Escales ("Ports of Call")/Ibert/Leibowitz/Pt.2 (of 2)

Rene Leibowitz conducts The Orchestra di Roma (early 1960s)

-Tunis Nefta (2:42)

-Valencia (5:23)

Rene Leibowitz (1913-1972) was born in Warsaw but moved to Paris in his teens and there began a long, illustrious conducting career. Particularly interested in contemporary music, he studied with Webern and Schoenberg and wrote a detailed analysis of twelve-tone music. A keen ear for instrumental coloration (Ravel was his orchestration teacher) was evident in his kaleidoscopic transcriptions of such works as Bach's Passacaglia and Fugue in C (for double orchestra!). But he is best known for his often highly personal renditions of many staples of the Classical and Romantic repertoire.

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[ChristianPainter]

It has a similar atmosphere to the score for Lawrence of Arabia. I like it, or at least I would if ratings weren't disabled.

[rayallen510]

kinda boring

[johnnynoirman]

next time i go paterson nj i will play this number...lol!

[billyguns2]

Only Charles Munch and Leopold Stokowski are the equal of this fabulous performance!

[Stanois06]

It's more beautiful. It's so great.

[billyguns2]

A great, atmospheric performance by a vastly underrated conductor.