Leopold Stokowski

Stokowski was music director of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the NBC Symphony Orchestra, New York Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra, the Houston Symphony Orchestra, the Symphony of the Air and many others. He was also the founder of the All-American Youth Orchestra, the New York City Symphony, the Hollywood Bowl Symphony Orchestra and the American Symphony Orchestra.
Stokowski conducted the music for and appeared in several Hollywood films, including Disney's Fantasia, and was a lifelong champion of contemporary composers, giving many premieres of new music during his 60-year conducting career. Stokowski, who made his official conducting debut in 1909, appeared in public for the last time in 1975 but continued making recordings until June 1977, a few months before his death at the age of 95.

Leopold Stokowski
THOMSON The Mother of Us All Suite
BRAHMS Symphony No. 2
CHABRIER Joyeuse marche - marche française
Recorded 1950
Total duration: 57:29
New York Philharmonic Orchestra
Leopold Stokowski - conductor
Dimitri Mitropoulos - conductor
Music by BACH, VIVALDI, CESTI, LULLY, FRESCOBALDI, PALESTRINA, GABRIELI
Studio recordings, 1950/52
Total duration: 75:40
Leopold Stokowski and
His Symphony Orchestra
Brass Choir
A Capella Chorus
Charles Courboin, organ
STRAVINSKY Firebird Suite
WAGNER Overture to 'Tannhäuser'
BRAHMS, GRIEG, MOZART, WEBER, BEETHOVEN
THOMAS, RIMSKY-KORSAKOV, GOUNOD, LIADOV
Recorded 1917-1924
Total duration: 70:37
The Philadelphia Orchestra
conducted by Leopold Stokowski
SCHUBERT "Unfinished" Symphony, No. 8
WAGNER Orchestral excerpts
TCHAIKOVSKY Symphonic movements and short pieces
Acoustic studio recordings, 1919-1924
Total duration: 79:01
The Philadelphia Orchestra
RACHMANINOV Piano Concerto No. 2
VARIOUS Symphonic movements and short pieces
Acoustic studio recordings, 1917-1924
Total duration: 79:41
Sergei Rachmaninov, piano
The Philadelphia Orchestra
Acoustic studio recordings, 1919-1924
Total duration: 64:44
The Philadelphia Orchestra