An Evening With Leopold Stokowski
Label: GLOSSA Catalog: GCDSA922209 Format: SACD / CD Hybrid Brussels Philharmonic; Richard Egarr, directionJohann Sebastian Bach / Stokowski: Toccata in D minor, Fugue in D minor, Aria from Overture no. 3 - Marco Antonio Cesti / Stokowski: Tu mancavi a tormentarmi - Georg Friedrich Haendel / Egarr: Water Music Suite - Henry Purcell / Stokowski: Suite of Five Pieces - Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina / Stokowski: Adoramus te - Johannes Ockeghem / Egarr: Intemerata Dei Mater - Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Slavonic March The charm and sheer full-blooded pleasure offered by Leopold Stokowski's transcriptions continues to hold sway today - complete with opulent and resonant strings - some three decades after the dynamic conductor's death. The "Stokowski Sound was particularly, indeed deliberately, well-suited to the possibilities offered with the development of stereo recording of the maestro's day, a challenge which Glossa's engineer Manuel Mohino has happily embraced as much as the Brussels Philharmonic, whose members have taken to the style like ducks to water in this modern-day "Evening with Leopold Stokowski". Price: $28.98 |