Stokowski, Leopold

American Artistry: Bach By Stokowski

1 CD / EMI Classics / 2011-04-05

Works: Leopold Stokowski: Passacaglia and Fugue in C minor, transcription for orchestra (after Bach, BWV 582); Komm, süsser Tod, transcription for orchestra (after Bach, BWV 478); Bourrée, transcr...
Conductors: Stokowski, Leopold

Leopold Stokowski was a British-born, naturalized American conductor well known for his free-hand performing style that spurned the traditional baton and for obtaining a characteristically...continue...
Recording information: Manhattan Center, New York City....continue...

An Evening with Leopold Stokowski

1 Super Audio CD / Glossa / 2011-01-02

Works: Leopold Stokowski: Toccata and Fugue in D minor, transcription for orchestra (after Bach, BWV 565); Purcell Suite, for orchestra (a set of transcriptions after Purcell); Antonio Cesti: Tu mancavi a t...
Conductors: Egarr, Richard

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...continue...
Recording information: Studio 4, Flagey, Brussels (06/16/2008-06/20/2008)....continue...

Stokowski: Beethoven Symphony no 7 / Leopold Stokowski, et al

1 CD / Cala Records / 2009-11-10

Works: Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony no 7 in A major, Op. 92; Leopold Stokowski: Passacaglia and Fugue in C minor, transcription for orchestra (after Bach, BWV 582); Felix Mendelssohn: A Midsummer Night's ...
Conductors: Stokowski, Leopold

This compact disc is an all-stereo compilation of Stokowski recordings that have never been issued on CD and will be the final release in this...continue...

The Devil's Music

2 CD / Naxos (USA) / 2009-09-29

Works: Leopold Stokowski: Toccata and Fugue in D minor, transcription for orchestra (after Bach, BWV 565); Harald Saeverud: The Devil's 5-Hop; Hector Berlioz: La damnation de Faust, Op. 24; Michel Meynaud: ...

Postpone whatever good deed you were just about to do, clear your mind of virtuous thoughts, indulge in the politically incorrect stimulant of your choice,...continue...

Best Cello 100 / Various

6 CD / EMI Classics Import / 2009-07-07

Works: Johann Sebastian Bach: Suite for solo cello no 1 in G major, BWV 1007; Suite for Cello solo no 3 in C major, BWV 1009; Suite for Cello solo no 5 in C minor, BWV 1011; Antonio Vivaldi: Concerto for Ce...
Performers: Aveling, Valda; Barenboim, Daniel [Conductor, Piano]; Braley, Frank; Brown, Ian [Piano]; Capucon, Gautier; Capucon, Renaud; Carrington, Simon; Casals, Pablo; Chang, Han-Na; Clein, Natalie; Cohen, Rob...
Conductors: Zukerman, Pinchas; Warren-Green, Christopher; Barbirolli, John; Brown, Iona; Linde, Hans-Martin; Kangas, Juha; Masur, Kurt; Tortelier, Paul; Jansons, Mariss; Pesek, Libor; Davis, Andrew; Chung, Myung...
Ensemble: ; 12 Cellists of the Berlin Philharmonic; Academy of St. Martin in the Fields; Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra; Dresden Staatskapelle; English Chamber Orchestra; French National Orchestra; Gustav Mahl...

Stokowski: Bach Transcriptions Vol 2 / Serebrier, Bournemouth SO

1 CD / Naxos (USA) / 2009-01-27

Works: Leopold Stokowski: Toccata and Fugue in D minor, transcription for orchestra (after Bach, BWV 565); Arioso, for orchestra (after the Largo from Bach's Concerto for Harpsichord and Strings in F minor,...
Conductors: Serebrier, José

Leopold Stokowski arranged nearly 40 works from Bach's catalogue for the modern symphony orchestra, and Jose Serebrier's second volume of Bach-Stokowski Transcriptions is as colourful...continue...

Bach Metamorphoses / Talmi, Quebec Symphony Orchestra

1 CD / ATMA / 2008-09-30

Works: Leopold Stokowski: Toccata and Fugue in D minor, transcription for orchestra (after Bach, BWV 565); William Walton: The Wise Virgins, suite from the ballet; Gustav Holst: Fugue à la gigue, for...
Performers: Forand, Jacinthe; Lowe, Darren; Magnan, Philippe; Weimann, Alexander
Conductors: Talmi, Yoav
Ensemble: Quebec Symphony Orchestra

Bach Metamorphoses includes a transcription of Bach's Italian Concerto in F Major by Talmi himself, who declared, "Had Bach had a large, powerful ensemble at...continue...

Stokowski - First Releases

1 CD / Cala Records / 2008-07-01

Works: Leopold Stokowski: March, for orchestra ("Balance Test"); Tyrolean Dances, for orchestra (after Schubert); Stephen Foster: Oh! Susanna; George Frederick Handel: Der Messias; Richard Strauss: Salome, ...
Conductors: Stokowski, Leopold

Includes work(s): la marseillaise / serenade / saltarello by various composers....continue...

Mussorgsky, Borodin, Glière, etc / Stokowski, et al

1 CD / Cala Records / 2008-07-01

Works: Modest Mussorgsky: Night on the Bare Mountain; Khovanschina; Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov: Russian Easter Festival Overture, Op. 36; Reinhold Glière: The Red Poppy, ballet, Op. 70; Pyotr Il'yich Tcha...
Performers: Moscona, Nicola
Conductors: Stokowski, Leopold
Ensemble: Leopold Stokowski Orchestra

Cala, in partnership with the Leopold Stokowski Society, returns to the catalog some of Stokowski's finest pre-stereo recordings of Russian orchestral music....continue...

