Gala Night at the Opera

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  • Walt Disney's Fantasia [Original Soundtrack]
  • Leopold Stokowski conducts Wagner, Chopin & Thomas Canning
  • L'Histoire Du Soldat
  • Stokowski Showcase
  • Bizet: Carmen & L'Arlesienne Suites
  • Debussy: Ibéria; Three Nocturnes; Ravel: Rapsodie espagnole; Alborada del gracioso
  • Bartók: Music for Strings Percussion and Celesta; Schoenberg: Transfigured Night; Barber: Adagio for Strings
  • Stokowski Conducts Stravinsky & Debussy
  • Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade
  • Mendelssohn/Bizet: "Italian" Symphony No. 4/Symphony in C Major
  • Leopold Stokowski Conducts Shostakovich & Scriabin
  • Beethoven: Symphony No. 9
  • Tchaikovsky: Suites from Swan Lake / Sleeping Beauty
  • Beethoven: Symphonies Nos. 5 & 7
  • Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4; Alexander Scriabin: Etude in C Sharp minor
  • A Stokowski Fantasia
  • Stokowski Conducts Vivaldi/Bach/Corelli/Mozart
  • The Stokowski Collection, Vol. 3
  • Gustav Mahler: Symphonie No. 8 In Mi Bem. Magg. "Symphonie der Tausend"
  • Ernest Bloch: America
  • Mendelssohn: A Midsummer Night's Dream (Excerpts); Smetana: The Moldau; Bizet: Symphony in C major
  • A Sonic Spectacular: Stokowski Conducts Wagner
  • Leopold Stokowsky Conducts Bach
  • Handel: Water Music/Music for the Royal Fireworks
  • Bach Transcriptions
  • Rimsky-Korsakov: Russian Easter Festival Overture/The Maid Of Pskov/Scheherazade, Op.35
  • Rhapsodies
  • Leopold Stokowski Conducts Russian Music, Vol. 1
  • Igor Stravinsky: Petrushka/The Rite of Spring
  • Mahler: Symphony No. 8; Debussy: 3 Nocturnes; Ravel: Rapsodie Espagnole
  • Thomson: Suite from The River; Suite from The Plow That Broke The Plains; Stravinsky: L'Histoire du Soldat
  • The Symphony Of The Air
  • Stokowski Conducts Brahms Symphonies
  • Stokowski Conducts A Russian Spectacular
  • Shostakovich Symphony No.11
  • Richard Strauss: Don Juan; Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks; Salome Dance of the Seven Veils
  • Leopold Stokowski Conducts Music from France, Vol. 3
  • Leopold Stokowski Conducts French Music (Vol. 2)
  • Holst: The Planets; Ravel: Alborada del Gracioso; Stravinsky: Petrushka Suite
  • Debussy: Ibéria; Nocturnes; Ibert: Escales; Ravel: Rapsodie Espagnole
  • Carl Orff: Carmina Burana; Igor Stravinsky:The Firebird Suite
  • Bartók: Concerto for Orchestra; Kodály: Psalmus Hungaricus
  • Schoenberg: Gurrelieder; Scriabin: Poem of Ecstasy; Poem of Fire
  • Johannes Brahms: Symphonies Nos. 3 & 4
  • Wagner: Die Walküre/Parsifal
  • Villa-Lobos/Prokofiev/Debussy
  • Stokowski: Landmarks of a Distinguished Career
  • Stokowski conducts Tchaikovsky
  • Stokowski Conducts Beethoven & Schubert
  • Dvorák: Symphony No. 9
  • Russian Orchestral Works
  • Grofe: Grand Canyon Suite; Ives: Orchestral Suite No.2
  • Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6 ("Pathétique"); R. Strauss: Death and Transfiguration
  • Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake/Sleeping Beauty/Romeo and Juliet
  • Tchaikovsky/Mussorgsky/Borodin
  • Stokowski's Mussorgsky
  • Stokowski Transcriptions
  • Stokowski (Box Set)
  • Shostakovich: Symphony Nos. 5 & 6
  • Shostakovich: Symphony No.5
  • Russian Masterworks
  • Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition; Stravinsky: The Firebird Suite; Skryabin: Le Poème de l'extase
  • Music for Strings
  • Leopold Stokowski: Orchestral Transcriptions
  • Dmitri Shostakovich: Symphony No. 11 In G Minor, Op. 103 "The Year 1905"
  • Wagner: Siegfrien-Idyll; Williams: Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis; Schoenberg: Verlaerte Nacht, Op. 4
  • Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5; Glazunov: Violin Concerto
  • Stokowski's Stereo Collection (Remastered)
