THEO van der BURG
Private CD’s
Part I
Leopold Stokowski conducting
CD 1 The Early Hi-Fi Wide Range & Stereo Recordings, vol. 2
Bell Laboratories; see CD 35
-Speech by Stokowski
-Walkürenritt from Die Walküre
-Wotans Abschied & Feuerzauber from Die Walküre
-Waldweben from Siegfried
-Trauermarsch & Finale from Götterdämmerung
Philadelphia Orchestra, rec. live 29-30/04/32, partially stereo
53.35 min.
CD 2 Haydn/ Mozart
-Symphony No. 53 L’Impériale (Haydn) NYPO 1949
-Symphony No. 53 L’Impériale (Haydn) His SO 1949
-Violin Concerto in C (Haydn) NYPO 1949
Isaac Stern, violin
-Symphony No. 35 ‘Haffner’ (Mozart) NYPO 1949
-German Dance and Turkish March (Mozart) His SO
77.43 min.
CD 3 Tchaikovsky’s Fifth Symphony, 2 CD
International Festival Youth Orchestra 1973
Jeroen Vermeulen, solo horn
-Rehearsal 66.07 min.
-Performance 43.20 min.
CD 4 Rehearsal Alexander Nevsky Cantata opus 78
(Prokofiev)
ASO Carnegie Hall, 24 February 1964
Nell Rankin, mezzo-soprano
79.14 min.
CD 5 Residentie Orkest Den Haag (The Hague)
Holland Festival 1951
-Recordare (Lukas Foss)
-Prelude (Shostakovich)
-Romeo & Juliet (Tchaikovsky)
plus: Rehearsal Emperor Concerto (Beethoven)
American Symphony Orchestra, Carnegie Hall 1970
Rudolf Serkin, piano
78.21 min.
CD 6 Concertgebouworkest Amsterdam
Holland Festival 1951
-Le carnaval romain overture (Berlioz)
-Prélude à l’après-midi (Debussy)
-El amor brujo, orchestral version (De Falla)
-Symphony No. 2 opus 73 (Brahms)
78.34 min.
CD 7 Four Great Symphonies, 2 CD
-Symphony No. 2 opus 61 (Schumann) His SO 1950
-Symphony No. 5 opus 100 (Prokofiev) USSR 1958
-Symphony No. 2 opus 43 (Sibelius) NBC 1954
-Symphony No. 2 opus 16 (Nielsen) Danish Radio 1967
77.46; 76.06 min.
CD 8 Masquerade Suite/ NBC Swan Lake
-Masquerade Suite (Khachaturian) NYPO 1947
-Swan Lake acts 2 & 3 complete (Tchaikovsky) NBC 1955
74.20 min.
CD 9 Debussy/ Borodin/ Ben Haim/ Stravinsky
-Children’s corner suite (Debussy) His SO 1949
-Polovtsian dances (Borodin) His SO 1950
-From Israel (Ben Haim) Symphony of the Air 1959
-Petrouchka suite (Stravinsky) Philadelphia live 1962
71.50 min.
CD 10 Gurrelieder live Edinburgh Festival, 2 CD
Usher Hall Edinburgh
LSO 1961
McCracken, Gré Brouwenstijn, Nell Rankin, Robinson,
Lanigan, Lidell; 74.45 & 42.56 min.
CD 11 Gurrelieder live Philadelphia, 2 CD
Academy of Music 1961
Petrack, Margarita Zambrana, Nell Rankin, Hoffman, Hagemann
version without speaker; 61.20; 44.50 min.
CD 12 The Heart of the Ballet/ Rhapsodies/ Russian Music, 2 CD
CD 1 77.28 min.
-Le Spectre de la Rose/ Aufforderung zum Tanz (Von Weber)
-Les Sylphides (Chopin)
-Swan Lake (Tchaikovsky)
-Two Rumanian rhapsodies (Enesco)
-Three Hungarian rhapsodies (Liszt)
CD 2 70.33 min.
-The love for three oranges (Prokofiev)
-Vocalise (Rachmaninov)
-In the Steppes of Central Asia (Borodin)
-Russian Easter overture (Rimsky-Korsakov)
Nicola Moscona, bass
-Russian sailor’s dance (Glière)
-Night on the bare mountain (Mussorgsky)
-Khovanshchina (Mussorgsky)
CD 13 Boris Godunov/ Samson et Dalila, 2 CD
CD 1 67.43 min.
-Boris Godunov (Mussorgsky), Operatic Highlights
1 Rehearsal 16.00
2 Prologue: In the courtyard of the Novodievitch
Monastery: Coronation scene 15.01
3 Act 1 – Tchudov Monastery: Varlaam’s song 6.48
4 Act 2 – I have attained the greatest power 5.43
5 Act 2 – The clock scene 3.41
6 Act 3 – Polonaise 3.19
7 Act 4 – Revolutionary scene 6.38
8 Farewell and death of Boris 10.29
San Francisco Symphony Orchestra
San Francisco Opera Chorus, Kurt Adler
Nicola Rossi-Lemeni, bass
San Francisco, December 1952
CD 2 66.55 min.
-Samson et Dalila (Saint-Saëns), Operatic Highlights
1 Bacchanale Philadelphia Orchestra 13-11-1927, 4.30
2 Arrêtez, o mes frères 8.46
3 Printemps qui commence 5.21
4 Amour! Viens aider ma faiblesse! 3.36
5 La Victoire facile 6.22
6 Se pourrait-il? 1.35
7 C’est toi! 7.54
8 Mon coeur s’ouvre à ta voix 8.19
9 Vois ma misère 6.23
10 Bacchanale 7.20
11 Gloire à Dagon 6.44
NBC Symphony Orchestra
Robert Shaw Chorale, Robert Shaw
Risë Stevens, soprano (Dalila)
Jan Peerce, tenor (Samson)
Robert Merrill, baritone (High Priest)
Manhattan Center New York, September 1954
CD 14 Lalo/ Bartók/ Grainger
-Symphonie espagnole (Lalo) NYPO Carnegie Hall 1947
Jacques Thibaud, violin
-Sonata for two pianos and percussion (Bartók) 1952
Gerson Yessin and Raymond Viola, pianists
Elayne Jones and Alfred Howard, percussion
-Molly on the shore/ Irish tune/ Handel in the Strand/ Country gardens
Shepherd’s hey/ Mock Morris (Grainger) 1945-1950
Percy Grainger, piano
71.17 min.
CD 15 His Symphony Orchestra, vol. 1, 2 CD
CD 1 73.17 min.
-Sicilienne from Armide (Von Gluck)
-L’Arlésienne Suites Nos. 1 & 2 (Bizet)
-Rumanian rhapsody No. 1 (Enesco)
CD 2 74.18 min.
