Verdi, Giuseppe > Toscanini, Arturo

Arturo Toscanini conducts Rossini, Verdi & Waldteufel / NBC SO

1 CD / Opus KURA / 2012-11-13

Works: Gioachino Rossini: Il Barbiere di Siviglia; La Cenerentola; La Gazza ladra; William Tell; Il Signor Bruschino; Giuseppe Verdi: La Forza del Destino; Emile Waldteufel: Les Patineurs Valse ("Skater's W...
Conductors: Toscanini, Arturo
Ensemble: ; NBC Symphony Orchestra

The recordings of these overtures were made in June, 1945 and January, 1953. These recordings were made long before scholars edited the Rossini operas and...continue...

Memorial Tribute to Toscanini: Bach, Rossini & Vivaldi; Rehearsal excerpts 1946-1952

2 CD / Guild / 2011-09-13

Works: Johann Sebastian Bach: Brandenburg Concerto no 2 in F major, BWV 1047; Passacaglia and Fugue in C minor, BWV 582; Antonio Vivaldi: Concerto for 2 violins, cello, strings & continuo in D minor ("L'est...
Performers: Baker, Bernard; Bloom, Robert; Misschakoff, Mischa; Wummer, John
Conductors: Toscanini, Arturo

The performances come from 1938, 1947, 1952 and 1954. Most of the rehearsal excerpts come from 1946 and are available because Toscanini's son had 2...continue...

Verdi: La Traviata (complete rehearsal) / Toscanini, NBCSO

2 CD / Music & Arts / 2010-02-09

Works: Giuseppe Verdi: La traviata
Performers: Albanese, Licia; Dennis, Paul; Merrill, Robert [Baritone Vocals]; Newman, Arthur; Peerce, Jan [Tenor Vocals]; Stellman, Maxine
Conductors: Toscanini, Arturo
Ensemble: NBC Symphony Orchestra

This is an unaltered reprint/repressing of the 2003 release. Because the dress rehearsals did not constitute a real performance, given before a paying audience, Toscanini...continue...

Verdi: La traviata / Toscanini, Albanese, Peerce, Merrill, NBC Symphony Orchestra, et al

2 CD / Opus KURA / 2009-08-11

Works: Giuseppe Verdi: La traviata
Performers: Albanese, Licia; Merrill, Robert; Peerce, Jan
Conductors: Toscanini, Arturo
Ensemble: NBC Symphony Orchestra

Taken from a 1946 studio recording originally issued on HMV in LP fomat, this recording does not contain the libretto and the notes are minimal,...continue...

Live Recordings from the 1940s / Toscanini, NBC SO

1 CD / Opus KURA / 2009-02-10

Works: Giuseppe Verdi: Rigoletto; Nabucco; I lombardi; I vespri siciliani; Luisa Miller
Conductors: Toscanini, Arturo
Ensemble: NBC Symphony Orchestra

This compact disc consists of excerpts from a 2-LP set of Verdi taken from broadcast concerts from NBC's Studio 8H and the third act of...continue...

Verdi: Requiem, Te Deum / Toscanini, Nelli, Merriman, McGrath, Scott, NBC SO, et al

2 CD / Music & Arts / 2008-11-11

Works: Giuseppe Verdi: Sacred Pieces (4), for chorus & orchestra; Requiem Mass; Recorded Sound: Applause
Performers: McGrath, William; Merriman, Nan; Nelli, Herva; Scott, Norman
Conductors: Toscanini, Arturo
Ensemble: NBC Symphony Orchestra

This 1948 version is almost completely without mishap. Indeed, there is ample reason to consider it the finest of the Maestro's achievements with this monumental...continue...

Lebendige Vergangenheit - Robert Merrill Vol 4 - Arias from Rigoletto, La Traviata, etc

1 CD / Preiser / 2008-10-14

Works: Gioachino Rossini: Il barbiere di Siviglia; Giuseppe Verdi: Rigoletto; Il Trovatore; La traviata; Un ballo in maschera; Otello; Giacomo Meyerbeer: Die Afrikanerin; Ambroise Thomas: Hamlet; Georges Bi...
Performers: Bjorling, Jussi; Calabrese, Franco; Cehanovsky, George; de los Angeles, Victoria; Lenchner, Paula; Merrill, Robert [Baritone Vocals]; Peerce, Jan [Tenor Vocals]; Roggero, Margaret; Stevens, Rise [Mez...
Conductors: Bellezza, Vincenzo; Perlea, Jonel; Toscanini, Arturo; Reiner, Fritz; Beecham, Thomas, Sir

The fact that Robert Merrill generally is remembered more for his singing than for his interpretations does in no way reduce his artistic merits. His...continue...