  • Stokowski Stereo Collection
  • Stokowski Conducts Schubert, Wagner, Brahms
  • Sergey Prokofiev: Peter & the Wolf; Fikret Amirov: Azerbaijan Mugam; Works by Chopin
  • Rimsky-Korsakov: Scherherazade; Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker Suite
  • Rachmaninov: The Isle of the Dead/Symphony No.6/Tchaikovsky: Solitude/Marche Slave
  • The Leopold Stokowski " Pops " Collection
  • Debussy: La Mer; Prélude á l'après-midi d'un faune; The Engulfed Cathedral; Ravel: Daphnis et Chloé - Suite No. 2
  • Brahms: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 2
  • Berlioz: Symphony fantastique/Dance of the Sylphs/Dvorak: Slavonic Dance
  • Beethoven: Egmont overture/Symphony No.9
  • Bach: BWV Nos. 582, 478, 807, 1002, 80, 248, 578, 1068, 487, 1006 & 565
  • Inspiration
  • Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4; Nutcracker Suite
  • Tchaikovsky: Sleeping Beauty Op66; Liszt: Préludes No3
  • Symphony of the Air
  • Stokowski Conducts Beethoven, Britten, Falla
  • Scriabin;Tschaikowsky; Foster-Händel-Schubert
  • Rachmaninov: Symphony No. 3 / Vocalise
  • Leopold Stokowski conducts Scheherazade and Petrouchka
  • Dvorak: Serenade; Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on a Theme by Tallis; Purcell: Dido's Lament
  • Brahms: Symphonies Nos. 2 & 4
  • Brahms: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 3
  • Beethoven: Symphony No. 6; Mozart: Sinfonia Concertante
  • Tchaikovsky: Nutcracker Suite; Piano Concerto No. 1; Romeo and Juliet Fantasy Overture
  • Wagner/Stokowski Vol.3: Music from The Ring
  • Stokowski French Concert
  • Stokowski Conducts Holst, Debussy and Gould
  • Stokowski Conducts Berlioz & Scriabin
  • Leopold Stokowski The Magician
  • Elgar: Enigma Variations; Brahms: Symphony No. 1
  • Virgil Thomson: The Plow That Broke the Plains/The River [SACD]
  • Vaughan Williams: Symphony No. 4; Butterworth: A Shropshire Lad; Antheil: Symphony No. 4 "1942"
  • Stokowski: Bach Transcriptions
  • Manuel de Falla: El amor brujo; Nights in the Gardens of Spain; The Three-Cornered Hat Suite No. 2
  • Looking to the East
  • Leopold Stokowski Conducts Le Amor Brujo
  • Debussy: Nocturnes; Iberia; Clair de Lune; Prelude à l'Apres-Midi d'un Faune
  • Charles Ives: Symphony No. 1; Three Places in New England; Robert Browning Overture
  • Van Cliburn Plays Tchaikovsky
  • Stokowski Conducts Tchaikovsky, Scriabin & Borodin
  • Stokowski Conducts Tchaikovsky Symphonies
  • Stokowski Conducts Orff and Loeffler
  • Stokowski Conducts "Aurora's Wedding" & Stokowski Encores
  • Stokowski
  • Sibelius: Symphony No. 2; Tchaikovsky: Sleeping Beauty Suite; Beethoven: Egmont Overture
  • Leopold Stokowski: Conductor
  • Holst: The Planets; Schoenberg: Transfigured Night
  • Brahms: Symphony No. 2; Mendelssohn: Symphony No. ("Italian")
  • Bach Transcriptions by Stokowski
  • Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5; Romeo & Juliet
  • Stokowski: New York Philharmonic, Vol. 2
  • Stokowski: New York Philharmonic, Vol. 1
  • Stokowski Conducts Wagner
  • Stokowski Conducts Schumann, Haydn, Strauss, Humperdinck, Mozart
  • Maestro Celebre, Vol. 2: Tchaikovsky, Rimsky-Korsakov, Stravinsky
  • Maestro Celebre, Vol. 2: R. Strauss, Bloch, McDonald, Rachmaninov, Shostakovich
  • Maestro Celebre, Vol. 2: Mozart, Schubert, Beethoven
  • Maestro Celebre, Vol. 2: Debussy, Ravel, Grieg, Sibelius
  • Brahms: Symphonies Nos. 2 & 4
  • Bach Transcriptions by Stokowski
  • P.I. Tchaikovsky: The Orchestral Masterpieces, Vol. 1
  • Wagner: Orchestral Works
  • Stokowsi Conducts Scenes from Russian and German Opera
  • Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade; Tchaikovsky: Marche Slave
  • Leopold Stokowski Conducts Wagner
  • Leopold Stokowski Conducts Tchaikovsky
