast (Smetana) Philadelphia 1964

-Schelomo (Bloch) ASO 1969

Natalia Gutman, cello

-Sea piece with birds and Tango (Thomson) ASO 1970-1971

79.00 min.

 

CD 45 Live Recordings 1959-1971, vol. 2

-Hamlet, fantasy-overture opus 67a (Tchaikovsky) LSO 1959

-Francesca da Rimini opus 32 (Tchaikovsky) LSO 1964

-Fantasia on Greensleeves (Vaughan Williams) LSO 1964

-Piano Concerto No. 2 in g opus 16 (Prokofieff) ASO 1971

Jorge Bolet, piano

-Tango (Thomson) ASO 1971

79.00 min.

 

CD 46 Recordings 1945-1950

-Poème (Chausson) HBSO 1945

Toscha Seidel, violin

-Piano Concerto No. 2 (Casadesus) NYPO 1948

Robert Casadesus, piano

-Serenade for solo flute, harp & strings (Hanson) NYPO 1949

John Wummer, flute; Theodore Cella, harp

-Cello Concerto opus 129 (Schumann) NYPO 1949

Pierre Fournier, cello

-Excerpts from Giselle (Adam) His SO 1950

-Excerpts from Sylvia (Delibes) His SO 1950

78.30 min.

 

CD 47 Stokowski at the Hollywood Bowl, vol. 1

Symphony No. 41 KV 551 ‘Jupiter’ (Mozart)
Symphony No.3 ‘Ilya Mourometz’ (Glière / Stokowski)
Hollywood Bowl Symphony Orchestra, rec. live 20/08/46

69.36 min.

 

CD 48 Stokowski at the Hollywood Bowl, vol. 2

Britten: Passacaglia from Peter Grimes, rec. live 14/07/46
Honegger: Pacific 231, rec. live 14/07/46
Toch: Pinocchio Overture, rec. live 28/07/46
Rose: Holiday for Strings, rec. live 28/07/46
Rose: As Kreutzer spins, rec. live 28/07/46
Siegmeister: Western Suite, rec. live 28/07/46
Prokofieff: Lieutenant Kijé Suite

Edward Arnold, narrator

Hollywood Bowl Symphony Orchestra, rec. 11/08/46

70.25 min.

 

CD 49 Mozart

-Piano Concerto No. 14 KV 449 NYPO live 1947

-Piano Concerto No. 21 KV 467 NYPO live 1949

Myra Hess, piano

-Symphony No. 35 ‘Haffner’ NYPO live 1949

64.25 min.

 

CD 50 Parsifal excerpts (Wagner)

Philadelphia Orchestra live March-April 1933

Steel, Bampton, Eddy, Tcherkassky, Marwick, Healy, De Loache

66.55 min.

 

CD 51 Native Brazilian Music

from Stokowski’s South American Tour 1940

Sixteen Brazilian songs, selected and recorded under the personal

supervision of Leopold Stokowski on the ship ‘Uruguay’

7-8 August 1940

 

CD 52 Boston Symphony Orchestra, vol. 3

Symphony Hall 13 January 1968

Don Giovanni overture (Mozart / Stokowski)

Symphony No. 7 in A opus 92 (Beethoven)

Hamlet, fantasy-overture opus 67a (Tchaikovsky)

Boris Godunov, symphonic synthesis (Mussorgsky / Stokowski)

82.22 min.

 

CD 53 Copland / Hanson / Hindemith / Sibelius

-Aaron Copland interviewed by Fred Calland

-Symphony No. 2 ‘Short Symphony’ (Copland)

NBC Symphony Orchestra, 9 January 1944

American première

-Symphony No. 4 opus 34 ‘Requiem’ (Hanson)

NBC Symphony Orchestra, 2 January 1944

Radio première

-Symphony in E flat major (Hindemith)

New York Philharmonic, 3 January 1947

-Finlandia opus 26 (Sibelius)

Hollywood Bowl Symphony Orchestra, 11 August 1946

 

CD 54 Guarnieri / Fernández / Zimbalist / Siegmeister

-Three Orchestral Pieces (Guarnieri)

-Ritual dance Batuque from Reisado do pastoreio (Fernández)

