Word: toscaninis
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...stereo"-or, as the record liners prudently euphemize, monophonic recordings with "electronic stereo reprocessing." RCA's first releases: Respighi's Fountains of Rome and Pines of Rome, Moussorgsky-Ravel's Pictures at an Exhibition, Dvorak's Symphony "From the New World", all conducted by Arturo Toscanini...
...sales of Toscanini disks, which once far outdistanced the rest of the classical record field, dropped off sharply after stereo appeared. Alarmed, RCA in 1958 assigned an engineer-composer named Jack Somer. then 23, to see if he could save Toscanini for stereo. It took him two years to produce a recording that sounded convincing and that was not afflicted with such normal recording hazards as "grit, ticks and swish...
...individual instruments." Sharp-eared listeners will detect that the Somerized orchestra has a habit of wandering about the stage: the strings may shift a bit toward center, a trumpeter may wander farther into right field. But most customers are not likely to question the illusion: the gimmicked Toscanini recordings have a luster that their mono counterparts lack...
Verdi) Arturo (for Toscanini) Alfidi sat down at the piano and expertly played his own 25-minute Concerto in G Minor, dedicated to Queen Elisabeth. Said his proud father, Frank Alfidi, standing in the wings: "It's the first time an American boy plays for royalty...
Parsifal: Toscanini's swift handling contributed to his reputation as a fast conductor. His early record of two hours and six minutes for the first act, set in 1931, was finally broken in 1953 by Clemens Krauss, who raced to the finish in an astounding one hour and 30 minutes...