Showing posts with label NBC SO. Show all posts
Showing posts with label NBC SO. Show all posts

15 November 2023

24/48: Arturo Toscanini / NBC SO - Manfred Symphony - Nutcracker - Kikimora - RCA 1949-1952

Peter Tchaikovsky:
"Manfred" Symphony in B minor, op.58   (5 December 1949) 
I:
Lento lugubre (Andante) ~ II: Vivace con spirito ~ III: Andante con moto ~ IV: Allegro con fuoco

The Nutcracker suite, op.71a  
Overture Miniature ~ Marche ~ Dance of the Sugar-Plum Fairy ~ Trepak ~ Arabian Dance ~ Chinese Dance ~ Dance of the Mirlitons ~ Waltz of the Flowers   (19 November 1951)

Anatoli Liadov:
"Kikimora", op.63   (29 July 1952)

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NBC Symphony Orchestra  conducted by  Arturo Toscanini

RCA  RB 16090 
1959 Decca LP/matrices: E0LRC3812/3 -1A  +  Franklin Mint (1983) TOS015A / TOS10B.   Recorded: Carnegie Hall.     RCA Sleeve/label + Nutcracker label >>>

31 October 2023

24/48: Arturo Toscanini / NBC SO - Debussy. La Mer -&- Iberia - RCA 1950

Claude Debussy: 
"La Mer" - De l'aube a midi sur la mer ~ Jeux de vagues ~ Dialogue du vent et de la mer 
"Iberia" - Par les rues et par les chemins ~ Les Parfums de la nuit ... Le matin d'un jour de fete 

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NBC Symphony Orchestra  conducted by  Arturo Toscanini

RCA Victrola  VIC 1052 
1963 LP/Decca. Matrices: E1LRC0241 -1A / E2RC4035 -1A.  Recorded: 1 / 2 June 1950 - NBC Studio 8-H, New York

Sleeve-note + Labels >>>  1935 BBC SO - La Mer / Elgar Enigma >>>

29 August 2023

24/48: Arturo Toscanini / NBC SO - Feste Romane ~ Tod und Verklarung ~ Die Walkure ~ Tannhauser - RCA 1949+1952

Richard Strauss: "Tod und Verklarung" op.24   (10 March 1952) 
Richard Wagner: "Die Walkure" - Ride of the Valkyries   (3 January 1952) 
Richard Wagner: "Tannhauser" - Overture & Venusberg music   (8 November 1952  TX)  First LP issue
Ottorino Respighi: "Feste Romane"  (12 December 1949) 

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NBC Symphony Orchestra  conducted by  Arturo Toscanini

Franklin Mint 
1983 LP's. TOS08B / TOS013B / TOS09A+B.  Recorded: Carnegie Hall

15 January 2015

Arturo Toscanini / NBC SO - American in Paris ~ L'Arlesienne ~ Suppe, Waldteufel, Sousa - NBC/RCA 1943/45

Georges Bizet:  "L'Arlesienne"  - Suites 1 / 2  (excerpts)
I: Prelude ~ Minuetto ~ Adagietto   /   II: Pastorale ~ Carillon     (Studio 8-H  - 19 September 1943)
Franz Suppe:  "Poet & Peasant"     (Studio 8-H  - 18 July 1943)  
Emil Waldteufel:  Skater's Waltz, op.183     (Carnegie Hall  - 28 June 1945)            3 files zip FLAC   Mega Download
George Gershwin:  "An American in Paris"  
John Philip Sousa:  "El Capitan"  -  "The Stars and Stripes Forever"      (Studio 8-H  - 18 May 1945)  
John Stafford Smith:  "The Star-Spangled Banner"      (Carnegie Hall  - 19 March 1942)         4 files zip FLAC  Mega Download
The NBC Symphony Orchestra  conducted by  Arturo Toscanini     
Franklin Mint  TOS3  (1983 USA 5 LP's)  sides 4/7/10     label +mr pristine 'studio' piccie >>>
The Bizet extends to c.10kHz (piccolo to c.13kHz...); the former being the limits of Rose's claimed 'best transfer': http://conta.cc/1AXFuC5

08 May 2014

Arturo Toscanini conducts... Wagner. Die Walkure -&- Gotterdammerung - Traubel / Melchior - NBC 1941

Richard Wagner:
"Die Walkure"  - Act One, Scene 3   
"Die Gotterdammerung"  - Daybreak ~ Brunnhilde & Siegfried ~ Siegfried's Rhine Journey   
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Helen Traubel, Soprano  -  Lauritz Melchior, Tenor 
The NBC Symphony Orchestra  conducted by  Arturo Toscanini  
RCA  RB 16274   First Edition 1962 Decca LP/mastering. Matrices: F2RP 6398 -1A / F2RP 6399 -1A     
NBC Broadcast of 22 February 1941 -  Carnegie Hall, New York 
Lots of acetate clicks, etc, removed.  Slight treble enhancement       Sleeve-note / EMG review >>> 

05 February 2014

Arturo Toscanini / NBC SO - Shostakovich. Symphony 7 - 'Leningrad' - NBC Concert 1942

Dmitri Shostakovitch: 
Symphony no.7 in C major, op.60   "Leningrad" 
I: Allegretto  ~  II: Moderato (Poco allegretto)  ~  III: Adagio  ~  IV: Allegro non troppo
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The NBC Symphony Orchestra  conducted by  Arturo Toscanini 
Live Broadcast: 19 July 1942 - Studio 8-H, NBC Radio City Studios. New York.      
A FLAC file appeared on 'Symphonyshare' - from which this derives; previously there was a 256mp3.  The recording, off-air, is presumably studio-made as the concert runs without breaks - other than about a dozen 'gaps' (and overlaps) - which I have remedied. There was considerable Electrical Storm interference - together with a variety of clicks, etc.  The enormous amount of re-editing includes a slight re-equalisation.    
June 1942 Henry Wood Proms Concert (LPO/Sir Henry Wood) - "The Times" review >>>

04 May 2012

Arturo Toscanini / NBC SO - Rossini Overtures - RCA 1945

Gioachino Rossini:  Operatic Overtures -

"Il Barbiere di Siviglia"    (28 June 1945)
"La Gazza Ladra"        (28 June 1945)    
"La Cenerentola"      (8 June 1945)   
"Il Signor Bruschino"      (8 June 1945)                                                            4 files zip FLAC  Mega Download

The NBC Symphony Orchestra  conducted by  Arturo Toscanini 
HMV  ALP 1007   1956 pressing.  RCA LM 1044 matrices: E0-LRC 3806 -21S / 3807 -21S   Recorded: Carnegie Hall, New York.   
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