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Fine performances, revivifying these pioneering pieces. — BBC Music Magazine, December 2007, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 28th Aug 2007
Catalogue No: 8570293
Label: Naxos
Length: 74 minutes

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Excerpt, Wagner: Das Rheingold

Work length8:14

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Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
José Serebrier

Entrance of the Gods into Valhalla (Transcr. L. Stokowski)

Track length8:14

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$2.60

Wagner: Tristan und Isolde, Symphonic Synthesis, I. Act I

Work length10:07

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$3.85

Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
José Serebrier

Vorspiel (Prelude) [arr. L. Stokowski for orchestra]

Track length10:07

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Wagner: Tristan und Isolde, Symphonic Synthesis, II. Act II

Work length20:56

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Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
José Serebrier

Liebesnacht (Night of Love) [arr. L. Stokowski for orchestra]

Track length20:56

Album only

Wagner: Tristan und Isolde, Symphonic Synthesis, III. Act III

Work length5:31

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Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
José Serebrier

Liebestod (Love Death) [arr. L. Stokowski for orchestra]

Track length5:31

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Wagner: Parsifal, Act III

Work length15:50

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$5.15

Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
José Serebrier

Symphonic Synthesis (Arr. L. Stokowski)

Track length15:50

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$5.15

Wagner: Die Walküre, Act III

Work length8:07

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Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
José Serebrier

Feuerzauber (Magic Fire Music) [arr. L. Stokowski]

Track length8:07

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Excerpt, Wagner: Die Walküre

Work length5:38

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Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
José Serebrier

Ride of the Valkyries (Transcr. L. Stokowski)

Track length5:38

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$1.30

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December 2007

Fine performances, revivifying these pioneering pieces.

2010

It would be hard to imagine a more sumptuous disc. Stokowski, in these 'symphonic syntheses', enhances Wagner's already opulent orchestration with shrewdly added instrumental lines and with the vocal parts usually given to the strings.
Then at times he thins the orchestration down for more transparent textures. José Serebrier conducts the Bournemouth SO in thrilling performances, passionate in a genuinely Stokowskian manner and treated to orchestral sound of demonstration quality.
Stokowski's aim was to provide more satisfying orchestral items in concerts than the popular 'bleeding chunks'. So in the most ambitious item, on Tristan, we have between the Prelude and Liebestod a rich orchestral version of the Love Duet. Where the end of the duet builds up to that chilling interruption from King Marke, Stokowski has it lead seamlessly into the equivalent passage in the Liebestod. It works superbly.
The selection starts excitingly with the Entry of the Gods into Valhalla and it is good to find Serebrier splendidly adding an anvil when Donner brings his hammer down. The Parsifal synthesis is limited to music from Act 3, thus ignoring the Good Friday Music. From DieWalküre comes the Magic Fire Music and, most excitingly, the Ride of the Valkyries. This is the finest of Naxos's Stokowski discs to date.

Opulent Wagner arrangements provide a stunner…José Serebrier conducts the BSO in thrilling performances

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