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Toscanini conducts the last two movements of Mozart’s Symphony No.39 (Recorded 1920)

Things have been going slowly here, but I’m still working on assorted transfers. There should be a big update in the next month or so, but in the meanwhile, I’ll try to post occasional smaller updates, such as this one. One of Toscanini’s acoustic sides has already featured here, but here are another two, the […]

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by on June 4, 2011  •  Permalink
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Posted by Damians78s on June 4, 2011

https://music.damians78s.co.uk/2011/06/04/toscanini-conducts-the-last-two-movements-of-mozarts-symphony-no-39-recorded-1920/

Dolores Wilson – Lucia di Lammermoor, sextet and mad scene; Joan Sutherland – Lucia mad scene; Toscanini conducts Bizet’s Farandole (La Scala Orchestra, 1921)

Today would have been Dame Joan Sutherland’s 84th birthday. It is also exactly four weeks after her death. It seems apt to mark this with one of her earliest discs. Her Lucia di Lammermoor mad scene from 1959 was issued as part of a recital disc,  but also was issued on a mono 45rpm record. […]

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by on November 7, 2010  •  Permalink
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Posted by Damians78s on November 7, 2010

https://music.damians78s.co.uk/2010/11/07/dolores-wilson-lucia-di-lammermoor-sextet-and-mad-scene-joan-sutherland-lucia-mad-scene-toscanini-conducts-bizets-farandole-la-scala-orchestra-1921/