Brahms: Serenade No. 1; Dawson: Negro Folk Symphony

Here is an unusual combination of elements from Deutsche Grammophon's Original Masters series Stokowski: Brahms: Serenade No. 1 -- Dawson: Negro Folk Symphony; it includes all of the recordings made for American Decca by Leopold Stokowski and Dimitri Mitropoulos. The Stokowski items are in stereo, dating from 1960 and 1963, and the Mitropoulos performances are in mono and date from 1950, a year where Mitropoulos, already named conductor of the New York Philharmonic, was in waiting to assume full command of the job and ... Read More

Here is an unusual combination of elements from Deutsche Grammophon's Original Masters series Stokowski: Brahms: Serenade No. 1 -- Dawson: Negro Folk Symphony; it includes all of the recordings made for American Decca by Leopold Stokowski and Dimitri Mitropoulos. The Stokowski items are in stereo, dating from 1960 and 1963, and the Mitropoulos performances are in mono and date from 1950, a year where Mitropoulos, already named conductor of the New York Philharmonic, was in waiting to assume full command of the job and briefly without a recording contract. During this time, Mitropoulos led chamber performances for several small labels, including the Schoenberg Serenade Op. 24 for Esoteric and the Prokofiev and Howard Swanson performances reproduced here.The main event in this odd grab bag of pieces is Stokowski's 1963 recording of the Negro Folk Symphony of African-American composer William Levi Dawson; Stokowski premiered this piece in Philadelphia in 1934. In spite of the common criticism that... Read Less

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2007, Deutsche Grammophon UPC: 028947765028 CD See All