  • Decca Recordings, 1965-1972 (Limited Edition) [Box Set]
  • Claude Debussy: Prélude à l'aprés-midi d'un faune; La Mer; Nocturnes
  • Vivaldi: The Four Seasons; Handel: Messiah (Highlights)
  • Vaughan Williams: Symphony No. 9; Hovhaness: Mysterious Mountain; Etc.
  • Vaughan Williams: Symphony No. 6 in E minor; Tchaikovsky: Romeo and Juliet; etc.
  • Rhapsodies [4 Tracks]
  • Bach: Famous Transcriptions
  • Saint-Saëns: Samson and Delilah (Highlights); Tchaikovsky: Eugene Onegin (Tatiana's Letter Scene)
  • Stokowski conducts Grainger, Sibelius, Vaughan Williams, Rachmaninov, Granados, Debussy, Ibert
  • Sibelius: Symphonies 1 & 2
  • Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade; Russian Easter Overture
  • The Great Philadephia Wagnerian Records
  • Decca Recordings 1964-1975, Vol. 2
  • Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake [Highlights]
  • Monteverdi: L'Orfeo
  • Leopold Stokowski conducts Tchaikovsky & Avshalomov
  • Tchaikovsky: Serenade for Strings; Francesca da Rimini [Hybrid SACD]
  • Beethoven: Symphony No. 6 "Pastoral"; Liszt: Hungarian Rhapsodies Nos. 1, 2, 3
  • Beethoven: Violin Concerto in D; Prokofiev: Violin Concerto No. 2 in G minor
  • Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5; Mussorgsky: Khovanshchina Prelude Act IV; Wagner Tristan und Isolde Prelude & Liebestod;
  • Stokowski Conducts Klemperer, Vaughan Williams, Ravel, Brahms, Novácek
  • Mussorgsky: A Night on Bare Mountain; Rimsky-Korsakov: Russian Easter Festival Overture; etc.
  • The Heart of the Ballet
  • Beethoven: Emperor Concerto
  • Villa-Lobos: The Little Train of the Caipira
  • Ravel: Fanfare l'Éventail de Jeanne; Franck: Symphony in D minor; Prokofiev: Alexander Nevsky
  • Bizet: Symphony in C; L'Arlésienne Suites; Debussy: Children's Corner Suite
  • Stokowski: The Eternal Magician
  • Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5; The Storm; The Tempest
  • Tchaikovsky: Francesca da Rimini; Hamlet (stokowski)
  • Sibelius: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 7; Finlandia; Pelléas and Mélisande
  • Dvorák: New World Symphony; Schubert: Rosamunde; Tyrolean Dances
  • Stokowski: The Maverick Conductor
  • Hovhaness, Milhaud, Copland, Serebrier: Symphonies
  • Stravinsky, Hindemith, Hartmann, Hanson, Harris, Hovhaness: Symphonies
  • Liszt: Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2; Enescu: Romanian Rhapsody No. 1; Smetana: The Moldau; The Bartered Bride
  • Schoenberg: Gurrelieder
  • The Blue Danube Waltz and Music for Strings
  • The Columbia Stereo Recordings
  • Brahms: Symphony No. 1; Wagner/Stokowski: Symphonic Synthesis from Tristan and Isolde
  • Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 20 & 24; The Marriage of Figaro Overture; Sleigh Ride; Turkish March
  • Tchaikovsky: Ballet Music
  • Stokowski: Live from the Proms
  • Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade; Tchaikovsky: Romeo and Juliet
  • Shostakovich: Symphony No. 1; Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis
  • Britten: Piano Concerto; Enescu: Rumanian Rhapsody No. 1; Borodin: Dances of the Polovetzki Maidens; Debussy: The Engulfed Cathedral; Bauer: Sun Splendor
  • Gala Night at the Opera
  • Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Nutcracker Suite; Capriccio Italien; Polonaise & Waltz from Eugene Onegin
  • Holst: The Planets; Schoenberg: Verklaerte Nacht; Bartok: Music for Strings, Percussion & Celesta; Loeffler: A Pagan Poem
  • Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5; Scriabin: Le Poeme de l'Extase; Gliere: Symphony No. 3; Stravinsky: Petrushka; Bloch: Schelomo; Ibert: Escales
  • Enescu: Romanian Rhapsody No. 1; Arnold: Comedy Overture "Beckus the Dandipratt"; Glière: Concerto for Coloratura Soprano; Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5 in E minor

