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Toscanini – Fidelio: Bampton, Janssen, Steber, Peerce with spoken dialogue (NBC 1944)

Toscanini - Salzburg Falstaff: Stabile, Somiglia, Cravenco, Vasari; 9 August 1937 & NBC Falstaff: Valdengo, Nelli, Elmo, Merriman; 1, 8 April 1950

Toscanini - Salzburg Die Meistersinger: Nissen, Reining, Noort, Wiedeman 23 August 1937. Also Salzburg Act III scenes: Nissen, Kullman, Lehmann, Wiedeman

Toscanini - BBC Verdi Requiem: Milanov, Roswaenge, Thorborg, Moscona 27 May 1938

Toscanini - BBC Symphony Orchestra 10 June 1938: Brahms and Sibleius Second Symphonies & Philharmonic: All Wagner Concert 21 April 1935 (Lohengrin Preludes, Gottterdammerung - Siegfried's Funeral, Parsifal Prelude, Tristan and Isolde Prelude and Liebestod. In Association with the Toscanini Estate (World Premiere Release)

Toscanini - BBC Missa Solemnis: Milanov, Thorborg, Von Pataky, Moscona 28 May 1939

Toscanini - La Scala Lucerne Concerts: Beethoven, Wagner, Strauss; 5 and 7 July 1946)

Toscanini: La Scala Verdi Te Deum and Requiem: Tebaldi, Elmo, Prandelli, Siepi; 24 June 1950

Toscanini - NBC First Broadcast: Vivaldi, Mozart, Brahms 25 December 1937. Bonus: Rehearsal - Coriolan Overture - speeches.

Toscanini - NBC: Rossini, Schumann, Paganini, Mussorgsky complete concert 29 January 1938 & NBC - Graener, Barber, Debussy, Dvorak compete concert 5 November 1938

Toscanini - NBC Beethoven Ninth Symphony: Bovy, Thorborg, Peerce, Pinza, 6 February 1938 & NBC Rossini, Mendelssohn, Berlioz 5 April 1941

Toscanini - NBC: Verdi Requiem, Milanov, Kullman, Castagna, Moscona 4 March 1938 & NBC: All Verdi, Peerce, Della Chiesa, Moscona 31 January 1943

Toscanini - NBC - Graener, Barber, Debussy, Dvorak compete concert 5 November 1938 & Rossini, Schumann, Paganini, Mussorgsky complete concert 29 January 1938

Toscanini - NBC: All Sibelius 18 February 1939 & NBC: All-Verdi, Peerce, Ribla, Meriman, Valentino; 25 July 1943

Toscanini - NBC Beethoven:Complete Cycle October-December 1939

Toscanini - NBC: Elgar, Mozart, Dvorak, Mussorgsky 20 April 1940 & NBC: Wagner, Mendelssohn 9 April 1944 Concerts

Toscanini - NBC: Verdi Te Deum and Requiem, Milanov, Bjoerling, Castagna, Moscona 23 November 1940

Toscanini - NBC: Mozart, Haydn, R. Strauss 1 February 1941 & Restoration: Victor Recordings, Philadelphia Orchestra: Mendelssohn, R. Strauss, 12 January 1942 (Volume II)

Toscanini NBC All Wagner Benefit Concert: Melchior - Traubel 22 February 1941

Toscanini - NBC Rossini, Mendelssohn, Berlioz 5 April 1941 & NBC Beethoven Ninth Symphony: Bovy, Thorborg, Peerce, Pinza; 6 February 1938

Toscanini: NBC All Tchaikovsky Benefit Concert 19 April 1941 Concert

Toscanini - NBC: All Verdi, Peerce, Della Chiesa, Moscona 31 January 1943 & NBC: Verdi Requiem, Milanov, Kullman, Castagna, Moscona 4 March 1938

Toscanini - NBC: All-Verdi, Peerce, Ribla, Meriman, Valentino; 25 July 1943 & NBC: All Sibelius 18 February 1939

Toscanini - NBC: Wagner, Mendelssohn 9 April 1944 Concerts & NBC: Elgar, Mozart, Dvorak, Mussorgsky 20 April 1940

Toscanini - NBC: Flying Dutchman Overture rehearsal and broadcast NBC 1946 (premiere on disc) and Prokofiev, Berlioz, Beethoven, complete concert of 10 November 1951, plus rehearsals of all three works

