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Toscanini conducts Bizet, Mozart, Copland, etc.
Giacomo Meyerbeer, Karl Goldmark, Georges Bizet
Toscanini conducts Bizet, Mozart, Copland, etc.
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TOSCANINI/NBC SO 2 CD SET

     
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TOSCANINI/NBC SO 2 CD SET

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For the great Toscanini, a so-so collection
madamemusico | Cincinnati, Ohio USA | 05/11/2007
(3 out of 5 stars)

"Revelations: the Dinorah Overture, Rustic Wedding Symphony excerpts, Mozart Divertimento and Copland's El Salon Mexico (which I didn't even know he had performed). Disappointments: The Kalinnikov Symphony, which is too fast and stiff in the first movement and, in the second, Toscanini rescores the viola "drone" effect of the opening of the movement for harp which ruins the desired effect. Downers: the inferior music of Bizet's "Jolie Fille du Perth" suite, and that dreadful, boxy Studio 8-H sound, and the Massenet. Delightful surprises: the Sousa marches, especially "Semper Fidelis" which he conducts like a tarantella, also the unidentified chorus on the Dinorah overture (most probably the Westminster Choir, which Toscanini used in those years for his Beethoven performances).



Overall, then, a nice collection that fills in some gaps, but primarily for "complete" collectors only. As an overall album, it's just OK."