Rhapsodies [Hybrid SACD]

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All Music Guide - James Leonard
All taste abandon, you who listen here. The combination of some of the most banal music ever composed performed by one of the most vulgar men who ever conducted captured in some of the most vulgar sound ever recorded is enough to drive listeners with refined sensibilities to despair. But for less discriminating listeners, the disc called Rhapsodies by Leopold Stokowski on RCA Living Stereo will be just the thing to clear the air after too much Mozart and Schubert. Stokowski, whose grasp of the distinctions between good and bad music has always been dubious, tears into Liszt's "Second Hungarian Rhapsody" with unrestrained gusto, rips into Enescu's "First Romanian Rhapsody"...
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Editorial Reviews

All Music Guide - James Leonard
All taste abandon, you who listen here. The combination of some of the most banal music ever composed performed by one of the most vulgar men who ever conducted captured in some of the most vulgar sound ever recorded is enough to drive listeners with refined sensibilities to despair. But for less discriminating listeners, the disc called Rhapsodies by Leopold Stokowski on RCA Living Stereo will be just the thing to clear the air after too much Mozart and Schubert. Stokowski, whose grasp of the distinctions between good and bad music has always been dubious, tears into Liszt's "Second Hungarian Rhapsody" with unrestrained gusto, rips into Enescu's "First Romanian Rhapsody" with unreserved panache, jumps into Smetana's "Moldau" with both feet, and grabs hold of the Venusberg music following Wagner's "Tannhäuser Overture" with undisguised passion. The Symphony of the Air, RCA's studio orchestra of the late '50s and early '60s, plays with more power than polish and more color than control, but, since that was probably what Stokowski was looking for, it only enhances the performance. RCA's Living Stereo sound was stunning in its day and staggering in our day. While certainly not for late-night listening, this disc will surely get you up in the morning.
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Product Details

  • Release Date: 7/26/2005
  • Label: Rca
  • UPC: 828766790320
  • Catalog Number: 67903
  • Sales rank: 34,747

Tracks

Disc 1
  1. 1 Hungarian Rhapsody, for orchestra No. 2 in C sharp minor (after piano No. 12), S. 359/2 (LW G21/2) - Franz Liszt & Leopold Stokowski (8:46)
    Composed byFranz Liszt
    Conducted byLeopold Stokowski
    Performed byLeopold Stokowski, RCA Victor Orchestra
  2. 2 Roumanian Rhapsody No. 1, for orchestra in A major, Op. 11/1 - George Enescu & Leopold Stokowski (11:38)
    Composed byGeorge Enescu
    Conducted byLeopold Stokowski
    Performed byLeopold Stokowski, RCA Victor Orchestra
  3. 3 Vltava (The Moldau), symphonic poem (Má Vlast No. 2), JB 1:112/2 - Bedrich Smetana & Leopold Stokowski (12:27)
    Composed byBedrich Smetana
    Conducted byLeopold Stokowski
    Performed byLeopold Stokowski, RCA Victor Orchestra
  4. 4 Prodaná nevesta (The Bartered Bride), opera, JB 1:100: Overture - Bedrich Smetana & Leopold Stokowski (7:12)
    Composed byBedrich Smetana
    Conducted byLeopold Stokowski
    Performed byLeopold Stokowski, RCA Victor Orchestra
  5. 5 Tristan und Isolde, opera, WWV 90: Act 3. Prelude - Richard Wagner & Leopold Stokowski (10:19)
    Composed byRichard Wagner
    Conducted byLeopold Stokowski
    Performed byLeopold Stokowski, Symphony of the Air
  6. 6 Tannhäuser, opera, WWV 70: Overture and Venusberg Music - Richard Wagner & Leopold Stokowski (25:09)
    Composed byRichard Wagner
    Conducted byLeopold Stokowski
    Performed byLeopold Stokowski, Margaret Hillis, Symphony of the Air
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Leopold Stokowski Primary Artist
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