Verdi: Requiem / Toscanini, Nelli, Barbieri, di Stefano, Siepi, et al

1 CD / Opus KURA / 2008-09-09

Works: Giuseppe Verdi: Requiem Mass
Performers: Barbieri, Fedora; Di Stefano, Giuseppe; Nelli, Herva; Siepi, Cesare
Conductors: ; Toscanini, Arturo
Ensemble: NBC Symphony Orchestra; Robert Shaw Chorale

Seven hundred hours of editing went into the original lp release of this recording, caused by the fact that only NBC's radio recording was left...continue...

Lebendige Vergangenheit - Nan Merriman

1 CD / Preiser / 2008-06-10

Works: Christoph Willibald Gluck: Orfeo; Gaetano Donizetti: La Favorita; Gioachino Rossini: Otello; Giuseppe Verdi: Don Carlos; Rigoletto; Georges Bizet: Carmen, opera; Ambroise Thomas: Mignon; Manuel de Fa...
Performers: Merriman, Nan
Conductors: Weissmann, Frieder; Susskind, Walter; Toscanini, Arturo; Monteux, Pierre; Stokowski, Leopold; Bernstein, Leonard
Ensemble: Hollywood Bowl Symphony Orchestra; London Symphony Orchestra; NBC Symphony Orchestra; RCA Victor Orchestra; San Francisco Symphony Orchestra; St. Louis Symphony Orchestra

Nan Merriman was born in 1920 in Pittsburgh. She grew up in Los Angeles where she took lessons from Lotte Lehmann. She was singing on...continue...

Lebendige Vergangenheit - Verdi, Saint-Saëns, etc / Claramae Turner

1 CD / Preiser / 2008-05-01

Works: Georges Bizet: Carmen, opera; Camille Saint-Saëns: Samson et Dalila, Op. 47; Giuseppe Verdi: Un ballo in maschera; Rigoletto; La forza del destino; Requiem Mass; Amilcare Ponchielli: La Gioconda...
Performers: Conley, Eugene; Conner, Nadine; Milanov, Zinka [Soprano Vocal]; Moscona, Nicola; Nelli, Herva; Peerce, Jan [Tenor Vocals]; Tibbett, Lawrence; Turrini, Roberto
Conductors: Levin, Sylvan; Toscanini, Arturo; Merola, Gaetano; Herbert, Walter; Cantelli, Guido; Newman, Alfred

The American singer Claramae Turner was born as Claramae Haas in 1920. Her contralto voice was naturally opulent and had what one critic called a...continue...

Verdi: Otello

2 CD / HBDirect Import / 2008-04-01

Works: Spoken Word: Opening Announcement; Otello Spoken Synopsis; Giuseppe Verdi: Otello
Performers: Assandri, Virginio; Chabay, Leslie; Merriman, Nan; Nelli, Herva; Newman, Arthur; Valdengo, Giuseppe
Conductors: Toscanini, Arturo

Lebendige Vergangenheit - Giuseppe Valdengo Vol 2

1 CD / Preiser / 2007-09-01

Works: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro), opera, K. 492; Don Giovanni; Gaetano Donizetti: Don Pasquale; Gioachino Rossini: Guglielmo Tell; Giuseppe Verdi: Un ballo in masc...
Performers: Assandri, Virginio; Capecchi, Renato; Chabay, Leslie; Elmo, Cloe; Nelli, Herva; Steber, Eleanor; Valdengo, Giuseppe; Vinay, Ramon
Conductors: Basile, Arturo; Molinari-Pradelli, France; Questa, Angelo; Toscanini, Arturo; Cleva, Fausto; Rudolf, Max
Ensemble: ; Metropolitan Opera Orchestra; Naples Teatro San Carlo Orchestra; NBC Symphony Orchestra

Giuseppe Valdengo already had a promising career in his homeland, but he truly became famous during his seven years with the Metropolitan Opera, beginning in...continue...

