Rossini

BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 5
DUKAS L’apprenti sorcier

Overtures and excerpts:
GLUCK Orfeo ed Eurydice
MENDELSSOHN A Midsummer Night’s Dream
ROSSINI Il barbiere di Siviglia
ROSSINI L’Italiana in Algeri
ROSSINI Semiramide
VERDI La traviata

Studio and Live recordings, 1926-36
Total duration:  2hr 24:19

Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra of New York
New York Philharmonic Orchestra
conducted by Arturo Toscanini

ROSSINI Il barbiere di Siviglia

Stereo studio recording, 1957
Total duration: 2hr 9:58

Rosina - Maria Callas
Il conte d'Almaviva - Luigi Alva
Figaro - Tito Gobbi
Bartolo - Fritz Ollendorff
Basilio - Nicola Zaccaria

Philharmonia Chorus & Orchestra
conducted by Alceo Galliera

ROSSINI Overture to The Barber of Seville
TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No. 6 "Pathétique"
WAGNER Lohengrin - Prelude to Act 1
WAGNER Götterdämmerung - Dawn and Siegfried's Rhine Journey

Recorded 1954
Total duration: 74:52

NBC Symphony Orchestra
conducted by Arturo Toscanini

HAYDN  Symphony No. 94, "Surprise"
TCHAIKOVSKY  Symphony No. 2, "Little Russian"
ROSSINI L'italiana in Algeri - Overture
DVOŘÁK  Symphony No. 9, "From the New World"

Live stereo broadcast recordings, 1962
Total duration:  1hr 52:52

Boston Symphony Orchestra
conducted by Carlo Maria Giulini

ROSSINI Il barbiere di Siviglia
(The Barber of Seville)

Studio recording 1929
Total duration: 2hr 5:49

Riccardo Stracciari - Figaro
Mercedes Capsir - Rosina
Dino Borgioli - Il Conte d'Almaviva

Chorus and Orchestra of La Scala, Milan
conducted by Lorenzo Molajoli

SCHUBERT Symphony No. 9 'Great' [mvts 1-3]
MENDELSSOHN Symphony No. 4 'Italian'
ROSSINI Overture to Semiramide

Live recordings, 1950/51
Total duration: 76:02

Statsradiofoniens Symfoniorkester
conducted by Fritz Busch

ROSSINI Il Turco in Italia

Studio recording, 1954
Total duration: 1hr 52:57

Fiorilla  -  Maria Callas
Selim  -  Nicola Rossi-Lemeni
Narciso  -  Nicolai Gedda
Geronio  -  Franco Calabrese
Zaida  -  Jolanda Gardino
Albazar  -  Piero de Palma
Il poeta  -  Mariano Stabile

Chorus and Orchestra of La Scala, Milan
Chorus Master: Vittore Veneziani
conducted by Gianandrea Gavazzeni

Music by:

Mozart, Beethoven, Weber, Rossini, Flotow, Maillart, J Strauss II, Verdi, Puccini, Smetana, Dvorak, Fibich, Weinberger

Studio recordings, 1927-1934
Total duration: 1hr 54:03

Various Soloists
Various Orchestras
conducted by Alexander von Zemlinsky