Toscanini: NBC - Gluck Orfeo ed Euridice, Act II complete, Merriman, Phillips, with the NBC mixed chorus conducted by Peter Wilhousky, 1 April 1945 & Wagner: Faust Overture and Berlioz: Harold in Italy wth William Primrose, Violist, complete concert 27 October 1946

Toscanini: NBC - Wagner: Faust Overture and Berlioz: Harold in Italy wth William Primrose, Violist, complete concert 27 October 1946 & Gluck Orfeo ed Euridice, Act II complete, Merriman, Phillips, with the NBC mixed chorus conducted by Peter Wilhousky, 1 April 1945

Toscanini - NBC: All Mozart 3 November 1946 & NBC: Kabalevsky, Cherubini, Strauss 8 March 1952

Toscanini: NBC All Mendelssohn complete concerts 1 November 1947 and 30 March 1947

Toscanini - NBC: Complete Brahms Cycle 23 October 1948 & Rare and Unknown Recordings: Brahms, Wagner, Schubert, Scarlatti, Beethoven

Toscanini - NBC: Beethoven, Elgar Enigma Variations, complete concert of 5 November 1949, plus Enigma rehearsal

Toscanini - NBC Falstaff: Valdengo, Nelli, Elmo, Merriman; 1, 8 April 1950 & Salzburg Falstaff: Stabile, Somiglia, Cravenco, Vasari; 9 August 1937

Toscanini - NBC: Verdi Te Deum and Requiem; Nelli, Barbieri, Di Stefano, Siepi, 27 January 1951 plus Complete Dress Rehearsal

Toscanini - NBC: Prokofiev, Berlioz, Beethoven, complete concert of 10 November 1951, plus rehearsals of all three works – and Flying Dutchman Overture rehearsal and broadcast NBC 1946 (premiere on disc)

Toscanini - NBC: Kabalevsky, Cherubini, Strauss 8 March 1952 & NBC: All Mozart 3 November 1946

Toscanini: NBC Beethoven Symphony No. 1 and Symphony No. 9 (Farrell, Merriman, Peerce, Scott, Robert Shaw Chrorale) 29 March 1952 with Beethoven 9th rehearsal 27 March 1952 / Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 3 (Dame Myra Hess) 24 November 1946

Toscanini: NBC Brahms, Strauss; 1 Nov. 1952 and Philharmonic: Brahms Symphony No. 2 (24 Feb. 1935) and No. 3 (17 March 1935) in Improved sound.

Toscanini - Philharmonic Brahms Cycle 17 February 1935

Toscanini - Philharmonic Brahms Cycle Four Concerts: 24 February - 17 March - 31 March - 7 April 1935

Toscanini - Philharmonic Brahms Requiem: Rethberg, Schorr 10 March 1935

Toscanini - Philharmonic: All Wagner Concert 21 April 1935 (Lohengrin Preludes, Gottterdammerung - Siegfried's Funeral, Parsifal Prelude, Tristan and Isolde Prelude and Liebestod. In Association with the Toscanini Estate (World Premiere Release) & BBC Symphony Orchestra 10 June 1938: Brahms and Sibleius Second Symphonies

Toscanini - Philharmonic Missa Solemnis: Martinelli, Rethberg, Telva, Pinza; 28 April 1935

Toscanini - Philharmonic: Brahms Symphony No. 2 (24 Feb. 1935) and No. 3 (17 March 1935) in Improved sound & NBC Brahms, Strauss; 1 Nov. 1952.

Toscanini - Philharmonic: All Beethoven Symphonies, No. 6, 8 and 9 February 1935 and March 1936

Toscanini - Philharmonic: Bach, Brahms, Beethoven 2 Feb. 1936 & Philharmonic: All Debussy 19 April 1936

Toscanini - Philharmonic: Beethoven, Mozart, Bach 23 Feb. 1936 & Philharmonic: Weber, Verdi, Debussy, Goldmark, Wagner 1 March 1936

Toscanini - Philharmonic: Weber, Verdi, Debussy, Goldmark, Wagner 1 March 1936 & Philharmonic: Beethoven, Mozart, Bach 23 Feb. 1936

