{"product_id":"stokowski-conducts-wagner-1942-44-pasc609","title":"STOKOWSKI conducts Wagner (1942-44) - PASC609","description":"overviewfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003eWAGNER  \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003eSiegfried Idyll\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003eWAGNER \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003e(\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003earr. Stokowski\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003e) Tristan und Isolde - Love Music\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003eWAGNER \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003eLohengrin - Prelude\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003eWAGNER \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003e(\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003earr. Stokowski\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003e) Die Walküre - Wotan's Farewell \u0026amp; Magic Fire Music\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12px;\"\u003eLive broadcast recordings, 1942-44\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12px;\"\u003eTotal duration: 69:07\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003eNBC Symphony Orchestra\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003econducted by \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003eLeopold Stokowski\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9review_titlefb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9review_quotefb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9review_bodyfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9main_samplefb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5fsamples\/PASC609.mp3578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_labelfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5fProducer's Note578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_typefb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5fcontent578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_contentfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f\u003cp\u003e\nWhen Stokowski died at the age of 95 in 1977, the vast 60-years discography\nof his commercial recordings revealed three composers heading the list:\nBach, mostly in his own orchestral transcriptions; Tchaikovsky, whom he\nonce declared was his favourite Russian composer; and Wagner, whose music\nStokowski also frequently performed both in the concert hall and recording\nstudio.\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\nBorn in 1882, his first experience as a conductor came when he sang in the\nchoir at St. Marylebone's Parish Church in London. One evening the regular\nchoirmaster was unable to take a rehearsal, so the 12-year-old Leopold\nstood in for him. He was later to confess that he had a sleepless night, as\nhe suddenly realised that conducting was something he wanted to do above\nall else. His musical precocity led him the following year to become the\nyoungest student at that time to enter the Royal College of Music. His work\nas a youthful organist and choirmaster in several London churches led in\n1905 to a similar appointment at St. Bartholomew's in New York. Here his\nbrilliantly played organ recitals drew large and fashionable crowds,\nentranced not only by his playing of Bach but also by his own organ\narrangements of orchestral music, including many works by Wagner.\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\nHis musical direction of church services also stood him in good stead for\nthe time when he could fulfil his ambition to be an orchestral conductor.\nThat day arrived in 1909 when he made his official conducting debut with\nthe Colonne Orchestra. The Cincinnati Orchestra was looking for a new\nconductor and two of their representatives were in the Paris audience.\nStokowski received an ovation and the representatives' description of him\nas \"a magnetic conductor\" ensured his immediate Cincinnati appointment.\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\nHis first concert with them the following November included works by\nMozart, Weber and Beethoven. The programme ended with music by Wagner - the \u003cem\u003eSiegfried Idyll\u003c\/em\u003e and the \u003cem\u003eRide of the Valkyries - \u003c\/em\u003eand with\nthese two works Stokowski conducted Wagner's orchestral music for the very\nfirst time. The \u003cem\u003eSiegfried Idyll,\u003c\/em\u003e an eloquent birthday present from\nWagner to his wife Cosima, was originally scored for a small ensemble and\nlater expanded for larger forces. Although Stokowski recorded numerous\nworks by Wagner commercially, the \u003cem\u003eSiegfried Idyll\u003c\/em\u003e was not among\nthem, so this NBC broadcast is something of a rarity.\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\nLike Brahms, the music of Wagner was to pop up in a number of Stokowski\ndebuts. For example, his first concert with the London Symphony Orchestra\nin 1912 began with the \u003cem\u003eMastersingers\u003c\/em\u003e Overture. Later that year,\nhis appointment as the Philadelphia Orchestra's new chief conductor found\nthe \u003cem\u003eTannhäuser\u003c\/em\u003e Overture concluding his opening concert with them.