Préludes, L. 125: X. La cathédrale engloutie (arr. Stokowski)
Préludes, L. 125: X. La cathédrale engloutie (arr. Leopold Stokowski) · Philharmonia Orchestra · Claude Debussy · Geoffrey Simon
Stokowski Transcriptions [Debussy & J.S.Bach] / Sawallisch Philadelphia Orchestra (1999 Live)
1. Debussy: Clair de Lune
2. Debussy: La Cathédrale Engloutie
3. J.S.Bach: Toccata and Fugue BWV.565
Wolfgang Sawallisch Philadelphia Orchestra, 1999.5.14 Kanagawa. Japan Live
Pictures at an Exhibition (arr. by Leopold Stokowski), Wakasugi / Southwest German Radio Symphony
MUSSORGSKY. Pictures at an Exhibition (arr. by Stokowski)
Hiroshi Wakasugi / Southwest German Radio Symphony Orchestra.
30 April 1975 Landau
Mussorgsky: Night on Bald Mountain, Leibowitz & RPO (1962) (arr. Rene Leibowitz)
Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky (1839-1881) (arr. by N. Rimsky-Korsakov & Rene Leibowitz) Night on Bald Mountain
René Leibowitz (1913-1972), Conductor, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Rec. 6 February 1962
Prelude in G minor, Op. 23, No. 5 (arr. for orchestra by Lucien Cailliet)
Prelude in G minor, Op. 23, No. 5 (arr. for orchestra by Lucien Cailliet) · Vancouver Symphony Orchestra
Arranger: Lucien Cailliet
Composer: Sergei Rachmaninov
Conductor: Sergiu Comissiona
Orchestra: Vancouver Symphony Orchestra
Prelude in C sharp minor, Op. 3, No. 2 (arr. for orchestra by Lucien Cailliet)
Prelude in C sharp minor, Op. 3, No. 2 (arr. for orchestra by Lucien Cailliet) · Vancouver Symphony Orchestra
Arranger: Lucien Cailliet
Composer: Sergei Rachmaninov
Conductor: Sergiu Comissiona
Orchestra: Vancouver Symphony Orchestra
Prelude in C-Sharp Minor, Op. 3 No. 2 (arranged for Orchestra. Chorus and Piano)
Prelude in C-Sharp Minor, Op. 3 No. 2 (arranged for Orchestra. Chorus and Piano) · London Promenade Orchestra and Chorus · Eric Hammerstein · John Wingell
Anton Bruckner - Adagio from Quintet, (orchestral transcription by Fritz Oeser) Ashkenazy
String Quintet in F major, WAB 112: III. Adagio
https://www.chandos.net/products/catalogue/OD 0920
String Quintet in F Major, WAB 112: Adagio (arr. S. Skrowaczewski for string orchestra)
String Quintet in F Major, WAB 112: Adagio (arr. Stanislaw Skrowaczewski for string orchestra) · Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Saarbrücken
Conductor: Stanislaw Skrowaczewski
Orchestra: Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Saarbrücken
Arranger : Stanislaw Skrowaczewski
Composer: Anton Bruckner
Bruckner: String Quintet in F Major (Orchestrated by Hans Stadlmair) - 3. Adagio in G-Flat Major
Bruckner: String Quintet in F Major - Orchestrated by Hans Stadlmair (1929-) - 3. Adagio in G-Flat Major · Gewandhausorchester Leipzig · Herbert Blomstedt
Bach-Stravinsky Four Preludes and Fugues from "Das Wohltemperierte Klavier"
Arranged by Igor Stravinsky for chamber orchestra.
