![]() This is exactly what he has done and I think that the results are electrifying. Serebrier told the Bournemouth SO that he was not intent on copying Stokowski’s own recordings of these pieces but wished to approach them from a fresh perspective. Serebrier’s performances, and the Naxos recording, put the almost identical programme by Matthias Bamert on Chandos RBCD in the shade.ĭeep bells, crashing tam-tams and col legno string effects all make a tremendous impact from the opening of Night on a Bare Mountain to the end of Pictures at an Exhibition. Stokowski’s colourful and idiosyncratic transcriptions of Mussorgsky’s music are wonderfully realised here. 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. In 2003 its Committee decided to approach José Serebrier with the suggestion that he too should take them into his repertoire, and record them. When the Leopold Stokowski Society was formed in 1979, one of its chief aims was to encourage performances of the Maestro’s transcriptions. In the years following his death, however, other conductors have increasingly taken an interest in performing his colourful arrangements. During Stokowski’s lifetime, his orchestral transcriptions were, for the most part, only heard when he himself conducted them. 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. 6, Stokowski: Traditional Slavic Christmas Music 2, Solitude (Again, as before, alone) Op. Stokowski): A Night on Bare Mountain, Khovanshchina (Act IV: Entr'acte), Boris Godunov (A Symphonic Synthesis), Pictures at an Exhibition, Tchaikovsky (trans. Around the mid 1990's A&M created a number of safety copies of various A&M albums and this safety. Issued 2023 and from the 1/2-inch safety copy of the original master tapes. Peter Frampton: Frampton's Camel | Downunderman - July 6, 2023 More perceived depth, perhaps, but less clearly delineated. Helen Merrill: Helen Merrill | Longjohns and Wifebeaters - June 9, 2023Ī disappointment compared to the Japanese Polygram/Mercury PHCE-3051 "Rainbow Spectrum" 24/96 remaster of the same. It was a mid June release and sold out quickly at CD Japan, so I had to get it on Ebay, luckily for not much more than the CD Japan cost. Bill Evans: Trio '64 | Steven Harrison - Yesterday 08:50 pm Recorded in 1974 by VEB Deutsche Schallplatten Berlin, German Democratic Republic and released on the East-German ETERNA label (3 LPs), subsequently. Bach: Weihnachtsoratorium - Frömich | Adrian Quanjer - August 8, 2023Īn interesting release. Not an OMR and the MoFi website advises that for the vinyl they used a “1/4” / 15 IPS analog copy to DSD 256” as their source. Bill Withers: Still Bill | Downunderman - July 23, 2023 These Analogue Productions Steely SACD reissues are really the definitive version of these classic albums. Steely Dan: Can’t Buy a Thrill | Paul - July 4, 2023 They have added Suspicious Minds as a bonus track and given that this song is pretty closely. Mastered by Rob LoVerde and given the 'Original Master Recording' banner. Elvis Presley: From Elvis In Memphis | Downunderman - July 7, 2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() I too got the MoFi release (could not help.can we ever?), so it's fascinating to read your response, as I myself felt the AF version was a bit. When in the Silence of the Soul - Rios Recent comments Warren Zevon: Excitable Boy | Longjohns and Wifebeaters - July 9, 2023 ![]()
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