\nIn 1917, when he and his Philadelphians began making 78s, Wagner was\nnaturally included. (All the Stokowski \/ Wagner acoustics have been issued\non Pristine Audio: PASC 192, PASC 441 and PASC 471).\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\nAs it happens, the concert listings for Stokowski's Philadelphia seasons\nreveal that when it came to single-composer programmes, Wagner topped the\nbill. The first of these, in December 1912, included the \u003cem\u003eSiegfried Idyll\u003c\/em\u003e again. However, Stokowski never conducted a\ncomplete Wagner music-drama in the opera house. The nearest he came was\nwhen he gave a concert performance of \u003cem\u003eParsifal\u003c\/em\u003e, its three acts\ngiven over successive evenings during Easter Week in 1933. It was also\naround this time that he began creating \"Symphonic Syntheses\" of Wagner's\noperas and his own arrangement of music from Act 3 of \u003cem\u003eParsifal\u003c\/em\u003e was\nduly recorded by his Philadelphians in 1934 and repeated for his NBC\naudience in 1942 (PASC 591).\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cem\u003eTristan and Isolde\u003c\/em\u003e\nwas also given the \"Symphonic Synthesis\" treatment, though it exists in\nmore than one version. His first recording, made in 1932, began with the\nAct 1 Prelude and lasted 35 minutes. He was to record this \"long version\"\nagain for a 1950 LP with his \u003cem\u003ead hoc\u003c\/em\u003e 'Symphony Orchestra' (PASC\n167). Later, he utilised music just from Acts 2 and 3, originally entitled\n\"Liebesnacht\" and \"Liebestod,\" and this became the \"Love Music\" from \u003cem\u003eTristan and Isolde\u003c\/em\u003e. Stokowski wrote: \"All through the three acts\nof \u003cem\u003eTristan\u003c\/em\u003e is sounding the despair and ecstasy of love, but its\nsupreme expression is in the garden scene of the second act and in the last\nscene of the third act ... This love music continues its overpowering\neloquence when words cannot continue. It is the supreme and ultimate of the\npoetry of love.\"\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\nThe Prelude to \u003cem\u003eLohengrin\u003c\/em\u003e was one of the many orchestral works that\nStokowski transcribed for organ during his St. Bartholomew's period. He\nconducted it for the first time in Cincinnati during his opening season\nthere and recorded it acoustically in 1924 with the Philadelphia Orchestra.\nHe also recorded an acoustic 78 of a hugely abridged version of \u003cem\u003eWotan's Farewell and Magic Fire Music\u003c\/em\u003e, actually its closing pages,\nthough his later recordings with the New York Philharmonic and Houston\nSymphony were both complete. The musical evocation of Wotan, ruler of the\ngods, putting his disobedient daughter Brünnhilde to sleep on a rock\nsurrounded by flickering flames is well realised in Stokowski's\ngrandiloquent arrangement and provided a splendid addition to that\nevening's NBC Symphony concert.\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdward Johnson\n\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_cover_thumbnail1_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_cover_thumbnail2_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_cover_download_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_sample1_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_sample2_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_sample3_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_sample4_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_sample5_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_sample6_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab2_labelfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5fFull Track Listing578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab2_typefb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5ftrack_listing578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab2_contentfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 24px;\"\u003eSTOKOWSKI conducts Wagner\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1. \u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 17px;\"\u003eWAGNER \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 17px;\"\u003eSiegfried Idyll  \u003c\/span\u003e(18:43)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12px;\"\u003eConcert of 6 December 1942\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 17px;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eWAGNER \u003c\/b\u003e(\u003ci\u003earr. Stokowski\u003c\/i\u003e) Tristan und Isolde \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e2. Love Music  (22:19)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12px;\"\u003eConcert of 28 February 1943\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 17px;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eWAGNER \u003c\/b\u003eLohengrin\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e3. Prelude  (10:00)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12px;\"\u003eConcert of 23 January 1944\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 17px;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eWAGNER \u003c\/b\u003e(\u003ci\u003earr. Stokowski\u003c\/i\u003e) Die Walküre\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e4. Wotan's Farewell  (13:17)\u003cbr\u003e5. 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