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| Song Title | Artist | Time | Price | |||
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| Play | 1. Symphony No. 1 in C Major, Op. 21: I. Adagio molto - Allegro con brio | Arturo Toscanini, Nbc Symphony Orchestra | 8:18 | £0.69 | ||
| Play | 2. Symphony No. 1 in C Major, Op. 21: II. Andante cantabile con moto | Arturo Toscanini, Nbc Symphony Orchestra | 6:19 | £0.69 | ||
| Play | 3. Symphony No. 1 in C Major, Op. 21: III. Menuetto: Allegro molto e vivace | Arturo Toscanini, Nbc Symphony Orchestra | 3:21 | £0.69 | ||
| Play | 4. Symphony No. 1 in C Major, Op. 21: IV. Adagio - Allegro molto e vivace | Arturo Toscanini, Nbc Symphony Orchestra | 5:38 | £0.69 | ||
| Play | 5. Symphony No. 2 in D Major, Op. 36: I. Adagio molto - Allegro con brio | Arturo Toscanini, Nbc Symphony Orchestra | 9:19 | £0.69 | ||
| Play | 6. Symphony No. 2 in D Major, Op. 36: II. Larghetto | Arturo Toscanini, Nbc Symphony Orchestra | 9:58 | £0.69 | ||
| Play | 7. Symphony No. 2 in D Major, Op. 36: III. Scherzo: Allegro | Arturo Toscanini, Nbc Symphony Orchestra | 3:16 | £0.69 | ||
| Play | 8. Symphony No. 2 in D Major, Op. 36: IV. Allegro molto | Arturo Toscanini, Nbc Symphony Orchestra | 6:00 | £0.69 | ||
| Play | 9. Symphony No. 3 in E-flat Major, Op. 55 'Eroica': I. Allegro con brio | Arturo Toscanini, Nbc Symphony Orchestra | 13:31 | Album Only | ||
| Play | 10. Symphony No. 3 in E-flat Major, Op. 55 'Eroica': II. Marcia funebre: Adagio assai | Arturo Toscanini, Nbc Symphony Orchestra | 15:42 | Album Only | ||
| Play | 11. Symphony No. 3 in E-flat Major, Op. 55 'Eroica': III. Scherzo: Allegro vivace | Arturo Toscanini, Nbc Symphony Orchestra | 5:33 | £0.69 | ||
| Play | 12. Symphony No. 3 in E-flat Major, Op. 55 'Eroica': IV. Finale: Allegro molto | Arturo Toscanini, Nbc Symphony Orchestra | 11:09 | Album Only | ||
| Play | 13. Symphony No. 4 in B-flat Major, Op. 60: I. Adagio - Allegro vivace | Arturo Toscanini, Nbc Symphony Orchestra | 9:41 | £0.69 | ||
| Play | 14. Symphony No. 4 in B-flat Major, Op. 60: II. Adagio | Arturo Toscanini, Nbc Symphony Orchestra | 8:36 | £0.69 | ||
| Play | 15. Symphony No. 4 in B-flat Major, Op. 60: III. Allegro vivace | Arturo Toscanini, Nbc Symphony Orchestra | 4:55 | £0.69 | ||
| Play | 16. Symphony No. 4 in B-flat Major, Op. 60: IV. Allegro ma non troppo | Arturo Toscanini, Nbc Symphony Orchestra | 6:50 | £0.69 | ||
| Play | 17. Symphony No. 5 in C Minor, Op. 67 'Fate': I. Allegro con brio | Arturo Toscanini, Nbc Symphony Orchestra | 7:06 | £0.69 | ||
| Play | 18. Symphony No. 5 in C Minor, Op. 67 'Fate': II. Andante con moto | Arturo Toscanini, Nbc Symphony Orchestra | 8:46 | £0.69 | ||
| Play | 19. Symphony No. 5 in C Minor, Op. 67 'Fate': III. Allegro | Arturo Toscanini, Nbc Symphony Orchestra | 4:31 | £0.69 | ||
| Play | 20. Symphony No. 5 in C Minor, Op. 67 'Fate': IV. Allegro | Arturo Toscanini, Nbc Symphony Orchestra | 8:21 | £0.69 | ||
| Play | 21. Symphony No. 6 in F Major, Op. 68 'Pastoral': I. Allegro ma non troppo | Arturo Toscanini, Nbc Symphony Orchestra | 11:43 | Album Only | ||
| Play | 22. Symphony No. 6 in F Major, Op. 68 'Pastoral': II. Andante molto mosso | Arturo Toscanini, Nbc Symphony Orchestra | 11:25 | Album Only | ||
| Play | 23. Symphony No. 6 in F Major, Op. 68 'Pastoral': III. Allegro | Arturo Toscanini, Nbc Symphony Orchestra | 4:55 | £0.69 | ||
| Play | 24. Symphony No. 6 in F Major, Op. 68 'Pastoral': IV. Allegro | Arturo Toscanini, Nbc Symphony Orchestra | 3:31 | £0.69 | ||
| Play | 25. Symphony No. 6 in F Major, Op. 68 'Pastoral': V. Allegretto | Arturo Toscanini, Nbc Symphony Orchestra | 8:35 | £0.69 | ||
| Play | 26. Symphony No. 7 in A Major, Op. 92: I. Poco postenuto - Vivace | Arturo Toscanini, Nbc Symphony Orchestra | 11:05 | Album Only | ||
