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Bruno Walter Conducts Bruckner's 4th and 9th Symphonies / NBC (1940) & Philadelphia (1948) Orchestras

2 CD / Music & Arts / 2012-07-31

Works: Anton Bruckner: Symphony no 4 in E flat major, WAB 104 "Romantic"; Symphony no 9 in D minor, WAB 109; Recorded Sound: Applause; Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Symphony no 35 in D major, K 385 "Haffner"
Conductors: Walter, Bruno
Ensemble: ; NBC Symphony Orchestra; Philadelphia Orchestra

In much the same way as he championed Mahler, conductor Bruno Walter was a tireless advocate for Bruckner during his American years. This period in...continue...

Mahler: Symphony No. 1; Wagner: Faust Overture / Bruno Walter

1 CD / Music & Arts / 2012-07-10

Works: Richard Wagner: Faust Overture; Siegfried Idyll; Gustav Mahler: Symphony no 1 in D major "Titan"; Recorded Sound: Applause
Conductors: Walter, Bruno
Ensemble: NBC Symphony Orchestra

This recording is the complete concert of April 8, 1939 with Bruno Walter conducting the NBC Symphony Orchestra. Digitally restored in 2010, this is the...continue...
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Toscanini conducts Wagner - Complete Carnegie Hall Farewell

1 CD / Music & Arts / 2010-12-14

Works: Richard Wagner: Lohengrin; Siegfried; Götterdämmerung; Tannhäuser; Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
Conductors: Toscanini, Arturo
Ensemble: NBC Symphony Orchestra

This is Toscanini's only concert recorded in stereo that survives complete! Deleted six years ago from the Music & Arts catalog, this long-time best seller...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: 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...

The Art of Dimitri Mitropoulos Vol. 1 - Berg, Beethoven, Vaughan Williams, et al

4 CD / Music & Arts / 2008-08-12

Works: Alban Berg: Concerto for Violin; Ludwig van Beethoven: Concerto for Piano no 3 in C minor, Op. 37; Ralph Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on a theme by Thomas Tallis; Ernest Chausson: Symphony in B flat ma...
Performers: Casadesus, Jean; Petri, Egon; Szigeti, Joseph [Violin]
Conductors: Mitropoulos, Dimitri
Ensemble: NBC Symphony Orchestra; Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra

Few great conductors can be classified by just a few characteristics. Although this cautionary remark applies to Dimitri Mitropoulos, it seems safe to say that,...continue...

The Art of Dimitri Mitropoulos Vol. 2 - Broadcast Performances 1945-1955 - Mahler, Bach, et al

4 CD / Music & Arts / 2008-08-12

Works: Gustav Mahler: Symphony no 6 in A minor "Tragic"; Johann Sebastian Bach: Brandenburg Concerto no 5 in D major, BWV 1050; Sergey Prokofiev: Concerto for Piano no 3 in C major, Op. 26; Concerto for Pia...
Performers: Coppola, Carmine; Dow, Dorothy; Francescatti, Zino; koff, Mischa; Mitropoulos, Dimitri [Conductor/Piano]; Scarpini, Pietro; Varnay, Astrid
Conductors: Mitropoulos, Dimitri
Ensemble: NBC Symphony Orchestra; Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra

Few great conductors can be classified by just a few characteristics. Although this cautionary remark applies to Dimitri Mitropoulos, it seems safe to say that,...continue...

Charles Munch in New York - Debussy, Ravel, Roussel

1 CD / Music & Arts / 2007-11-01

Works: Claude Debussy: Ibéria, for orchestra, L. 122/2; Maurice Ravel: Le tombeau de Couperin; Daphnis et Chloé Suite no 2; Albert Roussel: Bacchus et Ariane, Suite no 2
Conductors: Munch, Charles
Ensemble: NBC Symphony Orchestra; Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra

The Alsatian-born Munch was in his fifth season as Music Director of the Boston Symphony at the time he gave this concert - his sole...continue...

Arturo Toscanini's 1939 Beethoven Cycle / NBC SO

5 CD / Music & Arts / 2007-07-01

Works: Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony no 1 in C major, Op. 21; Symphony no 3 in E flat major, Op. 55 "Eroica"; Symphony no 2 in D major, Op. 36; Symphony no 4 in B flat major, Op. 60; Leonore Overture no 3 ...
Performers: Moscona, Nicola; Novotná, Jarmila; Peerce, Jan [Tenor Vocals]; Thorborg, Kerstin
Conductors: Toscanini, Arturo
Ensemble: NBC Symphony Orchestra

Classicalnotes.net states: "In general, the early NBC records are the best. To the exquisite architectural balances and subtle tempo modulations of the [NY Phil &...continue...

Toscanini conducts Beethoven - Symphonies no 3 & 5 / NBC SO

1 CD / Music & Arts / 2007-05-01

Works: Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony no 3 in E flat major, Op. 55 "Eroica"; Symphony no 5 in C minor, Op. 67
Conductors: Toscanini, Arturo
Ensemble: NBC Symphony Orchestra

"Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, with its incessant Morse-code "V" motif, became a symbol of the Allied struggle for victory in World War II. Upon Mussolini's overthrow,...continue...

