Victor de Sabata
Victor de Sabata (1892-1967) was an Italian conductor and composer, one of the great conductors of the twentieth century. He was especially associated with La Scala and with a repertory stretching from Wagner and Strauss to Italian opera.
In the Pristine catalogue he appears in Puccini’s Tosca with Maria Callas, Giuseppe di Stefano and Tito Gobbi, and in his Berlin Philharmonic recordings.
De Sabata’s conducting combine...
Studio recording, 1953
Total duration: 1hr 47:58
Giuseppe di Stefano Cavaradossi
Tito Gobbi Scarpia
Chorus and Orchestra of La Scala, Milan
Conductor Victor de Sabata
BRAHMS Symphony No. 4 in E minor
R. STRAUSS Death and Transfiguration
WAGNER Tristan und Isolde: Prelude & Liebestod
VERDI Aïda: Prelude to Act 1
KODALY Dances of Galánta
RESPIGHI Feste Romane
Studio Recordings · 1939
Total duration: 2hr 06:21
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
DEBUSSY Jeux - Poème Dansé
Recorded in 1947
Duration: 17:21
Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia
Conductor: Vittorio de Sabata
BARBER Overture, The School for Scandal
SCHUMANN Piano Concerto
BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 8
WAGNER Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg - Prelude
WAGNER Parsifal - Prelude to Act I
WAGNER Parsifal - Good Friday Spell
WAGNER Tristan und Isolde - Prelude and Liebestod
WAGNER Götterdämmerung - Brünnhilde’s Immolation Scene
Live concert recordings, 1951
Total duration: 2hr 26:35
Claudio Arrau, piano
Eileen Farrell, soprano
Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra of New York
conducted by Victor de Sabata