Toscanini - Philharmonic: Philharmonic: All Debussy 19 April 1936 & Philharmonic: Bach, Brahms, Beethoven 2 Feb. 1936

Toscanini - Philharmonic: Farewell All Wagner Concert 29 April 1936 & Philharmonic: Pension Fund Concert: Haydn, Respighi, Sibelius, Wagner, Von Weber 13 April 1945

Toscanini - Philharmonic Pension Fund Concert: Haydn, Respighi, Sibelius, Wagner, Von Weber 13 April 1945 & Philharmonic Farewell All Wagner Concert 29 April 1936

Toscanini - Rare and Unknown Recordings: Brahms, Wagner, Schubert, Scarlatti, Beethoven & NBC: Complete Brahms Cycle 23 October 1948

Toscanini - Red Cross Benefit Concert NBC and Philharmonic combined: Wagner, Verdi, Sousa. Solists: Warren, Milanov, Peerce, Merriman, Moscona (1944)

Toscanini: Restoration, Victor Recordings N.Y. Philharmonic 1929-1936: Rossini, Haydn, Mozart, Mendelssohn, Beethoven, Verdi, Gluck, Dukas, Brahms, Wagner

Toscanini - Restoration: Victor Recordings, Philadelphia Orchestra: Tchaikovsky, Debussy, February 1942 (Volume I) & Restoration: Victor Recordings, NBC: Rossini, Haydn, Beethoven 1945

Toscanini - Restoration: Victor Recordings, Philadelphia Orchestra: Mendelssohn, R. Strauss, 12 January 1942 (Volume II) & NBC: Mozart, Haydn, R. Strauss 1 February 1941

Toscanini - Restoration: Victor Recordings, NBC: Rossini, Haydn, Beethoven 1945 & Restoration: Victor Recordings Philadelphia Orchestra: Tchaikovsky, Debussy, February 1942 (Volume I)


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NBC Symphony Orchestra

All Tchaikovsky Benefit Concert


Voyevoda Overture, Op. 3


Symphony No. 6 in B Minor, Op. 74 (Pathétique)


Concerto No. 1 in B-Flat Minor, Op. 23

Vladimir Horowitz, pf


NBC Symphony Orchestra

19 April 1941


Symphony No. 6 in B Minor

Rehearsal Extracts of 1st and 4th Movements


Best sound over all previous editions. Extensive notes and broadcast commentary and ovations.


From the Recording Notes by Richard Caniell: This 1941 broadcast of the Sixth Symphony and Piano Concerto was released by us through Naxos, but they omitted the Voyevoda and the commentary without our knowledge or permission, and the sound was denigrated in a loss of overtones, in some sound compression of the tuttis and in a thickening of the bottom end, hence this release of the complete concert.


Our original tape of this broadcast from Gardner revealed the transfer from the lacquers to be good, the surface noise sporadic and not excessive and the dynamics needing only a little emphasis to reverse the leveling which the original broadcast engineers imparted to the sound transmission. Its many pitch problems were solved by the young conductor John Sullivan, who is our music consultant. We believe the All-Tchaikovsky Benefit Concert to be a worthy addition to our knowledge of Toscanini’s involvement with these works and represented the first occasion when Horowitz and Toscanini collaborated in the First Piano Concerto.



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NBC Symphony Orchestra

All Wagner Benefit Concert


Lauritz Melchior - Helen Traubel

Carnegie Hall - 22 February 1941

Lohengrin - Tannhäuser - Die Walküre

Götterdömmerung


Bonus: Rienzi Overture, The Flying Dutchman Overture (with rehearsal segment), Tannhäuser Prelude to Act III (Original full length version)

Three discs for the price of two


Remastered from a new source with a substantial improvement in sonics over our previous Guild Music release. Plus: two rehearsal portions from Die Walküre. Bonus:?Overture to Rienzi, Flying Dutchman rehearsal &?broadcast, Tannhäuser Prelude Act III



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BEETHOVEN - NINTH SYMPHONY IN D MINOR

