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Composer:
Modest Mussorgsky

Conductor:
Jose Serebrier

Background: Leopold Stokowski was not only one of the twentieth century's greatest conductors, he was also an inveterate transcriber of music for the symphony orchestra, making some two hundred orchestral arrangements of works which had started life in other forms.

During Stokowski's lifetime, his orchestral transcriptions were, for the most part, only heard when he himself conducted them. In the years following his death, however, other conductors have increasingly taken an interest in performing his colourful arrangements. When the Leopold Stokowski Society was formed in 1979, one of its chief aims was to encourage performances of the Maestro's transcriptions. In 2003 its Committee decided to approach José Serebrier with the suggestion that he too should take them into his repertoire, and record them. At the start of the sessions Serebrier told the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra that he was not intent on copying Stokowski's own recordings of these pieces but instead wished to approach them from a fresh perspective.

CATALOGUE NR: 8557645
RECORD LABEL: Naxos
FORMAT: CD
PRICE: £ 4.88 including VAT, or £ 4.15 excluding VAT
RELEASE DATE: 29-Aug-2005

COMPOSER: Modest Mussorgsky  (other composers in brackets after works)
TRACKS: A Night on Bare Mountain (Mussorgsky arr. Stokowski). Khovanshchina Act IV: Entr'acte (Mussorgsky arr. Stokowski). Boris Godunov : A Symphonic Synthesis (Mussorgsky arr. Stokowski). Pictures at an Exhibition (Mussorgsky trans. Stokowski). Humoresque op.10 No.2 (Tchaikovsky trans. Stokowski). Solitude op.73 No.6 (Tchaikovsky trans. Stokowski). Traditional Slavic Christmas Music (Stokowski).
ORCHESTRA: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
CONDUCTOR: Jose Serebrier

- Oct-2005 4 star BBC Music Mag. - Awards-2005 Gramophone Editor's Choice 'Brilliant recordings of Stokowski's technicolor spectaculars' - Penguin Guide Rosette star 'This Naxos collection of Stokowski's flamboyant arrangements of Mussorgsky at budget price proves the most formidable rival for similar collections on premium -priced labels. Altogether a treasurable collection, well worth its modest cost.'

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