Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, José Serebrier - Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition / Boris Godunov (2005)

Tracklist

01. A Night on Bare Mountain (arr. L. Stokowski)
02. Khovanshchina, Act IV: Entr'acte (arr. L. Stokowski)
03. Boris Godunov: A Symphonic Synthesis (arr. L. Stokowski)
04. Pictures at an Exhibition: I. Promenade
05. Pictures at an Exhibition: II. Gnomus
06. Pictures at an Exhibition: III. Promenade
07. Pictures at an Exhibition: IV. Il vecchio castello (The Old Castle)
08. Pictures at an Exhibition: V. Bydlo (A Polish Ox-Wagon)
09. Pictures at an Exhibition: VI. Promenade
10. Pictures at an Exhibition: VII. Ballet de poussins dans leurs coques (Ballet of the Unhatched Chicks)
11. Pictures at an Exhibition: VIII. Samuel Goldenberg and Schmuyle
12. Pictures at an Exhibition: IX. Catacombs - Sepulchrum Romanum; Con mortuis in lingua mortua
13. Pictures at an Exhibition: X. La cabane sur des pattes de poule - Baba Yaga (The Hut on Fowl's Legs)
14. Pictures at an Exhibition: XI. La grande porte de Kiev (The Great Gate of Kiev)
15. Solitude (Again, as before, alone), Op. 73, No. 6 [trans. L. Stokowski]
16. Humoresque, Op. 10, No. 2 (trans. L. Stokowski)
17. Traditional Slavic Christmas Music



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. During Stokowski’s lifetime, his orchestral transcriptions were, for the most part, only heard when he himself conducted them. In the years following his death, however, other conductors have increasingly taken an interest in performing his colourful arrangements. When the Leopold Stokowski Society was formed in 1979, one of its chief aims was to encourage performances of the Maestro’s transcriptions. In 2003 its Committee decided to approach José Serebrier with the suggestion that he too should take them into his repertoire, and record them. 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. – The Leopold Stokowski Society

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