A Birthday: Leopold Stokowski
Evening Music | May 6, 2010
The spotlight will shine frequently this evening on Leopold Stokowski, famed for his unabashed showmanship as well as for burnishing the sound of the Philadelphia Orchestra.
“Stoki” will conduct “his” orchestra in his own arrangement of the Bach Toccata and Fugue in D Minor. And we’ll hear the New Symphony Orchestra of London and the Norman Luboff Choir in luminous performances only he could have brought out—works by Humperdinck, Handel, Wagner, and more Bach. It’s his birthday, by the way (1882).
Martha Argerich will perform Prokofiev’s First Piano Concerto with the New York Philharmonic under Mstislav Rostropovich during the last week in April. This evening, however, we will hear the Argentinian-born pianist reveling in Ravel’s Piano Concerto in G, along with the London Symphony under Claudio Abbado.
“Stoki” will conduct “his” orchestra in his own arrangement of the Bach Toccata and Fugue in D Minor. And we’ll hear the New Symphony Orchestra of London and the Norman Luboff Choir in luminous performances only he could have brought out—works by Humperdinck, Handel, Wagner, and more Bach. It’s his birthday, by the way (1882).
Martha Argerich will perform Prokofiev’s First Piano Concerto with the New York Philharmonic under Mstislav Rostropovich during the last week in April. This evening, however, we will hear the Argentinian-born pianist reveling in Ravel’s Piano Concerto in G, along with the London Symphony under Claudio Abbado.
