Title: Spare me Stokowski transcriptions, please
Review: To be honest, I didn't buy this and have not heard it. I know I have heard the Stokowski version of Night on Bare Mountain, and was reminded of what Stravinsky said of Stoky's butchering of le Sacre du Printemps in Fantasia -- "The performance was execrable."I keep thinking that Disney needs to ditch the Stoky transcriptions (except for the Bach) and start all over with original Sacre excerpts and the Rimsky-Korsakov version of Night on Bald Mountain.Not that Stoky's conducting is always bad; his RCA recording from the early 70's of Rimsky-Korsakov's Russian Easter Overture is unbeatable, coupled with the flip-side reading of the eccentric but wonderful nonetheless Symphony No. 3 for Organ, Orchestra and 15 extra trumpets. You can only find this on out of print vinyl or reel to reel.Speaking of which, I wish the old labels like Sony and EMI would realize the potential for bluray audio only discs and start reissuing their older analog catalogs on these discs.
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