Stokowski conducts

Schubert 8, Wagner, Brahms

All-American Youth Orchestra, Hollywood Bowl Symphony Orchestra

Code: CACD0520

£10.15 / €12.89

These wartime recordings were made with orchestras that Stokowski formed himself: the All-American Youth Orchestra to undertake tours of South America, and the Hollywood Bowl Symphony Orchestra, comprising crack players from the large Hollywood studio orchestras.

		Schubert		Symphony No.8 in B minor Unfinished	23:24
	1			i.   Allegro moderato	10:25
	2			ii.   Andante con moto	12:22
	3	Wagner		Forest Murmers from Siegfried	8:28
				Symphony No.1 in C minor, Op.68	42:36
	4			i.   Un poco sostenuto—Allegro	12:49
	5			ii.   Andante sostenuto	9:21
	6			iii.   Un poco allegretto e grazioso	4:14
	7			iv.   Adagio—Allegro non troppo, ma con brio	15:56
TT: 74:45

Reviews:

"Cala’s...transfer...reports some scorching string sonorities and an especially pliable slow movement." Gramophone Magazine

"...- a gutsy performance. A controversial brace of recordings but ones never without Stokowskian interest." www.musicweb.uk

"...make no mistake, he was also a musician to his fingertips." Essex Chronicle