Covering the whole of Stokowski's career is the superb discography of Enno Riekena.
This discography was built, in part according to Mr. Riekena, on the excellent
Discography and Concert Register
compiled by John Hunt for the Leopold Stokowski Society2 .
Mr. Riekena's discography must be the best, most complete, and error-free discography of
Stokowski's commercially released disks on the internet, by this famous Stokowski
expert and scholar. This carefully prepared and researched work, includes
correct names of the works recorded, which may often vary from the title selected by Stokowski
or by Victor for the record label, particularly for earlier 78 RPM recordings.
Mr. Riekena's
discography may be found at:
http://members.lycos.co.uk/stokowski/
Note that Enno Riekena also publishes his own CDs of Stokowski broadcasts
which you can see at his Leopold Stokowski Site
http://www.geocities.com/stokowskisite/
. Theo van der Berg also had extensive Stokowski CDs from his private
collection
at his web site
. (
http://www.med.hro.nl/burtw/
)
And now, riches of riches, John Hunt and the Leopold Stokowski Society
have published a new edition to the Stokowski discography. It is
extensively expanded and corrected, with recording dates and includes
the known non-commercial Stokowski recordings in private collections.
Mr. Hunt states that it benefits from the scholarship of Theo van der Berg,
and Enno Riekens, with added assistance from Michael Gray, Bill Holland,
Robert M. Stumpf, II, Malcolm Walker and Dennis Davis. This book,
published by John Hunt is available at some book stores, as well as
directly from John Hunt
. (
www.johnhunt.malcolmfox.com
)
Organization of the Chronological Discographies
For this web site dealing with the recordings of Leopold Stokowski with the Philadelphia
Orchestra from 1917 to 1940, I have arranged the recordings into a
chronological discography, dealing with each issued
recording, year by year, for the most part based on the
information contained in John Bolig's two volumes of
Victor Red Seal Discography1. (However,
any errors are solely my own.) The relevant recording
information, including matrix numbers, where known, are
also indicated.
These chronological discographies are separated into
an acoustic discography covering 1917 to 1924 and an
discography of electrical process recordings covering
1925 to 1940.
Acoustic Recordings:
this covers all the acoustic recordings from 1917 to 1924 with
the Philadelphia Orchestra conducted by Leopold Stokowski and released by Victor.
Electrical Recordings:
this documents all the electrical recordings from 1925 to
1940 made by the Philadelphia Orchestra conducted by Leopold
Stokowski and issued by Victor.
1 Bolig, John R. The Victor Red Seal Discography Volume 1:
Single-Sided Series (1903-1925).
Mainspring Press. Denver, Colorado. 2004. ISBN
0-9671819-8-4
Bolig, John R. The Victor Red Seal
Discography Volume 2: Double-Sided Series to 1930.
Mainspring Press. Denver, Colorado. 2006. ISBN 0-9772735-5-5.
2 Hunt, John. Leopold
Stokowski 1882-1997 Discography and Concert register.
Published by John Hunt. Exeter. 1996. ISBN
0-952827-5-9
Note on listening to the Stokowski recordings:
The recordings in this site are files in mp3 format (128 mbps)
encoded from my recordings. Links to the mp3 files are located in two places:
Second - in the Chronological Discography page.
For example, links to a 1926 recording are also found in the
electrical recordings chronological discography page:
Chronological Discography of Electrical Recordings
This page lists all the electrical recordings from 1925 to
1940 made by the Philadelphia Orchestra conducted by Leopold
Stokowski and issued by Victor, including of course the 1926 recordings.
The mp3 files in this site are encoded at 128 mbps. This means that the
files are of different sizes, according to the length of
the music. For example, the second electrical recording, the
April 29, 1925 Borodin ‘Polovetzki Dances’ is small (3.6MB). In contrast,
the 1929 Le Sacre du Printemps file is large. Le Sacre part 1 is 14MB
and Le Sacre part 2 is 16MB.
This means that a large file will take a longer time to
download, depending on your internet connection speed.
Please keep this in mind when you click to listen to -
download a particularly music file. You may click
the link to the music file, but need to wait a number of
seconds or even minutes to listen to the file.
If you have any comments or questions about this
Leopold Stokowski site, please e-mail me (Larry
Huffman) at e-mail address:
leopold.stokowski@gmail.com