Leopold Stokowski - The 1947-49 Columbia Recordings, Vol. 1 (2002)

"Here without question was one of the world’s great ensembles, driven to the height of its powers by a conductor with total command." Classic Record Collector

This eclectic program comes from the period of Stokowski's highly successful Guest Conductorship of the New York Philharmonic, then engaged in trying to improve its performance standards to rival the orchestras of Boston and Philadelphia—a process to which Stokowski greatly contributed.


Tracks:

Richard Wagner
The Flying Dutchman Overture

Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov
Caucasian Sketches: In the Village

Olivier Messiaen
L'Ascension - Four Symphonic Meditations

Charles Griffes
Roman Sketches: The White Peacock

Richard Wagner
Die Walküre Overture

Ralph Vaughan Williams
Sir John in Love: Fantasia on "Greensleeves"

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Francesca da Rimini

Personnel:

New York Philharmonic
Leopold Stokowski