{"product_id":"stokowski-falla-el-amor-brujo-noches-en-los-jardines-de-espana-194849-pasc174","title":"STOKOWSKI Falla: El Amor Brujo, Noches en los jardines de España (1948\/49) - PASC174","description":"overviewfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003eFALLA \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003eEl Amor Brujo \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003e(\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003eLove the Magician\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003e)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003eFALLA \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003eNoches \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003ee\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003en los jardines de España\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003e (Nights in the Gar\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003ed\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003eens of Spain)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12px;\"\u003eR\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12px;\"\u003eecorded 1948 \u0026amp; 19\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12px;\"\u003e49\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12px;\"\u003eTotal duration: 44:44 \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003eNan Merriman,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003e mezzo-soprano\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003e William Kapell, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003epiano \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003e New York Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003econducted by\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003e Leopold Stokowski\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9review_titlefb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5fFanfare Review578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9review_quotefb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5fStokowski seems charged with energy and has a soloist who can do more than merely keep up with him578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9review_bodyfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"B\"\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"TIMES\"\u003eI usually avoid reading annotations until I’ve\nlistened to a recording, just to be sure I’m not influenced by them. The\nresult, in this case, was quite a jolt in the form of applause at the\nend of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"TIMESi\"\u003eEl amor brujo. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"TIMES\"\u003eI\nhad assumed that I was listening to the Stokowski\/Hollywood Bowl\nrecording that once appeared on an RCA Victor LP. I suppose that’s an\nindirect tribute to Andrew Rose, who handled the resuscitation of this\n1948 broadcast. In fact, I wonder why Pristine Audio didn’t just redo\nthe Hollywood Bowl recording, instead of the intensive labor that must\nhave been required by this broadcast, which was originally preserved on\nsomewhat noisy transcription discs. In any event, here, perhaps goaded\nby the presence of an audience, is Stokowski at his most fiery, with a\nsoloist who can handle whatever is thrown at her without resorting to\nthe crudities that sometimes pass for earthy “passion.” If anything, I\nwould have preferred a bit more poise from the podium, but it’s\ncertainly an intense, driving performance that never loses tension and\nthe orchestra really digs in and plays for him. Well and good, but, if\nyou want what is, at least for me, the ultimate \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"TIMESi\"\u003eEl amor brujo\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"TIMES\"\u003e,\nStokowski is still your man, but I would highly recommend his 1960\nstereo recording with the Philadelphia Orchestra and Shirley Verrett,\nstill available on Sony Essential Classics—for once, “essential” isn’t\nmuch of an exaggeration. Here, while there is no letup in intensity or\nexpression, the performance is less hard-driven and lacks nothing in the\nway of expression; the Philadelphia Orchestra is at the top of its\nform. As a bonus, one gets Ormandy’s excellent \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"TIMESi\"\u003eThree-Cornered Hat\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"TIMES\"\u003e dances and a respectable \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"TIMESi\"\u003eNights in the Gardens of Spain\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"TIMES\"\u003e with Ormandy and Philippe Entremont (for once, his metallic tone fits the music). \u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"Br\"\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"TIMES\"\u003e“Respectable” would be a tame description for the Kapell\/Stokowski \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"TIMESi\"\u003eNights\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"TIMES\"\u003e.\nOnce again, Stokowski seems charged with energy and, once again, has a\nsoloist who can do more than merely keep up with him. Anyone who is\nfamiliar with my reviews of recordings of this piece will know that I\nprefer fast-moving, rhythmically charged performances to slower,\n“atmospheric” ones, meaning that my favorites are, say, Del\nPueyo\/Martinon, Webber\/Fricsay, Casadesus\/Ansermet, the three Artur\nRubinsteins (with Golschmann, Jorda, and Ormandy), and this one—at 21:\n48, it moves along smartly. A previous CD issued by the Japan Leopold\nStokowski Society was listenable (especially if you liked this\nperformance), but was marred by some scratchy surfaces that were on the\noriginal transcriptions. This one is a bit brighter and yet minimizes\nthe noise, giving new life to an exciting glimpse of the past. The\nsoloist-to-orchestra balance seems just on both broadcasts. Perhaps to\nestablish its authenticity, Pristine has allowed just a bit of James\nFassett’s closing announcement to end the disc. (The announcement at the\nend of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"TIMESi\"\u003eEl amor brujo\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"TIMES\"\u003e, intriguingly enough, is in Spanish!) \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"Br\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan class=\"TIMES\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"TIMESb\"\u003eJames Miller\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv id=\"dateBlockDiv\"\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12px;\"\u003eThis article originally appeared in Issue 33:3 (Jan\/Feb 2010) of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12px;\"\u003eFanfare\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12px;\"\u003e Magazine.