-Suite No. 2 in b BWV 1067 (Bach)
Julius Baker, flute solo
-Symphony No. 1 opus 39 (Sibelius)
-Berceuse from The Tempest (Sibelius)
-Valse triste (Sibelius)
-Intermezzo from Goyescas (Granados/ arr. Langey)
CD 16 His Symphony Orchestra, vol. 2
-Prelude to Hänsel und Gretel (Humperdinck)
-Symphony No. 53 L’Impériale (Haydn)
-German dance Die Schlittenfahrt (Mozart)
-Turkish march (Mozart/ Stokowski) NBC SO
-Turkish march (Beethoven) NBC SO
-Rosamunde (Schubert)
-Tiroler Tänze (Schubert/ Stokowski)
67.50 min.
CD 17 His Symphony Orchestra, vol. 3
-Sensemaya (Revueltas)
-Symphony in C (Bizet)
-Escales, Ports of Call (Ibert)
-Musette & Sicilienne from Armide (Von Gluck)
-In the Steppes of Central Asia (Borodin)
-Polonaise from Eugen Onegin (Tchaikovsky)
-An der schönen blauen Donau (Strauss)
75.20 min.
CD 18 Orchestre de la Suisse Romande 1968
-Egmont overture opus 84 (Beethoven)
-Symphony No. 4 opus 120 (Schumann)
-Romeo & Juliet (Tchaikovsky)
-Boris Godunov, symphonic synthesis (Mussorgsky/ Stokowski)
Live Montreux 11 September 1968
74.40 min.
CD 19 Leningrad Symphony
-Symphony No. 7 opus 60 (Shostakovich) NBC 1942
72.43 min.
CD 20 Hungarian State Orchestra 1967
1-2 Toccata & Fugue in d BWV 565 (Bach) 3.29; 6.54
-Symphony No. 7 in A opus 92 (Beethoven)
3 poco sostenuto – vivace 11.28
4 allegretto 9.37
5 presto 4.53
6 allegro con brio 6.48
7 Stokowski interviewed 4.33
8 Entr’acte from Khovanshchina (Mussorgsky) 4.41
9-10 Petrouchka Suite (Stravinsky) 6.43; 9.09
Live Budapest 2 February 1967; 68.24 min.
CD 21 Philadelphia Return Concert, 2 CD
Philadelphia Orchestra live, 12 February 1960
CD 1 56.14 min.
-Le nozze di Figaro overture (Mozart)
-El amor brujo (De Falla)
Shirley Verrett, mezzo-soprano
-Pini di Roma (Respighi)
CD 2 49.05 min.
-Symphony No. 5 in d opus 47 (Shostakovich)
-Return speech by Stokowski
Academy of Music, Philadelphia
CD 22 Philadelphia Orchestra 13 December 1963, 2 CD
Philadelphia Orchestra live
CD 1 55.47 min.
1 Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme BWV 645 (Bach) 5.14
-Symphony No. 3 in E-flat major opus 55 (Beethoven) ‘Eroica’
3 allegro con brio 16.39
4 marcia funebre: adagio assai 16.06
5 scherzo: allegro vivace 4.22
6 finale: allegro molto 13.10
CD 2 45.46 min.
-Die Götterdämmerung excerpts (Wagner)
2 Siegfrieds Rheinfahrt 11.45
3 Siegfrieds Tod und Trauermarsch 11.40
4 Brünnhildes Schlußgesang 19.33
Academy of Music, Philadelphia
CD 23 Prokofiev/ Panufnik
-Symphony No. 6 opus 111 (Prokofiev) NYPO 1949
American Radio Première
-Universal prayer (Panufnik) London 1970
68.07 min.
CD 24 The Stokowski Wagner album
CD 1 72.18 min.
-Prelude III Lohengrin Philadelphia 1962
-Suite Die Meistersinger Philadelphia 1964
-Overture, Bacchanale and Prelude III Tannhäuser His SO 1950
-Wesendonk Lieder His SO 1950
Eileen Farrell, soprano
CD 2 68.44 min.
-Wotans Abschied & Feuerzauber NYPO 1947
-Rienzi overture NYPO 1949
-Symphonic synthesis from T&I, His SO 1950
-Finale Götterdämmerung Philadelphia 1927
CD 25 New York Philharmonic, vol. 1
Wagner: Overture Der fliegende Holländer, rec. 21/02/49
Bach/ Stokowski: Passacaglia & Fugue in c minor BWV 582, rec. live 04/12/49
Beethoven: Finale from
Symphony No.9 opus 125, rec. live 12/04/49
Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on a theme by Thomas Tallis, rec. live
28/03/48
Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on Greensleeves, rec. 21/02/49
Strauss: An der schönen blauen Donau, rec. live 23/10/49
Shostakovitch/ Stokowski: Prelude No.14 in e flat minor, rec. live 19/10/47
78.25 min.
CD 26 New York Philharmonic, vol. 2
Bach/
Stokowski:
Jesus Christus, Gottes Sohn from Cantata BWV 4, rec.
live 06/04/47
Ich ruf' zu Dir, Herr Jesu Christ BWV 639, rec. live 20/02/49
Wir glauben all' an einen Gott BWV 680, rec. live 20/02/49
Mozart: Piano
Concerto No.21 KV 467 (with Myra Hess, piano), rec. live 06/02/49
Tchaikovsky: Francesca da Rimini, rec. 03/11/47
Copland: Prairie night and Celebration dance from Billy the Kid, rec.
03/11/47
Hupfeld: When Yuba Plays the Rhumba on the Tuba Down in Cuba (with William
Bell, tuba), rec. live 12/03/49
69.13 min.
CD 27 New York Philharmonic, vol. 3
New York Philharmonic 1947 – 1949
-Symphonie Espagnole opus 21 (Lalo)
2 allegro non troppo 7.46
3 scherzando 4.46
4 andante 7.10
5 rondo 8.21
Jacques Thibaud, violin
5 January 1947
-Masquerade Suite (Khachaturian)
6 waltz 3.42
7 nocturne 4.35
8 mazurka 2.27
9 romance 3.51
10 galop 2.34
John Corigliano, violin solo
3 November 1947
11 American piper (Cowell) 4.00
23 January 1949
-Schwanda der Dudelsackpfeifer (Weinberger)
12 Polka 2.11
13 Fugue 5.26
16 January 1949
-From film score Spitfire/ The First of the Few (Walton)
14 Prelude 3.05
15 Fugue 4.04
6 February 1949
16 Rienzi overture (Wagner) 10.44
4 April 1949
75.15 min.
CD 28 Ludwig van Beethoven
-Symphony No. 5 opus 67 Philadelphia 1931
-Symphony No. 6 opus 68 ‘Pastoral’ NBC 1954
-The sounds of nature, narrated by Stokowski
-Turkish march NBC 1955
84.00 min.
CD 29 Still/ Cowell/ Creston/ Gould/ Bloch
-The San Francisco interview 1936
AAYO 1940-1941:
-Scherzo from Afro-American Symphony (Still)
-Tales of our countryside (Cowell)
Henry Cowell, piano
-Scherzo from Symphony No. 1 (Creston)
-Guaracha from Latin-American Symphonette (Gould)
San Francisco Symphony 1953:
-Dance variations (Gould)
Houston Symphony 1957-1959:
-Symphony for trombone (Bloch)
David Schuman, trombone
72.18 min.