Book 1 No.24 in B minor, BWV 869
Book 2 No.11 in F major, BWV 880
Book 1 No.4 in C# minor, BWV 849
Book 1 No.10 in E minor, BWV 855
https://www.boosey.com/cr/music/Johann-Sebastian-Bach-Four-Preludes-and-Fugues-from-Das-Wohltemperierte-Klavier-edited-by-Christopher-Hogwood/47466
Bach - 3 chorales, P. 167: No. 1. Lento assai (after J.S. Bach's Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland,BWV 689 (Arr. by Ottorino Respighi)
Bach - 3 chorales, P. 167: No. 1. Lento assai (after J.S. Bach's Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland, BWV 659) · Seattle Symphony Orchestra
Conductor: Gerard Schwarz
Orchestra: Seattle Symphony Orchestra
Arranger: Ottorino Respighi
Bach - 3 chorales, P. 167: No. 2. Andante con moto e scherzando (after J.S. Bach's Meine Seele erhebt den Herrn, BWV 648) (Arr. by Ottorino Respighi)
Conductor: Gerard Schwarz
Orchestra: Seattle Symphony Orchestra
Arranger: Ottorino Respighi
Bach - 3 chorales, P. 167: No. 3. Andante (after J.S. Bach's Wachet auf ruft uns die Stimme (Arr. by Ottorino Respighi)
Bach - 3 chorales, P. 167: No. 3. Andante (after J.S. Bach's Wachet auf ruft uns die Stimme, BWV 645)
Conductor: Gerard Schwarz
Orchestra: Seattle Symphony Orchestra
Arranger: Ottorino Respighi
Bach-Stokowski "Komm süsser Tod" - George Cleve conducts
From a concert given by the San Francisco Symphony under George Cleve in 1984, here is one of Leopold Stokowski's famous Bach Transcriptions, a sublime orchestral arrangement of a well-known song from Schemelli's Song Book of 1736.
Mussorgsky-Ravel: Pictures at an Exhibition, Rene Leibowitz & RPO (1962)
Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky (1839-1881)
Pictures at an Exhibition (arr. by Maurice Ravel (1875-1937))
René Leibowitz (1913-1972), Conductor, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Rec. 17 January 1962
Rubinstein Melody in F (Victor Concert Orchestra, 1929), (arranged by Rosario Bourdon)
Rubinstein: Melody in F, Op. 3, No. 1 , arr. Rosario Bourdon
Victor Concert Orchestra
Rosario Bourdon, conductor
Recorded September 4, 1929, in Liederkranz Hall, New York City, on Victor 78-rpm matrix BVE-53477-6. Issued in October, 1930, as Victor 22508-A, coupled with Rubinstein's Romance (which has been uploaded separately); the record was deleted by 1940. In the UK, this coupling, credited to the "New Light Symphony Orchestra", was issued as HMV B 3783; this was scheduled for deletion in January, 1951.
The orchestra consisted of 4 first violins, 2 seconds, 2 violas, 2 cellos, bass, 2 flutes, oboe, bassoon, 2 clarinets, 2 French horns, 2 trumpets, trombone, tuba, piano, harp and traps, although nothing is audible in the recording that might qualify as "traps". Rosario Bourdon was the arranger of this piece, originally for piano solo. Three earlier takes had been made of the piece on July 1, 1929.
Debussy L'Isle Joyeuse, L. 109 (arr. Bernardino Molinari)
L'Isle Joyeuse, L. 109 · Philharmonia Orchestra · Claude Debussy · Geoffrey Simon
(orchestrated by Bernardino Molinari)
Debussy wrote this exuberant piano rhapsody in 1904 while on Jersey, one of the Channel Islands off the coast of France. Its principal source of inspiration was a painting by Watteau entitled Embarquement pour Cythère (Embarkation for the Island of Cythera). The sparkling sensuality of the music, especially as orchestrated by Debussy's friend Bernardino Molinari to the composer's indications, brings it into the same sound world as La mer, in which it could almost occupy a place as an extra movement.
Claude Debussy orchestrated by André Caplet : Children's Corner L. 113 (arr. for orchestra 1906-08 orch. 1910)
Performed by the Philharmonia Orchestra conducted by Geoffrey Simon.
Children's Corner (orchestrated by André Caplet)
This charming suite for piano was dedicated by Debussy to 'my dear little Chouchou, with her father's affectionate apologies for what follows'. Apologies for his English rather than the music perhaps; 'Jimbo' and 'Golliwogg' were affectionately retained by his publishers for posterity.
Debussy's daughter was nearly four years old when Children's Corner was published in 1908, and two years later André Caplet, a close friend of Debussy's, conducted his own orchestral arrangement of the suite in New York. Debussy praised the orchestration as 'gorgeously apparelled' but asked Caplet in some concern for a report on the performance: 'I should be sorry if it looked pretentious.'
The first piece suggests a small child struggling at the piano keyboard with fingering exercises. Then come depictions of two of Chouchou's dolls, the first her favourite stuffed elephant being lullabyed to sleep. The snow is dancing finds Chouchou sitting at her nursery window, while the plaintive piping tones in the number which follows shows Debussy at his most pastoral.
Golliwogg's cake-walk-the best-known item in the set-mixes jazz and Wagner, whose Prelude to Tristan and Isolde is briefly satirised. Debussy's former reverence towards the German master had by now turned into something akin to total opposition.
