Arturo Toscanini: The Essential Recordings
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Label: Sony
Cat No: 88985376042
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 20
Release Date: 27th January 2017
Contents
Works
Adagio for Strings, op.11Symphony no.4 in B flat major, op.60
Symphony no.5 in C minor, op.67
Symphony no.7 in A major, op.92
La Damnation de Faust, op.24 H111
Variations on a theme by Haydn, op.56a 'St Anthony Variations'
Images pour orchestre
Orfeo ed Euridice (Orpheus and Eurydice)
Symphony no.101 in D major, Hob.I:101 'The Clock'
Hary Janos Suite
Kikimora, op.63
A Midsummer Night's Dream: Incidental Music, op.61
Symphony no.35 in D major, K385 'Haffner'
Symphony no.41 in C major, K551 'Jupiter'
La Boheme
Daphnis et Chloe: Suite no.2
Feste Romane (Roman Festivals), P157
L'italiana in Algeri (Italian Girl in Algiers)
Symphony no.3 in E flat major, op.97 'Rhenish'
Lemminkainen Suite, op.22
Don Juan, op.20
Salome, op.54
Symphony no.6 in B minor, op.74 'Pathetique'
Falstaff
Otello
Rigoletto
Der Freischutz, J277
Artists
NBC Symphony OrchestraNew York Philharmonic Orchestra
Philadelphia Orchestra
Conductor
Arturo ToscaniniWorks
Adagio for Strings, op.11Symphony no.4 in B flat major, op.60
Symphony no.5 in C minor, op.67
Symphony no.7 in A major, op.92
La Damnation de Faust, op.24 H111
Variations on a theme by Haydn, op.56a 'St Anthony Variations'
Images pour orchestre
Orfeo ed Euridice (Orpheus and Eurydice)
Symphony no.101 in D major, Hob.I:101 'The Clock'
Hary Janos Suite
Kikimora, op.63
A Midsummer Night's Dream: Incidental Music, op.61
Symphony no.35 in D major, K385 'Haffner'
Symphony no.41 in C major, K551 'Jupiter'
La Boheme
Daphnis et Chloe: Suite no.2
Feste Romane (Roman Festivals), P157
L'italiana in Algeri (Italian Girl in Algiers)
Symphony no.3 in E flat major, op.97 'Rhenish'
Lemminkainen Suite, op.22
Don Juan, op.20
Salome, op.54
Symphony no.6 in B minor, op.74 'Pathetique'
Falstaff
Otello
Rigoletto
Der Freischutz, J277
Artists
NBC Symphony OrchestraNew York Philharmonic Orchestra
Philadelphia Orchestra
Conductor
Arturo ToscaniniAbout
This collection of Arturo Toscanini’s essential recordings marks the 150th anniversary of the conductor’s birth in 2017 as well as the 80th anniversary of the founding of the NBC Symphony Orchestra – the last organisation with which he had a long and fruitful relationship. It is also the 60th anniversary of Toscanini’s death. In most of his repertoire, Toscanini conducts the NBC Symphony and there are some outstanding examples of his work with the New York Philharmonic and the Philadelphia Orchestra. These earlier recordings are particularly significant because of the flexibility and detail of the interpretations.
The recordings heard in the present collection were all made for RCA Victor between 1929, when Toscanini was 62 years old, and 1952, when he was 85, and they provide a fair representation of his repertoire preferences. (Toscanini’s lifetime repertoire comprised 115 operas by 53 composers and over 600 concert pieces by 184 composers; all of this music was rehearsed and performed from memory.) Chronologically by work, this collection begins with a live concert performance of the second act of Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice, which had its première in 1762, and end with Samuel Barber’s ever-popular Adagio for Strings (an arrangement of the second movement of the String Quartet, op. 11), of which Toscanini himself conducted the world première in 1938. In between, there are Classical and Romantic orchestral works by Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Weber, Rossini, Schubert, Berlioz, Mendelssohn, Schumann, Wagner, Brahms, Tchaikovsky and Liadov; music by Toscanini’s contemporaries Debussy, Richard Strauss and Sibelius; and other pieces by composers younger than himself: Ravel, Respighi and Kodály. In addition, there are recordings of live concert performances of whole scenes (with vocal soloists) from Wagner’s Die Walküre and Götterdämmerung; two complete Verdi operas – Otello and Falstaff, plus the final act of Rigoletto; and Puccini’s La Bohème as performed and broadcast in 1946, on the fiftieth anniversary of the work’s première, which Toscanini had conducted.
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