| Play | 27. Symphony No. 7 in A Major, Op. 92: II. Allegretto | Arturo Toscanini, Nbc Symphony Orchestra | 7:55 | £0.69 | ||
| Play | 28. Symphony No. 7 in A Major, Op. 92: III. Presto | Arturo Toscanini, Nbc Symphony Orchestra | 6:55 | £0.69 | ||
| Play | 29. Symphony No. 7 in a Major, Op. 92: IV. Allegro con brio | Arturo Toscanini, Nbc Symphony Orchestra | 6:45 | £0.69 | ||
| Play | 30. Symphony No. 8 in F Major, Op. 93: I. Allegro vivace e con brio | Arturo Toscanini, Nbc Symphony Orchestra | 9:21 | £0.69 | ||
| Play | 31. Symphony No. 8 in F Major, Op. 93: II. Allegretto scherzando | Arturo Toscanini, Nbc Symphony Orchestra | 3:39 | £0.69 | ||
| Play | 32. Symphony No. 8 in F Major, Op. 93: III. Tempo di menuetto | Arturo Toscanini, Nbc Symphony Orchestra | 4:40 | £0.69 | ||
| Play | 33. Symphony No. 8 in F Major, Op. 93: IV. Allegro vivace | Arturo Toscanini, Nbc Symphony Orchestra | 7:21 | £0.69 | ||
| Play | 34. Symphony No. 9 in D Minor, Op. 125 'Choral': I. Allegro ma non troppo, un poco maestoso | Arturo Toscanini, Nbc Symphony Orchestra | 13:28 | Album Only | ||
| Play | 35. Symphony No. 9 in D Minor, Op. 125 'Choral': II. Molto vivace | Arturo Toscanini, Nbc Symphony Orchestra | 13:07 | Album Only | ||
| Play | 36. Symphony No. 9 in D Minor, Op. 125 'Choral': III. Adagio molto e cantabile | Arturo Toscanini, Nbc Symphony Orchestra | 14:19 | Album Only | ||
| Play | 37. Symphony No. 9 in D Minor, Op. 125 'Choral': IV. Presto - Allegro assai - Choral Finale | Arturo Toscanini, NBC Symphony Orchestra, Eileen Farrell, Nan Merriman, Jan Peerce, Norman Scott, Robert Shaw Chorus, Robert Shaw | 23:11 | Album Only |
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29 of 30 people found the following review helpful
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Toscanini was world-famous for his Beethoven and it's nice to be able to revisit it so cheaply! Everything about this set is interesting. The sound is so-so but liveable with and the performances completely transcend it. There are hints of a rather hard-driven approach occasionally (unlike most conductors, Toscanini got faster, not slower, as he grew older), but it is all so compelling that I can live with that.
I remember these performances on LP in the 1950s - 39/11 per symphony for the longer ones ... and now you get the whole lot in cleaner sound for, well, next to nothing really. Not to be resisted!!
I remember these performances on LP in the 1950s - 39/11 per symphony for the longer ones ... and now you get the whole lot in cleaner sound for, well, next to nothing really. Not to be resisted!!
16 of 17 people found the following review helpful
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Obviously these are old recordings (early 1950s) so the sound quality isn't great, but it's mostly perfectly OK. Toscanini is one of the all-time greats, so if you already have the Beethoven symphonies by someone else, this is an interesting comparison. The NBC Symphony was a darned good band too, so there are no problems there. The interpretations are pretty traditional but as far as you can tell, Toscanini knew what he wanted and succeeded in getting it. In the end, you can't ask for much more than that. As noted in one of the other reviews, the tempos are on the quick side, though looking at other recordings for the lengths of movements, other conductors are not always slower. The last movement of the 9th symphony is a case in point - Toscanini does it in 23 minutes - about 5 minutes faster than Bohm or Furtwangler. But it all makes perfectly good musical sense, even to someone who recently had probably his only chance to sing in the chorus so knows it even better than he did from umpteen Proms performances.
