Tchaikovsky-Stokowski “Solitude“ (’Again, as before, alone’)
Stokowski so liked Tchaikovsky’s last song ’Again, as before, alone,’ that he transcribed it for symphony orchestra and made several recordings under the title “Solitude“. We hear the last of these, with the 93-year-old Maestro himself conducting the National Philharmonic Orchestra in the West Ham Central Mission in 1975. Situated on the outskirts of London, it was often used for recordings, as the engineers particularly liked its acoustics. My previous upload to this one is of the song itself, superbly sun