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Stokowski Orchestral Transcriptions
The Published Scores.
Timings are approximate.

(A) Published by Broude Brothers Ltd,
141 White Oaks Road, Williamstown,
MA 01267, USA.
Toll Free - (800) 225-3197
Phone (413) 458-8131
Fax (413) 458-5242
Email broude@sover.net
(see Notes below)
(Scores and parts for sale)


BACH
Adagio from Toccata, Adagio and Fugue in C major (BWV 564) (4’30")
Aria (Air on the G string) from Suite No. 3 in D (BWV 1068) (6’00") *
Chorale from the "Easter" Cantata (BWV 4) (3’50")
Fugue in G minor ("Little Fugue") (BWV 578) (4’00")
Komm süsser Tod (BWV 478) (5’00")
Mein Jesu (BWV 478) (5’00") *
Passacaglia and Fugue in C minor (BWV 582) (14’30")
Prelude in B minor (BWV 869) (4’00") *
Prelude in Eb (BWV 853) (5'00")
Siciliano (BWV 1017) (2’50") *
Toccata and Fugue in D minor (BWV 565) (10’00")
Wir Glauben all’ an Einen Gott ("Giant Fugue") (BWV 680) (3’50")
* Strings only

CESTI
Tu Mancavi a Tormentarmi (6’30")
Harp and Strings

HANDEL
Dead March from Saul (5’00")

MUSSORGSKY
Khovantchina Entr’acte (5’00")

NOVACEK
Perpetuum Mobile (7'00")

PALESTRINA
Adoramus Te (2’30")

SHOSTAKOVICH
Prelude in Eb minor (3’15")

Also: GABRIELI
In Ecclesiis
[Non-orchestral: for Choir, Brass Ensemble and Organ. Vocal score: rental only] (10’15")

(B) Published by Alexander Broude, Inc.,
New York (No longer active)

Agent Continuo/Kalmus
(Scores and parts for sale)
Edwin F. Kalmus & Co., Inc.
Music Publishers
P.O. Box 5011
Boca Raton, FL33431
Toll Free: 1-800-434-6340
Fax: (561) 241-6347
e-mail: efkalmus@aol.com
www.kalmus-music.com

Traditional
Slavic Christmas Music (for Brass and Strings) (2’50")
(attributed to Ippolitov-Ivanov as "In a Manger")

PABLO CASALS
O Vos Omnes (for Brass Ensemble) (3’00")

JOHN STAFFORD SMITH
The Star-Spangled Banner (1’30")

JOHN PHILIP SOUSA
The Stars and Stripes Forever (3’30")

(C) Reprinted by Edwin F. Kalmus
(contact information above)
(Scores and parts for sale or rental)

BACH
Adagio from Toccata, Adagio and Fugue in C
major (BWV 564) (4’30")
Aria (Air on the G string) from Suite No. 3 in D
(BWV 1068) (6’00") *
Ein’ feste Burg (after Luther) (6’00)
Komm süsser Tod (BWV 478) (5’00")
Mein Jesu (BWV 478) (5’00") *
Prelude in B minor (BWV 869) (4’00") *
Siciliano (BWV 1017) (2’50") *
Wir Glauben all’ an Einen Gott ("Giant
Fugue")
(BWV 680) (3’50")
-
CESTI
Tu Mancavi a Tormentarmi (6’30") Harp and
Strings


FRANCK
Panis Angelicus (3'45")

(D) Published by Edition Peters
(C. F. Peters Corporation)
www.edition-peters.com/home.php

BACH
Sheep May Safely Graze (5’30")
(Scores and parts for Sale)

MUSSORGSKY
Pictures at an Exhibition (28’00")
(Scores for Sale; Parts on Rental)


The following have been professionally printed from the original handwritten manuscripts:

(E) By the Curtis Institute
but now in the Stokowski Collection, University of Pennsylvania
Rental Agent: Theodore Presser Company
(see below for details)

BORODIN
Requiem [for Orchestra, Male Chorus and Organ] (5’30")