If you're not sure about classical music, this is a far better introduction than any of those Classic FM "Even better than the last best ever classical collection" collections of 10-minute snippets, and probably about half the price.
If you're not sure about classical music, this is a far better introduction than any of those Classic FM "Even better than the last best ever classical collection" collections of 10-minute snippets, and probably about half the price.
11 of 12 people found the following review helpful
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Critical opinion has tended to value the earlier (1939) NBC set over this (1951) set, apparently basing the preference on an an alleged tendency of the older Toscanini to drive things too hard and to be less flexible. But as the booklet accompanying this set amply demonstrates, and listening to both sets can confirm, the matter is not so simple. The booklet compares all known records of Toscanini performances in each symphony and shows amongst other things that speeds varied (rather than simply getting faster as the maestro got older) and that Toscanini was capable of a very different approach in two concerts separated by only a day, while often there is a lot in common between his performances of the works throughout his life.
And listening to this set I cannot agree that things are too driven here. Far from it - these are truly exhilerating performances! There are thrills a plenty and lots of gentler touches, too. And, for what it is worth, the 1939 set was often fairly hard driven itself (in many cases more than the later set). These 1951 accounts are rich and deeply civilised performances and it simply will not do to reduce Toscanini's achievement here to a single tendency. OK, the Pastoral is not particularly successful (a marked contrast to the 1939 set where the Pastoral is a magnificent achievement). And I'm not that taken with the Seventh in this set. But so much of what is here is really and truly special. As a set it is, I suspect, far more reliable and consistent than the earlier set (for all that the earlier set has many wonderful things).
And then the recording quality must come into play. This (1951) set sounds great - it is not modern sound but it is attractive and clear and in no way detracts from our enjoyment of the music. You can compare this set with other more modern competitors rather than merely thinking of it as a historical addition to your collection. The same cannot be said of the 1939 set, where the sound is truly historic and where the listener has to make big allowances. In the earlier set Toscanini's inspiration burns through but you never forget you are listening to a very old record. The later (1951) set wins for the greatness of its performances and the good quality of its sound.
And listening to this set I cannot agree that things are too driven here. Far from it - these are truly exhilerating performances! There are thrills a plenty and lots of gentler touches, too. And, for what it is worth, the 1939 set was often fairly hard driven itself (in many cases more than the later set). These 1951 accounts are rich and deeply civilised performances and it simply will not do to reduce Toscanini's achievement here to a single tendency. OK, the Pastoral is not particularly successful (a marked contrast to the 1939 set where the Pastoral is a magnificent achievement). And I'm not that taken with the Seventh in this set. But so much of what is here is really and truly special. As a set it is, I suspect, far more reliable and consistent than the earlier set (for all that the earlier set has many wonderful things).
And then the recording quality must come into play. This (1951) set sounds great - it is not modern sound but it is attractive and clear and in no way detracts from our enjoyment of the music. You can compare this set with other more modern competitors rather than merely thinking of it as a historical addition to your collection. The same cannot be said of the 1939 set, where the sound is truly historic and where the listener has to make big allowances. In the earlier set Toscanini's inspiration burns through but you never forget you are listening to a very old record. The later (1951) set wins for the greatness of its performances and the good quality of its sound.
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None too shabby...
It's easy to entertain doubts when considering a purchase like this - all nine of Beethoven's symphonies, among which are some of the greatest ever written. Read more
Published 3 months ago by C. R. Moorhead
Thank goodness for modern technology
Many thanks to those who have reviewed this item. I remember borrowing LPs of these recordings while at school in Chelmsford (KEGS) in the Beatles era and the sound quality was... Read more
Published 16 months ago by P. C. Boswell
An audible delight!
Those of you who, like me, were brought up on the diet of execrable and almost inaudible Toscanini recordings served up by the engineers of Studio 8H at NBC (at a time when their... Read more
Published 16 months ago by Gary Homewood
Beethovern Master Works
Excellent recording for anybody who requires all the Beethhoven symphonies on one disk. You could hardly better Toscanini and the NBC Symphony Orchestra.
Published on 16 Feb 2010 by Leaberni
a very good service
the only way of listening to Beethoven's Symphonies... Life, energy....conveyed by the pure force of the singing.
Published on 11 Jan 2010 by Bruno Bonazzi
Essential.
Well, one has to have a Toscanini version of those.
I was worried about the hiss, etc., but recordings are very clean indeed. Read more
I was worried about the hiss, etc., but recordings are very clean indeed. Read more
Published on 30 Mar 2009 by 1972, male, civil servant, married, 2 kids
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