Walt Disney's Fantasia: Remastered Original Soundtrack Edition
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Composer: Leopold StokowskiComposer: Ludwig van Beethoven
Composer: Paul [composer] Dukas
Composer: Modest Mussorgsky
Composer: Amilcare Ponchielli
Composer: Franz Schubert
Composer: Igor Stravinsky
Composer: Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky
Conductor: Leopold Stokowski
Orchestra: Philadelphia Orchestra
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Original recording remastered, Soundtrack
CD Release Date: 2001-07-31
Music Label: Walt Disney Records
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
- Toccata And Fugue In D Minor - (by Bach)
- Nutcracker Suite, Op. 71a: Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy
- Nutcracker Suite, Op. 71a: Chinese Dance
- Nutcracker Suite, Op. 71a: Dance of the Reed Flutes
- The Nutcracker Suite Op.71A: Arabian Dance
- Nutcracker Suite, Op. 71a: Russian Dance
- Nutcracker Suite, Op. 71a: Waltz of the Flowers
- Sorcerer's Apprentice
- Rite of Spring
- Symphony No. 6 (Pastoral) Op. 68: I Allegro Ma Non Troppo
- Symphony No. 6 (Pastoral) Op. 68: II Andante Molto Mosso
- Symphony No. 6 (Pastoral) Op. 68: III Allegro/IV Allegro/V Allegretto
- Dance of the Hours
- Night on Bald Mountain
- Ave Maria, Op. 52 No. 6
Music reviews of Walt Disney's Fantasia: Remastered Original Soundtrack Edition
Music Review: A Period Piece
Rating: 3 Stars
This is the original soundtrack from the Walt Disney Fantasia film from 1940. The original classical pieces have been adapted and arranged (some might say butchered) by Leopold Stokowski to suit the needs of the animators. That said, the new arrangements are worth hearing and generally don't lose much of their original impact, except Beethoven's Pastoral Symphony which is drastically shortened. The recording is in stereo, but not as we know it! It has been produced for cinematic effect and doesn't really work on its own - often there is sound in one channel only, which is likely to suddenly boom out.
Despite all this and the rather tinny sound quality, it is part of recording history and quite enjoyable in it's own way. Just don't expect full versions of the music.
Description of Walt Disney's Fantasia: Remastered Original Soundtrack Edition
It's hard to believe now that Walt Disney's bold 1940 impressionistic experiment in wedding then-state-of-the-art animation with classical music was a rather resounding failure upon its release. The clich? proves the rule: Fantasia was decades ahead of its time (Disney even launched a "psychedelic"-themed rerelease campaign in the late '60s). It's even harder to fathom that then-Disney management spent over a million dollars in the early '80s replacing the muscular Leopold Stokowski score with a digitally recorded clone, then another undisclosed fortune to digitize Leo and put him back alongside Mickey at the conductor's podium in the '90s! This much-traveled Stokowski score will gain no points for subtlety (a symphonic Shaq attack is more like it), but it was Walt's first--and only!--choice and has never sounded better. --Jerry McCulleyGeneral CDs
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