Tchaikovsky 5 & rehearsals - Stokowski

 

Well, three posts to make up for an inactive December. Best wishes to everyone for a beautiful new year!

According to the BBC Proms Chronology, Stokowski conducted 5 concerts in all on these dates: 

23 and 30 july 1963, 15 and 17 september 1964, 10 september 1966. The largest and most detailed online discography of the maestro confirms the informations provided on the booklet, so I don't know what to add. Although this other concert took place at the RAH, it was not supposed to be part of the Proms... although the date (August 1973) suggests otherwise. I've not found any "definitive" news on the matter. Even the name of the orchestra sounds quite mysterious to me... but in the end, from the Philadelphians to a Conservatory orchestra, from the Houston Symphony to the Czech Philharmonic, after a couple of rehearsals they all became a Stokowski Symphony Orchestra.

What really matters, anyway, is that it is an involved performance of the Fifth, enriched by a large excerpt of rehearsals.

TCHAIKOVSKY

Symphony no. 5 

Performance + 35 min rehearsals

International Festival Orchestra

LEOPOLD STOKOWSKI

Live - August 1973

FLAC & scans