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This is fun if you’re either a Kleiber or a Borodin maven. Both of these performances are relatively well-known: Erich Kleiber’s NBC performance from its
EMI has managed to complete its Great Conductors of the 20th Century series without including Mengelberg and Bernstein among a chosen 40 that found room
Toscanini’s Debussy interpretations are fabulous, nowhere more so than here. These were his last Debussy performances, captured on October 13-14, 1953, in Carnegie Hall. The
Transferred from what collectors like to call “inside” sources, Music and Arts’ previous edition of Toscanini’s November 23, 1940 Verdi Requiem has long been the
It’s so satisfying when an historical issue has some merit beyond the fact of its mere existence, or has the potential to appeal to an
This exceptional concert, taken from a broadcast on December 7, 1940, offers uniformly excellent performances of a wide range of Sibelius’ finest works. It’s also
Recorded with the usual dryness at NBC’s Studio 8H, this well-restored concert sounds rather good considering the date (April 9th, 1944). Prosaic sonorities from the
Collectors who can’t locate RCA’s reissue of Toscanini’s justly fabled Berlioz Roméo et Juliette with the NBC Symphony (the two-part broadcast of February 9 &
The two concerto recordings Vladimir Horowitz made in the early 1940s under the watchful baton of his father-in-law Arturo Toscanini were best sellers in their
This remains the best performance ever recorded of a major opera with a less than stellar cast. All the singers are scrupulous, of course, but