Arturo Toscanini - Complete Concert of March 21, 1954

1 CD / Music & Arts / 2006-12-01

Works: Recorded Sound: Opening Announcements & Applause; Applause & Announcements; Applause & Closing Announcements; Gioachino Rossini: Il barbiere di Siviglia; Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky: Pathétique ...
Conductors: Toscanini, Arturo
Ensemble: NBC Symphony Orchestra

Back in 1937 the London Times described the tone drawn by Toscanini from his orchestra, even in abrupt fortissimo, as "full, saturated and quite free...continue...

Liszt, Schumann, Weber: Piano Concertos / Arrau, et al

1 CD / Music & Arts / 2005-10-01

Works: Franz Liszt: Concerto for Piano no 2 in A major, S 125; Robert Schumann: Concerto for Piano in A minor, Op. 54; Carl Maria von Weber: Konzertstück for Piano and Orchestra in F minor, Op. 79
Performers: Arrau, Claudio
Conductors: Mitropoulos, Dimitri; De Sabata, Victor; Kleiber, Erich
Ensemble: ; NBC Symphony Orchestra; Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra

Beethoven: Symphony no 9, Quartet Op 135 / Toscanini, et al

1 CD / Music & Arts / 2004-12-01

Works: Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony no 9 in D minor, Op. 125 "Choral"; Quartet for Strings no 16 in F major, Op. 135
Performers: Bovy, Vina; Peerce, Jan [Tenor Vocals]; Pinza, Ezio; Thorborg, Kerstin
Conductors: Toscanini, Arturo
Ensemble: NBC Symphony Orchestra

Beethoven: Symphonies no 1 & 7, etc / Toscanini

1 CD / Music & Arts / 2004-12-01

Works: Ludwig van Beethoven: Consecration of the House, overture Op. 124; Quartet for Strings no 16 in F major, Op. 135; Symphony no 7 in A major, Op. 92; Symphony no 1 in C major, Op. 21
Conductors: Toscanini, Arturo
Ensemble: NBC Symphony Orchestra

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 conducts Beethoven

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

Works: Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony no 3 in E flat major, Op. 55 "Eroica"; Leonore Overture no 3 in C major, Op. 72b; Coriolan Overture in C minor, Op. 62
Conductors: Toscanini, Arturo
Ensemble: NBC Symphony Orchestra

Tchaikovsky: Manfred, Romeo and Juliet / Toscanini

1 CD / Music & Arts / 2004-03-01

Works: Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky: Manfred Symphony, Op. 58; Romeo & Juliet
Conductors: Toscanini, Arturo
Ensemble: NBC Symphony Orchestra

Toscanini Conducts Two Choral Masterpieces by Beethoven

2 CD / Music & Arts / 2003-10-01

Works: Ludwig van Beethoven: Missa solemnis in D major, Op. 123; Fantasia in C minor, Op. 80 "Choral Fantasy"
Performers: Bjorling, Jussi; Castagna, Bruna; Dorfmann, Ania; Kipnis, Alexander; Milanov, Zinka [Soprano Vocal]
Conductors: Toscanini, Arturo
Ensemble: NBC Symphony Orchestra; Westminster Choir

Toscanini Conducts Berlioz: Harold in Italy, etc / Primrose

1 CD / Music & Arts / 2003-10-01

Works: Hector Berlioz: Harold in Italy for viola and orchestra, Op. 16; Les francs-juges, Op. 3, Overture; Roméo et Juliette, Op. 17; Rákóczy March, for orchestra (Le damnation de Faust...
Performers: Primrose, William
Conductors: Toscanini, Arturo
Ensemble: NBC Symphony Orchestra

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For anyone interested in Berlioz or Toscanini, this is a release to cherish
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Toscanini Conducts Music from Russia

2 CD / Music & Arts / 2003-01-01

Works: Sergey Prokofiev: Symphony no 1 in D major, Op. 25 "Classical"; Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky: Pathétique Symphony, Op. 74; Manfred Symphony, Op. 58; Mikhail Glinka: Capriccio brillante on the Jot...
Conductors: Toscanini, Arturo
Ensemble: NBC Symphony Orchestra

Erich Kleiber at NBC - Four Complete Concerts from 1947/48

4 CD / Music & Arts / 2002-11-01

Works: Alexander Borodin: Symphony no 2 in B minor; Carl Maria von Weber: Konzertstück for Piano and Orchestra in F minor, Op. 79; Manuel de Falla: Dance no 1 (from La vida breve); Arcangelo Corelli: C...
Performers: Arrau, Claudio
Conductors: Kleiber, Erich
Ensemble: NBC Symphony Orchestra

Merit - Sibelius: Symphony no 4, etc / Toscanini, NBC SO

1 CD / Music & Arts / 2001-09-25

Works: Jean Sibelius: Symphony no 4 in A minor, Op. 63; Lemminkäinen Suite, Op. 22; En saga, Op. 9
Conductors: Toscanini, Arturo
Ensemble: NBC Symphony Orchestra

Brahms: Piano Concerto no 2, Symphony no 3 / Toscanini

1 CD / Music & Arts / 2001-01-23

Works: Johannes Brahms: Concerto for Piano no 2 in B flat major, Op. 83; Symphony no 3 in F major, Op. 90
Performers: Horowitz, Vladimir
Conductors: Toscanini, Arturo
Ensemble: NBC Symphony Orchestra