NBC Symphony Orchestra

Vina Bovy - Kerstin Thorborg - Jan Peerce - Ezio Pinza

Chorus of the Schola Cantorum

6th February 1938


Also


COMPLETE CONCERT NBC - 5 APRIL 1941


Rossini Overture: Il Signor Bruschino

Mendelssohn Symphony No. 3 in A Minor

Berlioz: Overture to Les Francs-Juges

Berlioz: Roméo et Juliette, Op. 17

Love Scene - Queen Mab Scherzo

Berlioz: Damnation of Faust: Rákóczy March


The first Beethoven Ninth conducted by Toscanini with the NBC had him untypically pleased. Here it is in excellent sound for the era. The second CD offers the entire concert of 5 April 1941: Rossini, Mendelssohn, and Berlioz. Another offering for Toscanini’s 150th anniversary


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COMPLETE 1939 BEETHOVEN CYCLE

NBC Symphony Orchestra


BOXED SET - 10 CDS FOR THE PRICE OF 8 - LIMITED EDITION


BEST SOUND OVER ALL PREVIOUS RELEASES


Full Broadcast Commentary: Gene Hamilton


BONUS


Rehearsal and broadcast Beethoven Third Piano Concerto (with Rubinstein); interview with Robert Hupka and two True Stereo Beethoven Overtures, 1939.


Finally, the ultimate presentation of the complete broadcast series in a restoration that offers best sound over all previous releases. Full commentary, extensive articles, photos, plus the tenth CD offers a rehearsal (orchestra) for the broadcast of the Beethoven Third Piano Concerto followed by the broadcast of that work (with Rubenstein) in better sound than the RCA Victor CD. Also Hupka interview about accidental stereo and two examples from the 1939 Beethoven Cycle.


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Limited edition which has now been re-published. Available now.


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World Premiere Release

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New York Philharmonic

1935 Brahms Cycle


Now completed with the long missing ­first broadcast 17 February 1935.


Haydn Variations

Double Concerto

First Symphony in C Minor


Issued in association with the Toscanini Estate Good sound for the era.

With Commentary.


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BRAHMS CYCLE 1935

Philharmonic-Symphony Society of New York


Concerts of 24 February, 17 March, 31 March, 7 April


Derived from private recordings that have preserved four of the six concerts that were broadcast, our restoration offers Heifetz in the Violin Concerto and Horowitz in the First Piano Concerto, among many other works. On-pitch transfers with best sound. Another valuable addition to our Toscanini Legacy series.


From Colin Clarke’s review published in FANFARE magazine's Nov/Dec 2014 issue:


As a window into Toscanini’s fire-hot Brahms, this can hardly be bettered. . . . There is more impetuosity in the orchestral contributions to the Heifetz account of the violin concerto, which acts as an indispensable complement to that violinists Boston and Chicago commercial accounts. The warmth, both orchestrally and from the solo, comes through the intervening years. The violin (sound) is excellently preserved here. . . .


Matching the high level of soloist for the violin concerto is Vladimir Horowitz for the First Piano Concerto. . . sonic problems here are particularly intrusive . . . yet, on the other side of the coin, the gossamer strings of the central slow movement serve surprisingly well . . . If the soloist and conductor are (famously perhaps) not ideally matched, there is plenty of fire from both in the finale. . . . this remains a stimulating and unmissable performance.


Toscanini followers will need no prompting to purchase this set. The sterling work at Immortal Performances continues.



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BRAHMS - A GERMAN REQUIEM 1935

Philharmonic-Symphony Society of New York

Elisabeth Rethberg - Friedrich Schorr

Chorus of the Schola Cantorum


WORLD PREMIERE RELEASE

In Association with the Toscanini Estate


Also


Brahms: Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel, Op. 24

Brahms Concerto No. 2 in B-flat major, Op. 83

Brahms and Toscanini: BBC Interview: Ian Carson - Manoug Parikian


This long sought broadcast is now made available after a lengthy restoration as a world premiere release made in association with the Toscanini Estate. It also includes Brahms Handel Variations (Rubbra) from NBC 1939, the Second Piano Concerto with Horowitz (Lucerne 1939) and an interview with Manoug Parikian, concertmaster of the Philharmonia orchestra about playing Brahms under Toscanini’s direction. Extensive articles, Recording Notes, Requiem text, documentation and biographies.