NBC Symphony Orchestra, 9 January 1944

-American Rhapsody (Zimbalist)

NBC Symphony Orchestra, 16 January 1944

-Harvest evening from Prairie legend (Siegmeister)

New York Philharmonic, 29 December 1946

-Symphony No. 1 (Siegmeister)

New York Philharmonic, 2 November 1947

Radio première in Carnegie Hall

 

CD 55 Claude Debussy

Trois Nocturnes

1 nuages  8.51

2 fêtes  6.11

3 sirènes  11.19

Robert Shaw Chorale of Women’s Voices, Robert Shaw

11 October & 10 November 1950

 

4 Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune  10.13

Julius Baker, flute

4 October 1949

 

5 Clair de lune from Suite Bergamasque, arr. Stokowski  5.29

24 May 1947

 

Children’s corner suite, orch. André Caplet

6 Doctor Gradus ad Parnassum  2.48

7 Jimbo’s lullaby  3.10

8 Serenade for the doll  3.13

9 The snow is dancing  3.05

10 The little shepherd  3.05

11 Golliwogg’s cake-walk  3.00

2 March 1949

 

His Symphony Orchestra

 

John Corigliano and Hugo Kolberg, violin

William Lincer, viola

Frank Miller and Leonard Rose, cello

Julius Baker, flute

Robert Bloom, oboe

Robert McGinnis, clarinet

William Polisi, bassoon

James Chambers, horn

William Vacchiano, trumpet

Lucile Lawrence, harp

60.30 min.

 

CD 56 The Magic Key Concert of 1935

Leopold Stokowski and the Philadelphia Orchestra

Academy of Music, Philadelphia

 

Magic Key Concert, introduced by Stokowski

RCA/ NBC Radio Broadcast, 8 December 1935

 

3 Prelude to Act III of Lohengrin (Wagner)  3.13

5 Danse provençale from L’Arlésienne (Bizet)  1.37

7 Fêtes from Trois nocturnes (Debussy)  5.29

9 Rhumba from Symphony No. 2 (McDonald)  4.50

14 The Swan of Tuonela from Lemminkäinen (Sibelius)  8.05

16 Prelude from Tristan und Isolde (Wagner)  9.45

17 Liebestod from Tristan und Isolde (Wagner)  6.39

19 Liebesnacht from Tristan und Isolde (Wagner)  9.31 *

 

* used as closing theme, fading out and incomplete

57.10 min.

 

CD 57 Henry Wood Promenade Concert of Saturday 10 September 1966

CD 1      50.40

 

2  Russian Easter overture opus 36 (Rimsky-Korsakov)  14.35

 

Piano Concerto No. 1 in E flat major (Liszt)

4 allegro maestoso  5.21

5 quasi adagio – allegretto vivace – allegro animato  8.28

6 allegro marziale animato – presto  4.23

Charles Rosen, piano

 

Daphnis et Chloé, suite No. 2 (Ravel)

8 lever du jour  8.48

9 pantomime  3.29

10 danse générale  3.28

 

CD 2      52.50

 

Symphony No. 5 in e opus 64 (Tchaikovsky)

1 andante – allegro con anima  14.31

2 andante cantabile – moderato  13.53

Alan Civil, solo horn

3 valse – allegro moderato  6.13

4 andante maestoso – allegro vivace  11.54

 

5 Speech by Stokowski  1.44

 

6 Khovanshchina, entr’acte IV (Mussorgsky)  4.32

 

New Philharmonia Orchestra

Leader: Hugh Bean

London, 10 September 1966

 

CD 58 Camilla Wicks / Doris Stockton / Licia Albanese

– Hollywood Canteen Symphony Orchestra, 31 October 1943

David Foster, conductor *)

Leopold Stokowski, guest conductor

John Charles Thomas, baritone **)

speeches by Bette Davis, John Charles Thomas, David Foster and Leopold Stokowski

 

4 Prelude to Act III of Lohengrin (Wagner)  3.27 *)

8 Clair de lune from Suite Bergamasque (Debussy / Stokowski)  5.02

10 The Lord’s prayer  2.56 **)

12 My old Kentucky home  1.31 (the audience singing)

14 Einzug der Götter in Walhall from Das Rheingold (Wagner)  6.40

 

