Gloria Lane: Frankly Speaking with Leopold Stokowski { CD }
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Title: Frankly Speaking with Leopold Stokowski
Artist: Gloria Lane
Label: Somm Recordings
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 758871503525
Genre: Classical Artists
Release Date: 2025-02-21
Number of Discs: 1
SOMM recordings is delighted to release Frankly Speaking with Leopold Stokowski, which gives rare insight into the legendary maestro through live recordings of a performance, a rehearsal, and an interview. The CD features Stokowski conducting the BBC Symphony Orchestra and soprano Gloria Lane in a performance of El amor brujo by Manuel de Falla at the Royal Albert Hall on 15 September 1964; a rehearsal of El amor brujo and Berlioz's Roman Carnival Overture with the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra at the War Memorial Opera House on 19 December 1952; and a Frankly Speaking BBC Home Service interview with Stokowski answering questions put to him by John Bowen, Reginald Jacques, and George Scott at the BBC Studios in London on 25 August 1959.Leopold Stokowski's unorthodox seating arrangements, his flexibility regarding free individual string bowings, his emphasis on vibrato and tone, and his idiosyncratic baton-less conducting technique, were some of the practical elements that defined his popularity and his uniquely lush sound-coupled with allowing himself free reign to alter details of the musical text in his performances. Yet there remains a highly elusive element in the art of a great conductor. The rehearsal presented on this release provides a glimpse into Stokowski's creative process. One the one hand, he was fastidiously detailed and precisely demanding to the point of being draconian, but he also admired and encouraged an element of spontaneity, and even improvisation, within the framework of his extreme insistence on precision.The performance of El amor brujo-one of Stokowski's favourite compositions-was recorded at a BBC Promenade concert, and provides a stellar example of the effect that he was able to achieve through his singular and charismatic approach to making music. The extended interview, heard here for the first time since it's original radio broadcast in 1959, illustrates the brilliant repartee, levity, and charm of which this extraordinary musician was capable.Through the breadth of his public success-including his appearance in the film Fantasia and, even more significantly, his recordings as the Music Director of the Philadelphia Orchestra, which he led from 1912 to 1936-Leopold Stokowski reached a more wide-ranging audience than was typical for classical music in his day, and did much to debunk the perception that classical music is "elitist." Together, Stokowski and the Philadelphia Orchestra racked up international sales figures that were unprecedented for orchestral discs, attracted a far-reaching following, and captivated an audience that ranged from classical music newcomers to some of his most celebrated fellow musicians.
Tracks:
1.1 amor brujo Ballet~Introducción y escena (Introduction ; scene)
1.2 amor brujo Ballet~En la cueva (La noche) (In the cave (Night))
1.3 amor brujo Ballet~Canción del amor dolido (Song of suffering love)
1.4 amor brujo Ballet~El aparecido (The apparition)
1.5 amor brujo Ballet~Danza del terror (Dance of terror)
1.6 amor brujo Ballet~El círculo mágico (Romance del pescador) (The magic circle (Tale of the fisherman))
1.7 amor brujo Ballet~A media noche (Los sortilegios) (At midnight (The spells))
1.8 amor brujo Ballet~Danza ritual del fuego (Ritual fire dance)
1.9 amor brujo Ballet~Escena (Scene)
1.10 amor brujo Ballet~Canción del fuego fatuo (Song of the will-o'-the-wisp)
1.11 amor brujo Ballet~Pantomima (Pantomime)
1.12 amor brujo Ballet~Danza del juego de amor (Dance of the game of love)
1.13 amor brujo Ballet~Final (Las campanas del amanecer) (Finale (The bells of sunrise))
1.14 amor brujo Suite (In rehearsal)
1.15 Carnaval romain, Op. 9 (In rehearsal)
1.16 Frankly Speaking - Leopold Stokowski answers questions put to him by John Bowen, Reginald Jacques, George Scott
Gloria Lane: Frankly Speaking with Leopold Stokowski { CD }
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Artist: Gloria Lane
Label: Somm Recordings
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 758871503525
Genre: Classical Artists
Release Date: 2025-02-21
Number of Discs: 1
SOMM recordings is delighted to release Frankly Speaking with Leopold Stokowski, which gives rare insight into the legendary maestro through live recordings of a performance, a rehearsal, and an interview. The CD features Stokowski conducting the BBC Symphony Orchestra and soprano Gloria Lane in a performance of El amor brujo by Manuel de Falla at the Royal Albert Hall on 15 September 1964; a rehearsal of El amor brujo and Berlioz's Roman Carnival Overture with the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra at the War Memorial Opera House on 19 December 1952; and a Frankly Speaking BBC Home Service interview with Stokowski answering questions put to him by John Bowen, Reginald Jacques, and George Scott at the BBC Studios in London on 25 August 1959.Leopold Stokowski's unorthodox seating arrangements, his flexibility regarding free individual string bowings, his emphasis on vibrato and tone, and his idiosyncratic baton-less conducting technique, were some of the practical elements that defined his popularity and his uniquely lush sound-coupled with allowing himself free reign to alter details of the musical text in his performances. Yet there remains a highly elusive element in the art of a great conductor. The rehearsal presented on this release provides a glimpse into Stokowski's creative process. One the one hand, he was fastidiously detailed and precisely demanding to the point of being draconian, but he also admired and encouraged an element of spontaneity, and even improvisation, within the framework of his extreme insistence on precision.The performance of El amor brujo-one of Stokowski's favourite compositions-was recorded at a BBC Promenade concert, and provides a stellar example of the effect that he was able to achieve through his singular and charismatic approach to making music. The extended interview, heard here for the first time since it's original radio broadcast in 1959, illustrates the brilliant repartee, levity, and charm of which this extraordinary musician was capable.Through the breadth of his public success-including his appearance in the film Fantasia and, even more significantly, his recordings as the Music Director of the Philadelphia Orchestra, which he led from 1912 to 1936-Leopold Stokowski reached a more wide-ranging audience than was typical for classical music in his day, and did much to debunk the perception that classical music is "elitist." Together, Stokowski and the Philadelphia Orchestra racked up international sales figures that were unprecedented for orchestral discs, attracted a far-reaching following, and captivated an audience that ranged from classical music newcomers to some of his most celebrated fellow musicians.
Tracks:
1.1 amor brujo Ballet~Introducción y escena (Introduction ; scene)
1.2 amor brujo Ballet~En la cueva (La noche) (In the cave (Night))
1.3 amor brujo Ballet~Canción del amor dolido (Song of suffering love)
1.4 amor brujo Ballet~El aparecido (The apparition)
1.5 amor brujo Ballet~Danza del terror (Dance of terror)
1.6 amor brujo Ballet~El círculo mágico (Romance del pescador) (The magic circle (Tale of the fisherman))
1.7 amor brujo Ballet~A media noche (Los sortilegios) (At midnight (The spells))
1.8 amor brujo Ballet~Danza ritual del fuego (Ritual fire dance)
1.9 amor brujo Ballet~Escena (Scene)
1.10 amor brujo Ballet~Canción del fuego fatuo (Song of the will-o'-the-wisp)
1.11 amor brujo Ballet~Pantomima (Pantomime)
1.12 amor brujo Ballet~Danza del juego de amor (Dance of the game of love)
1.13 amor brujo Ballet~Final (Las campanas del amanecer) (Finale (The bells of sunrise))
1.14 amor brujo Suite (In rehearsal)
1.15 Carnaval romain, Op. 9 (In rehearsal)
1.16 Frankly Speaking - Leopold Stokowski answers questions put to him by John Bowen, Reginald Jacques, George Scott
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