Leopold Stokowski with the All-American Youth Orchestra & Hollywood Bowl Symphony Orchestra | Music & Arts MACD1287

Leopold Stokowski with the All-American Youth Orchestra & Hollywood Bowl Symphony Orchestra

£34.15

Usually available for despatch within 2-3 working days

Label: Music & Arts

Cat No: MACD1287

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 3

Genre: Orchestral

Release Date: 5th May 2015

Contents

Works

Berlin, Irving

God Bless America

Brahms, Johannes

Hungarian Dances (21), WoO1
» no.1 in G minor (orch. Stokowski)

Clarke, Jeremiah

Trumpet Voluntary 'Prince of Denmark's March'

Cowell, Henry

Irish Tales (4) 'Tales of our countryside'

Creston, Paul

Symphony no.1, op.20
» II Scherzo

Dolan, Robert

Lady in the Dark
» Glamour Waltz (A message for Liza)

Falla, Manuel de

El amor brujo
» Ritual Fire Dance

Gould, Morton

Latin-American Symphonette
» Guaracha

Haydn, Franz Joseph

String Quartets (6), op.3
» no.5 in F major, Hob.III:17 'Serenade': II Andante cantabile (orch. Stokowski)

Liszt, Franz

Hungarian Rhapsodies (19), S244
» no.2 in C sharp minor (arr. Muller-Berghaus)

Mussorgsky, Modest

Boris Godunov: A Symphonic Synthesis (arr. L Stokowski)
Pictures at an Exhibition (arr. L Stokowski)

Novacek, Ottokar

Perpetuum mobile, op.5 no.4 (orch. Stokowski)

Offenbach, Jacques

Les Contes d'Hoffmann (The Tales of Hoffmann)
» Barcarolle

Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolai

The Tale of Tsar Saltan
» Flight of the Bumblebee (orch. Stokowski)

Schubert, Franz

Moments musicaux (6), op.94 D780
» no.3 in F minor (orch. Stokowski)

Schumann, Robert

Kinderszenen, op.15
» no.7 Traumerei (orch. L Stokowski)

Smith, John Stafford

The Star-Spangled Banner

Still, William Grant

Symphony no.1 in A flat major 'Afro-American'
» III Humor (Animato)

Strauss II, Johann

Die Fledermaus
» Waltzes (arr. Stokowski)

Stravinsky, Igor

The Firebird (L'Oiseau de feu): Suite

Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Ilyich

Morceaux (2), op.10
» no.2 Humoresque (trans. L Stokowski)
Romances (6), op.73
» no.6 Solitude (trans. L Stokowski)
Symphony no.6 in B minor, op.74 'Pathetique'

Wagner, Richard

Tristan und Isolde
» Love music (arr. L Stokowski)

Weber, Carl Maria von

Invitation to the Dance (Aufforderung zum Tanze), J260 (orch. Berlioz/Stokowski)

Artists

Henry Cowell (piano)
All-American Youth Orchestra
Hollywood Bowl Symphony Orchestra

Conductor

Leopold Stokowski

Works

Berlin, Irving

God Bless America

Brahms, Johannes

Hungarian Dances (21), WoO1
» no.1 in G minor (orch. Stokowski)

Clarke, Jeremiah

Trumpet Voluntary 'Prince of Denmark's March'

Cowell, Henry

Irish Tales (4) 'Tales of our countryside'

Creston, Paul

Symphony no.1, op.20
» II Scherzo

Dolan, Robert

Lady in the Dark
» Glamour Waltz (A message for Liza)

Falla, Manuel de

El amor brujo
» Ritual Fire Dance

Gould, Morton

Latin-American Symphonette
» Guaracha

Haydn, Franz Joseph

String Quartets (6), op.3
» no.5 in F major, Hob.III:17 'Serenade': II Andante cantabile (orch. Stokowski)

Liszt, Franz

Hungarian Rhapsodies (19), S244
» no.2 in C sharp minor (arr. Muller-Berghaus)

Mussorgsky, Modest

Boris Godunov: A Symphonic Synthesis (arr. L Stokowski)
Pictures at an Exhibition (arr. L Stokowski)

Novacek, Ottokar

Perpetuum mobile, op.5 no.4 (orch. Stokowski)

Offenbach, Jacques

Les Contes d'Hoffmann (The Tales of Hoffmann)
» Barcarolle

Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolai

The Tale of Tsar Saltan
» Flight of the Bumblebee (orch. Stokowski)

Schubert, Franz

Moments musicaux (6), op.94 D780
» no.3 in F minor (orch. Stokowski)

Schumann, Robert

Kinderszenen, op.15
» no.7 Traumerei (orch. L Stokowski)