CD 30 Rehearsal Carmina Burana, 2 CD
Dress-Rehearsal ASO Carnegie Hall, 7 May 1966
CD 1 56.59 min.
-Ruy Blas overture opus 95 (Mendelssohn)
-Little Fugue in g (Bach/ Stokowski)
-Symphony No. 31 ‘Hornsignal’ (Haydn)
-Carmina Burana (Orff), beginning
CD 2 73.24 min.
-Carmina Burana, conclusion
Lucile Parrett; Henry Nason; Leslie Gwynne
CD 31 Bach
-Passacaglia & Fugue in c BWV 582, Chicago SO 1966
-Rehearsal and Performance Suite No. 2 in b BWV 1067, ASO 1968
Sophie Sollberger, flute solo
62.40 min.
CD 32 Philadelphia Baroque Music/ HBSO
Philadelphia Orchestra 1930 – 1937
-Concerto grosso No. 11 in D minor (Vivaldi)
1 allegro 1.07
2 adagio 3.46
3 largo 4.15
4 allegro 3.28
5 Adoramus te (Palestrina) 3.10
12 November 1934
6 Gagliarda (Frescobaldi) 3.19
22 October 1934
7 Nocturne from Le triomphe de l’amour (Lully) 4.42
8 Prelude to Alceste (Lully) 1.24
9 Marche des sacrificateurs from Thésée (Lully) 1.00
30 April 1930
10 Pavane from The Marquis of Salisbury (Byrd) 2.19
11 Gigue from The Fitzwilliam Virginal Book (Byrd) 2.20
19 April 1937
12 Overture in D minor (Händel) 6.22
16 December 1935
-Water Music suite (Händel)
13 allegro 3.03
14 air 3.52
15 bourrée 0.58
16 hornpipe 1.16
17 andante 3.40
18 allegro deciso 3.41
30 April 1934
- Hollywood Bowl Symphony Orchestra
26 August 1946
20 March from William Tell (Rossini) 1.38
21 Waltzes from Die Fledermaus (Strauss) 5.08
22 Marche slave opus 31 (Tchaikovsky) 8.42
70.55 min.
CD 33 American Symphony Orchestra, vol. 1
live recordings 1965-1969
-Rehearsal Oberon overture (Von Weber) 1965
-The Star-spangled Banner (Smith) 1966
-The Tempest overture (Diamond) 1966
-Symphony No. 4 opus 60 (Beethoven) 1966
-The mountain song (Stringfield) 1968
-Pictures at an exhibition (Mussorgsky/ Stokowski) 1969
75.25 min.
CD 34 Leopold Stokowski at the Movies
musical excerpts from The Big Broadcast of 1937, 100 Men and a Girl (1937), Make Mine Music (1946) and Carnegie Hall (1947)
70.55 min.
CD 35 Early Hi-Fi Wide Range & Stereo Recordings, 2 CD
Bell Laboratories 1931-1932, complete (see CD 1)
CD 1 (vol. 1) 56.14 min.
Berlioz: Le
carnaval romain overture, rec. 01/12/31
Weber/ Berlioz: Aufforderung zum Tanz, rec. 04/12/31
Mendelssohn: Scherzo from Ein Sommernachtstraum, rec. 05/12/31
Wagner: Prelude and Liebestod from T&I, rec. 19/12/31
Scriabin: Excerpts from Promethée, rec. 12/03/32 (stereo)
Mussorgsky/ Ravel: Pictures at an exhibition, rec. 03/32
CD 2 (vol. 2) 53.26 min.
Wagner: Excerpts from Der Ring des Nibelungen, rec. 04/32 (partially stereo)
Speech by Stokowski
Recorded by Bell Labs in the Academy of Music
CD 36 Stokowski, Kostelanetz & Earl Wild
-Hungarian Fantasia (Liszt) Columbia/ Kostelanetz/ Wild 1973
-Piano Concerto in a opus 17 (Paderewski) ASO/ Stokowski/ Wild 1970 live
-Hungarian Fantasia (Liszt) ASO/ Stokowski/ Wild 1969 live
-Symphonic synthesis from Boris Godunov (Mussorgsky/ Stokowski) ASO 1969 live
82.00 min.
CD 37 BBC Studio Concert
BBC Studio Concert London, 7 June 1973
1 Egmont overture opus 84 (Beethoven) 9.02
2 Symphony No. 28 in c minor (Brian) 14.42
-Symphony No. 9 in e opus 95 ‘Z Nového světa’ (Dvořák)
4 adagio - allegro molto 10.13
5 largo 13.56
6 scherzando - molto vivace 7.08
7 allegro con fuoco 13.01
New Philharmonia Orchestra
69.50 min.
CD 38 Restful Music
His Symphony Orchestra 1950-1952
NBC Symphony Orchestra 1954 (8)
1 Tu mancavi a tormentarmi (Cesti) 6.20 (28-2-1952)
2 Gagliarda (Frescobaldi) 3.30 (4-4-1952)
3 Nocturne from Le Triomphe de l’amour (Lully) 5.35 (4-4-1952)
4 When I am laid in earth from Dido and Aeneas (Purcell) 4.59
(25-7-1950)
5 Mein Jesu, was für Seelenweh (Bach) 4.59 (25-3-1950)
6 Siciliano from Sonata No. 4 in c minor (Bach) 3.55 (25-3-1950)
7 Sarabande from Suite No. 2 in b minor (Bach) 3.20 (12/14-9-1950)
8 Szene am Bach, andante molto mosso from Symphony No. 6
in F opus 68 ‘Pastoral’ (Beethoven) 16.59 (18/19-3-1954)
9 Adagietto from L’Arlésienne Suite No. 1 (Bizet) 2.59 (29-2-1952)
EMI/HMV ALP 1387
52.40 min.
CD 39 Boston Symphony Orchestra, vol. 1
Berkshire Festival, Tanglewood 15 August 1965
Boston Symphony Orchestra live
-Passacaglia & Fugue in c minor BWV 582 (Bach/ Stokowski)
2 Passacaglia 8.53
3 Fugue 6.00
-Symphony No. 8 in b minor (Schubert) ‘Unvollendete’
5 allegro moderato 10.52
6 andante con moto 11.48
-Symphony No. 5 in d minor opus 47 (Shostakovich)
7 moderato 15.22
8 allegretto 5.05
9 largo 12.17
10 allegro non troppo 9.41
85.15 min.
