Leopold Stokowski
Stokowski was music director of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the NBC Symphony Orchestra, New York Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra, the Houston Symphony Orchestra, the Symphony of the Air and many others. He was also the founder of the All-American Youth Orchestra, the New York City Symphony, the Hollywood Bowl Symphony Orchestra and the American Symphony Orchestra.
Stokowski conducted the music for and appeared in several Hollywood films, including Disney's Fantasia, and was a lifelong champion of contemporary composers, giving many premieres of new music during his 60-year conducting career. Stokowski, who made his official conducting debut in 1909, appeared in public for the last time in 1975 but continued making recordings until June 1977, a few months before his death at the age of 95.
Leopold Stokowski
COPLAND Short Symphony
MOHAUPT Concerto For Orchestra
LAVALLE Symphonic Rhumba
HANSON Symphony No. 4
AMFITHEATROF De Profundis Clamavi
ANTHEIL Symphony No. 4
SCHOENBERG Piano Concerto
Total duration: 2 hr 16:23
Live broadcast recordings, 1942-1944
Eduard Steuermann, piano
NBC Symphony Orchestra
conducted by Leopold Stokowski
MOZART Marriage of Figaro - Overture
FALLA El Amor Brujo
RESPIGHI The Pines of Rome
SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No. 5
Recorded 1960
Total duration: 1hr 50:05
Shirley Verrett-Carter, mezzo-soprano
The Philadlephia Orchestra
conductor Leopold Stokowski
STRAVINSKY The Firebird
STRAVINSKY Petrushka
STRAVINSKY The Rite of Spring
STRAVINSKY Piano Music
MOZART Fugue in C minor
Studio recordings, 1916-1938
Total duration: 77:57
Beecham Symphony Orchestra ∙ Sir Thomas Beecham
Royal Albert Hall Orchestra ∙ Sir Eugene Goossens
Berlin State Opera Orchestra ∙ Oskar Fried
The Philadelphia Orchestra ∙ Leopold Stokowski
Igor Stravinsky, piano
Soulima Stravinsky, piano
THE MAGIC KEY OF RCA
Marian Anderson - contralto
José Iturbi - conductor, solo piano
The Philadelphia Orchestra
Charles O'Connell - conductor, arranger
Eugene Ormandy - conductor
Leopold Stokowski - conductor, arranger
Recorded 1937
Total duration: 59:36
McDONALD Symphony No. 1 etc.
McDONALD Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra etc.
McDONALD Violin Concerto
McDONALD Elegy and Battle Hymn
McDONALD Symphony No. 3, “A Tragic Cycle”
McDONALD Builders of America
Recorded 1935-56
Jeanne Behrend, Alexander Kelberine - piano
Eugene Ormandy · Leopold Stokowski · Harl McDonald ∙ Arthur Fiedler • Fabien Sevitzky
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Studio Recordings · 1935-1941
Total duration: 72:06
The Philadelphia Orchestra