Toscanini: Christmas Day 1937 & Farewell Concert 1954

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Album Summary

Conductor

• Toscanini, Arturo

Ensemble

• NBC Symphony Orchestra

Composers

• Antonio Vivaldi (1678 - 1741)
• Richard Wagner (Classical) (1813 - 1883)
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 - 1791)
• Spoken Word
• Johannes Brahms (1833 - 1897)

Notes & Reviews:

This 2-cd set contains the first Christmas Day concert conducted by Toscanini on December 25, 1937 coupled with his farewell concert in Carnegie Hall on April 4, 1954 - arguably the two most significant concerts Toscanini gave in his entire career.

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Word, Spoken : Opening Announcement

• Conductor: Arturo Toscanini
• Ensemble: NBC Symphony Orchestra
• Period Time: Post Romantic

Vivaldi, Antonio : Concerto for 2 violins, cello, strings & continuo in D minor ("L'estro armonico" no 11), Op. 3/11,

• Conductor: Arturo Toscanini
• Ensemble: NBC Symphony Orchestra
• Running Time: 12 min. 8 sec.
• Period Time: Baroque
• Form: Concerto
• Written: 1711

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus : Symphony no 40 in G minor, K 550

• Conductor: Arturo Toscanini
• Ensemble: NBC Symphony Orchestra
• Running Time: 22 min. 23 sec.
• Period Time: Classical
• Form: Orchestral
• Written: 1788

Brahms, Johannes : Symphony no 1 in C minor, Op. 68

• Conductor: Arturo Toscanini
• Ensemble: NBC Symphony Orchestra
• Running Time: 41 min. 19 sec.
• Period Time: Romantic
• Form: Orchestral
• Written: 1855-1876

Wagner, Richard : Lohengrin :: Prelude 1

• Conductor: Arturo Toscanini
• Ensemble: NBC Symphony Orchestra
• Running Time: 8 min. 22 sec.
• Period Time: Romantic
• Form: Opera/Operetta
• Written: 1848

Wagner, Richard : Siegfried :: Forest murmurs

• Conductor: Arturo Toscanini
• Ensemble: NBC Symphony Orchestra
• Running Time: 8 min. 46 sec.
• Period Time: Romantic
• Form: Opera/Operetta
• Written: 1856-1871

Wagner, Richard : Götterdämmerung :: Dawn and Siegfried's Rhine Journey

• Conductor: Arturo Toscanini
• Ensemble: NBC Symphony Orchestra
• Running Time: 12 min. 16 sec.
• Period Time: Romantic
• Form: Opera/Operetta
• Written: 1869-1874

Wagner, Richard : Tannhäuser :: Overture and Bacchanale (Paris version)

• Conductor: Arturo Toscanini
• Ensemble: NBC Symphony Orchestra
• Running Time: 25 min. 21 sec.
• Period Time: Romantic
• Form: Opera/Operetta
• Written: 1843-1865

Wagner, Richard : Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg :: Prelude 1

• Conductor: Arturo Toscanini
• Ensemble: NBC Symphony Orchestra
• Running Time: 9 min. 20 sec.
• Period Time: Romantic
• Form: Opera/Operetta
• Written: 1862-1867