Stokowski rehearsal in German - Generalprobe in Deutsch - Bach Passacaglia
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- Опубліковано 20 жов 2014
- In 1969, Stokowski conducted the Saarbrucken Radio Symphony in a TV studio concert that included his own transcription of Bach's Passacaglia and Fugue in C minor. As a young student he had spent many summers in Germany where he studied conducting under Artur Nikisch and attended the rehearsals of Mahler's 8th Symphony, a work he introduced to America several years later. He retained his command of the German language even at the age of 87, as here, after many years spent in America. The complete performance has also been uploaded here.
Thanks for posting! I love to watch the great conductors in rehearsal. The real work is done in the rehearsal. I feel a close connection with Stokowski although we never met. I had the privilege of meeting and working with his close friend Joseph Eger, who was the associated conductor of the American Symphony with Leopold. Eger and I became close friends in the last years of his life and he came and worked with my high school orchestra. What an experience that was for me and my students.
Look how smartly turned out he is for a rehearsal!
You figure, everywhere he went Stokowski had to teach the orchestra how to achieve his unique sound: free bowings, legato phrasing, prominence of the lower strings, soft, burnished brass, and silky winds. What we see here is just rehearsal itself; it's very likely Stokowski had also spent a lot of time (or would in short time spend much time) contemplating the seating arrangements. He was always aware of the effect the hall would have on the unique sound he sought to achieve.
To say nothing of his obsession with the recording process. Other than Gould and Karajan, there may not have been another musician with such a total understanding of how musicianship, aesthetics, and technology come together in a performance.
Jason Percy Nicely posted. Cannot get enough of Stokowski. His ‘sound’ is his own. Am his biggest fan and will be his disciple forever. The Stokowski touch. Ahhhhhhhh!
Good comment. Thank you.
Proud Philadelphian here. To think that this grand old gentleman had been doing this since the first decade of the 20th century... He is timeless.
many thanks for sharing this
Stokowski did his first professional conducting in Germany in 1951, so he had plenty of practice rehearsing in the language. He first performed this orchestration in 1922.
In fact, Stokowski was studying conducting in Germany during his summer breaks whilst still an organist at St. Bartholomew's in New York, starting in 1905.. His biographer, Oliver Daniel, refers to Stokowski attending Nikisch's master-classes in Leipzig during those early years. Later, he and his then wife, Olga Samaroff, took a villa in Munich but had to make a rapid exit from Germany in the summer of 1914 when war broke out. At any rate, he was perfectly fluent in German during his early conducting days. As you rightly point out, his first professional appointment in Germany took place in Munich on 16th July 1951 when he conducted the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra in works by Ruggles, Brahms, Schoenberg and Stravinsky.
@@adam28xx It is also a little known fact that the Philadelphia Orchestra, pre-WWI, rehearsed in German, when Stokowski became the music director in 1912. The orchestra switched their rehearsal language to English after the US's entry into WWI in 1917. However, many players continued to speak their native German privately. So, despite his time in the US, he could not miss opportunities to keep his German fresh.
Bugs Bunny brought me here..
I love how nervous the musicians look.. just like the cartoon..
I would not dare to be flippant with regard to Maestro Stokowski. THAT being said.. he sure does have this crew playing like they came from South Broad Street in Philly.
Leopold, the great.
So funny that he calls the viola 'alto' (French) rather than 'Bratsche' (German), though he seems to correct this later.
He conducted in France, professional, before he went to the US.
Oh gosh
¡La dignidad de la escucha!
not the most flexible ensemble, at least at this rehearsal....