Music for Strings

This is all rather heavy going. Stokowski’s tempos are expansive and the Vaughan Williams badly loses its way; the playing is always beautiful, but the acoustic is distant and rather swimmy. Jan Smaczny


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2

Published: January 20, 2012 at 4:35 pm

COMPOSERS: Dvorak,Purcell,Vaughan Williams
LABELS: Newton
PERFORMER: RPO/Leopold Stokowski
CATALOGUE NO: 8802025

This is all rather heavy going. Stokowski’s tempos are expansive and the Vaughan Williams badly loses its way; the playing is always beautiful, but the acoustic is distant and rather swimmy. Jan Smaczny

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