(F) Published by Cala Music Publishing
17 Shakespeare Gardens
East Finchley
London N2 9LJ, UK
Phone 020-8883-7306
Fax 020-8335-7306
E-mail: paul@calarecords.com

BACH
Chaconne in D minor from
Solo Violin Partita No. 2 (BWV 1004) (16'30") 
Preludio in E from
Solo Violin Partita No. 3 (BWV 1006) (3'30")
Aus tiefer Noth
Chorale Prelude (BWV 686) (4'30")

DEBUSSY
Night in Granada (6’15”)

MUSSORGSKY
Khovantchina Entr'acte (5'00")


Note: All Unpublished Transcriptions
(ie: the hand-written manuscripts) which were formerly at the Curtis Institute of Music are now in the Stokowski Collection at the University of Pennsylvania.

The "Stokowski Collection" website there is:
www.library.upenn.edu/exhibits/rbm/stokowski

Inquiries and requests regarding Stokowski's manuscript and parts should go to:
Richard Griscom
Head, Otto E. Albrecht Music Library and
Eugene Ormandy Music and Media Center,
University of Pennsylvania, Van Pelt Library,
3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia,
PA 19104-6206, USA
e-mail: griscom@pobox.upenn.edu
Office: 215-898-3450
Fax: 215-898-0559

As of January 2007, the Rental Agent for copies
of the Stokowski scores and parts is:
The Theodore Presser Company,
588 North Gulph Road,
King of Prussia, PA 19406, USA.
Phone: 610-592-1222
Fax: 610-592-1229
rental@presser.com
www.presser.com
SEE Complete listing:
www.presser.com/Catalog/Rental/stokowski.pdf

A further detailed list of Stokowski Transcriptions can be found on Enno Riekena's Leopold Stokowski Site: see under Links.

Notes

A) The Alexander Broude music publishing company has been out of business for many years. The rights to their 4 Stokowski titles are owned by Tetra Music Corp. / Continuo Music Press, Inc.

For further details, contact the Agent:
Edwin F. Kalmus & Co., Inc

B) Sheetmusicplus lists many published
Stokowski Transcriptions on its website.
Please go to www.sheetmusicplus.com

Stokowski Transcriptions
recorded by other conductors.

Many conductors have performed Stokowski's
Transcriptions since his death. Here is a list
of CDs devoted entirely to his arrangements,
starting with the 6 CDs made for Chandos by
Matthias Bamert and the BBC Philharmonic.

(1) Stokowski's Symphonic Bach
Toccata and Fugue in D minor; Air on the G
string; Little Fugue; Sheep May Safely Graze;
Prelude in B minor; Passacaglia and Fugue in
C minor; Siciliano; Mein Jesu; Easter Cantata
Chorale; Adagio in C; Komm susser Tod;
Wir glauben all' an Einen Gott (CHAN 9259)

(2) Stokowski Encores
Handel Overture in D minor; Gabrieli Sonata
Pian e Forte; Clarke Trumpet Prelude;
Mattheson Air; Mozart Turkish March;
Beethoven Moonlight Sonata Adagio;
Schubert Serenade; Franck Panis Angelicus;
Chopin Marche Funebre; Debussy The Girl
with the Flaxen Hair; Ippolitov-Ivanov
In the Manger; Shostakovich United Nations
March; Tchaikovsky Andante Cantabile;
Albeniz Festival in Seville; Sousa Stars and
Stripes Forever (CHAN 9349)

(3) Stokowski's Mussorgsky
A Night on Bare Mountain; Boris Godunov
Symphonic Synthesis; Entr'acte to Act IV
Khovanshchina; Pictures at an Exhibition
(CHAN 9445)

(4) Stokowski's Wagner
Wotan's Farewell and Magic Fire Music;
Tristan and Isolde Symphonic Synthesis;
Parsifal Symphonic Synthesis Act III
(CHAN 9686)

(5) Stokowski's Symphonic Baroque
Handel Water Music Suite; Buxtehude
Sarabande and Courante; Cesti Tu
Mancavi; Handel Dead March; Purcell
Suite; Victoria Jesus dulcis memoria;
Byrd Pavane and Gigue; Corelli Adagio;
Gluck Sicilienne; Vivaldi Concerto Grosso
(CHAN 9930)