– Hollywood Bowl Symphony Orchestra, 14 July 1946

Camilla Wicks, violin

Violin Concerto No. 2 in d opus 22 (Wieniawski)

16 allegro moderato  7.25

17 romanze. andante non troppo  3.26

18 allegro con fuoco – allegro moderato à la zingara  5.24

20 Tzigane, rapsodie de concert (Ravel)  9.23

21 Caprice viennois opus 2 (Kreisler)  4.17  Fritz Kreisler, violin

(Douglas DC-3 ‘Dakota’ flying over the Bowl during Tzigane performance)

 

– Hollywood Bowl Symphony Orchestra, 11 August 1946

Doris Stockton, marimba *)

23 Hungarian dance No. 1 in g, allegro molto (Brahms/ Stokowski)  3.10

24 rondo-presto from Piano Sonata No. 1 in C opus 24 (Weber)  4.30 *)

 

– His Symphony Orchestra, 8 February 1951

Licia Albanese, soprano

Frank Miller, cello

Bachianas Brasileiras No. 5 (Villa-Lobos)

25 aria (cantilena)  7.10

26 dansa (martelo)  4.49

Manhattan Center, New York City

78.25 min.

 

CD 59 Hovhaness & Lavalle

-Symphony No. 1 opus 17 No. 2 ‘Exile’ (Hovhaness)

-Symphonic Rhumba (Lavalle)

NBC Symphony Orchestra, 6 December 1942

-Ad Lyram opus 143 (Hovhaness)

Houston Symphony Orchestra and Chorale, 12 March 1957

-Rehearsal Meditation on Zeami opus 207 (Hovhaness)

American Symphony Orchestra, October 1964

-Praise the Lord with Psaltery opus 222 (Hovhaness)

American Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, 23 December 1968

 

CD 60 American Symphony Orchestra, vol. 2

Leopold Stokowski, conductor

Jaime Laredo, violin

 

2 Stokowski interviewed by Curtis Davis  6.46

 

Violin Concerto opus 14 (Barber)

4 allegro  10.45

5 andante  8.22

6 presto in moto perpetuo  4.21

Jaime Laredo, violin

Constitution Hall Washington, 6 April 1964

Telecast

 

Symphony No. 6 in F opus 68 ‘Pastoral’ (Beethoven)

8 allegro ma non troppo  9.13

9 andante molto mosso  15.27

10 allegro  2.48

11 allegro  3.34

12 allegretto  9.55

Carnegie Hall New York City, 9 January 1966

75.25 min.

 

CD 61 Mozart / Tchaikovsky

1 Le nozze di Figaro overture (Mozart)  4.56
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

Royal Albert Hall London, 30 September 1973

 

Piano Concerto No. 20 in d KV 466 (Mozart)

2 allegro  14.50

3 romance  7.52

4 rondo: allegro assai  7.47

International Festival Youth Orchestra

Maria Isabella de Carli, piano

Sankt Moritz, 30 August 1969

 

Symphony No. 4 in f opus 36 (Tchaikovsky)

6 andante sostenuto – moderato con anima  15.22

7 andantino in modo di canzone  8.44

8 scherzo: pizzicato ostinato  5.02

9 allegro con fuoco  9.02

American Symphony Orchestra

Constitution Hall Washington, 6 April 1964

Telecast

77.30 min.

 

CD 62 Leopold Stokowski in Baltimore

Toccata & Fugue in d BWV 565 (Bach / Stokowski)

1 toccata  3.32

2 fugue  6.01

 

Pini di Roma (Respighi)

3 i pini di Villa Borghese  2.37

4 pini presso una catacomba  6.09

5 i pini del Gianicolo  5.57

6 i pini della Via Appia  5.23

 

Vorspiel & Liebestod from Tristan und Isolde (Wagner)

7 vorspiel  9.25

8 liebestod  6.36

 

9 Fugues & Cantilenas from Power among Men (Thomson)  18.09

 

10 Petrouchka Suite (Stravinsky)  15.57

 

Baltimore Symphony Orchestra

Lyric Theatre Baltimore

 

21 February 1962 (Respighi, Wagner)

10 January 1963 (Bach, Thomson, Stravinsky)

79.50 min.

