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Schubert 'Unfinished' Symphony - Stokowski conducts the LPO (1969)
Leopold Stokowski conducted Schubert's 'Unfinished' Symphony for the first time on 7th March 1911 with the Cincinnati Orchestra. He was 28 years old. He conducted it for the last time on 30th September 1973 with the London Philharmonic at the age of 91. Here he is with that same orchestra a few years earlier, on 8th September 1969, performing the work in Croydon's Fairfield Hall. This was in preparation for a recording which he made a few days later. In fact, Stokowski had made the first American recording of Schubert's 8th Symphony with the Philadelphia Orchestra on primitive acoustic 78s in 1924, whereas his last recording of the work was made in Decca's multi-channelled "Phase 4 Stereo" 45 years later when he was aged 87.
Note Stokowski's platform arrangement. He liked to have the basses and cellos ranged across the back, facing the audience, so that the bass lines firmly under-pinned the rest of the orchestra. He also often positioned the winds on the far left when the music required antiphony between strings and winds.
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Tchaikovsky 'Cherevichki' - Entr'acte and Dances
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Tchaikovsky's 'Cherevichki' is one of his dozen operas and has been known by several titles in English. These include 'The Little Shoes', 'The Golden Slippers' and 'Oxana's Caprices', as well as its original title ''Vakula the Smith' prior to its revision under the title it is known by today. The opera takes place during the Christmas period in the Ukraine and in St. Petersburg during the late ...
Stokowski conducts Puccini - 'Madame Butterfly' - Entr'acte ('Humming Chorus')
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Leopold Stokowski began making 78rpm records in 1917 utilising the primitive method of Philadelphia Orchestra members playing into a large wooden horn. Years later he was to dismiss these old 'acoustic' recordings as "just awful." However, with the advent of electrical recording in 1925 he began to take a great interest in the mechanics of the entire recording process. Even so, quite a few pre-...
César Cui: Prelude in E major - Margaret Fingerhut, piano
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César Cui was one of "The Mighty Handful," the name given to five Russian composers who formed a nationalist group in the 1860s which had a concept of music based in the songs and dances of the people. Cui was less well known as a composer than the others, being primarily noted for his criticisms of Tchaikovsky's music. In her recital of music by "The Mighty Handful," Margaret Fingerhut chose f...
Stokowski - Great Recordings from the BBC Legends Archive
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Leopold Stokowski's eminence as one of the truly great conductors of the 20th century, in a career which spanned six decades, is exemplified in this 6CD set. It features BBC performances in stereo of many of the symphonies and works he performed in concert during his final years and, in many cases, premiered on record in his early years. Of the many outstanding reviews of these live concerts, t...
Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 5 - Leinsdorf conducts the Boston Symphony
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Erich Leinsdorf was born in Vienna in 1912 and his early musical studies led him to become an aspiring young conductor. He was in America when the Nazis took Austria over in 1938, so he remained in the USA and soon became an American citizen. He enjoyed numerous directorships in the States and one of these was his appointment in 1962 as music director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. His tenur...
John Wilson conducts 'The Big Country' - Movie Title Music
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The John Wilson Orchestra concerts in pre-pandemic times were highlights of each year's Proms Season at London's Royal Albert Hall. Here from his "Hollywood Rhapsody" Prom in 2013 is the title music for "The Big Country" by Jerome Morross, given a typically splendid performance by John Wilson's hand-picked orchestra of top flight players.
Tchaikovsky 'May' ("The Seasons") - David Matthews, arranger; Carl Davis, conductor
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Tchaikovsky's twelve short 'character pieces' representing each month of the year were originally composed for solo piano. They were published as "The Seasons" and each had subtitles and poetic epigraphs. 'May' was subtitled "Starlit Nights" and its epitaph reads: "What a night! What bliss all about! I thank my native north country! From the kingdom of ice, from the kingdom of snowstorms and sn...
Sir Andrew Davis (1944-2024) conducts Bach-Stokowski 'Komm süsser Tod' - BBC Symphony Orchestra
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Sir Andrew Davis had a remarkably wide repertoire which included a number of orchestrations of Bach's music by such musicians as Leopold Stokowski, Sir Edward Elgar and Sir Henry Wood. Indeed, Sir Andrew himself made several arrangements of Bach's music and was working on them at the time of his death in April 2024. In 2001, the BBC Symphony mounted a "Tribute to Stokowski" concert in London's ...
Stokowski conducts Beethoven's 'Egmont' Overture at the age of 91 (1973)
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Leopold Stokowski had one of the widest orchestral repertoires of any 20th Century conductor, ranging from Bach, Handel and Vivaldi all the way through to Shostakovich, Schoenberg and Ives. Beethoven was also firmly in his repertoire right from the very beginning, his first concert with the Cincinnati Orchestra in 1909 featuring the 5th Symphony. He programmed the "Egmont" Overture for the firs...
