Toscanini Rarities

1. Symphony No. 2 in C major, Op. 61
Composed by Robert Schumann
Performed by NBC Symphony Orchestra Conducted by Arturo Toscanini

2. Scherzo capriccioso for orchestra, B. 131 (Op. 66)
Composed by Antonin Dvorak
Performed by NBC Symphony Orchestra Conducted by Arturo Toscanini

3. Symphony No. 29 in A major, K. 201 (K. 186a)
Composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Performed by NBC Symphony Orchestra Conducted by Arturo Toscanini

Toscanini Rarities,Toscanini,Dvorak,Schumann,Mozart,Grammofono 2000,Classical

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Salzburg Festival Rarities, Vol. 1 Manufacturer: The Radio Years ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD All Works by Beethoven | Beethoven, Ludwig van | ( B ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Weber | Weber, Carl Maria von | ( W ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General Modern | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music | Cantatas | Romances Romantic (c.1820-1910) | Historical Periods | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music German | Languages | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music ASIN: B0000040U5 Release Date: 1996-12-16

Tracks:

1. Radio Announcement - Arturo Toscanini
2. Fidelio, Act I: Ov - VPO/Arturo Toscanini
3. Fidelio, Act I: Jetzt, Schatzen, Jetzt Sind Wir Allein - Hermann Gallos/Luise Helletsgruber
4. Fidelio, Act I: Oh War' Ich Schon Mit Dir Vereint - Luise Helletsgruber
5. Fidelio, Act I: Mir Ist So Wunderbar - Luise Helletsgruber/Lotte Lehmann/Hermann Gallos/Anton Baumann
6. Fidelio, Act I: Hat Man Nicht Auch Gold Beineben - Anton Baumann
7. Fidelio, Act I: Gut, Sohnchen, Gut - Anton Baumann/Lotte Lehmann/Luise Helletsgruber
8. Fidelio, Act I: Pizarro's March - VPO/Arturo Toscanini
9. Fidelio, Act I: Hah, Welch Ein Augenblick - Alfred Jerger/Chor Der Wiener Staatsoper
10. Fidelio, Act I: Jetzt, Alter, Jetzt Hat Es Eile - Anton Baumann/Alfred Jerger
11. Der Freischutz, Act I: Oh Diese Sonne - Franz Volker/Carl Bissuti/Chor Deer Wiener Staatsoper
12. Der Freischutz, Act I: Hier Im Ird' Schen Jammertal - Michael Bohnen
13. Der Freischutz, Act II: Leise, Leise, Fromme Weise - Tiana Lemnitz
14. Der Freischutz: Schutze, Der Im Dunkeln Wacht - Michael Bohnen/Chor Der Wiener Staatsoper

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Arturo Toscanini: His Romantic Rarities Manufacturer: Iron Needle Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Bellini, Vincenzo | ( B ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Berlioz | Berlioz, Hector | ( B ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Tchaikovsky | Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilyich | ( T ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Wagner | Wagner, Richard | ( W ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Mendelssohn | Mendelssohn, Felix | ( M ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Symphonies | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music | Baroque | Classical | General | Modern & 20th Century | Romantic | Sinfonia | Sinfonia Concertante Overtures | Theatrical, Incidental & Program Music | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music Toscanini, Arturo | ( T ) | Featured Performers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Romantic (c.1820-1910) | Historical Periods | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music German | Languages | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Italian | Languages | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music ASIN: B000050I33 Release Date: 2000-11-28

Tracks:

1. Norma, Act I: Ite Sul Colle, O Druidi - Nicola Moscona/Westminster Chor
2. Les Francs-Juges, (Conc Ov), Op.3
3. Die Schone Melusine, (Conc Ov) Op.32
4. Rienzi: Ov
5. Der Fliegende Hollander: Ov
6. Symphonic Fant in f After Shakespeare, Op.18: La Tempete

Average customer rating: Fun and Funky Toscanini Broadcasts!

Toscanini Rarities On Radio 1939-1943 Manufacturer: Enterprise ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Waltzes | Ballets & Dances | Classical | Styles | Music Enescu, Georges | ( E ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Glinka | Glinka, Mikhail | ( G ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Liszt | Liszt, Franz | ( L ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Ravel, Maurice | ( R ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Rubinstein | Rubinstein, Anton | ( R ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Suites | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Romantic | Symphonies | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music General | Romantic (c.1820-1910) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General Contemporary | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music Toscanini, Arturo | ( T ) | Featured Performers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music ASIN: B0000040TL Release Date: 1996-01-23

Tracks:

1. Bolero
2. Hungarian Rhapsody No.2 in d
3. Jota aragonesa (Spanish Ov, No.1)
4. Roumanian Rhapsody, No.1 in A
5. Prelude
6. Serenade
7. Aubade
8. Danse bohemienne
9. Vivace

Customer Reviews:

Fun and Funky Toscanini Broadcasts!.......1998-09-16

Here, the "austere" Maestro and musical purist often indulges his wildest excesses (which are but the slightest "Mr. Spock"-like eyebrow- raisings compared to the excesses of Stokowski or Furtwaengler) in light-weight music that he seems to be enjoying to the hilt.

