David Hurwitz claims, with only a little tongue in cheek, that this march is Elgar’s finest composition, it is certainly a splendid piece of imperial flamboyance.

Id like to kiss ya but i just washed my hair she looked an absolute knockout

Is that Patti Lupone

Best version ever

Stokowski!!! WOW!

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This was never meant to be a serious piece that would be published, so nobody was concerned about coprright infringement. Turning popular songs into serious compositions has been going on since long before there was such a thing as copyright law anyway.

Hey Adam28xx, thanks for your comment and replies that shed light for total nusic noobs like myself. Couls you please share your thoughts on the performance of this same oiece by Gilels which is available on KZbin?

How wonderful it is. Stokowski and his melancholic approach to Schubert's late work: Better than Böhm and Bernstein. Masterful conducting and working out the phrases and tempo modifications. What a great musician he was!

wow ... best performence from Abba.... respekt ...

I think part of Betty’s soul flew into me in 1989

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Great music!! Thanks for the upload. This comes straight out of heaven!!

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As a retired all round violinist I have heard so much hate about performing Bach in the romantic way. I never be understood why. If Bach had the opportunity to write for a 60 violin orchestra, he would have done it. This comes straight out of heaven! Thank you both so much, Bach and Stokowski!!

Did this song better than abba themselves did

No other WORD fabulous.

Callow's a wonderful actor and writer, but my god this presentation is awful. The stilted manner of the speech is excruciating, it almost sounds like he has trapped wind or something: "He....... finallyallowedhimselfthefreedomof......arelationshipwithaman". Wonderfully illuminating, but tough and irritatingly mannered to get through.

Did Simon Callow wear an earring?

God loved him

Edward VIII never delivered a Christmas Broadcast. He abdicated before his first Christmas as King!

1:51 it can't get any better than this

If perfection was human 👌🏼

Such a sweet boy such a sweet song.Gods chosen one .This angel is singing with the angels

The orchestration is big and bold, but the tempo here is too slow, it kills the majesty and awe of the piece and makes it plodding and dull. The Stokowski arrangement keeps things building up and moving forward, this is heavy and weighs it all down.

Cromwell totally looks like Dr Silberman from the Terminator movies lol

I remember listening to this piece for the first time as a child through the film Fantasia, with Stokowski conducting during the toccata and the closing passage of the fugue. Heck, even I vaguely remember me trying to mimic Stokowski's conducting. Now, over a decade later, I still treasure this piece for starting my love for classical music. Seeing this conductor perform this piece at the age of 90 shows me that he was truly a legend of his time. Thank you, maestro Stokowski, for instilling my love for classical music in me.

👍 thanks for share!

It’s insane to think that Leopold started conducting when audio recording was in its infancy, and he kept on conducting until the cassette tape!

I heard this version here inspired the ending for Disney’s version from 1996.

they all have beautiful legs

What do you say? Too slow, I admit, but better too slow than too fast, of which so many modern conductors are guilty. As an Anglican chorister I wanted to shout at choirmasters raising the tempo of classic hymns to a ridiculous level, where the words were almost unintelligible and the choir could scarcely breathe things were going so fast. Anyway, for this piece Barenboim and the CSO's tribute to Solti is unbeatable...

I am a complete stranger to reading music or playing actual instruments, in other words just a simple lover of the Classical repertoire - and watching Maestro Steinberg's conducting gestures, I almost persuaded myself I, too, could follow his lead! Never before had I seen such a clear and unmannered style. The rhythm and dynamics he communicated directly and firmly, with utmost clarity. Good-humored contact with his musicians, but not over-emoting. In short, I am impressed and probably off to investigate more of the man's recordings! Thank you for uploading!

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WOW!!! Always luv to watch the old master at work...thanks for sharing 👍

Excellent, love this. ❤

Fantastic singers and orchestra!

That was just plain amazing! Leave it to Danny Kaye to put them up to the challenge. Score!!

It has long been fashionable among ignorant critics (such as Hurwitz and Lebrecht) to lambast and libel Sir Roger Norrington but they fail to use their ears and take refuge in total prejudice against all that the conductor ever did. Associated more with much earlier music, Norrington sometimes honed in on 20th century music in live concerts and dared to actually follow the score. I keep returning to this reading of VW's terrifying 6th symphony of the late 1940s because it is phenomenal in and of itself (with a top international orchestra) and happens to be closest to the composer's own conducting of the piece. Only fragments of VW conducting this work remain on tapes mainly in the archive of the estate of the late Ruth, the Lady Fermoy (1908-1993) and it possible that Norrington heard these. Although Vaughan Williams attended the symphony recordings with the LPO under Boult in the 1950s for Decca (#9 by Everest USA the day after the composer had died), he entirely trusted Boult and would not interfere with the work of a professional but it is known that he allowed the Epilogue finale to be played as Boult chose. What we know from the Fermoy tapes is that the composer was somewhat quicker, as is Norrington here. In my view it allows a hesitant "heartbeat" effect to emerge as in Holst's 'Egdon Heath'. VW thought that the semi-'tone poem' by his lifelong friend was perfect orchestral music. Holst had died in 1934. Vaughan William denied that the Epilogue depicts a post-nuclear war wasteland and quoted from Shakespeare's 'The Tempest' instead. He was a tease about context in most of his abstract works after the death of Holst. This performance by Norrington somehow brings out the whole of the sounds of the meticulously scored masterpiece.

Never heard this song better. Bravissimo!

Happy Gay Pride!

At my ballet show we used this song for one of the choreos, thats a great orchestra

When President Kennedy was assassinated, the Boston Symphony Orchestra played Chopin funeral march.

This is the first time I’ve heard this piece with its alternate orchestration instead of the organ in the 3rd movement.

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God save UKRAINE! May God bless UKRAINE! Blessings and HUGS! 👑💜

Celestiale!

John Wilson is a very talented man.

the text under the video is clarifying

Beautiful!