Temirkanov conducts 'Death of Tybalt' from Prokofiev's "Romeo and Juliet"
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Yuri Temirkanov and the St. Petersburg Philharmonic made two appearances at the BBC Proms during the 1992 season and the second of their concerts ended with three encores. The programme was filmed by BBC Television and the director decided to let the camera keep the conductor in view throughout the dramatic "Death of Tybalt" in which Temirkanov adopted the fastest speed possible at the outset a...
Tchaikovsky 'Manfred' - Rozhdestvensky conducts - Finale - Coda with Organ entry
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Tchaikovsky's "Manfred" Symphony has been subjected to quite a few changes over the years. The most notable was Toscanini's many amendments to the scoring and his deletion of about five minutes of music from the finale. There is also a Soviet version, performed by Svetlanov and Temirkanov, which replaces the quiet closing moments of the last movement with the fortissimo ending of the first one....
Bach - 'Easter Cantata' Chorale - Stokowski arranger / conductor
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Leopold Stokowski was one of the few great 20th century maestros who lived to a ripe old age and he was still conducting just a few months before he died at the age of 95. Inevitably he had become very frail by then and although he could still give vital and exciting performances in his 90s, there were occasions when his frailty was more in evidence. One such occasion occurred in April 1973, th...
Vivaldi 'Spring' ("The Four Seasons") - Stokowski conducts
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Spring has officially sprung, so here it is in Vivaldi's imaginative realization! ... Leopold Stokowski had an amazingly wide repertoire of orchestral music during his six decades conducting career, yet there were several works which he came to for the first time very late in life. Vivaldi's "Four Seasons" was one of them, being a recording project for Decca's "Phase 4 Stereo" label. It was rec...
J. Strauss II 'Thunder and Lightning' Polka - Fritz Reiner conducts
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Fritz Reiner was a Hungarian-born American conductor who emigrated to the USA in 1922 and whose career, by common consent, reached its pinnacle when he became music director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in 1953. He raised its standards and became world famous through a series of recordings made in RCA's spectacular early "Living Stereo" LPs. We have an excellent example here, the 'Thunder ...
Dvorak 'New World' Symphony - Largo - Rudolf Kempe conducts the BBCSO
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Dvorak 'New World' Symphony - Largo - Rudolf Kempe conducts the BBCSO
Tchaikovsky 'March' ("The Seasons") - David Matthews, arranger; Carl Davis, conductor
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Tchaikovsky 'March' ("The Seasons") - David Matthews, arranger; Carl Davis, conductor
Debussy 'Clair de lune' - Stokowski arranger / conductor
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Debussy 'Clair de lune' - Stokowski arranger / conductor
Elgar 'Nimrod' ("Enigma Variations") - Tugan Sokhiev / Bolshoi Theatre Symphony Orchestra
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Elgar 'Nimrod' ("Enigma Variations") - Tugan Sokhiev / Bolshoi Theatre Symphony Orchestra
Handel 'Arrival of the Queen of Sheba' - Fritz Reiner conducts
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Handel 'Arrival of the Queen of Sheba' - Fritz Reiner conducts
Tchaikovsky 'Intermezzo' - Orchestral Suite No. 1 - Dmitriev conducts
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Tchaikovsky 'Intermezzo' - Orchestral Suite No. 1 - Dmitriev conducts
Wagner 'Parsifal' - Symphonic Synthesis Act 3 - Stokowski arranger / conductor
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Wagner 'Parsifal' - Symphonic Synthesis Act 3 - Stokowski arranger / conductor
John Wilson conducts the 'Youth of Britain' march from Eric Coates' "Three Elizabeths" Suite
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John Wilson conducts the 'Youth of Britain' march from Eric Coates' "Three Elizabeths" Suite
Bach-Elgar - Fantasia & Fugue in C minor - Esa-Pekka Salonen conducts
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Bach-Elgar - Fantasia & Fugue in C minor - Esa-Pekka Salonen conducts
Tchaikovsky 'January' ("The Seasons") - David Matthews, arranger; Carl Davis, conductor
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Tchaikovsky 'January' ("The Seasons") - David Matthews, arranger; Carl Davis, conductor
Stokowski - 'Evening Prayer' ("Hansel and Gretel") - Norman Luboff Choir
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Stokowski - 'Evening Prayer' ("Hansel and Gretel") - Norman Luboff Choir
'We Wish You a Merry Christmas' - Clare College Cambridge Choir - Geoffrey Simon / London Cellos
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'We Wish You a Merry Christmas' - Clare College Cambridge Choir - Geoffrey Simon / London Cellos
Prokofiev 'Troika' - "Lieutenant Kijé" - Soundtrack Music excerpt
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Prokofiev 'Troika' - "Lieutenant Kijé" - Soundtrack Music excerpt
'Serenata' from "The Jewels of the Madonna" - José Serebrier conducts
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'Serenata' from "The Jewels of the Madonna" - José Serebrier conducts
Silvestri conducts Elgar 'Nimrod' ("Enigma Variations") - Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
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Silvestri conducts Elgar 'Nimrod' ("Enigma Variations") - Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra

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  • @poppybell8217
    @poppybell8217 3 години тому

    I think part of Betty’s soul flew into me in 1989

  • @JeanJacquesElieme
    @JeanJacquesElieme 5 годин тому

    Pas possible

  • @martyvirtue4051
    @martyvirtue4051 9 годин тому

    Great music!! Thanks for the upload. This comes straight out of heaven!!

  • @tsehan67
    @tsehan67 9 годин тому

    величайшая хореография))

  • @martyvirtue4051
    @martyvirtue4051 9 годин тому

    As a retired all round violinist I have heard so much hate about performing Bach in the romantic way. I never be understood why. If Bach had the opportunity to write for a 60 violin orchestra, he would have done it. This comes straight out of heaven! Thank you both so much, Bach and Stokowski!!

  • @michellecranmer7192
    @michellecranmer7192 10 годин тому

    Did this song better than abba themselves did

  • @AnneThompson-bc6rc
    @AnneThompson-bc6rc 10 годин тому

    No other WORD fabulous.

  • @thomasbarker2888
    @thomasbarker2888 20 годин тому

    Callow's a wonderful actor and writer, but my god this presentation is awful. The stilted manner of the speech is excruciating, it almost sounds like he has trapped wind or something: "He....... finallyallowedhimselfthefreedomof......arelationshipwithaman". Wonderfully illuminating, but tough and irritatingly mannered to get through.

  • @Dorothy6527
    @Dorothy6527 21 годину тому

    Did Simon Callow wear an earring?

  • @MarilynLawrence-fk3hu
    @MarilynLawrence-fk3hu День тому

    God loved him

  • @FactBuffet
    @FactBuffet День тому

    Edward VIII never delivered a Christmas Broadcast. He abdicated before his first Christmas as King!

  • @rarethen9
    @rarethen9 День тому

    1:51 it can't get any better than this

  • @derekmorgan8534
    @derekmorgan8534 День тому

    If perfection was human 👌🏼

  • @MarilynLawrence-fk3hu
    @MarilynLawrence-fk3hu День тому

    Such a sweet boy such a sweet song.Gods chosen one .This angel is singing with the angels

  • @davebillnitzer5824
    @davebillnitzer5824 2 дні тому

    The orchestration is big and bold, but the tempo here is too slow, it kills the majesty and awe of the piece and makes it plodding and dull. The Stokowski arrangement keeps things building up and moving forward, this is heavy and weighs it all down.

