NBC Symphony Orchestra
The NBC Symphony Orchestra was an American radio orchestra created in 1937 for the National Broadcasting Company.
It was formed especially for Arturo Toscanini, who became its most famous conductor.
The orchestra was central to American broadcast music and to mid-twentieth-century orchestral recording.
BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 5
BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 7
BRAHMS Variations on a Theme of Haydn
HAYDN Symphony No. 101 'Clock'
MOZART Symphony No. 35 'Haffner'
WAGNER Siegfried Idyll
WAGNER music from Götterdämmerung, Lohengrin, Tristan und Isolde
Studio and Live recordings, 1929-36
Total duration: 3hr 33:12
Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra of New York
NBC Symphony Orchestra (bonus tracks)
conducted by Arturo Toscanini
Live broadcast recordings · 1946
Total duration: 1hr 41:34
Jan Peerce
NBC Symphony Orchestra and Choruses
conducted by Arturo Toscanini
RESPIGHI Roman Triptych:
Roman Festivals
Fountains of Rome
Pines of Rome
Studio recordings, 1949-1953
Total duration: 60:10
NBC Symphony Orchestra
conducted by Arturo Toscanini
SCHUMANN Symphony No. 2
SCHUMANN Symphony No. 3 'Rhenish'
Live studio broadcast recordings, 1946/49
Total duration: 66:20
NBC Symphony Orchestra
conducted by Arturo Toscanini
WAGNER Tannhäuser: Prelude to Act III (Original version)
WAGNER Siegfried Idyll
WAGNER Götterdämmerung: Dawn and Rhine Journey
WAGNER Die Meistersinger: Prelude, Act 1
Recorded live in 1946
Total duration: 53:19
NBC Symphony Orchestra
conducted by Arturo Toscanini