Memorial Concerts - Boito, Verdi / Arturo Toscanini

2 CD / Guild / 2005-07-01

Works: Arrigo Boito: Mefistofele; Nerone; Spoken Word: Broadcast Commentary; Giuseppe Verdi: La traviata; Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony no 1 in C major, Op. 21
Performers: Guarrera, Frank; Nelli, Herva; Nessi, Giuseppe; Prandelli, Giacinto; Siepi, Cesare; Simionato, Giulietta; Ticozzi, Ebe
Conductors: Toscanini, Arturo
Ensemble: Milan Teatro alla Scala Chorus; Milan Teatro alla Scala Orchestra

Il Mito di Renata Tebaldi - Verdi, Mozart, Puccini, etc

2 CD / Italian Discographic Institute / 2005-06-04

Works: Giuseppe Verdi: Il trovatore; Aida, opera; La traviata; Otello; Requiem Mass; Giovanna d'Arco; La forza del destino; Giacomo Puccini: Madama Butterfly; Manon Lescaut; Tosca; La Bohème; Charles...
Performers: Bergonzi, Carlo; Di Stefano, Giuseppe; Tebaldi, Renata
Conductors: Erede, Alberto; Sanzogno, Nino; Toscanini, Arturo; ; Böhm, Karl
Ensemble: ; Italian Radio Symphony Orchestra Milan; Naples Teatro San Carlo Orchestra; San Francisco Opera Orchestra; Suisse Romande Orchestra

Historical - Verdi: Un ballo in maschera / Toscanini, Nelli

2 CD / Myto Records / 2005-05-01

Works: Giuseppe Verdi: Un ballo in maschera
Performers: Cehanovsky, George; Haskins, Virginia; Merrill, Robert; Moscona, Nicola; Nelli, Herva; Peerce, Jan; Rossi, John Carmen; Scott, Norman; Turner, Claramae
Conductors: Toscanini, Arturo
Ensemble: NBC Symphony Orchestra; Robert Shaw Chorale

Verdi: Falstaff / Toscanini, Karajan, et al

4 CD / Andante / 2005-01-18

Works: Giuseppe Verdi: Falstaff
Performers: Biasini, Piero; Borgioili, Dino; Cravcenko, Angelica; Lazzari, Virgilio; Nessi, Giuseppe; Oltrabella, Augusta; Somigli, Franca; Stabile, Mariano; Tedeschi, Alfredo; Vasari, Mita
Conductors: Toscanini, Arturo
Ensemble: Vienna State Opera Chorus

Toscanini's close friendship and collaboration with Verdi makes his conception of 'Falstaff' in more seasons and probably conducted more performances of it than any other...continue...

Verdi: Messa da Requiem / Toscanini, Milanov, et al

2 CD / Testament / 2004-10-12

Works: Recorded Sound: Applause; Giuseppe Verdi: Requiem Mass
Performers: Milanov, Zinka [Soprano Vocal]; Moscona, Nicola; Rosvaenge, Helge; Thorborg, Kerstin
Conductors: Toscanini, Arturo
Ensemble: BBC Symphony Orchestra

The performance heard on these discs is particularly remarkable, not only for historical reasons, but also because it seems to be the earliest extant viable...continue...

Music in the Weimar Republic - Berlin, 1929 / Walter, et al

1 CD / Symposium / 2004-10-01

Works: Felix Mendelssohn: Hebrides Overture, in B minor Op. 26 "Fingal's Cave"; Anton Bruckner: Symphony no 8 in C minor, WAB 108; Johann Sebastian Bach: Prelude and Fugue for Organ in E flat major, BWV 552...
Conductors: Walter, Bruno; Klemperer, Otto; Kleiber, Erich; Furtwängler, Wilhelm; Toscanini, Arturo
Ensemble: ; Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra; Berlin State Opera Orchestra

Verdi: Otello / Toscanini, Merriman, Vinay, Valdengo, Nelli

3 CD / Guild / 2004-09-01

Works: Spoken Word: NBC Broadcast Commentary on Otello; Interview with Ramon Vinay; Giuseppe Verdi: Otello
Performers: Assandri, Virginio; Chabay, Leslie; Merriman, Nan; Moscona, Nicola; Nelli, Herva; Newman, Arthur; Valdengo, Giuseppe; Vinay, Ramon
Conductors: Toscanini, Arturo
Ensemble: NBC Symphony Chorus

Verdi: Falstaff - Rehearsals / Toscanini, et al

2 CD / Music & Arts / 2004-07-01

Works: Giuseppe Verdi: Falstaff
Performers: Elmo, Cloe; Guarrera, Frank; Merriman, Nan; Nelli, Herva; Scott, Norman; Stich-Randall, Teresa; Toscanini, Arturo; Valdengo, Giuseppe
Conductors: Toscanini, Arturo
Ensemble: NBC Symphony Orchestra

