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Stokowski

Still another great choral
recording for Christmas giving
is Leopold Stokowski's
fantastic reading of Ludwig
von Beethoven's Ninth
Symphony (London 21043).

Stokowski has given us one
of the best recorded versions of
the score since Felix von
Weingartner's legendary 1936
discs. The interpretation,
sincere, original, and deeply
thought, has none of the
mannerisms or excesses that all
too often mar Stokowski's
work.