Toscanini, Arturo

Toscanini Conducts Wagner - Orchestral Preludes; Interludes and Arias [5 CDs]

5 CD / RCA Records / 2013-04-30

Works: Richard Wagner: Tristan und Isolde; Die Götterdämmerung; Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg; Siegfried Idyll; Lohengrin; Parsifal; Die Walküre; Faust Overture; Siegfried; Tannhäu...
Conductors: Toscanini, Arturo


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Tristan und Isolde: Act 3 Prelude by Richard Wagner

Conductor: Arturo Toscanini
Orchestra/Ensemble: NBC Symphony Orchestra
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Arturo Toscanini: The Maestro - Documentary plus Verdi's Hymn of the Nations, Jan Peerce [DVD]

1 DVD Video / Sony Classical / 2013-04-30

Conductors: Toscanini, Arturo
Ensemble: NBC Symphony Orchestra

Toscanini the Maestro DVD features interviews with Robert Merrill, Jarmila Novona, Herva Nelli, Licia Albanese and others, plus photographs, documents, original recordings and a selection...continue...
Run Time: 97 min.
Region: 0
Picture Format: NTSC, 4/3, B&W and Color
Sound Format(s): Dolby Digital 2.0,
Subtitles: German, French
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Verdi: Requiem; Te Deum / Zinka Milanov, Bruna Castagna, Jussi Bjorling, Nicola Moscona. Arturo Toscanini

2 CD / Music & Arts / 2013-01-29

Conductors: Toscanini, Arturo
Ensemble: NBC Symphony; Westminster Choir

Originally released in 1986, this set was one of Music & Arts classical best sellers for well over a decade, and was reissued in improved...continue...

Verdi: Aida (Complete) / Herva Nelli, Eva Gustavson, Richard Tucker, Giuseppe Valdengo. NBC SO; Toscanini

2 CD / Opus Kura / 2013-01-08

Conductors: Toscanini, Arturo
Ensemble: NBC Symphony Orchestra

This is the complete Aida taken from the 1949 recording made for Melodyia....continue...

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...

Arturo Toscanini conducts the NBC SO in works by Schubert, Mendelssohn and Berlioz

1 CD / Opus Kura / 2012-08-14

Works: Franz Schubert: Symphony no 9 in C major, D 944 "Great"; Hector Berlioz: Romeo et Juliette, Op. 17 Part 2; Felix Mendelssohn: Midsummer Night's Dream Overture, in E major Op. 21
Conductors: Toscanini, Arturo
Ensemble: NBC Symphony Orchestra

The music on this disc comes from recordings made in 1947....continue...

Arturo Toscanini - The Years of Maturity in America 1929-46

2 CD / Italian Discographic Institute / 2012-08-01

Works: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Don Giovanni; Symphony no 35 in D major, K 385 "Haffner"; Symphony no 40 in G minor, K 550; Symphony no 41 in C major, K 551 "Jupiter"; Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony no 5 in...
Conductors: Toscanini, Arturo
Ensemble: NBC Symphony Orchestra

Arturo Toscanini Conducts Schubert, Elgar, Mozart, Rossini, Wagner, Brahms, Mendelssohn / Orchestras of Philadelphia, La Scala, Vienna, Philharmonia Orch et al. (rec. 1929-1952)

2 CD / Guild / 2012-07-10

Works: Franz Schubert: Symphony no 9 in C major, D 944 "Great"; Edward Elgar: Enigma Variations; Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Symphony no 35 in D major, K 385 "Haffner"; Gioachino Rossini: La gazza ladra; Richa...
Performers: Milstein, Nathan
Conductors: Toscanini, Arturo

This unique two-CD set offers eight exceptionally rare Toscanini performances captured in broadcasts in which he conducts six orchestras - none of which is with...continue...

Verdi: Otello / Luigi Alva, Rolando Panerai, Mirella Freni, Fiorenza Cossotto. NBC SO, Arturo Toscanini, conductor.

2 CD / Widescreen / 2012-06-02

Conductors: Toscanini, Arturo
Ensemble: NBC Symphony Orchestra

This edition is the only official edition conducted by Toscanini, that has always been released by RCA Victor. Actually, it exists only in a box...continue...