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Verdi

FALSTAFF


TWO PERFORMANCES IN ONE SET (5 CDS FOR THE COST OF 4)


FALSTAFF

STABILE - SOMIGLIA - CRAVENCO - VASARI

OLTRABELLA - BIASINI -BORGIOLI - LAZZARI

Others - Chorus of the Vienna State Opera

Vienna Philharmonic, Salzburg

9 August 1937


Also: FALSTAFF Act I - same cast as above (29 August 1936)


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FALSTAFF

VALDENGO - NELLI - ELMO - MERRIMAN

STITCH-RANDALL - GUARRERA - MADASI

Others - Robert Shaw Choral

NBC Symphony Orchestra

1, 8 April 1950


(Commentary by Ben Grauer)


Bonus: FALSTAFF rehearsal Act I, NBC March 1950


The Salzburg performance is here offered in the best, most natural sonics achievable, unlike the bloated, bottled releases we’ve heard, in an edition that we believe superior in all ways. The 1950 broadcast with full commentary and curtain calls offers sound better, in some ways, then the excellent RCA/BMG release and offers a bonus of an orchestral rehearsal for Act I never previously available. This is the ultimate edition.



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FIRST BROADCAST NBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

25 December 1937


Vivaldi: Concerto Grosso in D Minor

Mozart: Symphony in G Minor

Brahms: Symphony No. 1, in C Minor


Bonus


Interview and Commentary

Musicians - Chotzinoff - Sarnoff


Rehearsal: Coriolan Overture


Toscanini: A Lifetime of Influences
by Richard Caniell


This well-known first concert by Toscanini and the NBC Symphony offers best sound over all previous editions. Also included: a musician tells about rehearsing for this concert, then Chotzinoff tells the story of visiting Toscanini to gain his agreement, Sarnoff tells the audience about Toscanini signing a three year contract, and a Hupka interview in which he tells about recording Toscanini and the photographs he took. Lastly, there is a 17 minute rehearsal segment of the Beethoven Coriolan Overture, the presence of which is connected to a second booklet in the album (44 pages) entitled Toscanini, A Lifetime of Influences by Richard Caniell in which this rehearsal was a pivotal experience. Booklet article by Robert Matthew-Walker, rare photos.


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LUCERNE CONCERTS

La Scala Orchestra


BEETHOVEN - WAGNER - R. STRAUSS

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5, 7 July 1946


The 7th of July Concert, published complete for the first time, is in excellent sound. This album also includes a performance of Strauss Death and Transfiguration, professionally recorded at the Festival. (It is erroneously stated in our booklet material that this Death and Transfiguration is a world premiere we have since learned this is not the case.) The bonus offers two performances: Smetana’s The Moldau and Strauss’ Don Juan from the 1949 Venice Music Festival in less good sonics. Booklet text concerning the performances, recording notes and photos, combine to present a vivid aural portrait of Toscanini’s first European performances after the war.


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DIE MEISTERSINGER VON NÜRNBERG

Vienna State Opera Chorus - Vienna Philharmonic - Salzburg 1937

Nissen - Reining - Noort - Wiedemann - Others


COMPLETE


Also


DIE MEISTERSINGER

Nissen - Kullman - Lehmann - Wiedemann - Others

Act III Scenes - Salzburg 1936


This well-known, much revered recording in a restoration that offers improved sound in many portions even over the celebrated Andante release. The 1936 Meistersinger offers Act III, Scenes 1 through 3, and the Prize Song through to the end of the opera in good sound for the era. Extensive articles, photos, documentation and biographies.


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BEETHOVEN

MISSA SOLEMNIS

BBC Choral Society
BBC Symphony Orchestra

28 May 1939


Milanov - Thorborg - Von Pataky - Moscona


LONDON MUSIC FESTIVAL 1939


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BBC Toscanini Recordings 1935-1939

BEETHOVEN

Creatures of Prometheus Overture

Symphony No. 6 in F Major, Op. 68

Symphony No. 7 in A Major, Op. 92

BBC Toscanini Recordings 1935 -1939


NEWLY RESTORED


The Missa Solemnis is offered in superior sound to the BBC’s own CD release and with its many problems now resolved. In addition the two BBC Recordings of the Sixth and Seventh Symphonies are heard in a restoration that draws out their inherent color and dimension.


