NBC Symphony Orchestra

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

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VERDI Aïda

Live broadcast recording, 1949
Total duration: 2hr 15:43

Aïda – Herva Nelli
Amneris – Eva Gustavson
Radamès – Richard Tucker
Amonasro – Giuseppe Valdegno
Il Re (Pharoah) – Dennis Harbour
Ramfis – Norman Scott

Robert Shaw Chorale
directed by Robert Shaw
NBC Symphony Orchestra
conducted by Arturo Toscanini

VERDI Falstaff

Live broadcast recordings, 1950
Total duration: 1hr 57:32

Falstaff - Giuseppe Valdengo
Mistress Alice Ford - Herva Nelli
Mistress Meg Page - Nan Merriman
Mistress Quickly - Cloë Elmo
Ford - Frank Guarrera

Robert Shaw Chorale
directed by Robert Shaw

NBC Symphony Orchestra
conducted by Arturo Toscanini

VERDI La Traviata
Broadcast live from New York, 1946
Total duration: 1hr 43:18

Broadcast 1: 6th December, 1947 (Acts 1 & 2)
Broadcast 2: 13th December, 1947 (Acts 3 & 4)
Total duration: 2hrs 15min 58sec