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Stokowski) La soirée dans Grenade\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003eMILHAUD \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003eSymphony No. 1, Op. 210\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003eRAVEL \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003eDaphnis et Chloé Suite No.2\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12px;\"\u003eLive broadcast recordings, 1943\/44\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12px;\"\u003eTotal duration: 79:26   \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003eNBC Symphony Orchestra\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003econducted by Leopold Stokowski\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9review_titlefb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9review_quotefb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9review_bodyfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9main_samplefb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5fsamples\/PASC583.mp3578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_labelfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5fProducer's Note578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_typefb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5fcontent578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_contentfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f\u003cp\u003e\nWhen Stokowski visited London in 1957 to make his annual appearances in the\ncapital, he was invited onto 'Desert Island Discs.' This is the BBC's\nlong-running radio programme in which well-known persons are asked to\nchoose 8 recordings to take with them, should they be marooned on a desert\nisland. Among Stokowski's choices was \"Sirènes\" from Debussy's \u003cem\u003eThree Nocturnes\u003c\/em\u003e. \"I am a great lover of Debussy,\" he told the\npresenter, \"and when I was a student in Paris a long time ago I heard him\nplay the piano and I also heard him conduct. I think he was a great\ngenius.\"\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\nStokowski's devotion to Debussy's music was exemplified in his orchestral\narrangements of \"The Engulfed Cathedral\" and \"Night in Granada,\" both\npresented here. He also transcribed \"Clair de lune,\" his 1937 Philadelphia\nOrchestra 78rpm disc becoming a huge best-seller in its day.\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\nHowever, the one Debussy piece that Stokowski conducted the most, both on\nrecord and in the concert-hall, was \"Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun.\"\nHe performed it for the first time in Cincinnati in 1912, made the first\nAmerican recording acoustically in 1924 (PASC 441) and played it for the\nlast time in 1972 at the age of 90. In his notes to a 1958 Capitol LP\nfeaturing the work, he wrote: \"This music is a miracle of delicate, erotic\nbeauty, suggesting a dream world of pagan loveliness, utterly original, in\nevery way perfect.\"\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\nOne of the many interesting aspects of Stokowski's three-season tenure with\nthe NBC Symphony was the extraordinary amount of new music he programmed.\nPerhaps even more remarkable was that he played many such works just once\nfor a single radio broadcast but never returned to them. The selected\n'Symphonic Fragments' from Debussy's \"Le Martyre\nde Saint Sebastien\" are a case in point, as is Darius Milhaud's 1st\nSymphony in what was its New York premiere.\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\nThe Milhaud family had fled to the USA in early 1940, following the Nazi\ninvasion of France. The Symphony No. 1 had just been completed, having been\ncommissioned by the Chicago Symphony as one of the works marking its 50th\nAnniversary celebrations that year, and it was conducted by Milhaud himself\non 17 October 1940. Commentators have said that this is one of his finest\nworks, with Stokowski's performance having been called \"highly idiomatic\"\nand the composer himself declaring it \"very powerful.\"\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\nOur final selection, the 2nd Suite from Ravel's \"Daphnis and Chloe,\" was\nalso the concluding work on that particular day's programme. Listening to\nit, one wonders if the great maestro had glanced at the studio clock and\nwanted to make sure the broadcast didn't over-run. At any rate, in the\nfinal dance he pushed the NBC players to their utmost limits and duly\nbrought the house down. One thing can safely be said of Stokowski: he was\nseldom if ever dull!\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdward Johnson\n\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_cover_thumbnail1_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_cover_thumbnail2_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_cover_download_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_sample1_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_sample2_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_sample3_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_sample4_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_sample5_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_sample6_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab2_labelfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5fFull Track Listing578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab2_typefb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5ftrack_listing578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab2_contentfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 24px;\"\u003eSTOKOWSKI conducts French Music: Debussy, Milhaud, Ravel\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1. 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