- Leopold Stokowski
SCHEHERAZADE
JOSÉ SEREBRIER - conductor
LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA,
RR-89CD
[HDCD]
José Serebrier's two great talents, conducting and composing, come together on Reference Recordings' two significant November 1999 releases.
A protégé of Antal Dorati and Leopold Stokowski, Serebrier is known for his mastery of the colorful, virtuoso scores of the Russian school. This is the first recording of the ultimate orchestral showpiece, Scheherazade, a specialty of the mighty London Philharmonic Orchestra.
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Related back catalog on Reference Recordings RR-64 - Chadwick: Symphonic Sketches, etc. RR-65 - Janacek: Sinfonietta, etc. RR-74 - Chadwick: Aphrodite, etc. RR-75 - Janacek: The Makropolis, etc. |
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scheherazade symphonic suite after the thousand and one nights, op. 35 1. the sea and sinbad's ship 2. the tale of the kalender prince 3. the young prince and the young princess 4. the sea; the ship goes to pieces on a rock surmounted by a bronze warrior the great russian easter 5. overture on liturgical themes, op. 36 |
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