Arturo Toscanini: Complete HMV Recordings | Warner - Icon 7233342

Arturo Toscanini: Complete HMV Recordings

Label: Warner - Icon

Cat No: 7233342

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 6

Genre: Orchestral

Release Date: 4th February 2013

Contents

About

Known simply as ‘The Maestro’, Toscanini attracted adoring fans wherever and whenever he performed and his visit to London in 1935 was nothing short of a sensation, quickly becoming the hottest ticket in town.

Toscanini had already dazzled London audiences in 1930 with the New York Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra and when he returned to the capital five years later he performed with a British ensemble for the first time: the BBC Symphony Orchestra. Formed in 1930, the BBCSO quickly established a reputation for virtuosity and was an ideal vehicle for Toscanini’s fiery musicianship. His visit was without question the highlight of the orchestra’s short history to that date.

The HMV recordings that result from this collaboration has simply not been overpassed. For instance, his outstanding performance of La Mer benefits from a both a vital energy and a variety of colour (that the recording, despite of his age, is surprisingly fully able to bring to our ears) and explains by itself the higher respect from the composer to the maestro.

Contents:
CD 1
[74:14]
Edward Elgar
- Variations on an Original Theme, Op.36 "Enigma"
Recorded: 3.VI.1935, Queen’s Hall, London (Live)

Jean Sibelius
- Symphony No.2 in D, Op.43
Recorded: 10.VI.1938, Queen’s Hall, London (Live) P 1938/1990

CD 2 [75:01]
Richard Wagner
- Faust Ouverture
Recorded: 5.VI.1935, Queen’s Hall, London (Live)

- Götterdämmerung: Siegfried's death & funeral March
Recorded: 5.VI.1935, Queen’s Hall, London (Live)

- Parsifal: Prelude and Good Friday Music
Recorded: 05.VI.1935, Queen’s Hall, London (Live)

Claude Debussy
- La Mer, trois esquisses symphoniques
Recorded: 12 & 14.VI.1935, Queen’s Hall, London (Live)

CD 3 [69:12]
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- Die Zauberflöte: Overture
Recorded: 2.VI.1938, Queen’s Hall, London (Studio)

Gioacchino Rossini
- La Scala di Seta: Overture
Recorded: 2.VI.1938, Queen’s Hall, London (Live) P 1938/1992

- Semiramide: Overture
Recorded: 12.VI.1935, Queen’s Hall, London (Live)

Felix Mendelssohn
A Midsummer Night's Dream
- Nocturne (Entr'acte after Act 3)
- Scherzo (Entr'acte after Act 1)
Recorded: 14.VI.1935, Queen’s Hall, London (Live)

Carl Maria von Weber
- Aufforderung zum Tanze, Op.65 orch Berlioz
Recorded: 2.VI.1938, Queen’s Hall, London (Studio) P 1938/1992

Ludwig van Beethoven
- Leonore, Overture No.1, Op.138
- Die Geschöpfe des Prometheus, Op.43
Recorded: 01.VI.1939, Queen’s Hall, London (Studio)

Johannes Brahms
- Tragic Overture, Op.81
Recorded: 25.X.1937, Queen’s Hall, London

CD 4 [71:56]
Ludwig van Beethoven
- Symphony No.1 in C major, Op.21
Recorded: I-III, 25.X.1937, IV, 02.VI.1938, Queen’s Hall, London

- Symphony No.6 in F major, Op.68 "Pastoral"
Recorded: II, 17.VI.1937, I and III-V, 21 and 22. X.1937, Queen’s Hall, London

CD 5 [76:31]
Ludwig van Beethoven
- Symphony No.4 in B-flat major, Op.60
Recorded: 01.VI.1939, Queen’s Hall, London (Studio)

- Symphony No.7 in A major, Op.92
Recorded: 14.VI.1935, Queen’s Hall, London (Live)

CD 6 [75:04]
Johannes Brahms
- Symphony No.2 in D major, Op.73
Recorded: 10.VI.1938, Queen’s Hall, London (Live)

- Symphony No.4 in E minor, Op.98
Recorded: 3 & 5.VI.1935, Queen’s Hall, London (Live)

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