The Toscanini Bolero, at fourteen minutes, is a far cry from the "17 Minutes" specified by the composer (few conductors take this long to play the piece.) But there is extraordinary freedom of expression in this version, especially by the soloists, who inflect and interpret to their hearts' content. And there is a sinuous, jazzy quality to many details in Toscanini's phrasing, as well as occasional "luftpausen" or rhythmical agogics, that would surprise anyone familiar only with the canon of the "strict" Toscanini authorized recordings. The sound is not too much inferior to the earlier Music & Arts LP transfer (poorly reproduced in fake stereo on their 4-disk Toscanini French Music set on CD 898) and has a boldness at the brassy finale that will lift you out of your chair!

The Liszt Hungarian Rhapsody is a raucous, rollicking good time: the Mueller-Berghaus transcription is seldom played (though the late George Solti recently recorded it) and it is an interesting alternative to the "standard" orchestration favored by most conductors. But one must note that the pricey Dell'Arte CD transfer ("Toscanini Conducts Tone Poems") features a cleaner and more accurate rendering of the original source material.

The Rubinstein orchestral transcription is an astonishing tour de force of conducting and mercurial playing that must be heard to be believed!

The Bizet "Fair Maid of Perth" Suite is a bit shy of Beecham's charm (as depicted in his incomparable 1930s shellac set, available on Dutton) but the Maestro and his orchestra raise the voltage to a sizzling potential in the brilliant 'Marche' and final 'Danse Bohemienne'.

Glinka's "Jota" was a Toscanini showpiece, and this reading is one of his best of several broadcasts, though there is a 1945 archival transcription that has more brilliant sound and a bit more panache.

Finally, the Enescu Rumanian Rhapsody No. 1 is simply the most astounding performance it has been my pleasure to hear, over a 45-year career as a music enthusiast and collector. This 1940 reading catches the ensemble at its very height of coherence, and finds Toscanini in a rare mood that encompasses humor and joy, as well as dictatorial precision, in its expression and brilliance.

The only drawback to this extraordinary collection is the sound quality: none of these transfers is precisely equal to the best archival copies (the Enescu has so much extra echo added that the scratches and pops have echoes!) though if one places the preamp mode in L+R mono, some of the rechanneling and added ambience can be cancelled or reduced. It is a pity that these 'bootleg' Italian disks almost always seem to be afflicted with sonic detritus that causes a deterioration in the reality of the original solid single-channel source material. Sigh!

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Rarities Shostakovich , Verdi , Grofe , NBC Sym , and Toscanini Manufacturer: Urania ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Symphonies | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music Compilations | Classical | Styles | Music Classical | Imports | Stores | Music ASIN: B000M4RFPW Release Date: 2007-01-30

Average customer rating: One of the Greatest Schumann Seconds of All Time!

Toscanini Rarities: Schumann/Dvorák/Mozart Manufacturer: Grammofono 2000 ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Dvorák, Antonín | ( D ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus | ( M ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Robert Schumann | Schumann, Robert | ( S ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Classical | Symphonies | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Romantic | Symphonies | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Scherzo | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Symphonies | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music Toscanini, Arturo | ( T ) | Featured Performers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music ASIN: B000003UFZ Release Date: 1995-05-23

Tracks:

1. I. Sostenuto assai-Allegro ma non troppo
2. II. Scherzo. Allegro vivace-Trio
3. III. Adagio molto vivace
4. IV. Allegro molto vivace
5. Scherzo Capriccioso, Op.66
6. I. Allegro moderato
7. II. Andante
8. III. Minuetto
9. IV. Allegro con spirito

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One of the Greatest Schumann Seconds of All Time!.......1998-09-16

This NBC Symphony performance from the live concert of March 29, 1941, preserves an event from one of the finest seasons of the NBC organization (some would say the BEST season of the 17 years that Toscanini led the ensemble.) The Maestro was but a "young" man -- a mere 74! -- and conducts with all the vigor and passion of inflamed youth. The orchestral members catch fire, and pour forth a Schumann C Major that is alive with strength, masculinity, and intensity, while never sacrificing lyricism for mere force or drama. When Toscanini revisited the piece in 1946 (as evidenced by a fine Dell'Arte CD transfer) his viewpoint was slightly detached and magisterial, lacking the elemental energy of the pre-war rendition.

