Westminster Choir

BEETHOVEN Piano Concertos Nos. 3, 4 and 5
BRAHMS Piano Concerto No. 1; Alto Rhapsody
MOZART Piano Concerto No. 21
HAYDN Symphony No. 93
SCHUMANN Symphony No. 4
VIVALDI L'Estro Armonico: Concerto Grosso No. 11 in D minor, RV565 (1955 and 1956 performances)
RAVEL Pavane pour une infante défunte
FALLA El Sombrero des Tres Picos, Suite No. 2
PISTON Toccata
COPLAND El Salón México
R. STRAUSS Don Juan
CRESTON Dance Overture
WAGNER Parsifal – Good Friday Spell
VERDI Te Deum
MONTEVERDI Magnificat (arr. Ghedini)
HANDEL Xerxes – Largo
HINDEMITH Concert Music for Strings and Brass

Six live CBS broadcast concerts, Carnegie Hall, New York, 6 March 1955–8 April 1956
Total duration: 7:06:07, including radio commentary by Jim Fassett

New York Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Guido Cantelli
Walter Gieseking, piano (Mozart No. 21; Beethoven No. 5)
Rudolf Firkušný, piano (Beethoven No. 3; Brahms No. 1)
Wilhelm Backhaus, piano (Beethoven No. 4)
Martha Lipton, alto
Westminster Choir, directed by John Finley Williamson

WAGNER Parsifal - Good Friday Spell
VERDI Te Deum
BRAHMS Alto Rhapsody
MONTEVERDI Magnificat
HANDEL Xerxes - Largo
BRAHMS Piano Concerto No. 1
HINDEMITH Concert Music For Strings And Brass

Live broadcast concerts, 1956
Total duration: 2hr 15:36

Martha Lipton, alto
Rudolf Firkušný, piano
New York Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra
Conducted by Guido Cantelli

BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 9 "Choral"

Recorded live in 1958, New York
Total duration: 66:35

Leontyne Price, Soprano
Maureen Forrester, Alto
Leopold Simoneau, Tenor
Norman Scott, Bass
Westminster Choir
New York Philharmonic Orchestra
conducted by Herbert von Karajan

BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 9 'Choral'

Live broadcast recording, 1941
Total duration: 66:04

Anne Brown. soprano
Winifred Heidt. contralto
William Horne. tenor
Lawrence Whisonant. bass
The Westminster Choir
NBC Symphony Orchestra
conducted by Leopold Stokowski

MAHLER Symphony No. 8 in E-flat major, “Symphony of a Thousand”

Live recording, Carnegie Hall, New York, 9 April 1950
Total duration: 1hr 17:50

Frances Yeend, Uta Graf, Camilla Williams, Martha Lipton
Louise Bernhardt, Eugene Conley, Carlos Alexander, George London

Westminster Choir
Schola Cantorum of New York
Public School No. 12 Boys’ Chorus
Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra of New York
conducted by Leopold Stokowski

STOKOWSKI The Pristine NBC Symphony Series
A 16-CD set featuring music by: Amfitheatrof, Antheil, BACH, BEETHOVEN, BRAHMS, BUTTERWORTH, Cooley, COPLAND, Creston, DEBUSSY, GOULD, HANSON, HARRIS, HINDEMITH, HOLST, Hovhaness, KELLY, LAVALLE, MILHAUD, Mohaupt, RAVEL, RIMSKY-KORSAKOV, SCHOENBERG, Schuman, SHOSTAKOVICH, STRAVINSKY, Stringfield, TCHAIKOVSKY, Thomson, VAUGHAN WILLIAMS, WAGNER

Anne Brown. soprano
Winifred Heidt. contralto
William Horne. tenor
Lawrence Whisonant. bass
Eduard Steuermann, piano
Collegiate Chorale
The Westminster Choir
NBC Symphony Orchestra
conducted by Leopold Stokowski