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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...

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 - 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...

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 - 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

Guido Cantelli - The NBC Broadcast Concerts December 1950

4 CD / Testament / 2003-07-01

Works: Gioachino Rossini: Semiramide; Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Divertimento for 2 horns & strings in F major "A Musical Joke", K 522; William Schuman: Undertow, ballet (choreographic episodes); Darius Milha...
Performers: Bauchmann, Edmund; Cooke, George; koff, Mischa; Marlowe, Sylvia; Miller, Frank [Cello]
Conductors: Cantelli, Guido
Ensemble: NBC Symphony Orchestra

Immersed in the most contemporary music of his time, Guido Cantelli was a virtuoso conductor who used viruosity not as an end in itself, but...continue...

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

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