 

CD 63 American Symphony Orchestra, vol. 3

Carnegie Hall New York City, 20 May 1968

 

Suite No.2 in b minor BWV 1067 (Bach)  23.10

1 ouverture  9.00

2 rondeau  1.47

3 sarabande  3.30

4 bourrée I & II  2.38

5 polonaise  3.20

6 menuet  1.08

7 badinerie  1.41

Sophie Sollberger, flute solo

 

Les quatre éléments (Martin)  22.07

– Études symphoniques pour grand orchestre –

8 la terre  4.29

9 l’eau  5.58

10 l’air  4.33

11 le feu  7.04

 

Alexander Nevsky Cantata opus 78 (Prokofieff)  34.40

12 Russia under the Mongolian yoke  2.28

13 song about Alexander Nevsky  2.25

14 the crusaders in Pskov  5.22

15 arise, ye Russian people  2.08

16 the battle on the ice  12.19

17 the field of the dead  5.32

18 Alexander’s entry into Pskov  4.21

Dessoff Choirs

Elaine Bonazzi, mezzo-soprano

79.57 min.

 

CD 64 American Symphony Orchestra, vol. 4

L’enfance du Christ, trilogie sacrée opus 25 (Berlioz)

 

1 première partie Le songe d’Hérode  37.00

2 deuxième partie La fuite en Egypte  16.15

3 troisième partie L’arrivée à Saïs  33.35

 

American Symphony Orchestra

St. Patricks Choir

 

Kenneth Riegel, tenor (récitant; centurion)

Meredith Rung, soprano (Sainte-Marie)

Richard Stillwell, baritone (Saint-Joseph)

Michael Devlin, bass (Hérode; père de famille; Polydorus)

 

Carnegie Hall New York City, 13 December 1970

86.51 min.

 

CD 65 Hollywood Bowl Symphony Orchestra, vol. 3

Standard Hour, 5 August 1945

 

2 Trumpet voluntary (Clarke / Stokowski)  2.10

 

4 Gagliarda (Frescobaldi / Stokowski)  3.05

 

Ballet Suite (Von Gluck / Mottl)

6 air gai from Iphigénie en Aulide  1.20
7 lento from Iphigénie en Aulide  3.07

8 Reigen seliger Geister from Orfeo ed Euridice  6.37
9 musette from Armide  1.47
10 air gai from Iphigénie en Aulide  1.21

11 sicilienne from Armide  2.06

 

Concerto for 4 violins and orchestra opus 3 No. 10 in b RV580 (Vivaldi)

13 allegro  4.27

14 largo  2.24

15 allegro  3.46

Harold Ayres / Heimann Weinstine / Maurice Warner / Ralph Schaeffer

 

Concerto for 4 pianos and orchestra in c BWV1065 (Vivaldi / Bach)

18 allegro  4.12

19 largo  2.31

20 allegro  3.34

Margueretha Lohman / Helena Lewin / Dorothy Eustis / Yi-an Rosita Chang

 

22 Minuetto I-II from Serenade No. 1 in D opus 11 (Brahms)  2.59

 

24 España rhapsody (Chabrier)  6.01

57.35 min.

 

CD 66 New York Philharmonic, vol. 4

Water Music Suite (Händel / Stokowski)

1 adagio e staccato  2.52

2 allegro  2.28

3 air I              2.12

4 minuet for horn  1.20

5 air II  0.52

6 bourrée  1.00

7 hornpipe  1.09

8 andante  3.24

9 allegro deciso  3.57

 

Symphony No. 40 in g minor KV 550 (Mozart)

10 allegro molto  6.32

11 andante  9.29

12 menuetto. allegretto  4.15

13 allegro assai  5.36

 

Symphony No. 1 in f minor opus 10 (Shostakovich)

14 allegretto  9.30

15 allegro ma non troppo  4.29

16 lento  9.22

17 allegro molto  10.30

New York Philharmonic, Leopold Stokowski

Carnegie Hall, 5 March 1960

79.05 min.