One surmises that the source material of the 1941 program was an early FM radio aircheck disk recording, done on professional gear at 33.3 rpm. There are highs extending up to about 9 kHz: the burr and rasp of the brass is captured very clearly and bitingly, and there is full bass response, which helps moderate the dry quality of Studio 8-H sound (here, but not on original disks, "aided" by extra modern electronic echo.) The reason I suspect that this is an off-air FM recording and NOT an archival in-house 8-H transcription is the rather awful peak limiting that occurs at loud passages involving brilliant high frequencies: note the bright trumpet parts soaring above the orchestra in full cry at about 10:30 - 10:35 elapsed time on Track #1. The trumpet sounds (especially its brilliant overtones) are clearly causing a "ducking effect" of a peak limiter (audible also on the original Clyde Key / Toscanini Society private LP issue of the early seventies.)

This 'burping' sound is NEVER noticeable on first-generation in-house RCA disks, as released on the BMG series, the WRVR rebroadcasts, or the best of the Clyde Key / Toscanini Society LP recordings of post-war broadcasts. I would guess that this MAY be a live 1941 "simulcast" on RCA's experimental FM station W2XMN, as taken down at home by a certain professional radio engineer who lived in the New York area, and whose voluminous transcription collection sourced many of the Clyde Key society LP issues. This technical limiting artifact is really the only shortcoming of the recording: even the extra phony echo added by Grammophono does not totally wreck one's pleasure in the performance (as happens in some other of their issues, as well as Iron Needle's frequent travesties.)

The original source recording of the April, 1940 broadcast of the Dvorak Scherzo Capriccioso sounds like a good-quality AM radio aircheck disk. The highs cut off at about 5 kHz, but all in all, the sound is typical of commercial 78s of the period. Toscanini is especially relaxed here, and does not push the tempi as he does in his commercial recordings of other Czech pieces (such as the Moldau and New World Symphony.) The reading reminds me very much of the very affectionate old Neumann/Czech Philharmonic stereo LP of the early sixties, or even of some of the finest of the Talich renditions of Dvorak. Play this track "anonymously" for a Toscanini hater and have her guess who the conductor might be. Most prejudiced anti-Toscaninians think that the Italian maestro conducted everything at breakneck tempo and with clipped phrasing: here all is soulful expression combined with moderate pacing.

The Mozart Symphony No. 29 is NOT a great performance: taken down at a broadcast of Sept. 1943, the sound is pieced together from several different disk sources with varying high frequency content and distortion components, and is mostly wiry and thin (as were the "bootleg" tapes that have circulated among collectors); the opening of the symphony is played clumsily and tentatively; there are no repeats in the sixteen and a half minutes' duration of the reading; and the gallantry of the music is given short shrift in the attempt at celerity and virtuosity. Yet certain lyrical passages are played with too much legato and sustenuto, in phrasing that seems mannered and old-fashioned (rather like Pablo Casals' conducting of Mozart on many Columbia LPs and CDs of live Marlboro Festival performances.) There are innumerable later performances to be preferred (such as the speedy but expressive Bruno Walter rendering of 1954 in the Sony Bruno Walter Edition CD series) but few earlier ones: the Beecham shellac recordings predating this Toscanini broadcast were not well received by the critics in comparison to his towering interpretations of the G Minor and other Mozart symphonies. But if one desires a modern transfer of this particular Toscanini broadcast (which, one admits, does contain a nice and effective Andante movement, displaying Toscanini's concentration on the lyrical line), this Grammophono production is vastly superior to the wretched caricature on Iron Needle.

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Arturo Toscanini Rarities (1936-1943) Manufacturer: Iron Needle Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Waltzes | Ballets & Dances | Classical | Styles | Music Enescu, Georges | ( E ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Glinka | Glinka, Mikhail | ( G ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Goldmark | Goldmark, Karl | ( G ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Liszt | Liszt, Franz | ( L ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Moore | Moore, Thomas | ( M ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Ravel, Maurice | ( R ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Rubinstein | Rubinstein, Anton | ( R ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Saint-Saëns, Camille | ( S ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Strauss | Strauss, Richard | ( S ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Verdi | Verdi, Giuseppe | ( V ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Wagner | Wagner, Richard | ( W ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Weber | Weber, Carl Maria von | ( W ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Debussy | Debussy, Claude | ( D ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Suites | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Romantic | Symphonies | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Overtures | Theatrical, Incidental & Program Music | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Tone Poems | Theatrical, Incidental & Program Music | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Chamber Music | Forms & Genres | Romantic (c.1820-1910) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Romantic (c.1820-1910) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Vocal & Song | Romantic (c.1820-1910) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General Contemporary | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music Toscanini, Arturo | ( T ) | Featured Performers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Romantic (c.1820-1910) | Historical Periods | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music German | Languages | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Italian | Languages | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music ASIN: B00005OC6Q Release Date: 2001-09-04

