Альбомы исполнителя
Wagner: Overtures & Other Orchestral Works (Live)
2023 · альбом
Schumann & Brahms: Orchestral Works (Live)
2021 · альбом
Walter conducts Tchaikovsky
2021 · альбом
Stokowski Edition, Vol. 1
2021 · альбом
Elgar from America, Vol. 2
2020 · альбом
Toscanini conducts Roméo & Juliette
2019 · альбом
Cherubini, Mozart & Tchaikovsky: Orchestral Works
2019 · альбом
Beethoven: Missa solemnis, Op. 123 (Live)
2017 · альбом
The Art of Arturo Toscanini
2017 · альбом
Verdi: Aïda
2016 · альбом
Toscanini Conducts Wagner
2016 · альбом
Beethoven: 9 Symphonies
2015 · альбом
Verdi: La traviata (Recorded 1946)
2015 · альбом
Verdi: Otello
2015 · альбом
The Great Recordings, 1929-1954
2014 · альбом
Toscanini Conducts Tchaikovsky (1941-1944)
2013 · альбом
Charles Munch in New York (1954)
2012 · альбом
Verdi: Requiem
2011 · альбом
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Биография
The NBC Symphony Orchestra was one of the world's fabled orchestras. David Sarnoff, chairman of RCA which owned both RCAVictor Records and NBC radio -- offered conductor Arturo Toscanini a specially-built orchestra of the highest standards. Offering the highest salaries of any orchestra and a 52-week contract, NBC attracted top orchestral musicians: 21 of them were former section leaders of other orchestras. Artur Rodzinski molded them into a precision ensemble and Rodzinski led its first concerts. The orchestra took the air under Toscanini on Christmas day, 1937. It was immediately ranked as one of the world's great orchestras, famous for its precise, lean sound, even though the players had to do routine radio work in addition to symphony concerts. For 17 years it was conducted by many leading world-class conductors; Leopold Stokowski was its co-conductor from 1941 to 1944. It made numerous classic recordings for RCA, sometimes recording as the "RCA Victor Symphony," including the famous recording of Richard Rodgers' Victory at Sea. The orchestra had many distinguished alumni: violist William Primrose; violinist Josef Gingold; cellists Naoum Benditzky (of the Gordon Quartet) and Alan Shulman (Stuyvesant Quartet); and future conductors Milton Katims and Frank Brieff, to name just a few. Soloists who recorded with the orchestra included Marian Anderson, Vladimir Horowitz, Jascha Heifetz, and Artur Rubinstein. Some of these recordings, and a few complete opera recordings, were conducted by Fritz Reiner. Toscanini retired after his April 4, 1954, concert. NBC laid the orchestra off, but it refused to die. Most of its members (with a few new players) reassembled as the Symphony of the Air, which went on to its own distinguished, if brief, renown.