CD 40 Boston Symphony Orchestra, vol. 2
Berkshire Festival, Tanglewood 21 August 1964
Boston Symphony Orchestra live
-Sinfonia Concertante in E flat major KV 297b (Mozart) 30.57
1 allegro 13.30
2 adagio 8.54
3 andantino con variazioni 8.33
Ralph Gomberg, oboe
Gino Cioffi, clarinet
Sherman Walt, bassoon
James Stagliano, French horn
4 Tod und Verklärung opus 24 (Strauss) 20.57
-Prelude and Quadruple Fugue opus 128 (Hovhaness) 6.39
5 Prelude 2.05
6 Quadruple Fugue 4.34
7 Eagles (Rorem) 6.58
8-15 Petrouchka suite (Stravinsky) 16.00
81.35 min.
CD 41 Live Recordings 1959-1971, vol. 1
-Water music suite (Händel) Houston 1959
-Paganini rhapsody (Rachmaninov) Philadelphia 1963
Susan Starr, piano
-Prelude Tristan & Isolde (Wagner) Philadelphia 1962
-Concertino for cello & orchestra (Prokofiev) ASO 1969
Natalia Gutman, cello
-Ivan the Terrible (Rimsky-Korsakov) ASO 1971
79.57 min.
CD 42 Recordings 1941-1973
AAYO 1941:
-Träumerei (Schumann)
-Flight of the Bumblebee (Rimsky-Korsakov)
-Humoresque (Tchaikovsky)
-The Firebird suite (Stravinsky) München 1951
-Two Bach rehearsals ASO 1963
-Three encores from Croydon (England) LSO 1973
-Petrouchka suite (Stravinsky) BSO 1964
-Berceuse for the fallen (Herrmann) ASO 1970
79.25 min.
CD 43 Live Recordings 1939-1967
-Toccata from Toccata & Fugue BWV 565 (Bach/ Stokowski) Stockholm 1939
-Toccata & Fugue BWV 565 (Bach/ Stokowski) Stockholm 1967
-Oboe Concerto in g (Händel) Houston 1958
Ray Weaver, oboe
-Pictures (Mussorgsky/ Stokowski) Houston 1959
-Scherzo féerique (Ibert) RAI Torino 1955
-Symphony No. 7 (Harris) Saint Louis 1955
78.00 min.
CD 44 Live Recordings 1943-1971
-Folk dances of today (Harris) NBC 1943
-Fantasy for cor anglais, harp & strings (Piston) CBS 1954
Harry Schulvan, cor anglais
-Symphony No. 3 (Hovhaness) Symphony of the Air 1956
-Sárka (Smetana) Philadelphia 1964
-Schelomo (Bloch) ASO 1969
Natalia Gutman, cello
-Sea piece with birds and Tango (Thomson) ASO 1970-1971
79.00 min.
CD 45 Live Recordings 1959-1971, vol. 2
-Hamlet, fantasy-overture opus 67a (Tchaikovsky) LSO 1959
-Francesca da Rimini opus 32 (Tchaikovsky) LSO 1964
-Fantasia on Greensleeves (Vaughan Williams) LSO 1964
-Piano Concerto No. 2 in g opus 16 (Prokofiev) ASO 1971
Jorge Bolet, piano
-Tango (Thomson) ASO 1971
79.00 min.
CD 46 Recordings 1945-1950
-Poème (Chausson) HBSO 1945
Toscha Seidel, violin
-Piano Concerto No. 2 (Casadesus) NYPO 1948
Robert Casadesus, piano
-Serenade for solo flute, harp & strings (Hanson) NYPO 1949
John Wummer, flute; Theodore Cella, harp
-Cello Concerto (Schumann) NYPO 1949
Pierre Fournier, cello
-From Giselle (Adam) His SO 1950
-From Sylvia (Delibes) His SO 1950
78.30 min.
CD 47 Stokowski at the Hollywood Bowl, vol. 1
Mozart: Symphony
No. 41 KV 551 ‘Jupiter’
Glière: Symphony No.3 ‘Ilya Mourometz’
Hollywood Bowl Symphony Orchestra, rec. live 20/08/46
69.36 min.
CD 48 Stokowski at the Hollywood Bowl, vol. 2
Britten: Passacaglia from Peter Grimes, rec. live 14/07/46
Honegger: Pacific 231, rec. live 14/07/46
Toch: Pinocchio Overture, rec. live 28/07/46
Rose: Holiday for Strings, rec. live 28/07/46
Rose: As Kreutzer spins, rec. live 28/07/46
Siegmeister: Western Suite, rec. live 28/07/46
Prokofiev: Lieutenant Kijé Suite
Edward Arnold, narrator
Hollywood Bowl Symphony Orchestra, rec. 11/08/46
70.25 min.
CD 49 Mozart
-Piano Concerto No. 14 KV 449 NYPO live 1947
-Piano Concerto No. 21 KV 467 NYPO live 1949
Myra Hess, piano
-Symphony No. 35 ‘Haffner’ NYPO live 1949
64.25 min.
CD 50 Parsifal excerpts (Wagner)
Philadelphia live 1933
Steel, Bampton, Eddy, Tcherkassky, Marwick, Healy, De Loache
66.55 min.
CD 51 Native Brazilian Music
from Stokowski’s South American Tour 1940
Sixteen Brazilian songs, selected and recorded under the personal
supervision of Leopold Stokowski on the ship ‘Uruguay’
7-8 August 1940
CD 52 Boston Symphony Orchestra, vol. 3
Symphony Hall 13 January 1968
Don Giovanni overture (Mozart/ Stokowski)
Symphony No. 7 in A opus 92 (Beethoven)
Hamlet, fantasy-overture opus 67a (Tchaikovsky)
Boris Godunov, symphonic synthesis (Mussorgsky/ Stokowski)
82.22 min.