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RARE RECORDINGS FROM THE NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC SERIES


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Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra
of New York

28 April 1935


MISSA SOLEMNIS


Martinelli, Rethberg, Telva, Pinza


Chorus of the Schola Cantorum


Bonus:

1935 Met Simon Boccanegra

Act I, Scene 1 complete

Rethberg, Martinelli, Pinza, Tibbett



Harvey Sachs , in his famed book about Toscanini, writes of the three Philharmonic performances of the music that they were:


. . . of breathtaking depth and majesty; they are
relaxed and flexible yet precise and fluent

This important performance, previously published in exceedingly poor, off-pitch sound, is here offered in a sonically restored edition. The booklet text is by John Steane, the article about the composer and the Missa is by Richard Caniell, as are the extensive Recording Notes. The bonus offers the complete Act I, Scene 1 of Simon Boccanegra, Met 1935, a conjunction suggested by Mr. Steane as an interesting contrast in hearing two performances by Martinelli, Rethberg and Pinza in the same year. The album also offers two short interviews with Rethberg and Martinelli about their experience with Toscanini, together with photos of the singers in both broadcasts making this an album to treasure.


IMPORTANT NOTICE: NEWLY REVIEWED, COMPLETELY REMASTERED DISCS


The 1935 Missa Solemnis conducted by Toscanini means the world to our Sound Engineer, Richard Caniell, and he has spent untellable hours, weeks, from month to month over the past three years on it. Even after we released it and it was reviewed and purchased by many music lovers, he nonetheless kept returning to it, hoping to yet improve its sonics. Recently he achieved a significant break-through in sound improvement in clarity, in tone, in the divisions between the choral voices and the orchestra, and in more natural sound (which was greatly injured by the private recording and AM transmission). We now offer this re-mastered version, which includes a brief booklet dedicating the album to John Steane, as well as describing the improvements. (See link below to reviews of this new edition in Fanfares pages). For those who have previously purchased the earlier edition from us, the two remastered CDs will be provided for a minimal cost-covering fee of $10.00, to be included with some other of your purchases, or with the addition of postage costs if obtained by itself. (Contact us.)

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NBC Symphony Orchestra

Two Complete Concerts


20 April 1940 Concert

Elgar: Introduction and Allegro for Strings, Op. 47

Mozart: Symphony No. 41 Jupiter in C Major, K. 551

Dvorak: Scherzo Capriccioso, Op. 66

Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition


9 April 1944 Concert

Wagner: Parsifal Prelude and Good Friday Spell

Mendelssohn: Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in E?Minor, Op. 64

Jascha Heifetz, violin


Bonus: Rehearsals for the 20 April 1940 Concert


Very good sound, includes a free third CD of rehearsal portions of the four works heard on 20 April 1940. The 9 April 1944 Wagner has improved sound and the Mendelssohn Violin concerto (Heifetz) is on pitch.


From David Canfield’s review published in FANFARE magazine's Nov/Dec 2014 issue:


This set is recommended highly, and not only to Toscanini enthusiasts who will particularly welcome its issuance, but to all aficionados of great conducting and historical musical documents.


The sound is rich and full, and rather astonishing for the technology of the era, given its presence and vitality.


The Elgar Introduction and Allegro that opens the concert is a vibrant reading, with the solo string quartet of the NBC orchestra playing with almost a Heifetz-like intensity. . . Toscanini extracts every ounce of passion from his forces in this dynamic performance.


Toscanini reduced the size of his string section for the following Jupiter Symphony of Mozart to maintain proper balance between the sections. . . . Every line herein is clearly delineated and every woodwind interjection clearly audible in Toscanini’s meticulous balancing. [My] colleague [Mortimer] Frank is quoted in the program notes as preferring this performance of the Jupiter to the two later Toscanini readings captured on tape, calling this performance free from excessive haste, texturally transparent, and remarkably flexible in rhythm.


[The estimate of Pictures of an Exhibition (Orchestrated by Ravel) is given considerable length in this review, so you are referred to the complete text. Other aspects of the album connected to the 9 April 1944 concert and the Bonus disc of rehearsal excerpts are also set forth in the complete text of this lengthy assessment.]



