The Original Masters series is partly a way for Decca to clean house, making available several titles formerly circulated in single-disc formats through compiling them into a box and shrinking the price way, way down. Leopold Stokowski: Decca Recordings 1964-1975 is largely made up of recordings made expressly for Decca's high-end "Phase 4" stereo process, which was state of the art in the 1960s and still packs considerable punch in the digital era. The six discs in this inexpensive set collects many of the composers who ...
Read More
The Original Masters series is partly a way for Decca to clean house, making available several titles formerly circulated in single-disc formats through compiling them into a box and shrinking the price way, way down. Leopold Stokowski: Decca Recordings 1964-1975 is largely made up of recordings made expressly for Decca's high-end "Phase 4" stereo process, which was state of the art in the 1960s and still packs considerable punch in the digital era. The six discs in this inexpensive set collects many of the composers who are found in Stokowski's core repertoire, for example Beethoven, Brahms, Wagner, Tchaikovsky, Rimsky-Korsakov, and Mussorgsky, along with Stokowski's own "Symphonic Synthesis" of themes from the last-named composer's Boris Godunov. The pieces are all complete; the sound quality is fantastic and not dated in the least.One work here that was NOT part of Stokowski's standard repertoire is a highly interesting artifact in itself. In 1911, in an innovative idea typical of the conductor,...
Read Less
Portions of content provided by Rovi Corporation. © 2024 Rovi Corporation.