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Never really thought of it that way. But I suppose so.

More Stokowski:

Oh yeah. Good stuff, no doubt. But I can't resist THIS:

Hey! It's James Moody (Cadet, 1960) An excellent quartet session with guitarist Johnny Gray taking the role usually filled by a pianist. These two are both five-star records in my book.

Wellstood really was a wonderful pianist. ... Have you heard those two Soprano Summit LPs? If you like the Wellstood recording with Davern, you will almost certainly like those as well. In fact, Wellstood was miffed that Dick Hyman was invited to be a part of those recordings instead of him! Wellstood's biographer, Edward Meyer, talks about this. His biography, Giant Strides, is well worth reading too.

Me too!

No problem.

Disc 2 Shostakovich: Symphony No. 6 and Khachaturian: Symphony No. 3 - with the Chicago SO Disc 10 Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade - with the Royal PO

2-CD Stokowski set available for anyone who'd like to have it. Free shipping in the U.S. I bought the 14-CD Stokowski RCA Stereo Collection set. So I no longer need this two-disc sampler. A description from amazon.com: The performances on this well-filled two-CD set come from the last decades of Leopold Stokowski's extraordinarily long life (1882-1977). The five selections from Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet are dated 1954, everything else being recorded between 1960 and 1974. After opening with two idiomatic Bach transcriptions, much of the program concentrates on 19th-century romanticism, a glittering fantasy being conjured from Wagner's "Magic Fire Music." Even so, given the title The Magician, a reference to Stokowski's role in Disney's film Fantasia--and specifically The Sorcerer's Apprentice sequence--one might be surprised that there is no recording of that piece here. Equally surprising, though in a very different way, is the sheer energy the 92-year-old conductor brings to a 1974 reading of Beethoven's Coriolan Overture. With a deeply romantic intensity, Villa-Lobos's Bachianas Brasileiras No. 5 has surely never sounded more European, soprano Anna Moffo singing with impassioned commitment. At 28 minutes, by far the longest recording is Romeo and Juliet; beginning in almost detached tranquility, Stokowski builds to implacable tragedy. Finally, Shostakovich's suite The Age of Gold is witty and idiosyncratic, the high point being an especially lyrical and affecting Adagio. A feast of rapt music-making and vividly bold sound, this is an excellent anthology thoroughly deserving a sequel. --Gary S Dalkin colinmce - Did anyone ever claim these?

Two Weeks Recap - PLAYING FAVORITES: Reflections on Jazz in the 1970s Last Week: Billy Harper – Capra Black (Strata-East, 1973) Ray Barretto – The Other Road (Fania, 1973) Dick Wellstood & His Famous Orchestra featuring Kenny Davern (Chiaroscuro, 1974) Flora Purim – Butterfly Dreams (Milestone, 1973) Bob Wilber & Kenny Davern – Soprano Summit (World Jazz) Eric Kloss – Essence (Muse, 1974) John Surman – Morning Glory (Antilles/Fledg'ling, 1973) Two Weeks Ago: Duke Jordan – Flight to Denmark (SteepleChase, 1974) Norman Connors – Love from the Sun (Buddah, 1973) Dave Liebman – Lookout Farm (ECM, 1974) Don Patterson – These Are Soulful Days (Muse, 1974) Art Ensemble of Chicago – Fanfare for the Warriors (Atlantic/Koch, 1974) Dudu Pukwana & Spear – In the Townships (Caroline/Earthworks, 1974) George Benson – Body Talk (CTI, 1973) Since I missed last week's recap, I've listed two week's worth here. Quite a bit of diversity style-wise in two just two weeks, no?!?! As always, I welcome your feedback.

Discs 4 & 5 "Bleeding Chunks" from Wagner's operas: - Das Rheingold - Die Walküre - Götterdämmerung - Tristan und Isolde - Tannhäuser - Rienzi - Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg Music that plays to Stokowski's strengths as a conductor: Color! Mood!! Drama!!!

Off. Always.

Originally released as two Milestone LPs in 1971: Harlem Bush Music/Taifa and Harlem Bush Music/Uhuru Important and fascinating music.

I like that version very much too!

I like Buchbinder's Teldec cycle very much. (I haven't heard his more recent live cycle on RCA.) IMO, he's at his best in the early- and middle-period sonatas. I think of him as a "down-the-middle"-type interpreter (like Brendel, maybe?) -- but with a lyrical streak. His lyricism and sense of time are what initially caught my ear.

NP: Beethoven: The Piano Sonatas / Rudolf Buchbinder (Teldec) Disc 1 - Piano Sonata No. 3 in C major, Op. 2/3 - Piano Sonata No. 4 in E flat major ('Grand Sonata'), Op. 7 - Piano Sonata No. 6 in F major, Op. 10/2 - Piano Sonata No. 9 in E major, Op. 14/1 Earlier: Outstanding.

Arnold Bax: Tone Poems, Vol. 2 / Bryden Thomson, Ulster Orchestra (Chandos)

Exquisite!

NP: Joseph Canteloube: Songs of the Auvergne (Complete) / Netania Davrath (sop), Pierre De La Roche (cond) (MHS; originally Vanguard) Desert-island music.

Charles Ives: Fourth Symphony; Robert Browning Overture; Orchestral Songs / Stokowski, American SO, et al (Columbia) as heard in this set ... At the end of the day, Stoki's reading of Ives' Fourth Symphony lacks so many of the details and refinements that MTT illuminates in the work. Even so, there's something very special about Stoki's recording. He believes in the music, in Ives. You can hear it.

I've listened to Bax's Third Symphony several times over the last few days. Listening again now.

Good one. 👍