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 Egmont
BEETHOVEN Septet for Woodwind, Horn & Strings
BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 7
Live broadcast recording, 1939
Total duration: 79:55
NBC Symphony Orchestra
conducted by Arturo Toscanini
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BEETHOVEN Leonore Overture No. 1
BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 8
BEETHOVEN String Quartet No. 16
BEETHOVEN The Creatures of Prometheus
BEETHOVEN Leonore Overture No. 2
Live broadcast recording, 1939
Total duration: 79:41
NBC Symphony Orchestra
conducted by Arturo Toscanini
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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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GRAENER Die Flöte von Sanssouci
BARBER Adagio for Strings - world première performance
BARBER Essay for Orchestra No. 1 - world première performance
DEBUSSY Ibéria
DVOŘÁK Symphony No. 9, "From the New World"
Recorded live in 1938
Total duration: 88:25
NBC Symphony Orchestra
conducted by Arturo Toscanini
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
VERDI Aïda
Live broadcast recording, 1949
Total duration: 2hr 15:43
Aïda – Herva Nelli
Amneris – Eva Gustavson
Radamès – Richard Tucker
Amonasro – Giuseppe Valdengo
Il Re (Pharoah) – Dennis Harbour
Ramfis – Norman Scott
Robert Shaw Chorale
directed by Robert Shaw
NBC Symphony Orchestra
conducted by Arturo Toscanini
