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Stokowski : the orchestra ; Landmarks of a distinguished career
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- Contributors
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- Stokowski, Leopold, 1882-1977, conductor
- Ravel, Maurice, 1875-1937, arranger of music
- Dukas, Paul, 1865-1935. Péri
- Barber, Samuel, 1910-1981. Quartets
- Strauss, Richard, 1864-1949. Suite
- Farberman, Harold, 1929- Evolution
- Vaughan Williams, Ralph, 1872-1958. Symphonies
- Persichetti, Vincent, 1915-1987. Divertimento
- Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilich, 1840-1893. Symphonies
- Mussorgsky, Modest Petrovich, 1839-1881. Kartinki s vystavki
- Debussy, Claude, 1862-1918. Suite bergamasque
- Bach, Johann Sebastian, 1685-1750. Toccatas
- Sibelius, Jean, 1865-1957. Lemminkäis-sarja
- Debussy, Claude, 1862-1918. Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune
- Sibelius, Jean, 1865-1957. Finlandia
- Publication
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- New York, New York : EMI Classics, [1995]
- ℗1995
- Physical Details
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- 1 audio disc ; 4 3/4 in
- digital
- optical
- stereo
- audio file
- CD audio
- OCLC
- ocm35028300
- Credits
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- Leopold Stokowski conducting his symphony orchestra
- Title from disc label
- EMI Classics: 7243 5 65614 2 7 (on container: CDM 7243 5 65614 2 7)
- Originally released on Captiol LPs as SP 8385 (The orchestra)--and SP 8399 (Landmarks)
- "Full dimensional sound"--Container
- Program notes by David Foil and technical notes and credits (7 pages : portraits)--inserted in container
- Recorded 1957 January 22 and 29, and February 5, 8, 15, the Riverside Plaza Hotel, New York City
- The orchestra. Fanfare to La perí [i.e. péri] / Paul Dukas (2:23). Adagio for strings / Samuel Barber (6:34). Gavotte (from Suite for wind instruments in B-flat, op. 4) / Richard Strauss (3:09). Evolution (part 1) / Harold Farberman (4:55). Scherzo (from Symphony no. 8 in D minor) / Ralph Vaughan Williams (3:33). March (from Divertimento for band) / Vincent Persichetti (2:05). Scherzo (from Symphony no. 4 in F minor, op. 36) / Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky (5:21). The hut on fowl's legs ; and, The great gate of Kiev : (from Pictures at an exhibition) / Modeste Mussorgksy ; orch. Ravel (8:10) -- Landmarks of a distinguished career. Clair de lune : (from Suite bergamasque) / Claude Debussy ; arr. Stokowski (5:22). Toccata and fugue in D minor / Johann Sebastian Bach ; arr. Stokowski (9:34). The swan of Tuonela : (from Four legends : op. 22) / Jean Sibelius (Robert Bloom, English horn) (7:55). Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune / Claude Debussy (Julius Baker, flute) (11:38). Finlandia : op. 26 / Jean Sibelius (7:34)