![]() ![]() This is exactly what he has done and I think that the results are electrifying. Serebrier told the Bournemouth SO that he was not intent on copying Stokowski’s own recordings of these pieces but wished to approach them from a fresh perspective. Serebrier’s performances, and the Naxos recording, put the almost identical programme by Matthias Bamert on Chandos RBCD in the shade.ĭeep bells, crashing tam-tams and col legno string effects all make a tremendous impact from the opening of Night on a Bare Mountain to the end of Pictures at an Exhibition. Stokowski’s colourful and idiosyncratic transcriptions of Mussorgsky’s music are wonderfully realised here. At the start of the sessions, which we attended, Serebrier told the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra that he was not intent on copying Stokowski’s own recordings of these pieces but instead wished to approach them from a fresh perspective. In 2003 its Committee decided to approach José Serebrier with the suggestion that he too should take them into his repertoire, and record them. When the Leopold Stokowski Society was formed in 1979, one of its chief aims was to encourage performances of the Maestro’s transcriptions. ![]() In the years following his death, however, other conductors have increasingly taken an interest in performing his colourful arrangements. During Stokowski’s lifetime, his orchestral transcriptions were, for the most part, only heard when he himself conducted them. Leopold Stokowski was not only one of the twentieth century’s greatest conductors, he was also an inveterate transcriber of music for the symphony orchestra, making some two hundred orchestral arrangements of works which had started life in other forms. 6, Stokowski: Traditional Slavic Christmas Music 2, Solitude (Again, as before, alone) Op. Stokowski): A Night on Bare Mountain, Khovanshchina (Act IV: Entr'acte), Boris Godunov (A Symphonic Synthesis), Pictures at an Exhibition, Tchaikovsky (trans. They have added Suspicious Minds as a bonus track and given that this song is pretty closely. Mastered by Rob LoVerde and given the 'Original Master Recording' banner. Elvis Presley: From Elvis In Memphis | Downunderman - July 7, 2023 Not an OMR and the MoFi website advises that for the vinyl they used a “1/4” / 15 IPS analog copy to DSD 256” as their source. Bill Withers: Still Bill | Downunderman - July 23, 2023 Features remastering in 2023 (192khz/24bit), using the US original master tapes."Ī. Bill Evans Trio: Waltz for Debby | Mark Werlin - August 5, 2023įrom the CDJapan page for this release, English translation: "Features SHM-SACD format. Ten of them are modern two of them date from the analogue era. Bach: Weihnachtsoratorium - Frömich | Athenaeus - Yesterday 07:25 pmīased on what I could find on this site, there are twelve recordings of the Christmas Oratorio on SACD. 25th, including study symphony in f-minor, symphony in d-minor. SONY Japan is going to release the Bruckner/Wiener Philharmoniker symphony cycle on 11 Hybrid-SACD in Oct. 8 - Thielemann | Contrapunctus - August 1, 2023 I too run a dCS spinner Longjohns and agree 100% with your comparative assessment of the relative merits of the disc's. Warren Zevon: Excitable Boy | Downunderman - July 9, 2023 More perceived depth, perhaps, but less clearly delineated. Helen Merrill: Helen Merrill | Longjohns and Wifebeaters - June 9, 2023Ī disappointment compared to the Japanese Polygram/Mercury PHCE-3051 "Rainbow Spectrum" 24/96 remaster of the same. This recording is available from CD Japan. Shostakovich: Symphonies 6 & 15 - Noseda Recent comments The great recordings of Deutsche Grammophon on SACD | hiredfox - August 6, 2023 ![]()
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