  • @Bouchedag89
    @Bouchedag89 2 дні тому

    Cromwell totally looks like Dr Silberman from the Terminator movies lol

  • @DAmateur04
    @DAmateur04 2 дні тому

    I remember listening to this piece for the first time as a child through the film Fantasia, with Stokowski conducting during the toccata and the closing passage of the fugue. Heck, even I vaguely remember me trying to mimic Stokowski's conducting. Now, over a decade later, I still treasure this piece for starting my love for classical music. Seeing this conductor perform this piece at the age of 90 shows me that he was truly a legend of his time. Thank you, maestro Stokowski, for instilling my love for classical music in me.

  • @claudiog.nogueiras2323
    @claudiog.nogueiras2323 2 дні тому

    👍 thanks for share!

  • @Staniele
    @Staniele 2 дні тому

    It’s insane to think that Leopold started conducting when audio recording was in its infancy, and he kept on conducting until the cassette tape!

    • @adam28xx
      @adam28xx 2 дні тому

      Yes, Stokowski made his very first recording, a pre-electric acoustic 78rpm disc in 1917, with the Philadelphia Orchestra playing Brahms' Hungarian Dance No. 5 into an enormous wooden horn. Sixty years later, in June 1977 at the age of 95, he made his last recording with the National Philharmonic, a specially assembled recording ensemble featuring top players from the various London orchestras. His last recording coupled Mendelssohn's "Italian" Symphony with the Bizet Symphony in C. The finale was recorded in one 'take' and was the very last time he ever conducted. He died in September 1977 while studying Rachmaninoff's 2nd Symphony for yet another recording. Here is the finale of the Bizet Symphony conducted by a frail but very great Maestro. It's just as well he had top class players in his orchestra - wait till you hear the tempo! ... ua-cam.com/video/Ypu1t3TUZVw/v-deo.html

  • @elsakristina2689
    @elsakristina2689 2 дні тому

    I heard this version here inspired the ending for Disney’s version from 1996.

  • @laurieberry162
    @laurieberry162 3 дні тому

    they all have beautiful legs

  • @JagEnsor
    @JagEnsor 3 дні тому

    What do you say? Too slow, I admit, but better too slow than too fast, of which so many modern conductors are guilty. As an Anglican chorister I wanted to shout at choirmasters raising the tempo of classic hymns to a ridiculous level, where the words were almost unintelligible and the choir could scarcely breathe things were going so fast. Anyway, for this piece Barenboim and the CSO's tribute to Solti is unbeatable...

  • @bigg2988
    @bigg2988 3 дні тому

    I am a complete stranger to reading music or playing actual instruments, in other words just a simple lover of the Classical repertoire - and watching Maestro Steinberg's conducting gestures, I almost persuaded myself I, too, could follow his lead! Never before had I seen such a clear and unmannered style. The rhythm and dynamics he communicated directly and firmly, with utmost clarity. Good-humored contact with his musicians, but not over-emoting. In short, I am impressed and probably off to investigate more of the man's recordings! Thank you for uploading!

  • @VanNguyen-eq4oe
    @VanNguyen-eq4oe 3 дні тому

    ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

  • @dmntuba
    @dmntuba 4 дні тому

    WOW!!! Always luv to watch the old master at work...thanks for sharing 👍

    • @adam28xx
      @adam28xx 3 дні тому

      Thanks for watching!

  • @mrsmum3-6
    @mrsmum3-6 4 дні тому

    Excellent, love this. ❤

    • @adam28xx
      @adam28xx 4 дні тому

      Glad you like it!

  • @fakerating
    @fakerating 4 дні тому

    Fantastic singers and orchestra!

  • @hollypotthoff2337
    @hollypotthoff2337 5 днів тому

    That was just plain amazing! Leave it to Danny Kaye to put them up to the challenge. Score!!

