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| ARTIST: | Luigi Cherubini, Antonin Dvorak, Franz Joseph Haydn, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Robert Schumann, Arturo Toscanini, NBC Symphony Orchestra |
| CATEGORY: | Music |
| MANUFACTURER: | RCA |
| TYPE: | Classical, Orchestral & Symphonic, Symphonic |
| MEDIA: | Audio CD |
| TRACKS: | Symphony No.40 In G Minor, K.550: Allegro Molto, Symphony No.40 In G Minor, K.550: Andante, Symphony No.40 In G Minor, K.550: Menuetto: Allegretto - Trio, Symphony No.40 In G Minor, K.550: Finale: Allegro Assai, Symphony No.94 In G Major: Surprise: Adagio - Vivace Assai, Symphony No.94 In G Major: Surprise: Andante, Symphony No.94 In G Major: Surprise: Menuetto: Allegro Molto - Trio, Symphony No.94 In G Major: Surprise: Finale: Allegro Di Molto, Symphony In D Major: Largo - Allegro, Symphony In D Major: Larghetto Cantabile, Symphony In D Major: Menuetto: Allegro Non Tanto, Symphony In D Major: Allegro Assai, Symphony No.3 In E-Flat Major, Op.97: Rheinische: Lebhaft, Symphony No.3 In E-Flat Major, Op.97: Rheinische: Scherzo: Sehr Massig, Symphony No.3 In E-Flat Major, Op.97: Rheinische: Nicht Schnell, Symphony No.3 In E-Flat Major, Op.97: Rheinische: Feierlich, Symphony No.3 In E-Flat Major, Op.97: Rheinische: Lebhaft, Symphony No.9 In E Minor, Op.95: From The New World: Adagio - Allegro Molto, Symphony No.9 In E Minor, Op.95: From The New World: Largo, Symphony No.9 In E Minor, Op.95: From The New World: Scherzo: Molto Vivace, Symphony No.9 In E Minor, Op.95: From The New World: Allegro Con Fuoco |
| UPC: | 743215948124 |
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Customer Reviews of Arturo Toscanini: Great Symphonies, Vol. 6
Lesser Toscanini While I deeply admire Toscanini's way with Wagner and Verdi and have enormous respect for his Beethoven, I find the maestro's way with Mozart too hard-driven, his Haydn severely lacking in charm, and his Cherubini dull as dust. The Schumann and Dvorak are decent but certainly bested elsewhere. Surprisingly the sound is remarkably good overall, especially considering the date and source. Bravo to the modern restoration engineers! Nonetheless I consider this set mainly for Toscanini cultists alone.
Why did it take so long?
I have been collecting and/or listening to Arturo Toscanini's recordings since 1967, and they have NEVER sounded this good. Indeed, I challenge you to play this pressing of the Haydn #94 for someone and ask them to guess when it was recorded. The sound is so good that they will probably guess the early '60s.
But here the quandary: Why did it take RCA Victor nearly a half-century to "decompress" Toscanini's recordings and make them sound almost lifelike? I mean, look at it this way: with the advent of modern tape recorders, digital technology, etc., they should have been able to make them sound this good during their first reissues of the early 1990s. Granted, all of those CDs at least sounded full and solid rather than thin and shrill, but you were still presented with what I call a "two-dimensional orchestra," one in which allthesectionswerecongestedtogetherlikethis. The result was a muddy wall of sound that still didn't sound entirely real.
As for the performances: this Mozart 40th is epic, with a tragic grandeur missing from most performances. The Haydn 94th may not be Urtext, but it is beautifully played and fun to listen to. The Cherubini is a lightweight piece, yet still better than Schumann's 4th Symphony or Brahms' 3rd. The Schumann 3rd is absolutely thrilling, and the Dvorak 9th is still (to me) the best performance of this symphony ever recorded. Here, Toscanini minimized the "folksy" quality of the music in favor of a leaner, more Tchaikovskian reading, and the result is deeply moving as well as having great forward momentum.
You may be wondering whether or not this 2-CD set is worth getting. Wonder no longer. This is a fabulous tribute to what the Maestro was able to accomplish with a second-rate orchestra, as are the new sets of Wagner (Vol. 7), French orchestral music (Vol. 9), Italian orchestral music, and especially the "Choral Works" album with his mind-boggling performance of the Verdi Requiem. I only gave this set 4 stars, however, because RCA still can't make the Studio 8-H recordings (the Mozart and Schumann) sound ENTIRELY good...but we have definitely moved closer to reality.