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...Arturo Toscanini...
Debussy: La Mer (the NBC Symphony Orchestra, Arturo Toscanini conducting; Victor, 1 side LP). Toscanini has never been satisfied with his own, or anyone else's, navigations of this impressionistic evocation of the sea. In this, his first recording, his performance has subtlety, majesty, color and power-and less perfumery than most conductors give the piece. Recording: excellent...
...music that poured from radio and television loudspeakers at week's end, as Arturo Toscanini began his 14th NBC season, bore little trace of the loneliness he feels. As ever, once on the podium, he was concerned only with the feelings Brahms put into his Symphony No. 1 and Weber into his Euryanthe Overture. At 84, Toscanini projected those feelings with a power, clarity and precision no other living conductor can match...
...Victor even has hopes of releasing a Toscanini performance of Beethoven's Symphony No. 9; several renderings have been recorded, but, because of minor imperfections, the maestro has refused to approve any of them, for release...
...Symphony (Sat. 6:30 p.m., NBC). Toscanini conducting music of Prokofiev, Raff, Beethoven...