Stokowski - J. S. Bach Symphonic Transcriptions

1 CD / Cala Records / 2008-07-01

Works: Leopold Stokowski: Toccata and Fugue in D minor, transcription for orchestra (after Bach, BWV 565); Ein' feste Burg, transcription for orchestra (after Bach, BWV 80); Mein Jesu, was für Seelenwe...
Conductors: Stokowski, Leopold
Ensemble: All-American Orchestra

Stokowski: Symphonic Transcriptions / Serebrier, et al

1 CD / Naxos (USA) / 2006-06-20

Works: Johann Sebastian Bach: Orchestral Suite no 3 in D major, BWV 1068; Cantata no 208, "Was mir behagt," (Hunt Cantata), BWV 208 (BC G1, G3); Fugue for organ in G minor ("Little"), BWV 578 (BC J66); Komm...
Performers: Walden, Timothy
Conductors: Serebrier, José

"...What makes [these arrangements] work is not how they are written, but rather how they are played. Take the famous Air from the Orchestral Suite...continue...

Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition, etc / Serebrier

1 CD / Naxos (USA) / 2005-06-21

Works: Modest Mussorgsky: Night on the Bare Mountain; Khovanschina; Pictures at an exhibition; Leopold Stokowski: Symphonic Synthesis on Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov, for orchestra; Traditional Slavic Christm...
Conductors: Serebrier, José

"Spectacular, sensational, skirting the boundaries of 'good taste' - thie is the real deal." - ClassicsToday.com...continue...

Bear Essentials - Dining Classics

2 CD / Chandos Records / 2003-10-21

Works: Antonio Vivaldi: Concerto for Violin in E major, Op. 8 no 1/RV 269 "Primavera"; Concerto for strings & continuo in D major, Op. 12/3, RV 124; Chamber Concerto for Lute and 2 Violins in D major, RV 93...
Performers: Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, The; Australia, Soloists of; Barnert, Matthias; BBC Philharmonic Orchestra; Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra; Cantilena [Instrumental Ensemble]; City of Birmingham ...
Conductors: Shelley, Howard; ; Manze, Andrew; Thomas, Ronald [Violin]; Standage, Simon; Preston, Stephen; Hickox, Richard; Garforth, David; Shepherd, Adrian; Leppard, Raymond; Weller, Walter; Turovsky, Yuli; Bam...
Ensemble: ; Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields Chamber Ensemb; Ambache Chamber Ensemble; BBC Philharmonic Orchestra; Cantilena; Collegium Musicum 90; Concerto Copenhagen; English Chamber Ensemble; English Cha...

Berlioz, Scriabin / Stokowski, New Philharmonia Orchestra

1 CD / BBC Legends / 2003-02-01

Works: Alexander Scriabin: Le Poème de l'extase (Poem of Ecstasy), symphony [No. 4] in C major, Op. 54; Hector Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique, Op. 14; Leopold Stokowski: Leopold Stokowski in conversa...
Conductors: Stokowski, Leopold
Ensemble: New Philharmonia Orchestra

This release presents the legendary conductor in one of his last concerts on June 18, 1968, at the Royal Festival Hall in London. The exotic,...continue...

Schoenberg, Hindemith, et al / Stokowski, Philhadelphia

4 CD / Andante / 2002-09-24

Works: Leopold Stokowski: Stokowski discusses Schoenberg's Gurrelieder (Discussion); Arnold Schoenberg: Gurrelieder; Arcady Dubensky: The Raven, for narrator & orchestra; Paul Hindemith: Kammermusik no 2, f...
Performers: Althouse, Paul; Betts, Robert; Levin, Sylvan; Phillips, Edna; Robofsky, Abrasha; Vreeland, Jeanette

Stokowski's Symphonic Baroque / Matthias Bamert, BBC PO

1 CD / Chandos Records / 2001-11-20

Works: Leopold Stokowski: Water Music Suite, transcription for orchestra (after Handel); Sarabande and Courante, transcription for orchestra (from Buxtehude's Keyboard Suite, BuxWV 179); Tu mancavi a tormen...
Performers: Blake, Christopher; Davis, Richard; Dixon, Peter; Millar, Cynthia
Conductors: Bamert, Matthias
Ensemble: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra

"...Compared with the old magician, Bamert doesn't come off at all badly: there isn't that uniquely vibrant sound that Stokowski always produced, but the playing...continue...

Bach: Transcriptions / Salonen, Los Angeles Philharmonic

1 CD / Sony Classical / 2000-08-29

Works: Leopold Stokowski: Toccata and Fugue in D minor, transcription for orchestra (after Bach, BWV 565); Little Fugue in G minor, transcription for orchestra (after Bach, BWV 578); Edward Elgar: Arrangeme...
Conductors: Salonen, Esa-Pekka
Ensemble: Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra

This lush and appealing program will be popular with novice and expert listeners alike. Included are orchestral arrangements of some of Bach's most famous compositions...continue...

Stokowski's Mussorgsky / Matthias Bamert, BBC Philharmonic

1 CD / Chandos Records / 1996-06-18

Works: Modest Mussorgsky: Night on the Bare Mountain; Khovanschina; Pictures at an exhibition; Leopold Stokowski: Symphonic Synthesis on Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov, for orchestra
Conductors: Bamert, Matthias
Ensemble: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra