Скачать или смотреть Stokowski conducts Beethoven 9th Symphony - London Symphony, Soloists & Chorus (1967)

Leopold Stokowski never recorded a complete Beeethoven Symphonies cycle but several of them were in his concert repertoire right from his earliest days as a conductor. When he began making records with the Philadelphia Orchestra in the 1920s, he made the first American recordings of the 5th, 7th and 9th Symphonies.

On one of his annual visits to London in 1967 at the age of 85, he performed the 9th Symphony twice, at the Royal Festival Hall and a few days later in the Fairfield Hall, Croydon. The broadcast of that second performance is featured in the Volume 2 6CD set of Stokowski's BBC Legends broadcasts issued by ICA Classics. From it we hear the closing pages of the finale. (ICA Classics 6CD Set ICAB 5183).

In his "Colin's Column" review of this set, music critic Colin Anderson writes of Stokowski's Beethoven 9th that it is "of genuine stature ... with a super-lusty London Symphony Chorus and four fine soloists."

Note that the First Volume of Stokowski BBC Legends broadcasts includes the Beethoven 7th Symphony which he conducted on his Proms debut in 1963 with the BBC Symphony Orchestra. Full details can be seen via this link ...

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6CD set ICA Classics: Catalogue No. ICAB 5180.