Release Date

January 5, 2016

Duration

01:16:56

Genre

Styles

Recording Date

January 20, 1962

Recording Location

  • Philadelphia
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Leopold Stokowski / George London / Birgit Nilsson / Philadelphia Orchestra

Gala Night at the Opera

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Track Listing

Sample Title/Composer Performer Time Stream
1
Announcer
Spoken Word
George London / Birgit Nilsson / Philadelphia Orchestra / Leopold Stokowski
01:40 Amazon
Rienzi
2
Overture
Richard Wagner
George London / Birgit Nilsson / Philadelphia Orchestra / Leopold Stokowski
11:51 Amazon
3
Announcer
Spoken Word
George London / Birgit Nilsson / Philadelphia Orchestra / Leopold Stokowski
02:19 Amazon
4
Comments by Leopold Stokowski
Spoken Word
George London / Birgit Nilsson / Philadelphia Orchestra / Leopold Stokowski
00:36 Amazon
Le Nozze di Figaro
5
Non più andrai
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
George London / Birgit Nilsson / Philadelphia Orchestra / Leopold Stokowski
04:02 Amazon
Prince Igor
6
No rest, no peace
Alexander Borodin
George London / Birgit Nilsson / Philadelphia Orchestra / Leopold Stokowski
08:20 Amazon
Faust
7
Vous qui faites l'endormie
Charles Gounod
George London / Birgit Nilsson / Philadelphia Orchestra / Leopold Stokowski
02:59 Amazon
8
Announcer
Spoken Word
George London / Birgit Nilsson / Philadelphia Orchestra / Leopold Stokowski
00:35 Amazon
Tosca
9
Vissi d'arte
Giacomo Puccini
George London / Birgit Nilsson / Philadelphia Orchestra / Leopold Stokowski
03:40 Amazon
10
Announcer
Spoken Word
George London / Birgit Nilsson / Philadelphia Orchestra / Leopold Stokowski
01:39 Amazon
Aida
11
Duet Act III: Ciel, mio padre
Giuseppe Verdi
George London / Birgit Nilsson / Philadelphia Orchestra / Leopold Stokowski
08:25 Amazon
12
Announcer
Spoken Word
George London / Birgit Nilsson / Philadelphia Orchestra / Leopold Stokowski
00:36 Amazon
Lohengrin
13
Act I: Prelude
Richard Wagner
George London / Birgit Nilsson / Philadelphia Orchestra / Leopold Stokowski
09:19 Amazon
14
Announcer
Spoken Word
George London / Birgit Nilsson / Philadelphia Orchestra / Leopold Stokowski
00:43 Amazon
Götterdämmerung
15
Brunnhilde's Immolation (Final Scene)
Richard Wagner
George London / Birgit Nilsson / Philadelphia Orchestra / Leopold Stokowski
18:47 Amazon
16
Announcer
Spoken Word
George London / Birgit Nilsson / Philadelphia Orchestra / Leopold Stokowski
01:25 Amazon
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