30 November 2011

Rare Toscanini 027 - Salzburg 1937 & NY 1945



The fragments from Salzburg Festival are among the rarest Toscanini documents posted until now.
A shortwave broadcast carefully restored by me, with a lot of work. Pant! Pant! Puf! Puf!

Not only, but the Strauss - in my opinion - is really a MUST in the entire history of the recorded music.

Then, his last NYPO concert: again, AT at his best.


Flac - Cover

Mega
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14 November 2011

Couperin, Bizet, Saint-Saens - Casadesus NYPO Rodzinski (reup)



A "French concert" conducted by Rodzinski in New York.
La Sultane (Overture and Allegro) is presented in the re-orchestration by Darius Milhaud.

Live Recordings - 1944

Flac & Scans
reup (see comments)

5 November 2011

Rare Toscanini 026 - The Red Cross Concert 1944 - NYPO & NBC





Hi friends!

I spent ten days WWWW (Without WWW): problems, problems and problems again with my ç@%/ò# Internet provider.

Well, everything (I hope) finally resolved.

Meanwhile I've ripped some cds and prepared some uploads...
Here the first.




THE RED CROSS CONCERT 1944


WAGNER

Tannhäuser, Overture
Siegfried's Rhine Journey (horn: Albert Stagliano)
Tristan und Isolde, Prelude and Liebestod
Ride Of The Valkyries

intermission: speech of the NY Mayor, Fiorello La Guardia

VERDI

Rigoletto, Act III

Gilda........ Zinka Milanov
Maddalena.... Nan Merriman
The Duke..... Jan Peerce
Rigoletto.... Leonard Warren
Sparafucile.. Nicola Moscona

Hymn of the Nations
Jan Peerce, tenor


SOUSA
Stars And Stripes Forever

All City High School Chorus
(Peter Wilhousky, choirmaster)
NBC Symphony Orchestra and New York Philharmonic
ARTURO TOSCANINI
NY, Madison Square Garden - May 25, 1944


Bonus:

Hymn of the Nations
Jan Peerce, tenor
NBC Symphony Orchestra
ARTURO TOSCANINI

NBC, Studio 8H - December 8 & 20, 1943

Cover - Flac

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