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HISTORICAL Leopold Stokowski * "CONDUCTS SCENES FROM RUSSIAN AND GERMAN OPERA" Mussorgsky: Eleven scenes from Boris Godunov; Wagner: "Good Friday Spell," "symphonic synthesis" from Parsifal. With Rossi-Lemeni, Mason, Cauwet; San Francisco Symphony, Stokowski Symphony Orchestra, San Francisco Opera Chorus, Stokowski. Notes, texts, translations. Cala CACD0535 (www.calarecords.com)

Leopold Stokowski's wide-ranging admirers used to call him "Stokey." His detractors pointed out that it rhymed with "hokey." The flamboyant conductor, who died in 1977 at age ninety-five, probably deserved both his adulation and his ridicule. This CD, predicated on RCA recordings of 1952, shows why.

Stokowski was ...

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