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Since 1938, RCA Victor has three times recorded a Toscanini performance of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony-only to have Perfectionist Toscanini refuse to let any of them be released. Last week, at 85, the Maestro told Victor to go ahead and release recording No. 4 next fall. "This," he said, "is the closest I can get . . . I am almost satisfied this time...
Puccini: La Bohème (Licia Albanese, soprano; Jan Peerce, tenor; the NBC Symphony Orchestra, Arturo Toscanini conducting; Victor, 4 sides LP). This recording of the Maestro's 1946 broadcast will make opera fans regretfully aware of how seldom they hear a first-rate performance of Bohème. Toscanini, who conducted the world premiere in 1896, gives it a rare force, clarity and subtlety. The singers are all in fine voice-including amateur Baritone Toscanini, whose hoarse old bawling can be clearly heard accompanying the principals in several passages. Recording: excellent. A new recording of Tosco, (Cetra-Soria...
...Symphony (Sat. 6:15 p.m., NBC). Beethoven's Ninth, with Nan Merriman, Jan Peerce. Conductor: Toscanini...
...Symphony (Sat. 6:30 p.m., NBC). Another simultaneous radio-TV concert conducted by Toscanini...
...Symphony (Sat. 6:30 p.m., NBC). Toscanini conducting a simultaneous radio-TV concert...