Arturo Toscanini - The Complete RCA Collection

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Disc 1-5 Beethoven 

Disc 6-9 Brahms
 

Disc 10-11 Mozart
 

Disc 12-13 Haydn
 

Disc 14-15 Schubert
 

Disc 16 Schumann
 

Disc 17 Mendelssohn
 

Disc 18-19 Tchaikovsky
 

Disc 20 Franck, Saint-Saëns
 

Disc 21 Sibelius
 

Disc 22 Shostakovich
 

 Disc 23 Beethoven
 

Disc 24 Dvorák, Kodály, Smetana
 

Disc 25 Beethoven
 

Disc 26 Brahms
 

Disc 27 Cherubini , Cimarosa
 

 Disc 28 Prokofiev
 

Disc 29 Beethoven, Mozart
 

Disc 30-31 Strauss, Wagner
 

Disc 32 Respighi
 

Disc 33-35 Berlioz , Bizet 

Disc 36 Maurice Ravel; Modest Mussorgsky, Elgar 

Disc 37 Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy

Disc 38 Claude Debussy 

Disc 39 George Gershwin , John Philip Sousa, Ferde Grofé, Samuel Barber, John Philip Sousa; Arturo Toscanini, John Stafford Smith;

 Disc 40 Maurice Ravel, Paul Dukas, Camille Saint-Saëns, Berlioz, César Franck, Ambroise Thomas

Disc 41 Leopold Mozart, Johann Strauss, Jr., Franz von Suppe, Amilcare Ponchielli, Niccolò Paganini; Arturo Toscanini, Johann Sebastian Bach, Carl Maria von Weber; Hector Berlioz, Michail Glinka 

 Disc 42-43 Beethoven 

Disc 44-45 Johannes Brahms, Piotr Ilich Tchaikovsky, Modest Mussorgsky

 Disc 46 Beethoven

 Disc 47 Christoph Willibald Gluck, Ranieri de' Calzabigi, Ludwig van Beethoven; Joseph Sonnleithner

 Disc 48 Gioacchino Rossini

 Disc 49-50 Richard Wagner

Disc 51 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Gaetano Donizetti, Gioacchino Rossini, Alfredo Catalani, Giacomo Puccini, Giuseppe Verdi,

Disc 52 Ferdinand Hérold, Engelbert Humperdinck, Dmitri Kabalevsky, Mozart 

Disc 53-54 Richard Wagner 

Disc 55-56 Ludwig van Beethoven; Stephen Van Breuning; Joseph Sonnleithner; Georg Friedrich Treitschke

 Disc 57-58 Giuseppe Giacosa; Giacomo Puccini; Luigi Illica

Disc 59-61 Giuseppe Verdi; Antonio Ghislanzoni

Disc 62-65 Giuseppe Verdi; Arrigo Boito

Disc 66-67 Giuseppe Verdi; Antonio Somma

Disc 68-69 Giuseppe Verdi; Francesco Maria Piave

Disc 70 Ludwig van Beethoven
Disc 71 Luigi Cherubini

Disc 72 Arrigo Boito, Temistocle Solera; Giuseppe Verdi, Giuseppe Verdi; Francesco Maria Piave, Giuseppe Verdi

Disc 73 Giuseppe Verdi
Disc 74 Temistocle Solera; Giuseppe Verdi, Salvatore Cammarano, Giuseppe Verdi

 Disc 75 Ludwig van Beethoven, Joseph Haydn, Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy

 Disc 76 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Johannes Brahms

Disc 77 Christoph Willibald Gluck, Gioacchino Rossini, Giuseppe Verdi, Richard Wagner; Arturo Toscanini, Richard Wagner

Disc 78 Claude Debussy, Ottorino Respighi,

Disc 79 Piotr Ilich Tchaikovsky, Richard Strauss

Disc 80 Franz Schubert

 Disc 81 Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Hector Berlioz 

Disc 82 Ludwig van Beethoven, Hector Berlioz, Georges Bizet, Gaetano Donizetti, Ottorino Respighi, Jules Massenet, Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ildebrando Pizzetti, Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari

Disc 84 Ludwig van Beethoven, Johannes Brahms 
 Disc 83 Ludwig van Beethoven, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Gioacchino Rossini, Carl Maria von Weber; Hector Berlioz 

 

Disc 85 Toscanini The MaestroHarvey Sachs

ARTURO TOSCANINI The Complete RCA Collection

THE TOSCANINI RECORDINGS: A MONUMENT TO GREATNESS

• The complete recordings made for RCA by Arturo Toscanini reissued in a beautiful new 84 CD + DVD box set, with extra previously unissued bonus materials added
• All recordings appear in latest re-mastered versions
• Includes 2 CDs of newly released recordings, originally made for HMV with the BBC Symphony Orchestra
• Hardcover book with liner notes by Toscanini biographers Mortimer F. Frank and Michael Stegemann and complete RCA discography
• Bonus DVD “The Maestro”
• 84 CDs + 1 DVD in double walled cardboard sleeves in lift off cap box, hardcover book with 2 essays & RCA discography


Arturo Toscanini was the most celebrated conductor of his time, considered by many to be the greatest conductor of the twentieth century. He revolutionized musical interpretation by frequently insisting that his orchestras play the music exactly as written, a highly unusual practice in the nineteenth century, when Toscanini began his career. He conducted the world premieres of such operas as Puccini's "La Boheme" and "Turandot", and Leoncavallo's "Pagliacci".

This set offers a reissue of RCA’s 1992 compendium that encompassed all the recordings that Toscanini made with the New York Philharmonic, Philadelphia Orchestra, and NBC Symphony Orchestra. It also features 2 CDs of previously unreleased recordings with the BBC Symphony from the 1930s that were not included in the 1992 edition. From the Maestro’s acoustic recordings of 1920-21 with La Scala orchestra to his 1954 retirement, this collection spans all the years in which Toscanini’s career veered away from the opera house as it moved (after his 1937 Salzburg Festival appearances) exclusively to the concert hall.

As with his NBC broadcasts and recordings, these BBC and Philadelphia accounts disprove the specious notion that Toscanini’s interpretation was always the same from one performance of a given work to the next. The BBC recordings have special value for occurring in Queen’s Hall, acoustically London’s finest concert venue, which was sadly destroyed in World War II bombings. Particularly interesting are three NBC performances of Beethoven’s Eroica symphony, two from broadcasts (October 28, 1939 and December 6, 1953, the third from a 1949 Carnegie Hall recording session). As heard in a 78-rpm RCA set, the 1939 performance was a sonic disaster in its dry, cramped, dynamically limited acoustic. As experienced here in a transfer made from NBC reference discs, it suggests a clean, vivid LP from the mid 1950’s. With each performance being somewhat different from the other, they serve as a reminder of how Toscanini was invariably rethinking his approach to a particular work.