Toscanini conducts…Christmas Day Concert etc

The quality of the music making is high and I don’t think one would discern, simply from listening, that the conductor’s powers were waning. He leads a distinguished performance of the timeless... — MusicWeb International, March 2012 More…

Release Date: 14th Feb 2011
Catalogue No: GHCD236970
Label: Guild
Series: Historical

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This double album constitutes one of the most important issues of Toscanini’s recorded legacy in that it combines in these two CDs the first ever broadcast concert the Maestro gave with the NBC Symphony Orchestra, an orchestra founded expressly for him in 1937 in New York, and the last - his final appearance with the Orchestra in April 1954. A great deal of interest therefore attaches to these two events, combined for the first time as a commercially issued package - a true ‘hail and farewell‘ (Ave Atque Vale) to the art of the conductor whom many reagard as the greatest of all.

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March 2012

The quality of the music making is high and I don’t think one would discern, simply from listening, that the conductor’s powers were waning. He leads a distinguished performance of the timeless Lohengrin Prelude and distils excellent atmosphere in ‘Forest Murmurs’...Toscanini’s very last performance was a fine one.

Toscanini conducts…Christmas Day Concert etc

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