Stokowski – The Sound Of Stokowski And Wagner ( 200g LP)

Label: Analogue Productions – AAPC 2555- RCA LSC-255

AAA 100% Analogue – Limited Edition -Mastered By Ryan Smith at Sterling Sound Pressed at QRP Quality Record Pressings

This LP was Remastered using Pure Analogue Components Only, from the Master Tapes through to the Cutting Head Mastered by Ryan K. Smith at Sterling Sound from the original 3-track master tapes, cut at 33 1/3, and plated and pressed at Quality Record Pressings – makers of the world’s finest-sounding vinyl LPs, – no other editions match these for the quietest 200-gram platters available.

Stokowski was the first conductor to become a true superstar. He was regarded as something of a matinee idol, an image aided by his appearances in such films as the Deanna Durbin spectacle “One Hundred Men and a Girl” (1937) and, most famously, as the flesh-and-blood leader of the Philadelphia Orchestra in Walt Disney’s animated classic “Fantasia” (1940). As conductor of the Philadelphia Orchestra he popularized an entirely new orchestral sound known as the “Philadelphia Sound” or the “Stokowski Sound.” Its foundation was a luxuriant, sonorous tone and an exacting attention to color. He pioneered the use of “free” bowing, which produced a rich, homogenized string tone.

Recording Engineer – Lewis Layton