Bach: Toccata and Fugue in D minor - Skrowaczewski arranger / conductor

2,712 views · Published 24 November 2017 · 10:37 · Indexed 27 October 2026

Channel: adam28xx · 2017 · Music

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This is a belated tribute to Stanislaw Skrowaczewski, who died earlier this year (21 February 2017) at the age of 93. The most famous orchestration of Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D minor for organ was made by Leopold Stokowski but a number of other musicians have also made orchestral transcriptions. Skrowaczewski's is among the most lavish and colourful and dates from the early 1960s. The performance heard here comes from a 1974 broadcast with the Minnesota Orchestra, of which he was then Music Director, and a splendid performance it is too!.

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