With the possible exception of his own transcriptions of the music of Johann Sebastian Bach, Leopold Stokowski recorded more Wagner with the Philadelphia Orchestra than any other composer.

This Sunday night on “The Lost Chord,” on Stoky’s birthday, we’ll revisit some of his early recordings, originally issued on 78s, including the controversial “Liebesnacht,” the original version of his symphonic synthesis after “Tristan und Isolde” – an arrangement that infuriated listeners, with its inconclusive ending – and the “Liebestod,” which he subsequently undertook, by popular demand, in order to provide a more satisfactory conclusion.

We’ll also hear a superb performance of “Wotan’s Farewell and Magic Fire Music,” from “Die Walküre,” with baritone Lawrence Tibbett, in a role he never sang on stage. And, as an added bonus, Stokowski himself will supply a spoken summary of the “Ring Cycle,” done for CBS radio in 1932, complete with faux middle-European accent. (Stoky was a second-generation Londoner, his father of Polish extraction and his mother Irish.)

I hope you’ll join me for “Magic Fire” – Leopold Stokowski’s early Wagner recordings with the Philadelphia Orchestra – this Sunday night at 10:00 EDT, on WWFM – The Classical Network and wwfm.org.