Stokowski: Bach Orchestral Transcriptions
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Performer: Timothy WaldenComposer: Johann Sebastian Bach
Composer: George Frederick Handel
Composer: Henry Purcell
Composer: Leopold Stokowski
Conductor: Jos? Serebrier
Orchestra: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2006-06-20
Music Label: Naxos
Soundtracks:
- Air
- Sheep may safely graze
- Chorale
- Es ist vollbracht!
- Pastoral Symphony
- Dido's Lament
Music reviews of Stokowski: Bach Orchestral Transcriptions
Music Review: Simply Glorious
Rating: 5 Stars
To echo the other reviewers, these transcriptions are absolutely majestic. What Stokowski does with Bach is something else! Funny though, what I liked best of all, was Two Ancient Liturgical Melodies, one of them being a song I use to hear at Christmas when I was a kid but don't hear much anymore, O come Emmanuel. The simplicity of the main theme in this selection escalates into such power and heartbreaking beauty that it will bring you to your knees! This and the Chorale from the Easter Cantata. Best to listen to this CD alone with your Maker!
Description of Stokowski: Bach Orchestral Transcriptions
Leopold Stokowski's Orchestral Transcriptions are guilty pleasures: high-fat concoctions that are always in danger of becoming campy and gargantuan, something like the classical equivalent of Phil Spector, but without the guns. It is crucial to almost (and I mean "almost") underplay them; they will speak for themselves. The transcriptions are not particularly complicated and lack anything even vaguely revolutionary in their tonality. What we get is a wall of string tone carrying the melodies, usually, with brass and winds used for focus and enlarging. The famous Bach Passacaglia finds the entry of the brass reiterating the ostinato with a handsome blare, and much to the credit of conductor Jos? Serebrier, he does not play all his cards so early in the piece. It builds and builds, and then blows us away. The CD opens with the almost too famous Air from the 3rd Orchestral Suite of Bach. Serebrier gets just the right dark, warm sound from the low strings that one associates with a Stokowski performance. Also included on the CD are Dido's Lament (Purcell), not needing its text in such an expressive performance; a big, toasty version of the Pastoral Symphony from Messiah; and a pairing of Two Ancient Liturgical Melodies by Stokowski himself. The Bournemouth Symphony seem to know they're doing something popular. This is a stunning CD and the engineers have done a great job as well. --Robert LevineGeneral CDs
- Styles > Classical
- Featured Composers, A-Z > ( B ) > Bach, Johann Sebastian
- ( P ) > Purcell, Henry
- Forms & Genres > Preludes
- Suites
- Variations > Passacaglias
- Historical Periods > Baroque (c.1600-1750) > Composers > Purcell, Henry
- General
- Modern, 20th, & 21st Century > General Modern
- Instruments > Keyboard > Organ
- Sacred & Religious > General
- Symphonies > General
- Opera & Vocal > General
- Historical Periods > Classical (c.1770-1830)
- Languages > English
- Oratorios
- Vocal Non-Opera > Cantatas
- Oratorios
- Passions
- Bach, Johann Sebastian - Works by J.S. Bach
- Classical - Historical Periods - Baroque (c.1600-1750) - Composers - Purcell, Henry - General
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