Toscanini Collection, Vol.66

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Composer or Director: Christoph Gluck, Gioachino Rossini, Giuseppe Verdi, Richard Wagner

Label: Gold Seal

Magazine Review Date: 11/1992

Media Format: CD or Download

Media Runtime: 64

Mastering:

Mono
ADD

Catalogue Number: GD60318

Tracks:

Composition	Artist Credit
Orfeo ed Euridice, Movement: Ballet in D minor (Dance of the Blessed Spirits): (flute solo)	Christoph Gluck, Composer Arturo Toscanini, Conductor Christoph Gluck, Composer New York Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra
(Il) Barbiere di Siviglia, '(The) Barber of Seville', Movement: Overture	Gioachino Rossini, Composer Arturo Toscanini, Conductor Gioachino Rossini, Composer New York Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra
(L')Italiana in Algeri, '(The) Italian Girl in Algiers', Movement: Overture	Gioachino Rossini, Composer Arturo Toscanini, Conductor Gioachino Rossini, Composer New York Philharmonic Orchestra
Semiramide, Movement: Overture	Gioachino Rossini, Composer Arturo Toscanini, Conductor Gioachino Rossini, Composer New York Philharmonic Orchestra
(La) traviata, Movement: Prelude	Giuseppe Verdi, Composer Arturo Toscanini, Conductor Giuseppe Verdi, Composer New York Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra
(Der) Ring des Nibelungen: Part 4, 'Götterdämmerung', Movement: Dawn and Siegfried's Rhine Journey (concert version)	Richard Wagner, Composer Arturo Toscanini, Conductor New York Philharmonic Orchestra Richard Wagner, Composer
Lohengrin, Movement: Prelude	Richard Wagner, Composer Arturo Toscanini, Conductor New York Philharmonic Orchestra Richard Wagner, Composer

Author:

Here is one disc which shows most sides of Toscanini's genius, from the exquisitely elegant Gluck Ballet to the incandescent, majestic Gotterdammerung and Lohengrin excerpts; and from the extraordinarily tender and eloquent Traviata preludes to the ebullient, witty Rossini overtures. This would be my Toscanini 'sampler'.'