Leopold Stokowski conducts 20th-century Americana | Guild - Historical GHCD2424

Leopold Stokowski conducts 20th-century Americana

Label: Guild - Historical

Cat No: GHCD2424

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Orchestral

Release Date: 15th January 2016

Contents

Artists

Tommy Dorsey (trombone)
James Abato (saxophone)
New York City Symphony Orchestra
Radio Italiana Orchestra of Turin
Hollywood Bowl Symphony Orchestra

Conductor

Leopold Stokowski

Works

Creston, Paul

Saxophone Concerto, op.26

Gould, Morton

Symphonette no.4 'Latin-American Symphonette'

Shilkret, Nathaniel

Trombone Concerto

Artists

Tommy Dorsey (trombone)
James Abato (saxophone)
New York City Symphony Orchestra
Radio Italiana Orchestra of Turin
Hollywood Bowl Symphony Orchestra

Conductor

Leopold Stokowski

About

The discography of Leopold Stokowski has to be arguably the most extensive and varied in terms of repertoire of any conductor of the 20th-century, and this latest Historic release from Guild contains three exceptionally rare recordings of works by American composers from the 1940s and 1950s. Nathaniel Shilkret's fine Trombone Concerto was commissioned by and dedicated to the immensely popular jazz and dance-band leader Tommy Dorsey, who gives the world premiere captured on this CD. This immensely valuable recording document is partnered by a similar recording of the beautiful Saxophone Concerto of Paul Creston, which is outstandingly well played by James Abato. The disc is completed by Morton Gould's brilliant Latin-American Symphonette, documenting Stokowski's only complete performance of a work he greatly admired.

Tracklisting:
1. Broadcast announcement   
2-3. Shilkret - Trombone Concerto: I-II
4. Stokowski requests silence
5. Shilkret - Trombone Concerto: III    
6-9. Gould - Latin-American Symphonette
10. Broadcast announcement   
11-13. Creston - Saxophone Concerto

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