Toscanini Broadcast Legacy - Bellini, Verdi, Boito / NBC SO

1 CD / Guild / 2004-02-01

Works: Recorded Sound: General Motors Symphony of the Air, broadcast commentary (December 2, 1945); Vincenzo Bellini: Norma, opera; Giuseppe Verdi: Sacred Pieces (4), for chorus & orchestra; Arrigo Boito: M...
Performers: Moscona, Nicola
Conductors: Toscanini, Arturo
Ensemble: NBC Symphony Chorus; NBC Symphony Orchestra

Verdi: Preludes; Haydn, Beethoven: Symphonies / Toscanini

1 CD / Opus KURA / 2004-01-01

Works: Giuseppe Verdi: La traviata; Ludwig van Beethoven: Egmont, Op. 84; Symphony no 5 in C minor, Op. 67; Franz Joseph Haydn: Symphony no 88 in G major, H 1 no 88
Conductors: Toscanini, Arturo
Ensemble: NBC Symphony Orchestra

Toscanini e l'Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala (1946-1948)

1 CD / Fono / 2003-11-04

Works: Modest Mussorgsky: Pictures at an exhibition; Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Romeo and Juliet Overture; Giuseppe Verdi: Otello; Nabucco; Gioachino Rossini: La scala di seta
Conductors: Toscanini, Arturo
Ensemble: Milan Teatro alla Scala Chorus; Milan Teatro alla Scala Orchestra

Debut Series - Giuseppe Di Stefano - My First Record

1 CD / Fono / 2002-08-06

Works: Jules Massenet: Manon; Elégie for Cello and Piano; Werther; Giuseppe Verdi: La traviata; Requiem Mass; Ambroise Thomas: Mignon; Giacomo Puccini: Tosca; La Bohème; Francesco Cilèa...
Performers: Albanese, Licia; Di Stefano, Giuseppe; Moser, Edoardo; Warren, Leonard
Conductors: Erede, Alberto; Cellini, Renato; Tieri, Emidio; Toscanini, Arturo
Ensemble: London Symphony Orchestra; NBC Symphony Orchestra; RCA Victor Symphony Orchestra; Teatro alla Scala Orchestra Professori

Renata Tebaldi - The Birth of a Legend

1 CD / Fono / 2002-05-07

Works: Giuseppe Verdi: Giovanna d'Arco; Requiem Mass; Richard Wagner: Tannhäuser; Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Requiem in D minor, K 626; Gioachino Rossini: Mosè in Egitto; Arrigo Boito: Mefistofele...
Performers: Barbieri, Fedora; Bergonzi, Carlo; Elmo, Cloe; Gardino, Jolanda; Malipiero, Giovanni; Panerai, Rolando; Pasero, Tancredi; Prandelli, Giacinto; Siepi, Cesare; Tebaldi, Renata
Conductors: Simonetto, Alfredo; Böhm, Karl; Cantelli, Guido; Toscanini, Arturo; Merola, Gaetano
Ensemble: Italian Radio Symphony Orchestra Milan; Milan Teatro alla Scala Chorus; Milan Teatro alla Scala Orchestra; Naples Teatro San Carlo Orchestra; San Francisco Opera Association Orchestra

Arturo Toscanini conducts Verdi

1 CD / Fono / 2001-06-05

Works: Giuseppe Verdi: La traviata; Otello; La forza del destino; I vespri siciliani; Aida, opera
Performers: Albanese, Licia; Peerce, Jan
Conductors: Toscanini, Arturo
Ensemble: NBC Symphony Chorus; NBC Symphony Orchestra

The names of Verdi and Toscanini are indissolubly linked in history. For nearly 70 years Toscanini conducted Verdi's operas in great performances and recordings -...continue...

Verdi: Requiem, Te deum, Preludes & Overtures / Toscanini

2 CD / Italian Discographic Institute / 2000-11-01

Works: Giuseppe Verdi: Requiem Mass; Sacred Pieces (4), for chorus & orchestra
Performers: Elmo, Cloe; Prandelli, Giacinto; Siepi, Cesare; Tebaldi, Renata
Conductors: Toscanini, Arturo
Ensemble: Milan Teatro alla Scala Chorus; Milan Teatro alla Scala Orchestra; NBC Symphony Orchestra; Westminster Choir