Debussy, Claude > Leopold Stokowski Orchestra

Icon - Leopold Stokowski - The Maverick Conductor

10 CD / EMI Classics / 2009-10-20

Works: Johann Sebastian Bach: Passacaglia and Fugue in C minor, BWV 582; Komm, süsser Tod, komm, sel'ge Ruh'!, BWV 478; English Suite no 2 in A minor, BWV 807; Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott, BWV 720; C...
Performers: Babikian, Virgina; Baker, Julius; Gardner, Guy; Hager, Clyde; Neikrug, George
Conductors: Stokowski, Leopold
Ensemble: Houston Symphony Orchestra; Leopold Stokowski Orchestra; London Symphony Orchestra; Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra; ORTF National Orchestra

One of the most flamboyant conductors of the 20th century, Leopold Stokowski was born at Marylebone in London in 1882, the son of a Polish...continue...

Stokowski, the Eternal Magician - Debussy, Stravinsky, Wagner, Enescu

1 CD / Cala Records / 2008-12-09

Works: George Enescu: Roumanian Rhapsodies (2), for orchestra, Op. 11; Claude Debussy: Nocturnes (3) for Orchestra; Igor Stravinsky: Firebird Suite; Richard Wagner: Die Walküre
Conductors: Stokowski, Leopold
Ensemble: Leopold Stokowski Orchestra

This series on Cala of reissues of some of Stokowski's finest recordings show him at his best. Heard on CD for the first time is...continue...

Bizet: Symphony in C major, etc; Debussy: Children's Corner / Leopold Stokowski, et al

1 CD / Cala Records / 2008-10-14

Works: Georges Bizet: Symphony in C major; L' Arlésienne, suite for orchestra no 1; L' Arlésienne, suite for orchestra no 2; Claude Debussy: Children's Corner
Conductors: Stokowski, Leopold
Ensemble: Leopold Stokowski Orchestra

Stokowski's 1952 recordings of Bizet's charming Symphony and the colorful L'Arlesienne Suites, and his 1949 recording of Debussy's delightful Children's Corner Suite are heard here...continue...

Stokowski - Percy Grainger Favorites

1 CD / Cala Records / 2008-07-01

Works: Percy Grainger: Country Gardens; Mock Morris, for orchestra (elastic scoring) (RMTB 1); Early One Morning, folk song for string orchestra (edited by Peter Barry Ould; BFMS unnumbered); Shepherd's Hey...
Performers: Grainger, Percy
Conductors: Stokowski, Leopold
Ensemble: Leopold Stokowski Orchestra

The Heart of the Ballet - Tchaikovsky, etc / Stokowski

1 CD / Cala Records / 2008-07-01

Works: Adolphe Adam: Giselle; Carl Maria von Weber: Invitation to the Dance, in D flat major J 260/Op. 65; Frédéric Chopin: Prelude for piano no 7 in A major, Op. 28/7, CT. 172; Waltz for Piano in...
Conductors: Stokowski, Leopold
Ensemble: Leopold Stokowski Orchestra