  • @stephenhall3515
    @stephenhall3515 5 днів тому

    It has long been fashionable among ignorant critics (such as Hurwitz and Lebrecht) to lambast and libel Sir Roger Norrington but they fail to use their ears and take refuge in total prejudice against all that the conductor ever did. Associated more with much earlier music, Norrington sometimes honed in on 20th century music in live concerts and dared to actually follow the score. I keep returning to this reading of VW's terrifying 6th symphony of the late 1940s because it is phenomenal in and of itself (with a top international orchestra) and happens to be closest to the composer's own conducting of the piece. Only fragments of VW conducting this work remain on tapes mainly in the archive of the estate of the late Ruth, the Lady Fermoy (1908-1993) and it possible that Norrington heard these. Although Vaughan Williams attended the symphony recordings with the LPO under Boult in the 1950s for Decca (#9 by Everest USA the day after the composer had died), he entirely trusted Boult and would not interfere with the work of a professional but it is known that he allowed the Epilogue finale to be played as Boult chose. What we know from the Fermoy tapes is that the composer was somewhat quicker, as is Norrington here. In my view it allows a hesitant "heartbeat" effect to emerge as in Holst's 'Egdon Heath'. VW thought that the semi-'tone poem' by his lifelong friend was perfect orchestral music. Holst had died in 1934. Vaughan William denied that the Epilogue depicts a post-nuclear war wasteland and quoted from Shakespeare's 'The Tempest' instead. He was a tease about context in most of his abstract works after the death of Holst. This performance by Norrington somehow brings out the whole of the sounds of the meticulously scored masterpiece.

  • @carlosalbertoferreira6512
    @carlosalbertoferreira6512 5 днів тому

    Never heard this song better. Bravissimo!

  • @BellaFirenze
    @BellaFirenze 5 днів тому

    Happy Gay Pride!

  • @Taylorsbae_
    @Taylorsbae_ 5 днів тому

    At my ballet show we used this song for one of the choreos, thats a great orchestra

  • @BohemothWatts-vz1lc
    @BohemothWatts-vz1lc 5 днів тому

    When President Kennedy was assassinated, the Boston Symphony Orchestra played Chopin funeral march.

  • @charlescoleman5509
    @charlescoleman5509 5 днів тому

    This is the first time I’ve heard this piece with its alternate orchestration instead of the organ in the 3rd movement.

    • @adam28xx
      @adam28xx 5 днів тому

      Just to confirm that the printed score does say that the woodwind parts at that point "are to be played only in the absence of an organ." I believe that at the time of this performance, Carnegie Hall didn't have a suitable organ but someone may like to confirm.

    • @charlescoleman5509
      @charlescoleman5509 5 днів тому

      @@adam28xx Not just the woodwinds though. Brass, piano and strings too. At least according to the score I have. And it sounds like it in this performance.

  • @henryruggles7523
    @henryruggles7523 6 днів тому

    💖👍

  • @markherron1407
    @markherron1407 6 днів тому

    God save UKRAINE! May God bless UKRAINE! Blessings and HUGS! 👑💜

  • @paorich
    @paorich 6 днів тому

    Celestiale!

  • @davidcarter3109
    @davidcarter3109 6 днів тому

    John Wilson is a very talented man.

  • @TheBetoPira
    @TheBetoPira 6 днів тому

    the text under the video is clarifying

  • @deloor171
    @deloor171 6 днів тому

    Beautiful!

  • @Angel_A_Palacios_764
    @Angel_A_Palacios_764 6 днів тому

    Qué bella melodia

  • @Sigmar_Unberogen_Heldenhammer
    @Sigmar_Unberogen_Heldenhammer 7 днів тому

    Kiev - eto Rossiya 333 ZOV

  • @RModillo
    @RModillo 7 днів тому

    Almost too transparent to be authentic. Needs a bit of impurity from schmaltz and Hungarian grit.

  • @MrDavey2010
    @MrDavey2010 7 днів тому

    If only he’d have come out. He’d have been so much happier instead of being waspish.

  • @MocailDamn
    @MocailDamn 7 днів тому

    And again 3:01

  • @MocailDamn
    @MocailDamn 7 днів тому

    The piano getting louder and louder 2:29

  • @TralfazConstruction
    @TralfazConstruction 7 днів тому

    Seated in the theater, age 4, waiting with my parents and maternal grandparents for the movie to begin. I remember being startled by the opening as this strong score pushed me back in my seat. Good times.

  • @brianchiedo9705
    @brianchiedo9705 7 днів тому

    Absolutely fantastic!

  • @tolgaucar-gl1vm
    @tolgaucar-gl1vm 8 днів тому

    I first listened to this in the movie Ahlat Ağacı by Nuri Bilge Ceylan

  • @alalmasy9327
    @alalmasy9327 8 днів тому

    Great tune in key of G . Love it !!🎹❤️🕊🙏💕

    • @adam28xx
      @adam28xx 8 днів тому

      Glad you like it!