This is one of the true jewels of the Vanguard catalog; Leopold Stokowski's 1967 recording of Igor Stravinsky's L'histoire du soldat. It features actors Madeleine Milhaud (then-wife of composer Darius Milhaud), Jean Pierre Aumont, and baritone Martial Singher portraying playwright C.F. Ramuz's spoken dialogue as Narrator, Soldier, and Devil, respectively. In its original LP form, this L'histoire du soldat was paired with an equivalent French-language version featuring the same cast. It was the first commercial recording ...
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This is one of the true jewels of the Vanguard catalog; Leopold Stokowski's 1967 recording of Igor Stravinsky's L'histoire du soldat. It features actors Madeleine Milhaud (then-wife of composer Darius Milhaud), Jean Pierre Aumont, and baritone Martial Singher portraying playwright C.F. Ramuz's spoken dialogue as Narrator, Soldier, and Devil, respectively. In its original LP form, this L'histoire du soldat was paired with an equivalent French-language version featuring the same cast. It was the first commercial recording made in America with Dolby noise-reduction technology, which had just become available. The never-named "instrumental ensemble" consisted of players hand-picked from among the best musicians in New York, and the 85-year-old Stokowski leads them with an energy and power that would be the envy of a conductor less than half his age. He is a bit more subdued here than in his L'histoire du soldat suite, a separate Vanguard recording made on the same occasion, but that might be so as not to...
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Add this copy of Stravinsky: L'Histoire Du Soldat / Stokowski to cart. $8.50, very good condition, Sold by Streetlight_Records rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Santa Cruz, CA, UNITED STATES, published 1999 by Vanguard.
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Very Good. Size: 5x4x0; This item is in very good condition with all original artwork and materials. Booklet has indentation from plastic tab, but disc is in Like New condition.
Add this copy of Stravinsky: L'Histoire Du Soldat / Stokowski to cart. $12.15, very good condition, Sold by Wonder Book - Member ABAA/ILAB rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Frederick, MD, UNITED STATES, published 1999 by Vanguard.