Album Debussy: The composer and his interpreters / Historic recordings from 1904 - 1955

3 CD / Aeon / 2012-05-08

Works: Claude Debussy: Ariettes oubliées; Mandoline; Fêtes galantes; Trois Ballades de Villon; Cinq Poèmes de Charles Baudelaire; Chansons (3) de Bilitis; Estampes; Images; Children's Corner;...
Performers: Bathori, Jane; Bonneau, Jacqueline; Brothier, Yvonne; Cloez, Gustave; Croiza, Claire; Debussy, Claude; Dufranne, Hector; Garden, Mary; Joachim, Irene; Meedintiano, Ivana; Meyer, Marcelle; Moiseiwitsc...
Conductors: Chevillard, Camille; Toscanini, Arturo; Straram, Walther; Desomiere, Roger; Monteux, Pierre; Truc, Georges; Coppola, Piero; Cloez, Gustave; Beydts, Louis; Lindenberg, Edouard

The "Debussy, Music and the Arts" exhibition, organized by Paris's Musée d'Orsay, proposes to evoke the musician's major encounters with contemporary artists and poets. Paintings,...continue...

Arturo Toscanini: The Wagner Recordings, 1941-46

2 CD / Opus KURA / 2012-03-13

Works: Richard Wagner: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg; Siegfried Idyll; Lohengrin; Faust Overture; Tristan und Isolde; Der Ring des Nibelungen
Performers: Traubel, Helen
Conductors: Toscanini, Arturo
Ensemble: ; NBC Symphony Orchestra

These recordings were originally released on RCA between 1941 and 1946. US Victor 78s were used for the transfers....continue...

Arthur Rubinstein: The Complete Album Collection

144 CD / RCA Records / 2012-01-10

Works: Frédéric Chopin: Barcarolle for Piano in F sharp major, B 158/Op. 60; Waltz for piano no 2 in A flat major, Op. 34/1, CT. 208; Mazurka for piano no 35 in C minor, Op. 56/3, CT. 85; Concerto...
Performers: Courte, Robert; Dalley, John; Feuermann, Emanuel; Fournier, Pierre; Frezin, Adolphe; Heifetz, Jascha; Kochanski, Pawel; Mayes, Samuel; Piatigorsky, Gregor; Rubinstein, Artur [Piano]; Sandor, Arpad; S...
Conductors: Coates, Albert; Barbirolli, John; ; Ormandy, Eugene; Golschmann, Vladimir; Dorati, Antal; Mitropoulos, Dimitri; Steinberg, William; Toscanini, Arturo; Beecham, Thomas, Sir; Munch, Charles; Susskind, ...
Ensemble: ; Pro Arte Piano Quartet

From December on, "Arthur Rubinstein The Complete Album Collection" will be the world's biggest CD edition for a solo artist according to Guinness World Records

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The Historical Gershwin

2 CD / Widescreen / 2011-12-06

Works: George Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue; Concerto for Piano in F major; Lady, be Good; Goldwyn Follies; Swanee, song (for Capital Revue, by various composers); Porgy and Bess; Girl Crazy; Porgy & Bess; Oh,...
Performers: Astaire, Fred; Bailey, Mildred; Bargy, Roy; Cole, Nat "King"; Fitzgerald, Ella; Garland, Judy; Gershwin, George; Holiday, Billie; Jolson, Al; Levant, Oscar [Piano]; Monroe, Marilyn; Robeson, Paul; Si...
Conductors: Toscanini, Arturo

HISTORICAL RECORDINGS WITH GERSHWIN AT THE PIANO These two remarkable CDs are the direct testimony of George Gershwin's discographic legend....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...

Toscanini: Christmas Day 1937 & Farewell Concert 1954

2 CD / Guild / 2011-06-14

Works: Spoken Word: Opening Announcement; Antonio Vivaldi: Concerto for 2 violins, cello, strings & continuo in D minor ("L'estro armonico" no 11), Op. 3/11,; Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Symphony no 40 in G mi...
Conductors: Toscanini, Arturo
Ensemble: NBC Symphony Orchestra

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...continue...

Arturo Toscanini: Gala Concert 1945

1 CD / Guild / 2011-05-10

Works: Franz Joseph Haydn: Symphony no 101 in D major, H 1 no 101 "Clock"; Ottorino Respighi: Pines of Rome; Jean Sibelius: The Swan of Tuonela, tone poem for orchestra (Lemminkäinen Suite no 3), Op. 2...
Conductors: Toscanini, Arturo
Ensemble: Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra of New York

This historic issue was taken from a gala concert to benefit the Pension Fund given at Carnegie Hall, November 13, 1945, a program that repeated...continue...
Recording information: Carnegie Hall, New York City (11/13/1945)....continue...