\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9main_samplefb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5fsamples\/PASC174.mp3578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_labelfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5fProducer's Note578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_typefb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5fcontent578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_contentfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f\u003cp align=\"center\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 24px;\"\u003eStokowski sets de Falla on fire!\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"bodybig\" align=\"center\"\u003e\u003cem class=\"bodymid\"\u003e \u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003eStunning live performances full of Spanish passion\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"bodybigblue\" style=\"margin-left: 25px;\" align=\"left\"\u003e\"Here, perhaps goaded by the presence of an audience, is Stokowski at his most fiery, with a soloist who can handle whatever is thrown at her without resorting to the crudities that sometimes pass for earthy “passion.” If anything, I would have preferred a bit more poise from the podium, but it’s certainly an intense, driving performance that never loses tension and the orchestra really digs in and plays for him...\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"bodybigblue\" style=\"margin-left: 25px;\" align=\"left\"\u003e“Respectable” would be a tame description for the Kapell\/Stokowski Nights. Once again, Stokowski seems charged with energy and, once again, has a soloist who can do more than merely keep up with him... A previous CD issued by the Japan Leopold Stokowski Society was listenable (especially if you liked this performance), but was marred by some scratchy surfaces that were on the original transcriptions. This one is a bit brighter and yet minimizes the noise, giving new life to an exciting glimpse of the past...\"\u003cspan class=\"bodymidarial\"\u003e - James Miller, Fanfare Jan\/Feb 2010\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp class=\"body\"\u003eStokowski performed \u003cem\u003eEl Amor Brujo \u003c\/em\u003efour times with the New York Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra - once on 5th January, 1947, and then in three concert in March 1948 (18th, 19th and 21st) - and in each concert the soloist was the mezzo-soprano Nan Merriman. This recording is taken from the last of those concerts; when one hears the intensity and passion that both soloist and musicians bring to this performance, it's tempting to believe they had distilled all the energy of the previous concerts into this one final outing.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"body\"\u003eI've listened to a number of recordings of the same work whilst preparing this restoration and none has the power, passion, and dark Spanish gypsy magic that I find here in this sensational and riveting performance - as perfectly demonstrated in our sample excerpt on this page, \u003cem\u003eSong of Love's Sorrow\u003c\/em\u003e. I can only believe that this captivating recording has remained unissued due to the sonic shortcomings of the original recording - shortcomings that only a remastering technique such as Pristine's XR process can really tackle.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"body\"\u003eThis remastering was sourced from open-reel tapes compiled by Stokowski's assistant, Jack Baumgarten. Both concerts had originally been captured on disc, and both exhibited unusual sonic deficiencies - the tape box has the words \"unfocussed sound\" pencilled in next to the details of El amor brujo, which is no great surprise as my XR remastering revealed a loss of up to 20dB between 3 and 5kHz, as well as a 15dB drop centred around 550Hz, both of which sucked a huge amount of life out of the recording. A similar frequency loss, about 18dB, was noted above about 4.5kHz in Nights in the Gardens of Spain, leaving a very muffled top end.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"body\"\u003eRestoring these missing frequencies brought both recordings very much to life - the transformation of the first in particular was truly remarkable - but also then required considerable noise reduction targeted at those same frequency ranges as bringing up the music has inevitably also amplified the tape hiss. Both recordings then required extensive close attention to deal with individual defects now revealed by the severe re-equalisation required. The end results do, I hope, speak for themselves, as do these two absolutely wonderful performances.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"body\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eAndrew Rose\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_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\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"bodybigblue\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003ede Falla\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003e: El Amor Brujo\u003c\/span\u003e (\u003cem\u003eLove the Magician\u003c\/em\u003e) - PREVIOUSLY UNISSUED\u003cbr\u003e \u003cspan class=\"body\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ewith Nan Merriman\u003c\/strong\u003e, mezzo-soprano, \u003cem\u003erec. 21st March, 1948\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"bodybigblue\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003ede Falla\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003e: Nights in the Gardens of Spain\u003c\/span\u003e (\u003cem\u003eNoches en los jardines de España\u003c\/em\u003e)\u003cbr\u003e \u003cspan class=\"body\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ewith William Kapell\u003c\/strong\u003e, piano, \u003cem\u003erec. 13th November, 1949\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"body\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"body\"\u003eNan Merriman, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"body\"\u003emezzo-soprano\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"body\"\u003e William Kapell, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"body\"\u003epiano \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"body\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e New York Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"body\"\u003econducted by\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"body\"\u003e Leopold Stokowski\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cspan class=\"bodymidarial\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRecorded at Carnegie Hall, 21st March 1948 \u0026amp; 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