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Philharmonic-Symphony Society of New York

Two Complete Concerts


2 February 1936 Concert - Carnegie Hall

Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 2

Brahms: Concerto No. 2 in B-flat major

Robert Casadesus, pf


Beethoven: Coriolan Overture

Beethoven: Symphony No. 4 in B-flat major


Bonus: Beethoven Triple Concerto (1942)


Complete Concert 19 April 1936

All Debussy


Le Martyre de Saint-Sébastien: Le Cour d'Lys

Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune

Nuages - Fêtes - Ibéria


La Damoiselle Élue

(Bid Sayão - Rose Bampton)

Womens Chorus of the Schola Cantorum


La Mer

Four discs for the price of three


This private off-the-air recording of a memorable concert in Toscanini’s last year with the Philharmonic has been very extensively worked upon to correct many pitch variances, minimize surface noise, fill in turnover gaps, and improve the dynamics that were compressed by the radio broadcast limiters. While in better sound than some home-recorded discs, the surface noise can rather high in some places, and while these don’t offer sonics of modern recordings, they are all we have and are, thus, a treasurable part of our cultural legacy.


The bonus Beethoven Triple Concerto, though noisy, has remarkable presence and focus of sound, hugely improved over the gravely over-filtered Naxos version that we endured with their re-engineering of our restoration, now released in this album with much relief.


The All Debussy concert offers somewhat better tone and dimension than what has been previously available, with many pitch problems corrected, and dynamics expanded to compensate the poor microphone placement and radio limiters of the time. The magazine Musical America devoted an entire page to this concert, its reviewer (Oscar Thompson) writing that . . . as a program, this was the outstanding novelty of the orchestral year, one which was among the most distinctive of Toscanini’s American achievements . . . in finish, balance of parts and beauty of tone, Toscanini’s orchestral performance could scarcely have been surpassed.



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PHILHARMONIC-SYMPHONY OF
NEW YORK


COMPLETE CONCERT: 1 March 1936

Weber - Verdi - Debussy

Goldmark - Wagner

with Dusolina Giannini, soprano

Milton Cross, commentator


and


COMPLETE CONCERT: 23 February 1936

Beethoven: First Symphony

Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 4

Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 27

Rudolf Serkin, pf (American Debut)


Bach: Toccata and Fugue - Orchestrated by Sir Henry Wood

(with full broadcast commentary)


The legacy of private recordings made of the New York Philharmonic broadcasts of the 1935 and 1936 seasons when they were directed by Toscanini have had little circulation and those which have been reproduced have been in appallingly bad sound (with gaps every 15 minutes while the private recordist changed discs). The reasons for this dismal state of affair is set forth in this album but there is a bright side: our discovery of the first generation copy of the original lacquers. These provide superior sonics and, while the lacquers are sporadically noisy, a rich experience of the two concerts is now possible. There are no gaps and broadcast commentary is included for both performances. The booklet offers extensive texts about the performances and includes detailed recording notes. This is the first in a planned series of Toscanini New York Philharmonic restorations we will be releasing, albums that we believe will justly be considered the ultimate editions.


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RED CROSS BENEFIT CONCERT

New York Philharmonic and NBC Symphony Orchestras

Leonard Warren, Zinka Milanov, Jan Peerce, Nan Merriman, Nicola Moscona


600 Voice Chorus

WAGNER - VERDI - SOUSA

TOSCANINI

Madison Square Garden - 25 May 1944


Of all the many wartime benefit concerts conducted by Toscanini, this one, performed in the old Madison Square Garden before an audience of over 19,000 music lovers, was the most stupendous. For this occasion the New York Philharmonic and the NBC Symphony were fused into one orchestra of over 200 musicians. With a chorus of 600 voices, and with famed soloists from the Metropolitan Opera, this is a concert of historic importance. Superb sound; extensive program notes. The bonus presents the VE Day broadcast in which Toscanini conducted the Beethoven Fifth Symphony


This immense concert offers, among other memorable performances, what may be the most electrifying, deeply moving performances of the Liebestod from Tristan und Isolde ever conducted by the Maestro. For those who revere these artists, musicians and conductor, this is the ultimate, never to be forgotten, memento of an unparalleled musical event.


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ARTURO TOSCANINI


VERDI REQUIEM


BBC Choral Society

BBC Symphony Orchestra


Milanov - Roswaenge - Thorborg - Moscona


Broadcast 27 May 1938

with commentary and ovation


Bonus


Beethoven Fourth Symphony in B-Flat Major, Op. 60

BBC Symphony Orchestra

Broadcast 19 May 1938

with commentary and ovation


The Immortal Performances restoration of the 1938 Verdi Requiem BBCSO is startlingly better than Testament and shows what has been greatly missing until now - its fine presence and frequency range.