Johann Strauss Collection: Early Recordings on 78s (1901-1951)

8 CD / Opus KURA / 2011-04-12

Works: Johann Strauss II: An der schönen, blauen Donau, Op. 314; Annen-Polka, Op. 117; Champagner-Polka, Op. 211; Tritsch-Tratsch Polka, Op. 214; Accelerationen, Op. 234; Perpetuum mobile, Op. 257 "Mus...
Performers: Barrientos, Maria; Bela, Dajos; Bloch, Max; Branzell, Karin; Cavallaro, Carmen; Cebotari, Maria; Dorsey, Tommy [Trombone]; Eisinger, Irene; Engels, Friedrich Eugen; Geczy, Barnabas Von; Gerhardt, Ele...
Conductors: Strauss III, Johann; Krauss, Clemens; Barlow, Howard; Szell, George; Ormandy, Eugene; Mengelberg, Willem; Böhm, Karl; Toscanini, Arturo; Karajan, Herbert von; Leinsdorf, Erich; Prüwer, Juli...
Ensemble: ; Kölner Klavier-Trio ; Staatskapelle Berlin

A comprehensive collection of recordings of the music of Johann Strauss, almost all of them come from a Japanese collector, Mayumi Cho, who began collecting...continue...

Robert Schumann: 200th Anniversary Tribute

1 CD / Guild / 2011-01-11

Works: Robert Schumann: Manfred, Op. 115; Symphony no 2 in C major, Op. 61; Symphony no 4 in D minor, Op. 120
Conductors: Toscanini, Arturo; Walter, Bruno

This compact disc of broadcast performances from the 1940s by the NBC Symphony Orchestra comprising three of Robert Schumann's orchestral works conducted by two of...continue...

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...

Arturo Toscanini conducts Schumann & Ravel

1 CD / Opus KURA / 2010-10-12

Works: Robert Schumann: Symphony no 3 in E flat major, Op. 97 "Rhenish"; Maurice Ravel: Daphnis et Chloé Suite no 2; Ottorino Respighi: Feste romane
Conductors: Toscanini, Arturo

These performances come from recordings made in 1949 and were supposedly the first time RCA used tape recorders....continue...

Piano & Cello Masterpieces

2 CD / ZYX Records / 2010-08-13

Works: Johannes Brahms: Concerto for Piano no 2 in B flat major, Op. 83; Sonata for Cello and Piano no 2 in F major, Op. 99; Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky: Concerto for Piano no 1 in B flat minor, Op. 23; Conce...
Performers: Casals, Pablo; Cherkassky, Shura; Horowitz, Vladimir; Horszowski, Mieczyslaw
Conductors: Toscanini, Arturo; Ludwig, Leopold; Kraus, Richard

Toscanini - Mendelssohn 200th Anniversary Tribute

2 CD / Guild / 2010-08-10

Works: Felix Mendelssohn: Symphony no 3 in A minor, Op. 56 "Scottish"; Symphony no 5 in D major, Op. 107 "Reformation"; A Midsummer Night's Dream; Hebrides Overture, in B minor Op. 26 "Fingal's Cave"; Overt...
Performers: Heifetz, Jascha
Conductors: Toscanini, Arturo

This release in the Toscanini Broadcasts Series features music by Felix Mendelssohn recorded between 1941 and 1954 and contains every work by Mendelssohn that Toscanini...continue...

Toscannini Conducts Shostakovich Symphony No. 7

1 CD / Opus KURA / 2010-05-11

Works: Dmitry Shostakovich: Symphony no 7 (as used in the film "Testimony")
Conductors: Toscanini, Arturo

An LP from a private collection was used for this restoration and transfer of the studio concert broadcast in July 1942. This was the US...continue...
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Arturo Toscanini Anthology, Vol. 2

1 CD / Opus KURA / 2010-03-09

Works: Georges Bizet: Carmen Suite for orchestra no 1; Hector Berlioz: Le carnaval romain (Roman Carnival Overture), ouverture catactéristique for orchestra, H.95 (Op. 9); Romeo & Juliet; Camille Sai...
Conductors: Toscanini, Arturo

This is a program of shorter and lighter pieces that are taken from recordings made between 1950 and 1953....continue...

