Leopold Stokowski: Decca Recordings, 1965-1972 (Original Masters Limited Edition)
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Composer: Johann Sebastian BachComposer: William [Composer] Byrd
Composer: Jeremiah Clarke
Composer: Franz [Vienna] Schubert
Composer: Frederic Chopin
Composer: Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky
Composer: Henri Duparc
Composer: Sergey Rachmaninov
Composer: Claude Debussy
Composer: Alexander Scriabin
Composer: Cesar Franck
Composer: Edward Elgar
Composer: Hector Berlioz
Composer: Maurice Ravel
Composer: Igor Stravinsky
Composer: Olivier Messiaen
Conductor: Leopold Stokowski
Orchestra: Czech Philharmonic Orchestra
Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra
Orchestra: New Philharmonia Orchestra
Edition: Music CD
Format: Box set
CD Release Date: 2003-11-25
Music Label: Decca
Music reviews of Leopold Stokowski: Decca Recordings, 1965-1972 (Original Masters Limited Edition)
Music Review: Stokowski in Phase 4 land, Vol. 1
Rating: 5 Stars
Decca has pulled a lot of Stokowski's gaudy Phase 4 recordings off the market so that they can reappear in this box set, but the company had already licensed many out to another label, Cala, that specializes in all things Stokowski. So if you pick and choose, you can buy your favorites recordings individually with a little effort. Of the two volumes in the Original Masters series, this one is the more interesting musically.
For one thing, it features two of the conductor's great strengths: his incomparable Bach transcriptions (no one else performs them with the same total commitment) and his Debussy and Ravel. Admittedly, this La Mer and Daphnis and Chloes have been multi-miked within an inch of their lives, and neither represents Stokowski as wonderuflly as his EMI Debussy collection, but if you love the old magician, you'll love these readings.
Aslo very appealing are the Enigma Variations, which Stokowski recorded only once, and the Franck D minor Sym., though don't expect world-class execution in either case. Stokowski championed early Messiaen in l'Ascension, and here is his last version, along with a swooning and seductive Scriabin Poeme d'Extase.
You have to adore recorded excess to swallow this Symphonie fantastique and Firebird, both gorgeous in a kind of Las Vegas neon billboard sort of way. But for geneations of listeners, that's what Stokowski is all about. What he's not about, sadly, is the wretchedly eccentric and nearly unlistenable Tchaikovsky Fifth Sym., the only performance in this whole set that made me hold my nose.
In all, thee are enough goodie here to justify buying the whole box, unless you want to pick and choose, in which case turn to Cala's excellent reissues.
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