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Transcriptions by Leopold Stokowski (1882-1977)

JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH

(1685-1750)

Toccata and Fugue, BWV 565

10:00

in D minor - in d-Moll - en ré mineur

Toccata

3:42

Fugue

6:18

WILLIAM BYRD

(c. 1540-1623)

Pavane and Gigue

4:40

(Pavane 'The Earl of Salisbury' from Parthenia and 'A Gigg' from the Fitzwilliam Virginal Book)

JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH

Aria

5:50

('Air on the G String')

from Orchestral Suite No 3, BWV 1068

JEREMIAH CLARKE

(c. 1674-1707)

Trumpet Prelude

2:15

('The Prince of Denmark's March')

Attributed, as The Trumpet Voluntary, to Henry Purcell (1659-1695)

Patrick Addinall trumpet

JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH

Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring

3:06

No. 10, Chorale 'Jesus bleibet meine Freude', from Cantata, BWV 147 Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben

DIETERICH BUXTEHUDE

(c. 1637-1707)

Sarabande and Courante

4:39

from the keyboard suite Auf meinen lieben Gott, BuxWV 179

Cynthia Millar Ondes Martenot

JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH

Wachet auf

4:04

('Sleepers, wake!')

'Schübler' Chorale Prelude, BWV 645

FRYDERYK CHOPIN

(1810-1849)

Marche funebre

6:59

from Piano Sonata in B flat minor, Op. 35

HENRY PURCELL

(1659-1695)

10.

Dido's Lament

3:59

('When I am laid in earth')

from Dido and Aeneas

WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART

(1756-1791)

11.

Turkish March

2:47

Rondo alla Turca from Piano Sonata in A major, KV 331

CÉSAR FRANCK

(1822-1890)

12.

Panis angelicus

3:45

DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH

(1906-1975)

13.

United Nations March

2:29

MODEST PETROVICH MUSSORGSKY

(1839-1881)

14.

A Night on the Bare Mountain

10:13

PYOTR ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY

(1840-1893)

15.

Andante cantabile

7:50

from String Quartet No. 1 in D major, Op. 11

MIKHAIL MIKHAYLOVICH IPPOLITOV-IVANOV

(1859-1935)

16.

In the Manger

2:51

(Traditional Slavic Christmas Music)

JOHN PHILIP SOUSA

(1854-1932)

17.

The Stars and Stripes Forever

3:27

Total time: 80:19

Orchestra: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra

Conductor: Matthias Bamert

15 and 16 September 1993 (tracks 1, 2, and 4)

12 and 13 October 1994 (tracks 5, 9, 11-13, and 15-17)

28 and 29 June 1995 (track 14), 29 February and 1 March 2000 (tracks 3, 7, and 10), and 8 and 9 January 2004 (tracks 6 and 8)

Artistic rating: Exceptional Technical Judgement: Exceptional

Andrea Bedetti - Audiophile Sound magazine (Italy) - Summer 2017

"... There's an infectious energy to these performances ... "

Richard Bratby - Gramophone magazine – July 2016

"...You'd need a cold heart not to be thrilled by the horror-film drama of the D minor Toccata and Fugue ... the roar of the bass, the tremble of the strings and the snarl of the brass are tremendous, and the things he [Stokowski] does with the ending are just crazy. But it's tremendous! Who cares if the transcriber has taken enormous liberties? These transcriptions are things in themselves, separate from, indeed all but independent from their source material, and it would take the worst kind of purist not to glory in that fact. Bamert and the BBC Philharmonic sound great... recommendable and should, hopefully, rehabilitate these transcriptions for an age where affinity to the original has become sacrosanct..."

Simon Thompson - MusicWeb-International.com - 25 May 2016

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