Record Details

Artists:	Dvořák, Antonín / Weber, Carl Maria von / Saint-Saëns, Camille / Liszt, Franz / Mussorgsky, Modest Petrovich
Title:	Symphony No. 9 "From the New World" / Invitation to the Dance / Danse macabre / Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 / Khovanshchina: Intermezzo from Act IV (Leopold Stokowski: Philadelphia Orchestra, 1928-1935)
Format:	CDReissue
Label:	Grammofono 2000
Cat No:	AB 78552
Released:	1995
Genres:	RomanticClassical
Condition	Very Good+
Status	Have
Added To List	18th August 2014

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New World Symphony recorded in 1935, all others in 1928. Mono. Remastered with the "Cedar Sound System". Apparently the remastering has resulted in the sound being too dry for a Stokowski recording, as per this review from Classical Net: "Then I got out the Biddulph CD that had some of the same music. The first is, Leopold Stokowski Conducts French Music on #WHL 012. It contains the Dance Macabre, as above, but also a "Carmen" Suite, "L'Arlésienne" Suite #1, the Bacchanale from "Samson & Dalila" and the "Carnival of the Animals". The transfers by Mark Obert-Thorn. The other is titled "Stokowski Conducts Dvořák (even though less than half of the disc contains Dvořák) with the 1927 "New World" #WHL 027. It has the Hungarian Rhapsody but also Chopin/Stokowski music and Borodin's Polovtsian Dances. Ward Marston doing the transfers here. The difference was stunning. The Gramofono issue was revealed as being dry (the last thing you want in a Stokowski Sound). The Biddulph recordings had more atmosphere and an almost stereophonic cast. This is the Stokowski Sound!! If you want to hear what Stokowski wanted in the recordings he released have your local dealer get the Biddulph discs and don't waste your money on this disc. This is one of those cases where there ought to be a law." Source: http://www.classical.net/music/recs/reviews/g/grm78552a.php

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