Smith, John Stafford

The Star-Spangled Banner

Still, William Grant

Symphony no.1 in A flat major 'Afro-American'
» III Humor (Animato)

Strauss II, Johann

Die Fledermaus
» Waltzes (arr. Stokowski)

Stravinsky, Igor

The Firebird (L'Oiseau de feu): Suite

Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Ilyich

Morceaux (2), op.10
» no.2 Humoresque (trans. L Stokowski)
Romances (6), op.73
» no.6 Solitude (trans. L Stokowski)
Symphony no.6 in B minor, op.74 'Pathetique'

Wagner, Richard

Tristan und Isolde
» Love music (arr. L Stokowski)

Weber, Carl Maria von

Invitation to the Dance (Aufforderung zum Tanze), J260 (orch. Berlioz/Stokowski)

Artists

Henry Cowell (piano)
All-American Youth Orchestra
Hollywood Bowl Symphony Orchestra

Conductor

Leopold Stokowski

About

CD premieres of their rarest 78 rpm recordings: 1940-46

Leopold Stokowski formed the All-American Youth Orchestra in 1940, its players' ages ranging from 18 to 25. He sought to combat Nazi propaganda touting the wonders of Hitler youth with an artistic statement from young emissaries of the free world. The AAYO toured South America in 1940 and North America in 1941 and was met with rave reviews. These performances boast a unique combination of past and future: the wisdom of Stokowski's vast experience allied with the pure, undiminished idealism of youth.

In 1945, Stokowski founded the Hollywood Bowl Symphony Orchestra. The items included here, the only ones that had not been re-circulated on commercial CDs until now, are all brief, and for the most part within a range of varying degrees of lightness in content. Beautifully restored by Mark Obert-Thorn.

Contents:
All-American Youth Orchestra

CD 1
(77:06)
TCHAIKOVSKY: Symphony No.6 in B minor, Op.74, “Pathétique”
TCHAIKOVSKY: Solitude, Op.73, No.6 (orch. Stokowski)
TCHAIKOVSKY: Humoresque, Op.10, No.2 (orch. Stokowski)
NOVÁCEK (orch. Stokowski): Perpetuum Mobile
RIMSKY-KORSAKOV (orch. Stokowski): Flight of the Bumble-Bee (from Tsar Sultan)
STRAVINSKY: Firebird – Suite

CD 2 (74:34)
MUSSORGSKY (arr. Stokowski): Boris Godunov – Symphonic Synthesis
MUSSORGSKY: Pictures at an Exhibition (orch. Stokowski)
WAGNER (arr. Stokowski): Tristan und Isolde – Love Music

CD 3 (77:07)
WEBER (orch. Berlioz/Stokowski): Invitation to the Dance, Op.65
SCHUMANN (orch. Stokowski): Träumerei (No.7 from Kinderszenen, Op.15) (only commercial recording by Stokowski)
LISZT (arr. Müller-Berghaus): Hungarian Rhapsody No.2
FALLA: Ritual Fire Dance (from El amor brujo)
Pledge to the Flag (Goddard Lieberson, speaker)
SMITH: The Star-Spangled Banner (only commercial recording by Stokowski)
BERLIN: God Bless America (only commercial recording by Stokowski)
CRESTON: Scherzo (from Symphony No.1, Op.20) (only commercial recording by Stokowski)
GOULD: Guaracha (from Latin-American Symphonette) (only commercial recording by Stokowski)
STILL: Scherzo (from Afro-American Symphony) (only commercial recording by Stokowski)
COWELL: Tales of Our Countryside (only commercial recording by Stokowski)
Henry Cowell (piano)

Hollywood Bowl Symphony Orchestra
DOLAN: Glamour Waltz (A Message for Liza) from Lady in the Dark (only commercial recording by Stokowski)
CLARKE: Prince of Denmark’s March (“Trumpet Voluntary”)
HAYDN (orch. Stokowski): Andante cantabile (from String Quartet Op.3, No.5) (“18th Century Dance”)
SCHUBERT (orch. Stokowski): Moment musicale (No.3 from D.780)
BRAHMS (orch. Stokowski): Hungarian Dance No.1
TCHAIKOVSKY (orch. Stokowski): Solitude, Op.73, No.6
TCHAIKOVSKY (orch. Stokowski): Humoresque, Op.10, No.2
OFFENBACH: Barcarolle (from The Tales of Hoffmann) (only commercial recording by Stokowski)
J STRAUSS II (arr. Stokowski): Die Fledermaus – Waltzes (only commercial recording by Stokowski)

Gramophone Editor's Choice

Error on this page? Let us know here

Need more information on this product? Click here