Leopold Stokowski was not only one of the twentieth century's greatest conductors, he was also an inveterate transcriber of music for the symphony orchestra, making some 200 orchestral arrangements of works which had started life in other forms. During Stokowski's lifetime, his orchestral transcriptions were, for the most part, only heard when he himself conducted them. In the years following his death, however, other conductors have increasingly taken an interest in performing his colorful arrangements. When the Leopold Stokowski Society was formed in 1979, one of its chief aims was to encourage performances of the Maestro's transcriptions. In 2003, its Committee decided to approach Jose Serebrier with the suggestion that he too should take them into his repertoire and record them. At the start of the sessions, Serebrier told the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra that he was not intent on copying Stokowski's own recordings of these pieces but instead wished to approach them from a fresh perspective.
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Mussorgsky: A Night on Bare Mountain
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A Night on Bare Mountain
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Mussorgsky: Khovanshchina, Act IV: Entr''acte
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Khovanshchina, Act IV: Entr''acte
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Boris Godunov: A Symphonic Synthesis
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Boris Godunov: A Symphonic Synthesis
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Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition
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Promenade
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Gnomus
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Promenade
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Il vecchio castello (The Old Castle)
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Bydlo [A Polish Ox-Wagon]
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Promenade
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Ballet de poussins dans leurs coques (Ballet of the Unhatched Chicks)
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Samuel Goldenberg and Schmuyle
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Catacombs - Sepulchrum Romanum; Con mortuis in lingua mortua
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La cabane sur des pattes de poule - Baba Yaga (The Hut on Fowl''s Legs)
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La grande porte de Kiev (The Great Gate of Kiev)
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Tchaikovsky: Humoresque, Op. 10, No. 2
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Humoresque, Op. 10, No. 2
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Tchaikovsky: Solitude [Again, as before, alone], Op. 73, No. 6
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Solitude [Again, as before, alone], Op. 73, No. 6
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Stokowski: Traditional Slavic Christmas Music
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Traditional Slavic Christmas Music
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