Christopher Dyment, author of Toscanini in Britain


Best sound over all previous editions. Extensive notes and broadcast commentary and ovations.


Recently, Mr. Caniell’s attention returned to this BBC 1938 Verdi Requiem broadcast previously released in a good transfer by Testament, though our sound engineer had different ideas of how it should sound. Testament’s exceedingly wide distribution cancelled his intent to work on, and release, the BBC until now, 10 years later. During these intervening years of enlarged experience with restoration techniques, Mr. Caniell re-affirmed that while the Testament edition was good, its sound was compressed in a way that could be made far better.


Mr. Caniell’s transfer is taken from the tapes given to him by Richard Gardner, Toscaninni’s sound editor. Mr. Caniell writes in his Recording Notes: What you have in your hands is the result of my endeavor to open up the tonal spectrum, reduce the thick bottom end, and enliven the performance by restoring lost overtones. In addition, I endeavored to further restore the dynamics between piano and forte, recreating, so far as possible, the heaven-storming crescendi that the Old Man achieved with the BBC forces.



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FROM TOSCANINI'S PERSONAL COLLECTION


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ARTURO TOSCANINI

NBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

4 March 1938


VERDI REQUIEM


Milanov, Kullman, Castagna, Moscona, Westminster Choir


Benefit Concert - Carnegie Hall


Bonus:

All-Verdi NBC Concert, 31 January 1943

Peerce, Della Chiesa, Moscona / chorus


Two Complete Concerts


Of the six recordings of Toscanini’s performances of the Verdi Requiem known to me, the 1938 NBC performance seems to me in many ways the most beautiful and most remarkable of them all.

Harvey Sachs, author of Toscanini


One of Toscanini's most memorable achievements with this great work, never broadcast in the U.S., in good sound. Perhaps Milanov's greatest singing of this music. This virtually unknown performance with the NBC Symphony, from Toscanini's personal collection, was passed down from Toscanini to Richard Gardner, his sound engineer, who in turn gave it to our archivist and sound engineer, Richard Caniell. A stupendous performance! Bonus: All Verdi NBC Concert, 31 January 1943 with Peerce, Della Chiesa, Moscona and chorus. The concert includes music from Forza del Destino, Nabucco, Traviata, Otello and the first U.S. performances of Hymn of the Nations in an electrifying performance. Much of this program has not been previously released.


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ARTURO TOSCANINI


VERDI - TE DEUM AND REQUIEM 1940

NBC Symphony Orchestra

Westminster Choir


Milanov - Björling - Castagna - Moscona


Also


MEMORIAL PROGRAMS


This much-circulated broadcast is here presented in the best sonics ever heard together with the full broadcast commentary. Also includes Memorial comments connected with Toscanini’s death as well as the WQXR program The Impact of Toscanini. Articles, biographies, Recording Notes.


TOSCANINI 150TH ANNIVERSARY


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ARTURO TOSCANINI


THE VICTOR RECORDINGS RESTORED

1929-1936


Their natural sound cleansed and envitalized as you’ve never previously heard them.


Rossini: Overtures to L’Italiana in Algeri

Barber of Seville

Semiramide

Haydn: Symphony No. 101 in D Major, “Clock”

Mozart: Symphony No. 35 in D Major, K 386 “Haffner”

Mendelssohn: Scherzo (Midsummer Night’s Dream)

Beethoven: Symphony No. 5 in C Minor (1933)

Beethoven: Symphony No. 7 in A Major

Verdi: La Traviata Preludes I & III

Gluck: Orfeo ed Euridice: Dance of the Blessed Spirits

Dukas: The Sorcerer’s Apprentice

Brahms: Variations on a Theme by Haydn

Wagner: Lohengrin Preludes to Acts I & III

Wagner: Siegfried’s Rhine Journey (Götterdämmerung)

Wagner: Siegfried Idyll


The excellently recorded, familiar Victor discs receive here a restoration that puts their cherished qualities into new and more dimensional sound. A complete delight!


TOSCANINI 150TH ANNIVERSARY


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