Arturo Toscanini: Anthology 1

1 CD / Opus KURA / 2010-02-09

Works: Johannes Brahms: work(s); Ambroise Thomas: Mignon; Alfredo Catalani: La Wally; Loreley; Gaetano Donizetti: Don Pasquale; Amilcare Ponchielli: La Gioconda; Ferdinand Hérold: Zampa; Paul Dukas: L'...
Conductors: Toscanini, Arturo

In Toscanini's later years, when he was mainly serving the vast American radio audience, Toscanini programmed shorter and lighter pieces alongside the great symphonies and...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...

Toscanini conducts Strauss, Ravel and Barber / NBC Symphony Orchestra, et al

1 CD / Guild / 2009-11-10

Works: Kurt Atterberg: Symphony no 6 in C, Op 31, "Dollar Symphony"; Samuel Barber: Adagio for Strings; Spoken Word: Announcement; Oscar Lorenzo Fernândez: Reisado do pastoreio; Richard Strauss: Don Ju...
Conductors: Toscanini, Arturo

Toscanini's commitment to music by his contemporaries is demonstrated with these recordings, which are taken from broadcasts made in 1940 and 1943....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...

Toscanini in his own words / A Film by Larry Weinstein [DVD]

1 DVD Video / EuroArts / 2009-03-31

Works: Various: Work(s)
Conductors: Toscanini, Arturo

Arturo Toscanini (1867-1957), arguably the greatest and most famous conductor in history, was paradoxically one of the most private. He never granted interviews, left diaries...continue...
Run Time: 70 min.
Region: All
Picture Format: NTSC, 16:9, Color
Sound Format(s): LPCM Stereo (English, French), Dolby Digital 2.0 (German)
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Beethoven: Symphony no 9, etc / Toscanini,

1 CD / Guild / 2009-02-10

Works: Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony no 9 in D minor, Op. 125 "Choral"; Leonore Overture no 3 in C major, Op. 72b
Performers: Hellwig, Judith; Kipnis, Alexander; Maison, Rene
Conductors: Toscanini, Arturo
Ensemble: Buenos Aires Teatro Colón Orchestra; New York Philharmonic

This 1941 performance of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony in Buenos Aries conducted by Toscanini is one of three broadcasts of the work issued by Guild. The...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...

Beethoven: Symphonies no 2 and 4, Egmont Overture / Toscanini, NBC SO

1 CD / Opus KURA / 2008-11-11

Works: Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony no 2 in D major, Op. 36; Symphony no 4 in B flat major, Op. 60; Egmont, Op. 84
Conductors: Toscanini, Arturo
Ensemble: NBC Symphony Orchestra

Transferred from the HMV LP records, these recordings were taken from performances in 1919, 1951 and 1952. The textural clarity, tight rhythms and maximum dynamic...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...

Wagner: Der Ring des Nibelungen - Historical Recordings 1926-1951 Vol 2 / Walter, Toscanini, Coates, et al

4 CD / Gala / 2008-11-01

Works: Richard Wagner: Die Walküre; Götterdämmerung; Siegfried
Conductors: De Sabata, Victor; Toscanini, Arturo; Blech, Leo; Walter, Bruno; Coates, Albert; Collingwood, Lawrence; Coppola, Piero

Original Jacket Collection - Vladimir Horowitz plays Bach, Poulenc, Schumann, et al

10 CD / Sony Classical / 2008-10-21

Works: Johannes Brahms: Concerto for Piano no 2 in B flat major, Op. 83; Waltzes (16) for Piano 4 hands, Op. 39; Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Concerto for Piano no 1 in B flat minor, Op. 23; Vladimir Horowitz:...
Performers: Horowitz, Vladimir
Conductors: Toscanini, Arturo; Ormandy, Eugene
Ensemble: NBC Symphony Orchestra; New York Philharmonic

In repertoire that reaches from the classical fizz of Clementi to the muscular modernism of Barber and Prokofiev, this collection spans Horowitz's entire international career,...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...

