Leopold Stokowski: The Stereo Collection 1954-1975

 (3 customer reviews)

Here is a reissue that is going to make many music lovers and potential Stokowski fans very happy, and many Marketplace sellers very frustrated. Not very Christian of me, but I don't pity the latter very much. It is a straight reissue of the Stokowski ~ Stereo Collection, for which the best offer, at the time of writing, is 180 (and the "worst", an egregious 400). I'll let you figure out the buyer's savings - and how many fingers the hapless and too greedy sellers of the original box will now want to bite away.

Of course, the guys like me who had missed the original box and painstakingly stalked the individual issues at reasonable prices may feel some frustration - but I'll be Christian here and think not of myself, but of the future generations of Stokowskites who won't have most of this already and who are offered a fabulous...Read more

I completely agree with Discophage that this a welcome reissue of the 14 CD box. BUT, unlike the original release...

- There is a complete abscence of documentation. In the first set, each CD had its own text leaflet containing 8 pages (including 4-5 pages with text).

- More than half of the recordings in the original set were available in Dolby Surround (fully compatible with CD), so it was possible to have surround sound with an external 5.1 receiver.

These differences may be of less importance to some buyers. On the other hand it MAY be that the newer release is redigitalized. A 24-bit icon on the back of the box suggests that it is so, but you can't take anything for granted with the music industry of today!

This is a review of the currently in print european edition of Leopold Stokowski: The Stereo Collection 1954-1975, my copy I received today was manufactured in the EU and this is about that copy.

I'll leave it to the others to describe what's in the box, or was in the original RCA collection this is about the Sony set.

A standard Sony "Red Seal" reissue from the RCA catalog that appears to be the 1997 remastering, though the "four channel dolby" mixes from the original RCA collection do not seem to be included, this edition only contains the stereo mixes.

There is no booklet, just a fold open box with 14 CDs, 128 tracks with 14+ hours of music, in cardboards sleeves. The sleeves contain the recording information with the orchestra info on the front and recording dates on the back in microprint near the copyright info.

These Sony discount box set reissues seem more about getting downloadable versions available to keep it in print and under...Read more