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Vintage Years

BBC Radio 3
on BBC Radio 3

with David Mellor.
Leopold Stokowski created the first "super-orchestra" in Philadelphia, but it is easy to forget that after he left in 1940 his career still had a remarkable 37 years to run, and that he made his last record just weeks before his death in 1977 at the age of 95. Beethoven Overture:
Leonore No 3
National Philharmonic
Orchestra (1976)
Falla El Amor Brujo (excerpt)
Shirley Verrett (mezzo)
Philadelphia Orchestra (1960) Prokofiev Piano Concerto
No 3 (excerpt)
William Kapell (piano) New York Philharmonic Orchestra (1949)
Shostakovich Symphony No 11 (excerpt)
Houston Symphony (1958) Wagner Dawn and Siegfried's Rhine Journey (Gotterdammerung) London Symphony Orchestra (1966)
Tchaikovsky Hamlet New York Stadium
Orchestra (1958)
Producer Nick Morgan Discs

Contributors

Unknown:
David Mellor.
Unknown:
Leopold Stokowski
Unknown:
Shirley Verrett
Piano:
William Kapell
Unknown:
Wagner Dawn
Producer:
Nick Morgan
Source: Radio Times

BBC Radio 3

About BBC Radio 3

Live music and the arts: broadcasts more live music than any other radio network. Classical music is its core. Genres include world and new music, jazz, speech and drama.

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