CD 53 Copland Hanson Hindemith Sibelius
-Aaron Copland interviewed by Fred Calland
-Symphony No. 2 ‘Short Symphony’ (Copland)
NBC Symphony Orchestra, 9 January 1944
American première
-Symphony No. 4 opus 34 ‘Requiem’ (Hanson)
NBC Symphony Orchestra, 2 January 1944
Radio première
-Symphony in E flat major (Hindemith)
New York Philharmonic, 3 January 1947
-Finlandia opus 26 (Sibelius)
Hollywood Bowl Symphony Orchestra, 11 August 1946
CD 54 Guarnieri Fernández Zimbalist Siegmeister
-Three Orchestral Pieces (Guarnieri)
-Ritual dance Batuque from Reisado do pastoreio (Fernández)
NBC Symphony Orchestra, 9 January 1944
-American Rhapsody (Zimbalist)
NBC Symphony Orchestra, 16 January 1944
-Harvest evening from Prairie legend (Siegmeister)
New York Philharmonic, 29 December 1946
-Symphony No. 1 (Siegmeister)
New York Philharmonic, 2 November 1947
Radio première in Carnegie Hall
CD 55 Claude Debussy
Trois Nocturnes
1 nuages 8.51
2 fêtes 6.11
3 sirènes 11.19
Robert Shaw Chorale of Women’s Voices, Robert Shaw
11 October & 10 November 1950
4 Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune 10.13
Julius Baker, flute
4 October 1949
5 Clair de lune from Suite Bergamasque, arr. Stokowski 5.29
24 May 1947
Children’s corner suite, orch. André Caplet
6 Doctor Gradus ad Parnassum 2.48
7 Jimbo’s lullaby 3.10
8 Serenade for the doll 3.13
9 The snow is dancing 3.05
10 The little shepherd 3.05
11 Golliwogg’s cake-walk 3.00
2 March 1949
His Symphony Orchestra
John Corigliano and Hugo Kolberg, violin
William Lincer, viola
Frank Miller and Leonard Rose, cello
Julius Baker, flute
Robert Bloom, oboe
Robert McGinnis, clarinet
William Polisi, bassoon
James Chambers, horn
William Vacchiano, trumpet
Lucile Lawrence, harp
TT 60.30
CD 56 The Magic Key Concert of 1935
Leopold Stokowski and the Philadelphia Orchestra
Academy of Music, Philadelphia
Magic Key Concert, introduced by Stokowski
RCA/ NBC Radio Broadcast, 8 December 1935
3 Prelude to Act III of Lohengrin (Wagner) 3.13
5 Danse provençale from L’Arlésienne (Bizet) 1.37
7 Fêtes from Trois nocturnes (Debussy) 5.29
9 Rhumba from Symphony No. 2 (McDonald) 4.50
14 The Swan of Tuonela from Lemminkäinen (Sibelius) 8.05
16 Prelude from Tristan und Isolde (Wagner) 9.45
17 Liebestod from Tristan und Isolde (Wagner) 6.39
19 Liebesnacht from Tristan und Isolde (Wagner) 9.31 *
* used as closing theme, fading out and incomplete
TT 57.10
CD 57 The Henry Wood Promenade Concert of 10 September 1966
CD 1 50.40
2 Russian Easter overture opus 36 (Rimsky-Korsakov) 14.35
Piano Concerto No. 1 in E flat major (Liszt)
4 allegro maestoso 5.21
5 quasi adagio – allegretto vivace – allegro animato 8.28
6 allegro marziale animato - presto 4.23
Charles Rosen, piano
Daphnis et Chloé, suite No. 2 (Ravel)
8 lever du jour 8.48
9 pantomime 3.29
10 danse générale 3.28
CD 2 52.50
Symphony No. 5 in e opus 64 (Tchaikovsky)
1 andante – allegro con anima 14.31
2 andante cantabile - moderato 13.53
Alan Civil, solo horn
3 valse – allegro moderato 6.13
4 andante maestoso – allegro vivace 11.54
5 Speech by Stokowski 1.44
6 Khovanshchina, entr’acte IV (Mussorgsky) 4.32
New Philharmonia Orchestra
Leader: Hugh Bean
London, 10 September 1966
CD 58 Camilla Wicks Doris Stockton Licia Albanese
- Hollywood Canteen Symphony Orchestra, 31 October 1943
David Foster, conductor *)
Leopold Stokowski, guest conductor
John Charles Thomas, baritone **)
speeches by Bette Davis, John Charles Thomas, David Foster and Leopold Stokowski
4 Prelude to Act III of Lohengrin (Wagner) 3.27 *)
8 Clair de lune from Suite Bergamasque (Debussy/ Stokowski) 5.02
10 The Lord’s prayer 2.56 **)
12 My old Kentucky home 1.31 (the audience singing)
14 Einzug der Götter in Walhall from Das Rheingold (Wagner) 6.40
- Hollywood Bowl Symphony Orchestra, 14 July 1946
Camilla Wicks, violin
Violin Concerto No. 2 in d opus 22 (Wieniawski)
16 allegro moderato 7.25
17 romanze. andante non troppo 3.26
18 allegro con fuoco – allegro moderato à la zingara 5.24
20 Tzigane, rapsodie de concert (Ravel) 9.23
21 Caprice viennois opus 2 (Kreisler) 4.17 Fritz Kreisler, violin
(Douglas DC-3 ‘Dakota’ flying over the Bowl during Tzigane performance)
- Hollywood Bowl Symphony Orchestra, 11 August 1946
Doris Stockton, marimba *)
23 Hungarian dance No. 1 in g, allegro molto (Brahms/ Stokowski) 3.10
24 rondo-presto from Piano Sonata No. 1 in C opus 24 (Weber) 4.30 *)
- His Symphony Orchestra, 8 February 1951
Licia Albanese, soprano
Frank Miller, cello
Bachianas Brasileiras No. 5 (Villa-Lobos)
25 aria (cantilena) 7.10
26 dansa (martelo) 4.49
Manhattan Center, New York City
TT 78.25
CD 59 Hovhaness & Lavalle
-Symphony No. 1 opus 17 No. 2 ‘Exile’ (Hovhaness)
-Symphonic Rhumba (Lavalle)
NBC Symphony Orchestra, 6 December 1942
-Ad Lyram opus 143 (Hovhaness)
Houston Symphony Orchestra and Chorale, 12 March 1957
-Rehearsal Meditation on Zeami opus 207 (Hovhaness)
American Symphony Orchestra, October 1964
-Praise the Lord with Psaltery opus 222 (Hovhaness)
American Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, 23 December 1968
CD 60 Barber & Beethoven
American Symphony Orchestra, vol. 2
Leopold Stokowski, conductor
Jaime Laredo, violin
2 Stokowski interviewed by Curtis Davis 6.46
Violin Concerto opus 14 (Barber)
4 allegro 10.45
5 andante 8.22
6 presto in moto perpetuo 4.21
Jaime Laredo, violin
Constitution Hall Washington, 6 April 1964
Telecast
Symphony No. 6 in F opus 68 ‘Pastoral’ (Beethoven)
8 allegro ma non troppo 9.13
9 andante molto mosso 15.27
10 allegro 2.48
11 allegro 3.34
12 allegretto 9.55
Carnegie Hall New York City, 9 January 1966
75.25 min.
CD 61 Mozart and Tchaikovsky
1 Le nozze di Figaro overture (Mozart)
4.56
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Royal Albert Hall London, 30 September 1973
Piano Concerto No. 20 in d KV 466 (Mozart)
2 allegro 14.50
3 romance 7.52
4 rondo: allegro assai 7.47
International Festival Youth Orchestra
Maria Isabella de Carli, piano
Sankt Moritz, 30 August 1969
Symphony No. 4 in f opus 36 (Tchaikovsky)
6 andante sostenuto – moderato con anima 15.22
7 andantino in modo di canzone 8.44
8 scherzo: pizzicato ostinato 5.02
9 allegro con fuoco 9.02
American Symphony Orchestra
Constitution Hall Washington, 6 April 1964
Telecast
77.30 min.
