It was as a young church organist that Leopold Stokowski grew to love the music of Bach. Later, he arranged a number of Bach�s organ works for full symphonic forces. The results were a spectacular success and through Stokowski�s Bach transcriptions music lovers heard baroque music in a new guise. Some of Stokowski�s finest Bach arrangements are newly recorded here in highly enjoyable performances by Jos� Serebrier and the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. As one of the Leopold Stokowski Society�s chief aims is to encourage performances of Stokowski�s Symphonic Transcriptions we welcome his new Bach-Stokowski selection as a brilliant successor to the disc of Stokowski�s transcriptions of music by Mussorgsky (8.557645).     � The Leopold Stokowski Society