NBC Symphony Orchestra
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.
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Bruno Walter - Nathan Milstein
New York Philharmonic, NBC Symphony Orchestra, Nathan Milstein
Klassik - Erschienen bei JamadaDigital am 05.02.2015
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Sibelius: Symphony No. 2 - Pohjola's Daughter - The Swan of Tuonela - Finlandia
Arturo Toscanini, NBC Symphony Orchestra
Symphonieorchester - Erschienen bei Infinity am 17.05.2021
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Schubert, Schumann & Mendelssohn: Orchestral Works (Live)
NBC Symphony Orchestra, Jascha Heifetz, Guido Cantelli
Klassik - Erschienen bei Archipel am 22.10.2021
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Stokowski – NBC Pops, 1942-1944
Klassik - Erschienen bei Guild Music am 15.06.2010
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Wagner, R.: Lohengrin / Siegfried Idyll / Gotterdammerung / Tannhauser / Die Meistersinger Von Nurnberg
NBC Symphony Orchestra, Arturo Toscanini
Klassik - Erschienen bei Music and Arts Programs of America am 25.04.2006
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Shostakovich, D.: Symphonies Nos. 5, 6 and 7, "Leningrad" (Philadelphia Orchestra, Nbc Symphony, Stokowski) (1939-1942)
Philadelphia Orchestra, NBC Symphony Orchestra, Léopold Stokowski
Klassik - Erschienen bei Music and Arts Programs of America am 10.11.2009
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Liszt, F.: Piano Concerto No. 2 / Schumann, R.: Piano Concerto / Weber, C.M. Von: Konzertstuck (Arrau) (1943, 1947, 1951)
Claudio Arrau, Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra, NBC Symphony Orchestra, Dimitri Mitropoulos, Victor De Sabata, Erich Kleiber
Klassik - Erschienen bei Music and Arts Programs of America am 25.10.2005
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Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 1
Arthur Rubinstein, NBC Symphony Orchestra, Vladimir Golschmann, Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra, Dimitri Mitropoulus
Klassik - Erschienen bei Music Maestros am 01.08.2020
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Chopin : Concertos pour piano
Arthur Rubinstein, Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, NBC Symphony Orchestra, Alfred Wallenstein, William Steinberg
Klassik - Erschienen bei Naxos am 28.10.2008
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Elgar from America
NBC Symphony Orchestra, Gregor Piatigorsky, Arturo Toscanini, New York Philharmonic, Artur Rodjinsky, Sir John Barbirolli
Klassik - Erschienen bei SOMM Recordings am 17.05.2019
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Handel: Berenice, Hwv 38 - Schubert: Symphony NO. 3, D200 - Ravel: Ma Mère L’oye, M. 60 (Live)
Klassik - Erschienen bei Altair am 08.01.2021
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Symphony No.6 In F Major, Op. 68 (Pastoral)
Klassik - Erschienen bei Olympic Records am 09.07.1965
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Mozart & Haydn: Symphonies (Mono Version)
NBC Symphony Orchestra, Arturo Toscanini
Verschiedenes - Erschienen bei BNF Collection am 01.01.1955
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Mozart: The Magic Flute, K. 620, Overture - Beethoven: Overture to Collin's Coriolan, Op. 62 (Mono Version)
Arturo Toscanini, NBC Symphony Orchestra
Verschiedenes - Erschienen bei BNF Collection am 01.01.1954
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Verdi: La forza del destino, Overture (Mono Version)
Arturo Toscanini, NBC Symphony Orchestra
Verschiedenes - Erschienen bei BNF Collection am 01.01.1954
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Mozart: Divertimento No. 11 in D Major, K. 251 & Ein musikalischer Spaß, K. 522 (Mono Version)
NBC Symphony Orchestra, Fritz Reiner
Verschiedenes - Erschienen bei BNF Collection am 01.01.1957
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Pierre Monteux live in New York 1953/59
NBC Symphony Orchestra, New York Philharmonic, Rudolf Serkin, Pierre Monteux
Klassik - Erschienen bei Archipel am 26.07.2011
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Dimitri Mitropoulos conducts Mahler Symphony No. 1live
New York Philharmonic, NBC Symphony Orchestra, Dimitri Mitropoulos
Klassik - Erschienen bei Archipel am 01.12.2005
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Haydn & Hindemith: Symphony No. 93 - Mathis der Maler
Guido Cantelli, NBC Symphony Orchestra
Klassik - Erschienen bei Infinity am 31.07.2021
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Tchaikovsky: Concerto pour piano No. 1, Op. 23 (Mono Version)
Vladimir Horowitz, NBC Symphony Orchestra, Arturo Toscanini
Verschiedenes - Erschienen bei BNF Collection am 01.01.1960
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Mozart: Symphonie No. 41 "Jupiter" & Concerto pour basson, K. 191 (Mono Version)
NBC Symphony Orchestra, Arturo Toscanini, Leonard Sharrow
Verschiedenes - Erschienen bei BNF Collection am 01.01.1952
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