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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J.S. Bach: Brandenburg Concertos
Walter Schneiderhan, NBC Symphony Orchestra, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Arturo Toscanini, Jascha Horenstein
Clásica - Editado por Archipel el 19 nov. 2021
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Russian Masterworks: Rimsky-Korsakov, Tchaikovsky, Stravinsky & Prokofiev
NBC Symphony Orchestra, Léopold Stokowski
Clásica - Editado por Signum-Cala el 26 abr. 2019
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Toscanini - Mendelssohn 200 Anniversary Tribute
NBC Symphony Orchestra, Jascha Heifetz, Edna Philips
Clásica - Editado por Guild Music el 31 mar. 2010
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Beethoven: 9 Symphonies
Clásica - Editado por Andromeda el 1 jul. 2015
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Arturo Toscanini conducts the music of France
NBC Symphony Orchestra, Jarmila Novotna, New York Philharmonic, Studio soprano,, Arturo Toscanini, Studio chorus
Clásica - Editado por Music and Arts Programs of America el 1 nov. 2011
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Elgar from America, Vol. 2
Clásica - Editado por SOMM Recordings el 21 ago. 2020
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Wagner: La Walkyrie, Extraits & Le crépuscule des Dieux, Extraits (1941 Live Version, Mono Version)
Arturo Toscanini, Helen Traubel, Lauritz Melchior, NBC Symphony Orchestra
Clásica - Editado por BNF Collection el 1 ene. 1961
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Brahms: Concerto pour piano No. 2 (Mono Version)
Vladimir Horowitz, Arturo Toscanini, NBC Symphony Orchestra
Varios - Editado por BNF Collection el 1 ene. 1953
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Tchaikosky: Suite de Casse-noisette - Waldteufel: Les patineurs - Rossini: Ouverture de Guillaume Tell (Mono Version)
NBC Symphony Orchestra, Arturo Toscanini
Varios - Editado por BNF Collection el 1 ene. 1957
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BRAHMS / TCHAIKOVSKY: Piano Concertos (Horowitz) (1940-1941)
Vladimir Horowitz, NBC Symphony Orchestra, Arturo Toscanini
Conciertos para tecla - Editado por Naxos el 18 abr. 2002
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Grosse Pianisten - Vladimir Horowitz
NBC Symphony Orchestra, Arturo Toscanini, Vladimir Horowitz
Clásica - Editado por Dokuments el 16 feb. 2013
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Brahms: Orchestral Works (Live)
NBC Symphony Orchestra, Hollywood Bowl Symphony Orchestra, Bruno Walter
Clásica - Editado por Archipel el 1 abr. 2022
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Rossini: Ouvertures d'opéras (Mono Version)
NBC Symphony Orchestra, Arturo Toscanini
Varios - Editado por BNF Collection el 1 ene. 1957
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Wagner: Selection from Concerto No. 12
Clásica - Editado por LRC Ltd. - Groove Merchant Records el 21 may. 2008
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Wagner: Faust Overture - Siegfried Idyll - Mahler: Symphony No. 1 (1939)
NBC Symphony Orchestra, Bruno Walter, Audience
Clásica - Editado por Music and Arts Programs of America el 1 ene. 2010
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Schubert, Britten & Wagner: Symphony No 8, 'Unfinished' - Sinfonia da Requiem - Rienzi, Overture
Guido Cantelli, NBC Symphony Orchestra
Clásica - Editado por Infinity el 1 sept. 2021
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Carmen Dragon & Arturo Toscanini direct the French Classical
Carmen Dragon, Arturo Toscanini, The Capitol Symphony Orchestra, NBC Symphony Orchestra
Clásica - Editado por Infinity el 7 dic. 2022
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Ponchielli: Danse des heures, extrait de La Gioconda (Mono Version)
Arturo Toscanini, NBC Symphony Orchestra
Varios - Editado por BNF Collection el 1 ene. 1953
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Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake Highlights - Beethoven - Mozart - Johann Strauss II
Clásica - Editado por Signum-Cala el 26 abr. 2019
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Paul Dukas: L'apprenti sorcier - Smetana: Vltava - Saint-Saëns: Danse macabre (Mono Version)
NBC Symphony Orchestra, Arturo Toscanini
Varios - Editado por BNF Collection el 1 ene. 1957
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Beethoven: Symphony No. 6 - Liszt: Three Hungarian Rhapsodies
Clásica - Editado por Signum-Cala el 26 abr. 2019
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