Listening to a live performance recording of Stokowski conducting Bartok’s Miraculous Mandarin Suite, the first piece I ever played in an orchestra. Loved it then, love it now. In keeping with BK’s current listening, however, I can tell you I like Ormandy’s better. Solti’s, too. I just wish I had a recording of our own concert.
This is with the American Symphony Orchestra in Carnegie Hall, December 1969. I like a lot of Stokowski, but there was too much in this piece I didn’t so much.