Toscanini conducts Brahms - Serenade no 1 & 2, Piano Concerto no 2, etc

2 CD / Guild / 2008-06-10

Works: Spoken Word: Announcement; Johannes Brahms: Serenade for orchestra no 1 in D major, Op. 11; Serenade for orchestra no 2 in A major, Op. 16; Academic Festival Overture in C minor, Op. 80; Concerto for...
Performers: Casadesus, Robert
Conductors: Toscanini, Arturo
Ensemble: New York Philharmonic

This is the second release in the Guild Historical Series of music by Brahms conducted by Arturo Toscanini, the first being 'A German Requiem'. In...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

Saint-Saëns, Elgar / Toscanini, NBC SO

1 CD / Opus KURA / 2008-04-01

Works: Camille Saint-Saëns: Symphony no 3 in C minor, Op. 78 "Organ"; Edward Elgar: Variations on an Original Theme, Op. 36 "Enigma"
Conductors: Toscanini, Arturo
Ensemble: NBC Symphony Orchestra

While we're on the subject of comparing pressings...as Shuichiro Kawai writes, "Hearing that Toscanini's HMV LPs sound better than those of RCA, I have collected...continue...

Haydn: Symphony no 92; R. Strauss: Don Quixote / Toscanini, Feuermann, NBC SO

1 CD / Opus KURA / 2008-03-01

Works: Franz Joseph Haydn: Symphony no 92 in G major, H 1 no 92 "Oxford"; Richard Strauss: Don Quixote, Op. 35
Performers: Cooley, Carlton; Feuermann, Emanuel
Conductors: Toscanini, Arturo
Ensemble: NBC Symphony Orchestra

As the producer notes, the present transfer comes not from commercial releases but from transcription discs or private dubs. The Haydn, from a broadcast of...continue...

Rossini, Vivaldi / Arturo Toscanini

1 CD / Opus KURA / 2008-02-01

Works: Gioachino Rossini: L'italiana in Algeri; Semiramide; Il barbiere di Siviglia; La scala di seta; Sonata a quattro no 3 in C major; Antonio Vivaldi: Concerto for 2 Violins and Cello in D minor, Op. 3 n...
Conductors: Toscanini, Arturo
Ensemble: NBC Symphony Orchestra

Arturo Toscanini - Complete Puccini Recordings

2 CD / Italian Discographic Institute / 2008-01-04

Works: Giacomo Puccini: La bohème
Conductors: Toscanini, Arturo
Ensemble: NBC Symphony Chorus; NBC Symphony Orchestra

This CD features the only two existing documents of Toscanini conducting Puccini and in the booklet there is a rare picture of the two musicians...continue...

Toscanini conducts Mozart and Vaughan-Williams

1 CD / Opus KURA / 2007-12-01

Works: Ralph Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on a theme by Thomas Tallis; Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Symphony no 40 in G minor, K 550; Symphony no 41 in C major, K 551 "Jupiter"; Johann Sebastian Bach: Suite for O...
Conductors: Toscanini, Arturo
Ensemble: NBC Symphony Orchestra

The significance of this recording, apart from the exceptional, clean masterings by Opus Kura is the relatively rare nature of Vaughan-Williams. This 1945 performance is...continue...

The Classic 100 Concerto [Box Set]

8 CD / ABC Classics Import / 2007-11-20

Works: Ludwig van Beethoven: Concerto for Piano no 5 "Emperor"; Concerto for Violin in D major, Op. 61; Concerto for Piano no 4 in G major, Op. 58; Concerto for Piano, Violin and Cello in C major, Op. 56 "T...
Performers: Anda, Geza; Anthony, Adele; Auber, Stefan; Baerg, Irmgard; Balsam, Artur; Bargy, Roy; Barton, William; Belkin, Boris; Bennett, Mark [Trumpet]; Brown, Iona; Cazal, Olivier; Collins, Geoffrey; Cominati...
Conductors: Walker, Antony; Fürst, Jànos; Halstead, Anthony; Lang-Lessing, Sebastian; Braithwaite, Nicholas; Dyer, Paul; Kelly, Brett; Bonynge, Richard; Tchivzhel, Edvard; Hogwood, Christopher; Stanhop...
Ensemble: ; Australian Chamber Orchestra; I Musici

What is the one concerto you cannot live without? This question was asked of the australian public through a poll by abc classic fm and...continue...

Arturo Toscanini - The Farewell Concert at La Scala

2 CD / Italian Discographic Institute / 2007-09-01

Works: Richard Wagner: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
Conductors: Toscanini, Arturo

On September 19th 1952 Arturo Toscanini held his last La Scala concert, a performance entirely dedicated to Wagner's much loved orchestral music. The concert was...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...

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...