Leopold Stokowski - Night on Bare Mountain and other Russian works (2007)
Artist: Leopold Stokowski
Title: Night on Bare Mountain and other Russian works
Year Of Release: 1953 [2007]
Label: Cala Records [CACD 0546]
Genre: Classical
Quality: FLAC (*tracks)
Total Time: 01:15:07
Total Size: 308 mb (+3%rec.)
WebSite: Album Preview
"An excellent transfer of Stokowski's extraordinary 1953 recording of his own revision of Night on Bare Mountain... The couplings are equally spectacular." GramophoneTitle: Night on Bare Mountain and other Russian works
Year Of Release: 1953 [2007]
Label: Cala Records [CACD 0546]
Genre: Classical
Quality: FLAC (*tracks)
Total Time: 01:15:07
Total Size: 308 mb (+3%rec.)
WebSite: Album Preview
"Immaculately transferred from pristine LP originals, the sound is surprisingly wide range and effective. Thanks Cala!" Classical CD Reviews
"[...the Mussorgsky piece]...proves so effective that it sets a watermark of orchestral execution for this virtuoso tone-poem" Audiophile Audition
Stokowski's championship of Slavic repertoire was well-known, and this disc features a number of his own arrangements of it, including his spectacular version of Night on Bare Mountain which featured in Walt Disney's Fantasia.
Tracks:
Modest Mussorgsky
A Night on Bare Mountain
Khovantchina Suite
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Russian Easter Festival Overture
Reinhold Glière
The Red Poppy: Russian Sailors' Dance
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Eugene Onegin: Polonaise
Alexander Borodin
In the Steppes of Central Asia
Prince Igor: Dances of the Polovetzki Maidens
Personnel:
Nicola Moscona
Leopold Stokowski's Symphony Orchestra
Leopold Stokowski