Tracks:

1. Bolero
2. Hungarian Rhap No.2 in d
3. Jota Aragonesa - Spanish Ov No.1
4. Romanian Rhap no.1 in A
5. La Jolie Fille De Perth, Conc Ste: Prld
6. La Jolie Fille De Perth, Conc Ste: Ser
7. La Jolie Fille De Perth, Conc Ste: Aubade
8. La Jolie Fille De Perth, Conc Ste: Danse Bohemienne
9. Valse Caprice in E flat

Tracks:

1. Der Freischutz, Ov - Arturo Toscanini/New York PO
2. Aida: Ritorna Vincitor - Dusolina Giannini/Arturo Toscanini/New York PO
3. Danse Macabre in g, Op.4 - Arturo Toscanini/New York PO
4. Prld A L'apres-midi D'un Faune - Arturo Toscanini/New York PO
5. Zueignung - Dusolina Giannini/Edwin McArthur/Arturo Toscanini/New York PO
6. Believe Me All Those Endearing Young Charms - Dusolina Giannini/Edwin McArthur/Arturo Toscanini/New York PO
7. Sym Op.26 'Rustic Wedding': Scherzo - Arturo Toscanini/New York PO
8. Lohengrin: Prld To Act 3 - Arturo Toscanini/New York PO

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Salzburg Festival Rarities, Vol. 1 Manufacturer: Enterprise ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD All Works by Beethoven | Beethoven, Ludwig van | ( B ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Weber | Weber, Carl Maria von | ( W ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General Modern | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra | ( V ) | Featured Performers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music | Cantatas | Romances Romantic (c.1820-1910) | Historical Periods | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music German | Languages | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music ASIN: B000024KZX Release Date: 1996-11-19

Tracks:

1. Radio Announcement - Arturo Toscanini
2. Fidelio, Act I: Ov - VPO/Arturo Toscanini
3. Fidelio, Act I: Jetzt, Schatzen, Jetzt Sind Wir Allein - Hermann Gallos/Luise Helletsgruber
4. Fidelio, Act I: Oh War' Ich Schon Mit Dir Vereint - Luise Helletsgruber
5. Fidelio, Act I: Mir Ist So Wunderbar - Luise Helletsgruber/Lotte Lehmann/Hermann Gallos/Anton Baumann
6. Fidelio, Act I: Hat Man Nicht Auch Gold Beineben - Anton Baumann
7. Fidelio, Act I: Gut, Sohnchen, Gut - Anton Baumann/Lotte Lehmann/Luise Helletsgruber
8. Fidelio, Act I: Pizarro's March - VPO/Arturo Toscanini
9. Fidelio, Act I: Hah, Welch Ein Augenblick - Alfred Jerger/Chor Der Wiener Staatsoper
10. Fidelio, Act I: Jetzt, Alter, Jetzt Hat Es Eile - Anton Baumann/Alfred Jerger
11. Der Freischutz, Act I: Oh Diese Sonne - Franz Volker/Carl Bissuti/Chor Deer Wiener Staatsoper
12. Der Freischutz, Act I: Hier Im Ird' Schen Jammertal - Michael Bohnen
13. Der Freischutz, Act II: Leise, Leise, Fromme Weise - Tiana Lemnitz
14. Der Freischutz: Schutze, Der Im Dunkeln Wacht - Michael Bohnen/Chor Der Wiener Staatsoper

Track Listings:

1. Violin Works
2. Walter in London
3. With the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra 1925-1927
4. 1st Recordings 2
5. At Glyndebourne 1
6. Bach: Kantaten / Fischer-Dieskau, Lehmann, Ristenpart
7. Beethoven: Symphonies 1-9 [Felix Weingartner: 1927-1938, The First Recording of Beethoven's Complete Symphonies]
8. Beethoven: Symphony No. 4/Symphony No. 7/Leonore Overture No. 1
9. Bernstein Conducts Mussorgsky, Dukas, Prokofiev, Saint-Saëns
10. Best From Her Acoustic Recordings / Opera Arias

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