Leopold Stokowski - The 1947-49 Columbia Recordings, Vol. 2 (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
Rienzi Overture

Jean Sibelius
Swanwhite: Maiden With the Roses

Aram Khachaturian
Masquerade Suite

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Serenade for Strings: Waltz

Richard Wagner
Die Götterdämmerung

Arnold Schoenberg
Gurrelieder: Song of the Wood-Dove

Aaron Copland
Billy the Kid

Personnel:

Martha Lipton
John Corigliano
New York Philharmonic
Leopold Stokowski