Bach, Johann Sebastian/Stokowski, Leopold: Transcriptions vol.2 (Naxos Audio CD)

Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
José Serebrier

Leopold Stokowski arranged nearly 40 works from Bach’s catalogue for the modern symphony orchestra, and José Serebrier’s second volume of Bach-Stokowski Transcriptions is as colourful and wide-ranging as the first (8.557883).

In response to popular and critical demand the present selection begins with the most famous Bach orchestration of all, the celebrated Toccata and Fugue in D minor. This reached its widest public in Walt Disney’s Fantasia and here introduces a programme of sumptuous arrangements, including other music from the pre- and post- baroque periods.

“This Naxos collection of Stokowski’s arrangements of Mussorgsky under José Serebrier… offers outstanding performances by the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, brilliantly recorded… It is good news that Serebrier is now going to record a disc of Stokowski’s arrangements of Bach.” Gramophone on 8.557645

“Jose Serebrier and the Bournemouth orchestra follow up their brilliant disc of Stokowski's Mussorgsky arrangements…The orchestra respond superbly to Serebrier's direction which, as a former pupil of Stokowski, he has based on the maestro’s recordings and performances.” Gramophone on 8.557883