Leopold Stokowski - Night on Bare Mountain and other Russian works (2007)
BAND/ARTIST: Leopold Stokowski
- Title: Night on Bare Mountain and other Russian works
- Year Of Release: 1953 [2007]
- Label: Cala Records [CACD 0546]
- Genre: Classical
- Quality: FLAC (*tracks)
- Total Time: 01:15:07
- Total Size: 308 mb (+3%rec.)
- WebSite: Album Preview
"An excellent transfer of Stokowski's extraordinary 1953 recording of his own revision of Night on Bare Mountain... The couplings are equally spectacular." Gramophone
"Immaculately transferred from pristine LP originals, the sound is surprisingly wide range and effective. Thanks Cala!" Classical CD Reviews
"[...the Mussorgsky piece]...proves so effective that it sets a watermark of orchestral execution for this virtuoso tone-poem" Audiophile Audition
Stokowski's championship of Slavic repertoire was well-known, and this disc features a number of his own arrangements of it, including his spectacular version of Night on Bare Mountain which featured in Walt Disney's Fantasia.
Tracks:
Modest Mussorgsky
A Night on Bare Mountain
Khovantchina Suite
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Russian Easter Festival Overture
Reinhold Glière
The Red Poppy: Russian Sailors' Dance
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Eugene Onegin: Polonaise
Alexander Borodin
In the Steppes of Central Asia
Prince Igor: Dances of the Polovetzki Maidens
Personnel:
Nicola Moscona
Leopold Stokowski's Symphony Orchestra
Leopold Stokowski
"Immaculately transferred from pristine LP originals, the sound is surprisingly wide range and effective. Thanks Cala!" Classical CD Reviews
"[...the Mussorgsky piece]...proves so effective that it sets a watermark of orchestral execution for this virtuoso tone-poem" Audiophile Audition
Stokowski's championship of Slavic repertoire was well-known, and this disc features a number of his own arrangements of it, including his spectacular version of Night on Bare Mountain which featured in Walt Disney's Fantasia.
Tracks:
Modest Mussorgsky
A Night on Bare Mountain
Khovantchina Suite
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Russian Easter Festival Overture
Reinhold Glière
The Red Poppy: Russian Sailors' Dance
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Eugene Onegin: Polonaise
Alexander Borodin
In the Steppes of Central Asia
Prince Igor: Dances of the Polovetzki Maidens
Personnel:
Nicola Moscona
Leopold Stokowski's Symphony Orchestra
Leopold Stokowski
Classical | Oldies | FLAC / APE
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