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Holst: The Planets; Debussy, Gould / Stokowski, NBC SO

1 CD / Cala Records / 2008-07-01

Works: Gustav Holst: The Planets, Op. 32/H 125; Claude Debussy: Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune (Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun), for orchestra, L. 86; La cathédrale englou...
Conductors: Stokowski, Leopold
Ensemble: NBC Symphony Orchestra

Meyerbeer, Goldmark, Bizet, et al / Toscanini, NBC SO

2 CD / Testament / 2007-02-13

Works: Giacomo Meyerbeer: Le pardon de Ploërmel "Dinorah"; Karl Goldmark: Rustic Wedding, symphonic poem in E flat major, Op. 26; Georges Bizet: La Jolie Fille de Perth, orchestral suite; Jules Massene...
Performers: Cooley, Carlton; koff, Mischa
Conductors: Toscanini, Arturo
Ensemble: NBC Symphony Orchestra

"Mono sound, surprisingly clear and luminous, is what we have on an unmissable two-CD Testament set of live NBC recordings conducted by Toscanini... these are...continue...

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

Fanfare
For anyone interested in Berlioz or Toscanini, this is a release to cherish
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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
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...