(6) Stokowski's Symphonic Bach Vol. 2
Fantasia and Fugue in G minor; Arioso;
Wachet auf; Ein' feste Burg; Chaconne
in D minor; Andante sostenuto; Preludio
in E; Aus tiefer Noth; Jesu, Joy of Man's
Desiring; My Soul is Athirst; Sarabande;
Aus der Tiefe rufe ich; Fugue in C minor
(CHAN 10282)



There is a similar on-going Stokowski
Transcriptions series on Naxos
in which Jose Serebrier conducts the
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra:

(1) Mussorgsky-Stokowski
A Night on Bare Mountain; Entr'acte to
Act IV Khovanshchina; Boris Godunov
Symphonic Synthesis; Pictures at an
Exhibition; plus Tchaikovsky Humoresque
and Solitude; and Stokowski's version of
Traditional Slavic Christmas Music (also
attrib. Ippolitov-Ivanov as In a Manger)
(Naxos 8.557645)

(2) Bach-Stokowski
Air on the G string; Sheep May Safely
Graze; Little Fugue; Komm susser Tod;
Easter Cantata Chorale; Es ist vollbracht;
Wir glauben all' an einen Gott; Nun komm
der Heiden Heiland; Passacaglia and Fugue
in C minor; plus Handel Pastorale from
Messiah; Purcell Dido's Lament; and
Stokowski's version of Two Ancient
Liturgical Melodies (Naxos 8.557883)

(3) Wagner-Stokowski
Symphonic Syntheses
Tristan and Isolde; Parsifal;
Magic Fire Music; plus
The Ride of the Valkyries;
Entrance of the Gods into Valhalla
(Naxos 8.570293)


Other CD releases include the following:

Stokowski Transcriptions
Bach Sheep May Safely Graze; Wachet Auf;
Ein Feste Burg; Toccata and Fugue in D minor;
Boccherini Minuet; Beethoven Moonlight
Sonata Adagio; Chopin Prelude in E minor;
Franck Panis Angelicus; Tchaikovsky
Andante Cantabile and At the Ball; Debussy
Clair de lune and La Cathedrale Engloutie;
Rachmaninov Prelude in C sharp minor
Wolfgang Sawallisch and the
Philadelphia Orchestra
(EMI Classics 7243 5 55592 2 7)

Mussorgsky-Stokowski
Pictures at an Exhibition; Boris Godunov
Symphonic Synthesis; Entr'acte to Act IV
Khovanshchina; Night on Bare Mountain
Oliver Knussen and the Cleveland
Orchestra (DG 457 646-2)

Bach-Stokowski
Toccata and Fugue in D minor; Wachet auf;
Komm susser Tod; Passacaglia and Fugue
in C minor; Air on the G string; Chaconne
in D minor; Preludio in E; Arioso;
Ein Feste Burg
Jacques Grimbert and the Orchestre
de Paris-Sorbonne
(Arsis Classics AS-00-A-64004-C)

Bach-Stokowski
Toccata and Fugue in D minor; Adagio in C;
Little Fugue; Easter Cantata Chorale;
Passacaglia and Fugue in C minor; Komm
susser Tod; Wir glauben all' an einen Gott
Robert Pikler and the Sydney Symphony
Orchestra (Chandos CHAN 6532)

Stokowski Transcriptions
Mussorgsky Night on Bare Mountain
and Pictures at an Exhibition
Bach Toccata and Fugue in D minor
plus Bach-Webern Fuga (Ricercata)
James Sedares and the New Zealand
Symphony Orchestra (Koch
International Classics 3-7344-2H1)



BORODIN Requiem

Cala Records
have featured four Stokowski
Transcriptions in its releases, all conducted by
Geoffrey Simon:
Borodin Requiem; Debussy Night in Granada
& The Engulfed Cathedral;
Mussorgsky Khovantchina Entr'acte Act 4.

See the Cala Records website for full details:
www.calarecords.com
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