Jarmila Novotna
Jarmila Novotná (1907-1994) was a Czech soprano and actress, admired in opera, concert music and film. She became closely associated with the Metropolitan Opera and with Mozart repertory.
In the Pristine catalogue she appears in Toscanini’s Beethoven and Mozart, including the 1939 Beethoven cycle and the 1937 Salzburg Die Zauberflöte.
Novotná’s singing combined charm, clarity and stage grace, with the kind of lyric pres...
BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 1
Symphony No. 2
Symphony No. 3 'Eroica'
Symphony No. 4
Symphony No. 5
Symphony No. 6 'Pastoral'
Symphony No. 7
Symphony No. 8
Symphony No. 9 'Choral'**
Choral Fantasy*
Coriolan Overture
Creatures of Prometheus
Egmont
Fidelio Overture
Leonore Overture No. 1
Leonore Overture No. 2
Leonore Overture No. 3
Septet for Woodwind, Horn & Strings
String Quartet No. 16
Live broadcast recordings, 1939
*Ania Dorfmann, piano
**Jarmila Novotna, soprano
**Kerstin Thorborg, alto
**Jan Peerce, tenor
**Nicola Moscona, bass
The Westminster Choir
NBC Symphony Orchestra
conducted by Arturo Toscanini
BEETHOVEN Choral Fantasy
BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 9 'Choral'
Live broadcast recording, 1939
Total duration: 79:46
Ania Dorfmann, piano
Jarmila Novotna, soprano
Kerstin Thorborg, alto
Jan Peerce, tenor
Nicola Moscona, bass
The Westminster Choir
NBC Symphony Orchestra
conducted by Arturo Toscanini
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MOZART Die Zauberflöte
Live recording, 1937
Total duration: 2hr 35:21
Tamino : Helge Roswaenge
Pamina : Jarmila Novotna
Papageno : Willi Domgraf-Fassbänder
Papagena : Dora Komarek
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
conducted by Arturo Toscanini
