Review - Great Recordings from the BBC Legends Archive: Leopold Stokowski (ICA Classics)

Rob Cowan
Friday, June 14, 2024

‘For Stokowski, the page in front of him was a launch pad rather than an end in itself, which is why the best of his performances refresh our imaginations’

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