Research Catalog

Lucerne Festival Orchestra

Title
Lucerne Festival Orchestra : radio broadcast, 1938-08-25.
Publication
1938.

Available Online

NYPL Digital Collections

Details

Additional Authors
  • Jordan, Placidus, 1895-1977
  • Erb, Senta
  • Toscanini, Arturo, 1867-1957
  • Rossini, Gioacchino, 1792-1868.
  • Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 1756-1791.
  • Wagner, Richard, 1813-1883.
  • Beethoven, Ludwig van, 1770-1827.
  • Schweizerisches Festspielorchester, performer
  • National Broadcasting Company
Found In
Toscanini Legacy collection of sound recordings.
Description
25 streaming audio files (approximately 105 min.) : digital, mono.
Alternative Title
Toscanini Legacy collection of sound recordings.
Subject
  • Overtures > Excerpts
  • Symphonies
  • Symphonic poems
Genre/Form
  • Classical music radio programs.
  • Live sound recordings.
Note
  • Title supplied by cataloger from information on original discs.
  • Streaming files transferred from fourteen 12 in. 78 rpm original lacquer discs. Each side corresponds to one file.
  • Rossini's overture is not recorded from the beginning. Some fragments of music works are lost by overlapping announcements or drops in transmission. Sides 24 and 25 are recordings of two portions of the program with partial duplication.
Access (note)
  • Access to original items restricted. Patrons can access streaming audio only on site at the NYPL Research Libraries.
Source (note)
  • Toscanini family;
Linking Entry (note)
  • Forms part of: the Toscanini Legacy collection of sound recordings, *L(Special) 89-01.
Contents
La scala di seta overture / Rossini -- Symphony no. 40 in G minor / Mozart -- Announcement -- Die Meistersinger, prelude to Act 3 / Wagner -- Announcement -- A Siegfried idyll / Wagner -- Intermission -- Symphony no. 2 in D major, op. 36 / Beethoven -- Closing announcement.
Call Number
*LJ-12 4537-4549
OCLC
884468380
Title
Lucerne Festival Orchestra : radio broadcast, 1938-08-25.
Production
1938.
Type of Content
performed music
Type of Medium
audio
computer
Type of Carrier
online resource
Performer
Max Jordan, Senta Erb, commentators ; [members of] the Lucerne Festival Orchestra ; Arturo Toscanini, conductor.
Event
Broadcast live on NBC from Richard Wagner Garden House in Lucerne, Switzerland 1938 August 25.
Access
Access to original items restricted. Patrons can access streaming audio only on site at the NYPL Research Libraries.
Linking Entry
Forms part of: the Toscanini Legacy collection of sound recordings, *L(Special) 89-01.
Source
Gift; Toscanini family; 1987.
Connect to:
NYPL Digital Collections
Added Author
Jordan, Placidus, 1895-1977, commentator.
Erb, Senta, commentator.
Toscanini, Arturo, 1867-1957, conductor.
Container of (work): Rossini, Gioacchino, 1792-1868. Scala di seta. Sinfonia. Selections.
Container of (work): Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 1756-1791. Symphonies, K. 550, G minor.
Container of (work): Wagner, Richard, 1813-1883. Meistersinger von Nürnberg. 3. Aufzug. Vorspiel.
Container of (work): Wagner, Richard, 1813-1883. Siegfried-Idyll.
Container of (work): Beethoven, Ludwig van, 1770-1827. Symphonies, no. 2, op. 36, D major.
Schweizerisches Festspielorchester, performer.
National Broadcasting Company.
Toscanini family, donor.
Added Title
Toscanini Legacy collection of sound recordings.
Found In:
Toscanini Legacy collection of sound recordings.
Research Call Number
*LJ-12 4537-4549
*LJ-12 4557
*LT-10 7869-7869 (former classmark)
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