- Orchestra: All-American Youth Orchestra
- Conductor: Leopold Stokowski
- Composer: Leopold Stokowski
- Audio CD (Sep 19 2000)
- Number of Discs: 1
- Format: Import
- Label: Cala
- ASIN: B00004TZSO
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
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Track Listings
| 1. Bach's Toccata and fugue in D minor (BWV 565), transcribed for orchestra |
| 2. Transcription for orchestra of Bach's "Ein' feste Burg" (BWV 80) |
| 3. Transcription for orchestra of Bach's "Mein Jesu, was für Seelenweh" (BWV487) |
| 4. Bach's "Little" fugue in G minor (BWV 578), transcribed for orchestra |
| 5. Bach's "Komm, süsser Tod" (BWV 478), transcribed for orchestra |
| 6. Transcription for orchestra of Bach's Air on the G String (BWV1068), from Orchestral Suite No.3 |
| 7. Transcription for orchestra of Bach's Preludio in E major (BWV1006) from Violin Partita No.3 |
| 8. Transcription for orchestra of Bach's Ariso from Cantata No. 156 Arioso |
| 9. Transcription for orchestra of Bach's Prelude in E flat minor, No.8 (BWV 853) from the Well-Tempered Clavier, book 1 |
| 10. Bach's Andante sostenuto from violin sonata No.2 (BWV 1003), transcribed for orchestra Andante Sostenuto, BWV1003 |
| 11. Bach's Passacaglia and fugue in C minor (BWV 582), transcribed for orchestra |
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Bach on All Twelve Cylinders,
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This review is from: Stokowski: Bach Transcriptions (Audio CD)
Oh boy! (I ain't bein' sarcastic.) More J.S. Bach in heavy-calibre transcriptions for symphony orchestra, this time from the necromantic hand of Leopold Stokowski himself (the arch-demon of Bach-arrangers), who leads the performances with the All-American Youth Symphony, which he founded. The past couple of months have yielded a boon for troglodytes like me who celebrate a Bacchanalia whenever they get to hear old Johann Sebastian, not on those cat-gut "period" fiddles and wheezy "authentic" woodwinds, but revved up like a Duesenberg (all twelve cylinders) with modern string-band, brass-choir, and percussion-battery. We've had a spectacular program of Bach arrangements by the usual - and by some unusual - suspects on Chandos and another one, not quite so variegated, on Sony. (Messers Slatkin and Salonen respectively.) Cala now offers splendid transfers from 78rpm masters recorded by Stokowski and his AAYO in 1940 and 41, originally for Columbia. While not as technically polished as the Philadelphians, with whom Stoki engraved most of these pieces in the early 1930s,* the Youth Orchestra delivers an extra powder-charge or two of... well... youthful panache, obviously responding with enthusiasm to the maestro's Svengalian coaxings. Despite some overloading in the fortissimo and tutti passages, the recordings sound remarkably good, at least as good as the earlier RCA platters cut by the suave Philadelphians, with plenty of definition among the orchestral choirs and good soloistic coverage when called upon to furnish it. The familiar Toccata and Fugue in D-Minor can be heard in better sound,** but it might never before or since have received quite this degree of Mephistophelean commitment from the players. "Ein Feste Burg" sounds really grand. The Passacaglia and Fugue, which concludes the program, also attains colossal stature. It was a livelier musical culture in those heady days between the Depression and World War II, less stymied by puritanical embarrassments and by cultish ideas about propriety and authenticity. As a matter of fact, I'm going back to my cave now to listen to it again. [*See Pearl's 2CD set. **Try Salonen on Sony]
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Bach on All Twelve Cylinders,
By Thomas F. Bertonneau - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Stokowski: Bach Transcriptions (Audio CD)
Oh boy! (I ain't bein' sarcastic.) More J.S. Bach in heavy-calibre transcriptions for symphony orchestra, this time from the necromantic hand of Leopold Stokowski himself (the arch-demon of Bach-arrangers), who leads the performances with the All-American Youth Symphony, which he founded. The past couple of months have yielded a boon for troglodytes like me who celebrate a Bacchanalia whenever they get to hear old Johann Sebastian, not on those cat-gut "period" fiddles and wheezy "authentic" woodwinds, but revved up like a Duesenberg (all twelve cylinders) with modern string-band, brass-choir, and percussion-battery. We've had a spectacular program of Bach arrangements by the usual - and by some unusual - suspects on Chandos and another one, not quite so variegated, on Sony. (Messers Slatkin and Salonen respectively.) Cala now offers splendid transfers from 78rpm masters recorded by Stokowski and his AAYO in 1940 and 41, originally for Columbia. While not as technically polished as the Philadelphians, with whom Stoki engraved most of these pieces in the early 1930s,* the Youth Orchestra delivers an extra powder-charge or two of... well... youthful panache, obviously responding with enthusiasm to the maestro's Svengalian coaxings. Despite some overloading in the fortissimo and tutti passages, the recordings sound remarkably good, at least as good as the earlier RCA platters cut by the suave Philadelphians, with plenty of definition among the orchestral choirs and good soloistic coverage when called upon to furnish it. The familiar Toccata and Fugue in D-Minor can be heard in better sound,** but it might never before or since have received quite this degree of Mephistophelean commitment from the players. "Ein Feste Burg" sounds really grand. The Passacaglia and Fugue, which concludes the program, also attains colossal stature. It was a livelier musical culture in those heady days between the Depression and World War II, less stymied by puritanical embarrassments and by cultish ideas about propriety and authenticity. As a matter of fact, I'm going back to my cave now to listen to it again. [*See Pearl's 2CD set. **Try Salonen on Sony]
5.0 out of 5 stars
Orchestral Bach,
By D. R. Schryer - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Stokowski: Bach Transcriptions (Audio CD)
Leopold Stokowski was an organist before he was a conductor and Bach was his favorite composer. Therefore, it is not surprising that over his career as a conductor Stokowski chose to transcribe many of Bach's compositions for orchestra. Initially, some critics felt that Stokowski was desecrating Bach's music. But, over the years, Stokowski's outstanding Bach transcriptions have gained considerable respect and several other conductors now perform them. But no one performs these transcriptions as well as Stokowski himself, as the recordings on this CD brilliantly illustrate.
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