In 2010, Cala Records announced the conclusion of its Stokowski Society-sponsored releases, which in the end ran to 33 issues published over a period of 15 years. Stokowski: First Releases was the first in this series and was wholly devoted to Stokowski recordings, which, at the time, had never been released at all, ranging chronologically from 1927 to 1944 and featuring the esteemed maestro in selections performed with the Philadelphia Orchestra, NBC Symphony, and New York City Symphony, which later merged with the New ...
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In 2010, Cala Records announced the conclusion of its Stokowski Society-sponsored releases, which in the end ran to 33 issues published over a period of 15 years. Stokowski: First Releases was the first in this series and was wholly devoted to Stokowski recordings, which, at the time, had never been released at all, ranging chronologically from 1927 to 1944 and featuring the esteemed maestro in selections performed with the Philadelphia Orchestra, NBC Symphony, and New York City Symphony, which later merged with the New York Philharmonic. With the exception of the opening track, all of these are studio recordings, and the live recording was a special giveaway item made professionally at a live benefit concert. That track is likely the rarest and also least interesting item on the disc, but it is followed by the uproarious Balance Test March, an orchestral improvisation used to check levels on which the only objective was to be as LOUD as possible; here, one can here the bass drum pounding away,...
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