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
TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No. 4
TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No. 5
RIMSKY-KORSAKOV Russian Easter Festival Overture
RIMSKY-KORSAKOV Capriccio Espagnol
STRAVINSKY Firebird Suite
STRAVINSKY (arr. Stokowski) Petrushka Suite
Live broadcast recordings, 1941-44
Total duration: 2hr 32: 06
Nicola Moscona, bass
Eduard Steuermann, piano
NBC Symphony Orchestra
conducted by Leopold Stokowski
TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No. 6 'Pathétique'
TCHAIKOVSKY Romeo and Juliet
Live broadcast recordings, 1944
Total duration: 67:29
NBC Symphony Orchestra
conducted by Leopold Stokowski
WAGNER Siegfried Idyll
WAGNER (arr. Stokowski) Tristan und Isolde - Love Music
WAGNER Lohengrin - Prelude
WAGNER (arr. Stokowski) Die Walküre - Wotan's Farewell & Magic Fire Music
Live broadcast recordings, 1942-44
Total duration: 69:07
NBC Symphony Orchestra
conducted by Leopold Stokowski
FALLA El Amor Brujo (Love the Magician)
FALLA Noches en los jardines de España (Nights in the Gardens of Spain)
Recorded 1948 & 1949
Total duration: 44:44
Nan Merriman, mezzo-soprano
William Kapell, piano
New York Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra
conducted by Leopold Stokowski
WEBERN Passacaglia
SIBELIUS Symphony No. 4
DEBUSSY La Soirée dans Grenade
MUSSORGSKY Pictures at an Exhibition
Recorded in stereo in 1962
Total duration: 79:25
The Philadelphia Orchestra
conductor Leopold Stokowski
WAGNER Prelude to Act 3 of Lohengrin
BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 5
RAVEL Alborada del Gracioso
STRAVINSKY Petrushka Suite
VARIOUS Encores
Recorded in stereo in 1962
Total duration: 79:20
The Philadelphia Orchestra
conductor Leopold Stokowski