CD 62 Leopold Stokowski in Baltimore
Toccata & Fugue in d BWV 565 (Bach/ Stokowski)
1 toccata 3.32
2 fugue 6.01
Pini di Roma (Respighi)
3 i pini di Villa Borghese 2.37
4 pini presso una catacomba 6.09
5 i pini del Gianicolo 5.57
6 i pini della Via Appia 5.23
Vorspiel & Liebestod from Tristan und Isolde (Wagner)
7 vorspiel 9.25
8 liebestod 6.36
9 Fugues & Cantilenas from Power among Men (Thomson) 18.09
10 Petrouchka Suite (Stravinsky) 15.57
Baltimore Symphony Orchestra
Lyric Theatre Baltimore
21 February 1962 (Respighi, Wagner)
10 January 1963 (Bach, Thomson, Stravinsky)
79.50 min.
CD 63 American Symphony Orchestra, vol. 3
Carnegie Hall New York City, 20 May 1968
Suite No.2 in b minor BWV 1067 (Bach) 23.10
1 ouverture 9.00
2 rondeau 1.47
3 sarabande 3.30
4 bourrée I & II 2.38
5 polonaise 3.20
6 menuet 1.08
7 badinerie 1.41
Sophie Sollberger, flute solo
Les quatre éléments (Martin) 22.07
- Études symphoniques pour grand orchestre -
8 la terre 4.29
9 l’eau 5.58
10 l’air 4.33
11 le feu 7.04
Alexander Nevsky Cantata opus 78 (Prokofiev) 34.40
12 Russia under the Mongolian yoke 2.28
13 song about Alexander Nevsky 2.25
14 the crusaders in Pskov 5.22
15 arise, ye Russian people 2.08
16 the battle on the ice 12.19
17 the field of the dead 5.32
18 Alexander’s entry into Pskov 4.21
Dessoff Choirs
Elaine Bonazzi, mezzo-soprano
79.57 min.
CD 64 American Symphony Orchestra, vol. 4
L’enfance du Christ, trilogie sacrée opus 25 (Berlioz)
1 première partie Le songe d’Hérode 37.00
2 deuxième partie La fuite en Egypte 16.15
3 troisième partie L’arrivée à Saïs 33.35
American Symphony Orchestra
St. Patricks Choir
Kenneth Riegel, tenor (récitant; centurion)
Meredith Rung, soprano (Sainte-Marie)
Richard Stillwell, baritone (Saint-Joseph)
Michael Devlin, bass (Hérode; père de famille; Polydorus)
Carnegie Hall New York City, 13 December 1970
86.51 min.
CD 65 Hollywood Bowl Symphony Orchestra, vol. 3
Standard Hour, 5 August 1945
2 Trumpet voluntary (Clarke/ Stokowski) 2.10
4 Gagliarda (Frescobaldi/ Stokowski) 3.05
Ballet Suite (Von Gluck/ Mottl)
6 air gai from Iphigénie
en Aulide 1.20
7 lento from Iphigénie en Aulide 3.07
8 Reigen seliger
Geister from Orfeo ed Euridice 6.37
9 musette from Armide 1.47
10 air gai from Iphigénie en Aulide 1.21
11 sicilienne from Armide 2.06
Concerto for 4 violins and orchestra opus 3 No. 10 in b RV580 (Vivaldi)
13 allegro 4.27
14 largo 2.24
15 allegro 3.46
Harold Ayres/ Heimann Weinstine/ Maurice Warner/ Ralph Schaeffer
Concerto for 4 pianos and orchestra in c BWV1065 (Vivaldi/ Bach)
18 allegro 4.12
19 largo 2.31
20 allegro 3.34
Margueretha Lohman/ Helena Lewin/ Dorothy Eustis/ Yi-an Rosita Chang
22 Minuetto I-II from Serenade No. 1 in D opus 11 (Brahms) 2.59
24 España rhapsody (Chabrier) 6.01
57.35 min.
CD 66 New York Philharmonic, vol. 4
Water Music Suite (Händel/ Stokowski)
1 adagio e staccato 2.52
2 allegro 2.28
3 air I 2.12
4 minuet for horn 1.20
5 air II 0.52
6 bourrée 1.00
7 hornpipe 1.09
8 andante 3.24
9 allegro deciso 3.57
Symphony No. 40 in g minor KV 550 (Mozart)
10 allegro molto 6.32
11 andante 9.29
12 menuetto. allegretto 4.15
13 allegro assai 5.36
Symphony No. 1 in f minor opus 10 (Shostakovich)
14 allegretto 9.30
15 allegro ma non troppo 4.29
16 lento 9.22
17 allegro molto 10.30
New York Philharmonic, Leopold Stokowski
Carnegie Hall, 5 March 1960
79.05 min.
Part II
Sergiu Celibidache conducting
CD 1
Sergiu Celibidache conducting the Münchner Philharmoniker
Broadcast recordings 10 February and 22 June (Haydn) 1991
-Johann Strauss Die Fledermaus overture
-Mozart Ländlerische Tänze
-Haydn Trumpet Concerto, with Uwe Komischke, trumpet
-Schubert/ Webern Deutsche Tänze
-Tchaikovsky Nutcracker Suite
71.29 min.
CD 2
Sergiu Celibidache conducting the Münchner and the Berliner Philharmoniker
Broadcast recordings 1991-1992
-Händel Concerto Grosso in G opus 6 No. 1 (22 June 1991)
-Mozart Haffner Symphony No. 35 KV 385 (22 June 1991)
-Schubert Entr’acte No. 3 (6 February 1991)
-Bruckner Scherzo & Finale from Symphony No. 7 in E (Berlin, 31 March 1992)
72.06 min.
CD 3
Sergiu Celibidache conducting the Berliner Philharmoniker
Konzerthaus am Gendarmenmarkt Berlin, 1 April 1992
‘After 38 Years - The Triumphant Return’
Symphony No. 7 in E major (Bruckner)
86.11 min.
CD 4
Sergiu Celibidache and the Münchner Philharmoniker
Bruckner Symphony No. 3 in d
Live from Munich, 14 September 1991
62.39 min.
CD 5
Sergiu Celibidache conducts Bach Hohe Messe
Barbara Bonney, Danila Donose, Maria Ruxandra,
Cornelia Wulkopf, Peter Schreier, Yaron Windmüller
CD 1 68.00 min.
CD 2 66.13 min.
Münchner Philharmoniker, 18 November 1990
CD 6
Sergiu Celibidache conducting the Münchner Philharmoniker
Two Great Symphonies, recorded live in Berlin:
Schumann Symphony No. 4 opus 120
Philharmonie West-Berlin 1986
Dvorák Symphony No. 7 opus 70
Konzerthaus East-Berlin 1987
68.15 min.
CD 7
Sergiu Celibidache conducts the Münchner Philharmoniker
Live from Osaka (Japan), 20 April 1993
Bruckner Symphony No. 4 in E flat major
88.24 min.
CD 8
Sergiu Celibidache and the Münchner Philharmoniker
Live from Coliseo Lisboa (Portugal), 23 April 1994
Bruckner Symphony No. 8
CD 1 72.25 min.
