Leopold Stokowski - Franck: Symphony in D / Messiaen: L'Ascension (1999)
Artist: Leopold Stokowski
Title: Franck: Symphony in D / Messiaen: L'Ascension
Year Of Release: 1999
Label: Cala Records [CACD 0525]
Genre: Classical
Quality: FLAC (*tracks)
Total Time: 01:14:45
Total Size: 395 mb (+3%rec.)
WebSite: Album Preview
"You will be amazed and thrilled—you will be seduced—by the Franck. It is like no other recording."Title: Franck: Symphony in D / Messiaen: L'Ascension
Year Of Release: 1999
Label: Cala Records [CACD 0525]
Genre: Classical
Quality: FLAC (*tracks)
Total Time: 01:14:45
Total Size: 395 mb (+3%rec.)
WebSite: Album Preview
American Record Guide
"That anyone can conduct in their late eighties is remarkable; that the results should have the incisive vitality of these recordings is truly amazing." BBC Music Magazine
Both the Franck and even more so the Messiaen pieces give Stokowski full scope for "sensuousness sound and incandescent brilliance," as one critic described the original Phase 4 release of these recordings.
Tracks:
Maurice Ravel
Fanfare from L'Eventail de Jeanne
Frédéric Chopin
Mazurka in A Minor, Op.17 No.4
Olivier Messiaen
L'Ascension - Four Symphonic Meditations
Henri Duparc
Extase
César Franck
Symphony in D Minor
Personnel:
London Symphony Orchestra,
Hilversum Radio Philharmonic Orchestra,
Leopold Stokowski
