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
Classique - Paru chez JamadaDigital le 5 févr. 2015
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Sibelius: Symphony No. 2 - Pohjola's Daughter - The Swan of Tuonela - Finlandia
Arturo Toscanini, NBC Symphony Orchestra
Musique symphonique - Paru chez Infinity le 17 mai 2021
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Schubert, Schumann & Mendelssohn: Orchestral Works (Live)
NBC Symphony Orchestra, Jascha Heifetz, Guido Cantelli
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Stokowski – NBC Pops, 1942-1944
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Wagner, R.: Lohengrin / Siegfried Idyll / Gotterdammerung / Tannhauser / Die Meistersinger Von Nurnberg
NBC Symphony Orchestra, Arturo Toscanini
Classique - Paru chez Music and Arts Programs of America le 25 avr. 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
Classique - Paru chez Music and Arts Programs of America le 1 avr. 2011
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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
Classique - Paru chez Music and Arts Programs of America le 25 oct. 2005
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Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 1
Arthur Rubinstein, NBC Symphony Orchestra, Vladimir Golschmann, Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra, Dimitri Mitropoulus
Classique - Paru chez Music Maestros le 1 août 2020
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Chopin : Concertos pour piano
Arthur Rubinstein, Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, NBC Symphony Orchestra, Alfred Wallenstein, William Steinberg
Classique - Paru chez Naxos le 28 oct. 2008
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Elgar from America
NBC Symphony Orchestra, Gregor Piatigorsky, Arturo Toscanini, New York Philharmonic, Artur Rodjinsky, Sir John Barbirolli
Classique - Paru chez SOMM Recordings le 17 mai 2019
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Symphony No.6 In F Major, Op. 68 (Pastoral)
Classique - Paru chez Olympic Records le 9 juil. 1965
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Mozart & Haydn: Symphonies (Mono Version)
NBC Symphony Orchestra, Arturo Toscanini
Divers - Paru chez BNF Collection le 1 janv. 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
Divers - Paru chez BNF Collection le 1 janv. 1954
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Verdi: La forza del destino, Overture (Mono Version)
Arturo Toscanini, NBC Symphony Orchestra
Divers - Paru chez BNF Collection le 1 janv. 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
Divers - Paru chez BNF Collection le 1 janv. 1957
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Pierre Monteux live in New York 1953/59
NBC Symphony Orchestra, New York Philharmonic, Rudolf Serkin, Pierre Monteux
Classique - Paru chez Archipel le 26 juil. 2011
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Dimitri Mitropoulos conducts Mahler Symphony No. 1live
New York Philharmonic, NBC Symphony Orchestra, Dimitri Mitropoulos
Classique - Paru chez Archipel le 1 déc. 2005
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Haydn & Hindemith: Symphony No. 93 - Mathis der Maler
Guido Cantelli, NBC Symphony Orchestra
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Tchaikovsky: Concerto pour piano No. 1, Op. 23 (Mono Version)
Vladimir Horowitz, NBC Symphony Orchestra, Arturo Toscanini
Divers - Paru chez BNF Collection le 1 janv. 1960
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Mozart: Symphonie No. 41 "Jupiter" & Concerto pour basson, K. 191 (Mono Version)
NBC Symphony Orchestra, Arturo Toscanini, Leonard Sharrow
Divers - Paru chez BNF Collection le 1 janv. 1952
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Schubert: Symphonies Nos. 8 & 9
NBC Symphony Orchestra, Arturo Toscanini
Classique - Paru chez Archipel le 19 nov. 2021
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