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Guido Cantelli’s relatively small yet significant legacy of commercial recordings for EMI have been kept alive on CD, chiefly through the label’s Great Recordings of
About the time I started collecting LPs, everyone was agog over Toscanini’s Verdi Requiem and Te Deum. The transfers were so bad you couldn’t prove
Principal competition for these performances comes from RCA’s complete Heifetz Edition. The Brahms appears in Volume 4, the Beethoven in Volume 5. Both of these
Sony/BMG’s second Vladimir Horowitz Original Jacket edition draws on the piano legend’s RCA Victor recordings, dating from the late 1920s up through his 1982 London
Not surprisingly, Leopold Stokowski’s recordings with the NBC Symphony have the orchestra sounding very different from the way it did for Toscanini, nowhere more so
This MHS release presents RCA’s Toscanini French Orchestral Music collection reviewed last year (type Q624 in Search Reviews). To that highly positive assessment I can
In the early days of stereo many significant non-stereo productions were slighted by collectors in their rush to pursue two-channel re-recordings. Toscanini’s mono “New Orthophonic”
One of the outstanding musical events of recent times…, announces the original broadcast host at the beginning of the CD. And he’s right. Toscanini 1939
One of the things that I have always liked about Toscanini is the fact that he liked Haydn’s symphonies better than Mozart’s, a preference with
It was fun getting to know these vintage Toscanini performances again. Fans of the conductor know that the great Brahms performances remain his live Philharmonia