CD 2 33.05 min.
CD 9
Sergiu Celibidache conducting the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Concertgebouw Amsterdam, live 14 November 1970
CD 1 43.46 min.
-Lidholm Ritornell
-Debussy Prélude à l’après-midi
-Wagner Prelude I Die Meistersinger
CD 2 54.08 min.
-Prokofiev Romeo & Juliet
-Prokofiev Dance from Scythian Suite
-De Falla Miller’s Dance from El Sombrero de tres picos
-Egk Dance from French Suite after Rameau
-Stravinsky Galop from Suite No. 2 for Small Orchestra
CD 10
Sergiu Celibidache conducts Mozart and Ravel
-Symphony No. 40 in g KV 550 (Mozart)
RSO Stuttgart, 26 February 1982
-Piano Concerto in G (Ravel)
London Symphony Orchestra 1982
Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli, piano
-Le Tombeau de Couperin (Ravel)
RSO Stuttgart, 25 October 1978
-Bolero (Ravel)
RSO Stuttgart, 11 April 1975
82.15 min.
CD 11
Sergiu Celibidache conducting Anton Bruckner
CD 1 89.30
Symphony No. 5 in B flat major
Recorded November 1985
CD 2 68.15
Symphony No. 6 in A major
Recorded November 1991
Münchner Philharmoniker
Live from Philharmonie am Gasteig, München
CD 12
Sergiu Celibidache conducts the Münchner Philharmoniker
Live from Tokio (Japan), 24 April 1993
Bruckner Symphony No. 4 in E flat major
87.18 min.
Part III
André Kostelanetz (St. Petersburg 1901 – Port-au-Prince 1980) conducting
CD 1 André Kostelanetz and His Orchestra, vol. 1
1 Donna Diana overture (Von Reznicek) 4.25
2 Waltz from Die lustige Witwe (Lehár) 3.09
Suite from The Seasons, ballet opus 67 (Glazunov)
3 winter 3.50
4 spring 2.36
5 summer 4.02
6 autumn 5.12
7 June, barcarolle from The Months opus 37b (Tchaikovsky) 4.21
8 Suite from Pique Dame opus 68 (Tchaikovsky/ Kostelanetz) 23.50
9 Polonaise militaire opus 40 No. 1 (Chopin) 4.33
10 La revoltosa overture (Chapí) 4.37
11 Intermezzo from I quattro Rusteghi (Wolf-Ferrari) 3.29
12 Brazilian dance (Guarnieri) 2.09
13 Fantasy on Japanese woodprints (Hovhaness) 12.15
André Kostelanetz and His Orchestra (3-6, 12, 13)
New York Philharmonic (2, 8, 9)
Columbia Symphony Orchestra (1, 7, 10, 11)
79.00 min.
CD 2 André Kostelanetz and His Orchestra, vol. 2
Gypsy Passion
1 Gypsy Fiddler 2.33
2 Two Guitars 3.19
3 Wedding Dance 2.29
4 Starlight Waltz 2.16
5 Hora Staccato 2.16
6 Letter to a Lady 1.23
7 Storm Warning 2.21
8 Dark Eyes 3.31
9 Gypsy Fire 2.10
10 Gypsy Love Waltz 2.47
11 Candlelight 2.17
12 By the Campfire 2.29
13 Gypsy Princess 3.41
14 Czardas from The Fortune Teller 1.36
15 Córdoba from Cantos de España (Albéniz) 3.07
André Kostelanetz and His Orchestra
16 Il segreto di Susanna overture (Wolf-Ferrari) 3.03
17 The Tsar’s bride overture (Rimsky-Korsakov) 5.09
18 Prince Igor overture (Borodin) 4.56
19 La belle Hélène overture (Offenbach) 8.22
20 La princesse jaune overture (Saint-Saëns) 5.51
21 And God created great whales (Hovhaness) 11.26
Columbia Symphony Orchestra, André Kostelanetz
77.45 min.
CD 3 André Kostelanetz and His Orchestra, vol. 3
1 Prelude I from Khovanshchina (Mussorgsky) 4.50
Suite from Aleko (Rachmaninov)
2 intermezzo 2.04
3 gypsy dance 3.24
4 cavatina (Simon Estes, bass-baritone) 6.23
5 girls’ dance 3.10
6 overture 2.34
7 Twilight - Texas (Cowell) 2.52
8 Midnight - Mexico (Creston) 4.06
9 Trick or treat (Grofé) 2.10
10 Spielerei opus 140 (Stix) 2.24
Mark Twain, Portrait for Orchestra (Kern)
11 Hannibal days 3.57
12 gorgeous pilot house 1.31
13 march (Civil war) 2.25
14 wandering westward 2.46
15 Mark in eruption 3.00
16 Caprice viennois opus 2 (Kreisler) 4.21
17 Song of India from Sadko (Rimsky-Korsakov) 3.54
18 Jamaican rhumba (Benjamin) 1.43
19 La oración del torero opus 34 (Turina) 9.40
20 Floating world - Ukiyo (Hovhaness) 10.35
78.35 min.
CD 4 André Kostelanetz and His Orchestra, vol. 4
André Kostelanetz conducting
1 O trenzinho do Caipira (Villa-Lobos) 3.50
New York Philharmonic, André Kostelanetz
2-31 Le carnaval des animaux (Saint-Saëns) 26.44
verses by Ogden Nash
André Kostelanetz and His Orchestra
Leonid Hambro and Jascha Zayde, pianists
Noel Coward, narrator
32-46 Nutcracker suite opus 71a (Tchaikovsky) 25.24
verses by Ogden Nash
New York Philharmonic, André Kostelanetz
Peter Ustinov, narrator
47 Porgy & Bess, a symphonic picture
(Gershwin/ arr. Russell Bennett) 19.00
New York Philharmonic, André Kostelanetz
75.00 min.
CD 5 André Kostelanetz and His Orchestra, vol. 5
André Kostelanetz conducts music from Spain
1 España rhapsody (Chabrier) 6.00 *
2 Jota from El sombrero de tres picos (De Falla) 5.04
3 Fête-Dieu à Séville from Iberia (Albéniz/ transcr. Arbos) 5.56
4 Triana from Iberia (Albéniz/ transcr. Arbos) 4.46
5 Marinela from La canción del olvido (Serrano) 2.37 **
6 España cañí (Marquina) 4.19
7 La morena de mi copla (Castellanos) 2.55 **
El amor brujo ballet (De Falla)
8 pantomima 4.53
9 danza del terror 2.05
10 el círculo mágico: romance del pescador 2.33
11 a media noche: los sortilegios 0.34
12 danza ritual del fuego 3.25
13 La maja y el ruiseñor from Goyescas (Granados) 6.38 **
14 Jota aragonesa (Glinka) 7.33
15 Cant dels ocells (Casals) 3.54
Lorne Munroe, cello
16 Sant Martí del Canigó (Casals) 4.46
17 Danse bohème from Carmen (Bizet) 4.00
18 Danza española from La vida breve (De Falla) 3.07
19 La morena de mi copla (Castellanos) 2.50 */ ***
André Kostelanetz and His Orchestra
* New York Philharmonic
** Maralin Niska, soprano
*** Beverly Sills, soprano
78.10 min.
