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Stokowski - The Blue Danube Waltz, Music for Strings | Guild - Historical GHCD2392

Stokowski - The Blue Danube Waltz, Music for Strings

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Label: Guild - Historical

Cat No: GHCD2392

Barcode: 0795754239225

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Orchestral

Release Date: 30th July 2012

Contents

Works

Berger, Theodor

Rondino giocoso

Boccherini, Luigi

String Quintets (6), op.13 G277-282
» no.5 in A major, G281: Menuet (arr. Leopold Stokowski)

Borodin, Alexander

String Quartet no.2 in D major
» III Notturno: Andante (arr. Malcolm Sargent)

Gluck, Christoph Willibald

Armide
» Musette (arr. Leopold Stokowski)
» Sicilienne (arr. Leopold Stokowski)
Iphigenie en Aulide
» Lento (arr. Leopold Stokowski)
Orfeo ed Euridice (Orpheus and Eurydice)
» Dance of the Blessed Spirits (arr. Leopold Stokowski)

Handel, George Frideric

Alcina, HWV34
» Tamburino (arr. William Gillies Whittaker)

Paganini, Nicolo

Moto perpetuo, op.11, MS72 (arr. Angelo Francesco Lavagnino)

Purcell, Henry

King Arthur (The British Worthy), Z628
» Hornpipe (arr. Julian Herbage)

Rachmaninov, Sergei

Vocalise, op.34 no.14 (arr. Arcady Dubensky)

Strauss II, Johann

An der schonen blauen Donau (On the beautiful blue Danube), op.314

Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Ilyich

String Quartet no.1 in D major, op.11
» II Andante cantabile (arr. Leopold Stokowski)

Artists

Leopold Stokowski Symphony Orchestra

Conductor

Leopold Stokowski

Works

Berger, Theodor

Rondino giocoso

Boccherini, Luigi

String Quintets (6), op.13 G277-282
» no.5 in A major, G281: Menuet (arr. Leopold Stokowski)

Borodin, Alexander

String Quartet no.2 in D major
» III Notturno: Andante (arr. Malcolm Sargent)

Gluck, Christoph Willibald

Armide
» Musette (arr. Leopold Stokowski)
» Sicilienne (arr. Leopold Stokowski)
Iphigenie en Aulide
» Lento (arr. Leopold Stokowski)
Orfeo ed Euridice (Orpheus and Eurydice)
» Dance of the Blessed Spirits (arr. Leopold Stokowski)

Handel, George Frideric

Alcina, HWV34
» Tamburino (arr. William Gillies Whittaker)

Paganini, Nicolo

Moto perpetuo, op.11, MS72 (arr. Angelo Francesco Lavagnino)

Purcell, Henry

King Arthur (The British Worthy), Z628
» Hornpipe (arr. Julian Herbage)

Rachmaninov, Sergei

Vocalise, op.34 no.14 (arr. Arcady Dubensky)

Strauss II, Johann

An der schonen blauen Donau (On the beautiful blue Danube), op.314

Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Ilyich

String Quartet no.1 in D major, op.11
» II Andante cantabile (arr. Leopold Stokowski)

Artists

Leopold Stokowski Symphony Orchestra

Conductor

Leopold Stokowski

About

In the 1950s, Leopold Stokowski made a series of splendid LPs with a specially-selected orchestra of top-flight musicians. One of these was entitled "Landmarks of a Distinguished Career". It featuring pieces he had earlier recorded on best-selling 78s and included The Blue Danube Waltz. His previous recordings of this piece were abridged to fit the older discs' side-lengths but for his 1957 stereo remake all the repeats were observed. However, only now is it making its official debut on CD.

Stokowski wrote: "Although Johann Strauss's Blue Danube Waltz is light music, it is first class of its kind, a perfect picture of the gaiety of Vienna in his day, and a thing of joy forever."

In his notes to this CD, Robert Matthew-Walker writes: "Stokowski's performance of the complete score raises it to the level of a short tone-poem, removed from the ballroom into the concert hall." It raises the curtain on a selection of beautifully played string pieces, recorded during the same period, and includes Borodin's Nocturne as arranged by Stokowski's fellow-conductor, Sir Malcolm Sargent.

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