While by no means the only recording one should hear of Vaughan Williams' Ninth Symphony, anyone who knows and loves that ecstatic yet enigmatic work owes it to themselves to hear this recording. Indeed, anyone who knows and loves any of the music on this disc owes it to themselves to hear this recording. The reason, of course, is that the conductor is Leopold Stokowski, one of the greatest conductors of the 20th century and an indefatigable advocate of then-new music, and the orchestra is his own hand-picked group of New ...
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While by no means the only recording one should hear of Vaughan Williams' Ninth Symphony, anyone who knows and loves that ecstatic yet enigmatic work owes it to themselves to hear this recording. Indeed, anyone who knows and loves any of the music on this disc owes it to themselves to hear this recording. The reason, of course, is that the conductor is Leopold Stokowski, one of the greatest conductors of the 20th century and an indefatigable advocate of then-new music, and the orchestra is his own hand-picked group of New York musicians. Taped at a concert in Carnegie Hall on September 25, 1958 given in honor Stokowski's 50th anniversary as a conductor, this disc preserves the American premiere of the Ninth in a performance that was rightly hailed at the time as masterful. Although worlds away from Adrian Boult's noble world premiere recording in tone, Stokowski and 'his' Orchestra finds colors, shades, subtleties and especially counter-melodies in the work that even Boult missed. Coupled with equally...
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Add this copy of R. Vaughan Williams: Symphony No.9 in E Minor / Alan to cart. $13.95, like new condition, Sold by Streetlight_Records rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Santa Cruz, CA, UNITED STATES, published 2004 by Cala Records.