Part IV
Guido Cantelli conducting
Messa da Requiem (Giuseppe Verdi) conducted by Guido Cantelli
live recording from Symphony Hall, Boston, 17 December 1954
Herva Nelli (s), Claramae Turner (c), Eugene Conley (t), Nicola Moscona (b)
79.55 min./ see below
Part V
Arthur Fiedler conducting
A Frenchman in New York (Darius Milhaud, 1962)
Darius Milhaud composed his Frenchman in New York
in 1962, after a visit to the Big Apple.
Arthur Fiedler made the only LP recording of the work
for RCA several years later. The LP of course had
Gershwin’s American in Paris on the reverse, but has
unfortunately been available only very shortly.
Darius Milhaud’s Frenchman in New York on private CD:
Boston Pops Orchestra, Arthur Fiedler
1 The Bohemian girl overture (Balfe) 8.32
2 The entertainer (Joplin) 3.28
Pasquale Cardillo, clarinet
3 The easy winners (Joplin) 3.33
4 Java (Friday-Toussaint-Tyler) 2.10
Al Hirt, trumpet
5 Strike up the band! (Gershwin) 2.49
6 An American in Paris, 1928 (Gershwin) 16.46
-A Frenchman in New York, 1962 (Milhaud)
Suite symphonique opus 399
7 New York with fog on the Hudson River 4.17
8 The cloisters 4.59
9 Horse and carriage in Central Park 3.35
10 Times Square 3.31
11 Garden on the roof 4.15
12 Baseball in Yankee Stadium 3.29
13 Hora staccato (Dinicu) 2.14
63.45 min.
Part VI
Hans Kindler (Rotterdam 1892 – Rhode Island 1949) conducting
Hans Kindler conducting the National Symphony Orchestra of Washington
Symphony No. 3 in F opus 90 (Brahms)
1 allegro con brio 9.26
2 andante 9.43
3 poco allegretto 5.36
4 allegro 8.44
28/29 January 1941
Symphony No. 3 in D opus 29 ‘Polish’ (Tchaikovsky)
5 introduzione e allegro 13.05
6 alla tedesca. allegro moderato e semplice 5.36
7 andante elegiaco 8.03
8 scherzo: allegro vivo 5.47
9 finale: allegro con fuoco 7.50
8 November 1940
10 Polka from The Age of Gold, ballet suite opus 22
(Shostakovich) 2.15
29 January 1941
76.20 min.
Part VII
Igor Stravinsky talking, rehearsing and conducting
Commentary on Le Sacre du Printemps 1959 (never before issued on CD)
Le Sacre du Printemps, Columbia SO performance 1960
Scherzo à la Russe, Rome 1957
Seven rehearsal sequences with various orchestras
Philippe Entremont, piano
Cathy Berberian, mezzo-soprano
78.39 min.
Part VIII
Adrian Boult conducting Gershwin, Brian, Tchaikovsky and Clarke
CD 1 75.15
1 Cuban overture (Gershwin) 10.07
London Philharmonic Orchestra
recorded 1967
Symphony No. 1 in d ‘Gothic’ (Brian) 99.20
Part 1 33.20
2 allegro assai 11.09
3 lento espressivo e solenne 10.29
4 vivace 11.42
Part 2 66.00
5 allegro moderato (Te Deum laudamus) 17.41
6 adagio molto solenne e religioso (iudex crederis esse venturus) 14.02
CD 2 63.25
1 moderato e molto sostenuto (Te ergo quaesumus) 34.15
BBC Symphony Orchestra
BBC Chorus
BBC Choral Society
City of London Choir
Hampstead Choral Society
Emmanuel School Choir
Orpington Junior Singers
Honor Sheppard, soprano
Shirley Minty, alto
Ronald Dowd, tenor
Roger Stalman, bass
Royal Albert Hall London, 30 October 1966
first professional performance
Concert suite from Swan Lake opus 20 (Tchaikovsky)
2 scène (no. 10) 3.03
3 scène (no. 17) 4.21
4 allegro moderato 1.37
5 valse 4.45
6 pas d’action 6.24
7 mazurka 3.19
8 allegro giusto 2.48
New Symphony Orchestra of London
recorded 1960
9 Trumpet voluntary (Clarke/ Wood) 2.40
London Philharmonic Orchestra
recorded 1967
Part IX
Ainslee Cox conducting English music
Ralph Vaughan Williams Symphony No. 7 ‘Antartica’
American SO 1970 live
-Robert Simpson Symphony No. 3
Oklahoma City SO 1974 live
-Elgar Elegy for Strings opus 58
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Part X
Pierre Monteux conducting the Boston Symphony Orchestra
Vol. 1
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Pierre Monteux conductor
Eugene Istomin, piano
CD 1 56.55
2 Fidelio overture in E opus 72b (Beethoven) 9.46
Piano Concerto in a opus 54 (Schumann)
4 allegro affettuoso 14.56
5 intermezzo, andantino grazioso 4.34
6 allegro vivace 16.19
Eugene Istomin, piano
8 Dance of the Seven Veils from Salome (Strauss) 9.38
CD 2 45.40
Symphony No. 2 in D opus 43 (Sibelius)
2 allegretto 9.14
3 tempo andante ma rubato 12.51
4 vivacissimo 5.36
5 finale: allegro moderato 17.30
Berkshire Festival
Tanglewood, 4 August 1961
Vol. 2
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Pierre Monteux, conductor
Isaac Stern violin
Antiche danze ed arie per liuto, Suite No. 1, excerpts
(Respighi)
1 gagliarda (Galilei) 4.06
2 villanella (Ignoto) 4.53
3 passo mezzo e mascherada (Ignoto) 4.22
Violin Concerto No. 22 in a (Viotti)
4 allegro 10.46
5 andante 8.06
6 allegro 9.53
Isaac Stern, violin
Suite No. 2 from El sombrero de tres picos (De Falla)
7 seguidillas 2.59
8 farruca 2.41
9 jota 6.23
Rhapsody No. 1 for Violin and Orchestra (Bartók)
10 lassú (moderato) 4.17
11 friss (allegro) 5.32
Isaac Stern, violin
12 Suite from Der Rosenkavalier (Strauss) 21.58
Berkshire Festival
Tanglewood, 23 July 1961
89.20 min.
On Stokowski CD 14 Lalo/ Bartók/ Grainger (above), Mr. Gerson Yessin is one
of the soloists playing in the Bartók Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion.
Here is the letter Stokowski after the 1952 recording wrote to Mr. Yessin:
This is the official concert poster of Stokowski’s Amsterdam concert on Thursday 20 August 1970:
Theo van der Burg, NL
last updated August 2011