CD 67 Houston Symphony Orchestra 1956 – 1959

1 Water Music suite (Händel / Stokowski)  19.53

19-20 October 1959

2 Oboe Concerto in g minor (Händel)  12.37

3-4 November 1958

Ray Weaver, oboe

 

3 Pictures at an Exhibition (Mussorgsky / Stokowski)  25.28

19-20 October 1959

 

4 Symphony for trombone (Bloch)  15.20

4 April 1956

David Schuman, trombone

5 Ad Lyram opus 143 (Hovhaness)  10.14

12 March 1957

Houston Symphony Chorale

83.35 min.

 

CD 68 Syracuse Symphony Orchestra, 7 March 1971

1 Little Fugue in g minor (Bach / Stokowski)  3.49

2-5 Symphony No. 5 in c minor opus 67 (Beethoven)  32.32

6 Romeo & Juliet, fantasy-overture (Tchaikovsky)  20.38

7 Russian Easter overture opus 36 (Rimsky-Korsakov)  14.03

Donald Miller, baritone

CD 69 Bucharest Symphony Orchestra, 19 January 1967

1-2 Toccata & Fugue in d minor BWV 565 (Bach / Stokowski)  9.26

3-6 Symphony No. 7 in A major opus 92 (Beethoven)  32.44

7 Entr’acte IV from Khovanshchina (Mussorgsky)  4.28

8 Petrouchka Suite (Stravinsky)  15.47

CD 70 Danish State Radio Symphony Orchestra 1967

Danmarks Radios Symfoniorkester

1 Romeo & Juliet, fantasy-overture (Tchaikovsky)  20.06

2-5 Symphony No. 2 opus 16 ‘The Four Temperaments’ (Nielsen)  34.08

6 Entr’acte IV from Khovanshchina (Mussorgsky)  4.44

7 Petrouchka Suite (Stravinsky)  17.23

Odd Fellow Palais Copenhagen, Friday 4 August 1967

CD 71 London Symphony Orchestra 1974

all-Beethoven programme

1 Coriolan overture opus 62  6.50
2-5 Symphony No. 8 in F major opus 93  23.17
6-9 Symphony No. 3 in E-flat major opus 55 ‘Eroica’  41.53

Royal Albert Hall London, 10 February 1974


CD 72 American Symphony Orchestra, vol. 5

Henryk Szeryng / Itzhak Perlman

1-3 Violin Concerto in d minor opus 47 (Sibelius)  30.16

Henryk Szeryng, violin

New York, 3 November 1970

4-6 Violin Concerto in D major opus 35 (Tchaikovsky)  36.57

Itzhak Perlman, violin

New York, 9 May 1972

Stokowski’s final concert in the USA

CD 73 Japan Philharmonic Orchestra 1965

1 Toccata & Fugue in d minor BWV 565 (Bach / Stokowski)  9.54

2-4 Koto Concerto (Cowell)  30.30

Kimio Eto, koto

5-8 Symphony No. 5 in c minor opus 67 (Beethoven)  30.10

9 Rehearsal Petrouchka Suite (Stravinsky)  16.20

Budokan Hall Tokio, 13 July 1965

 

CD 74 Leopold Stokowski in Amsterdam 1970, 2 CD

CD 1

1 Fanfare from L’éventail de Jeanne (Ravel)  2.12

2 Symphony in d minor (Franck)  39.07

3 Stokowski interviewed by Pi Scheffer  24.32

CD 2

1 Alexander Nevsky Cantata opus 78 (Prokofieff)  40.17

2 Encore The field of the Dead  5.29

3 Encore Alexander’s Entry into Pskov  5.56

Radio Filharmonisch Orkest Hilversum

Groot Omroepkoor

Sophia van Sante, mezzo-soprano

Zuidhal RAI Amsterdam, Thursday 20 August 1970

CD 75 Philadelphia 50th Anniversary Concert 1963

1 Leonore Overture No. 3 (Beethoven)  14.24

2 Symphony No. 1 in c minor opus 68 (Brahms)  44.12

3 Caucasian Sketches No. 1 opus 10 (Ippolitov-Ivanov)  21.02

4 Tannhäuser Overture (Wagner)  15.21

Philadelphia Orchestra

Academy of Music, Friday 8 February 1963