Arturo Toscanini
Born: 25th March 1867, Parma, Italy
Died: 16th January 1957, Riverdale, New York, USA
Nationality: Italian
One of the most acclaimed musicians of his era, Toscanini was a conductor of the "old school" - aristocratic, perfectionistic and something of an autocrat on the podium. After a brief flurry of interest in Fascism in the 1910s, he rapidly became disillusioned with the movement and indeed became a personal rival of Mussolini, repeatedly antagonising him through acts of artistic defiance such as refusals to open concerts with the Fascist anthem Giovinezza.
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Special offer. BBC Legends Volume 1
Joyce Barker (Magna Peccatrix), Beryl Hatt (Mater Gloriosa), Agnes Giebel (Una Poenitentium), Kerstin Meyer (Mulier Samaritana), Helen Watts (Maria Aegyptiaca), Kenneth Neate (Doctor Marianus), Alfred Orda (Pater Ecstaticus), Arnold van Mill (Pater Profundus), Emil Gilels (piano), Zinka Milanov (soprano), Kerstin Thorborg (contralto), Koloman von Pataky (tenor), Nicola Moscona (bass), Sviatoslav Richter (piano), Mstislav Rostropovich (cello), Leonid Kogan (violin), Dennis Brain (horn), Wilfrid Parry (piano), Cyril Preedy (piano), Max Salpeter (violin), Galina Vishnevskaya (soprano), Janet Baker (mezzo), Graham Johnson (piano), Martin Isepp (piano), Geoffrey Parsons (piano), Clifford Curzon (piano), David Oistrakh (violin), Arthur Rubinstein (piano), Wilhelm Kempff (piano), Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli (piano), Annie Fischer (piano) London Symphony Orchestra, BBC Chorus, BBC Choral Society, Hampstead Choral Society, Emanuel School Boys' Choir, Orptington Junior Singers, Goldsmith's Choral Union, Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Philharmonia Orchestra, Dennis Brain Wind Ensemble, English String Quartet, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Jascha Horenstein, Evgeny Mravinsky, Arturo Toscanini, Kyrill Kondrashin, Carlo Maria Giulini, Gennadi Rozhdestvensky, Benjamin Britten, Igor Markevitch, Norman del Mar, Sir Malcolm Sargent, Pierre Monteux, Sir Thomas Beecham
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Special offer. BBC Legends Volume 2 | Great recordings from the archive
David Oistrakh, Sviatoslav Richter, Artur Rubinstein, Claudio Arrau, Myra Hess, Andrés Segovia, Kirsten Flagstad, Géza Anda, Borodin Quartet, Victoria de los Angeles, Yehudi Menuhin, Pierre Fournier, Walter Gieseking
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Special offer. Strauss: Don Quixote & Tod und Verklärung
Daniel Guilet (violin), Frank Miller (cello), Carlton Cooley (viola) NBC Symphony Orchestra, Arturo Toscanini
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Music in the Weimar Republic - Berlin 1929 | An evocation of Berlin's summer festival of 1929 at which Wilhelm Furtwängler, Erich Kleiber, Otto Klemperer, Arturo Toscanini and Bruno Walter conducted, with works typical of their programmes.
Philharmonisches Orchester, Berlin, Mitgl. Der Kapelle der Staatsoper, Berliner Philharmonisches Orchester, Lucern Festival Orchestra, Orchestra of La Scala, Milan, Bruno Walter, Otto Klemperer, Erich Kleiber, Wilhelm Furtwängler, Arturo Toscanini
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