An Evening with Leopold Stokowski
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Label: Glossa
Cat No: GCDSA922209
Format: Hybrid SACD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Orchestral
Release Date: 6th December 2010
Contents
Works
J S Bach/StokowskiToccata in D minor
J S Bach/Stokowski
Fugue in D minor
J S Bach/Stokowski
Aria from Overture No.3
Cesti/Stokowski
Tu mancavi a tormentarmi
Handel/Egarr
Water Music Suite
Purcell/Stokowski
Suite of Five Pieces
Palestrina/Stokowski
Adoramus te
Ockeghem/Egarr
Intemerata Dei Mater
Tchaikovsky
Slavonic March
Artists
Brussels Philharmonic OrchestraConductor
Richard EgarrWorks
J S Bach/StokowskiToccata in D minor
J S Bach/Stokowski
Fugue in D minor
J S Bach/Stokowski
Aria from Overture No.3
Cesti/Stokowski
Tu mancavi a tormentarmi
Handel/Egarr
Water Music Suite
Purcell/Stokowski
Suite of Five Pieces
Palestrina/Stokowski
Adoramus te
Ockeghem/Egarr
Intemerata Dei Mater
Tchaikovsky
Slavonic March
Artists
Brussels Philharmonic OrchestraConductor
Richard EgarrAbout
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 this style like ducks to water, in this modern-day “Evening with Leopold Stokowski”.
Leading the way with a classy swagger in transcriptions of Bach, Purcell and Palestrina is conductor Richard Egarr, perhaps better known for his work with the unadorned originals (he is the Music Director of the Academy of Ancient Music, after all), but in reality equally at home in much later music – and he makes no bones about his appreciation of the Stokowski style.
About the transcription of Dido’s Lament, Egarr says “It is still Purcell, even in Stokowski's fur coat” and, for added emphasis, he conjures up his own orchestral confection of Handel’s Water Music.
An evening’s entertainment of unalloyed pleasure, culminating in a triumphant rendition of the Slavonic March by Tchaikovsky, à la Stokowski, naturally.
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