Claude Debussy orchestrated by Henri Mouton : Deux arabesques L. 66 (1888-1891 orch. 1937)
Performed by the Philharmonia Orchestra conducted by Geoffrey Simon.
Deux Arabesques (orchestrated by Hubert Mouton)
These two early piano pieces, published in 1891, are the musical equivalents of designs in Arabian art of interlacing patterns in graceful curves. Charming and rhapsodic, their 'delicate tracery' and 'twining counterpoints', to quote Debussy's own words, find extra colourings and subtleties in the orchestral forms presented here.
Maurice Ravel orchestrated by Eugene Goossens : Le gibet, from Gaspard de la nuit (1908 orch. 1942)
Performed by the Philharmonia Orchestra conducted by Geoffrey Simon.
Taking the nod from Ravel's somewhat ironic assertion that Gaspard de la nuit is really an orchestral transcription for piano, the great conductor Eugene Goossens offers us this most evocative arrangement of Le gibet, suitably dressing Ravel's haunting phrases in dark, sombre orchestral colours. Goossens enters the spirit of the piece completely, even taking time to sketch a line-drawing of the body dangling by moonlight, on the cover of his score! He imaginatively recreates Ravels endlessly repeated B-flat bell by scoring it for two harps, celeste and stopped horns - adding the sound of a real bell towards the ned, to great effect.
Eugene Goossens orchestrated Gaspard in 1942, while Marius Constant orchestrated the piece in 1990.
https://www.boosey.com/cr/music/Maurice-Ravel-Gaspard-de-la-Nuit/5600
Claude Debussy orchestrated by William Gleichmann : La fille aux cheveux de lin L. 117 (1910 arr. for orch)
Performed by the Philharmonia Orchestra conducted by Geoffrey Simon.
La fille aux cheveux de lin (orchestrated by William Gleichmann)
The girl with the flaxen hair is another short piece from Debussy's 'First Book of Twelve Preludes for Piano' (the same volume which contains The engulfed cathedral). This 'portrait of a maiden in diaphanous lines' was originally inspired by a poem of Leconte de Lisle which commenced: 'Who, seated on the flowering lucerne, sings in the fresh morning air? It is the girl with the flaxen hair, the beautiful girl with cherry lips …' In orchestral form, the simplicity of this music takes on a particularly touching quality, and is again in Debussy's 'pastoral' mood.
Debussy Estampes, L. 108: II. La soirée dans Grenade (arr. Leopold Stokowski)
Estampes, L. 108: II. La soirée dans Grenade (arr. Stokowski) Claude Debussy · Philharmonia Orchestra · Geoffrey Simon
La soirée dans Grenade (orchestrated by Leopold Stokowski)
La soirée dans Grenade (Evening in Granada)-the second of the tripartite piano set Estampes (meaning 'Prints' or 'Engravings')-was published in 1903. Like other French composers, such as Chabrier with España, Ravel with Rapsodie espagnole and Boléro and Lalo with his Symphonie espagnole, Debussy had more than a passing feeling for the romance of Spain despite visiting the country only once, to see a bullfight in San Sebastian. His superb evocation of a sensuous, half-lit twilight in Granada is a languid serenade, pulsing with the veiled rhythm of a slow habañera. Conductor Leopold Stokowski introduced his colourful orchestration of La soirée dans Grenade (Debussy's original title) with the Philadelphia Orchestra on 27 November 1940 in a 'Concert for Youth' which began with the maestro's own transcription of Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D minor and concluded with Boléro.
Debussy Préludes, L. 131: V. Bruyères (arr. Percy Grainger)
Préludes, L. 131: V. Bruyères (arr. Grainger) · Philharmonia Orchestra · Claude Debussy · Geoffrey Simon
Bruyères (orchestrated by Percy Grainger)
Upon seeing the score of Pelléas et Mélisande in 1902, the Australian-born piano virtuoso and composer Percy Grainger was inspired to become an early exponent of Debussy's solo piano music. Bruyères comes from the 'Second Book of Twelve Preludes' (published in 1913) where it is the fifth of the set. The music's inspiration lay in what seems to have been Debussy's purely imaginary vision of the Scottish heathlands. In this arrangement, the composer's subtle evocation of bagpipes is delicately captured by Grainger's inventive instrumental combination of woodwinds, horn, alto saxophone and harmonium.
Stravinsky: Pastorale (Arranged by Leopold Stokowski) / Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Philadelphia Orchestra
Stravinsky: Pastorale - Arranged By Leopold Stokowski · The Philadelphia Orchestra · Yannick Nézet-Séguin