Wagner: Tannhauser: Overture, Conductor: Arturo Toscanini, NBC Symphony Orchestra 

I think so, that's fantastic experience

9:37 first time I can Hear the violas/cellos

John Schlesinger - Perceptive post! Yes, it's as if AT(oscanin) and "his" NBC Symphony players were, AS ONE. It's the type of musical kinship that Szell/Cleveland, Reiner/Chicago and a very, few others had, IMO.

He's the most amazing conductor of all times. Congratulations for your great observations! Greetings from Brazil. 🇧🇷

Mgnífica, dos genios unidos!!!!

Then.. why the hell do other conductor's baton way ahead? They have a great model (here) to just beat ~at~ time. Confusing why there is any other way... meh. I don't know anything about this stuff, but was always wondering what conductors were doing so ahead of things...

@@jhb134Thanks for your observations. George Szell held Toscannini in high regard, and Szell made the Cleveland into a great orchestra. His "Jupiter" has been never been out of the catalogue, together with the G minor and E flat Mozart symphonies. His Tschiakowsky 4th is possibly the best ever. Szell was offered the NBC after Toscannini's death, but declined, saying that he belonged in Cleveland. The orchestra was disbanded after Toscannini's death.

Alas, classical music is 99% dead in the USA. Symphony orchestras are barely scraping-by, while making payroll & benefits cuts for the players (never the managers!). The current head of the Metropolitan Opera remarked recently, "If there's no audience, then what's the point?" What's needed desperately for classical music is about a dozen **BRAND-NEW COMPOSERS** (not just the goofy Philip Glass) who can revolutionize its focus. For example, no real effort has *EVER* been made to fuse classical music with 1950's Rock 'N Roll, or Caribbean jazz. The film, "Mr. Holland's Opus" comes to mind: www.imdb.com/title/tt0113862/

@@CLASSICALFAN100 well you can thank our covid new world order Chicom commie climate hugging genderists for the destruction of all things good!

@@CLASSICALFAN100 Americas greatest composer is ALAN HOVHANESS

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Back when culture was part of American life, and the networks knew it. Not like now...RIP

@@CLASSICALFAN100agree 100%

He often had Liszt conducing! But for sure orchestras we’re nowhere near this level!

I agree...

Anch'io, amico...

No hay palabras simplemente abrir los oídos.

Bravissimo!

Beh, si tratta di un autentico genio dell'intera storia della direzione d'orchestra e, in senso lato, dell'interpretazione musicale. Le emozioni, gli scuotimenti interiori, l'estasi che riesce a suscitare Arturo Toscanini in ogni sua esecuzione sono riscontrabili in pochissimi altri interpeti della storia della musica (Wilhelm Furtwangler in primis). E' un po' vergognoso - come, d'altronde molte altre cose italiane - che l'Italia di oggi non riesca a commemorarlo degnamente, neanche nel 150° della nascita, caduto nel 2017. Ah.......beh, dimenticavo: per i nostri ridicoli e mafiosi burocrati un 150° non è cadenza contemplata per le commemorazioni. Non parliamo poi delle scuole e dei conservatori, scuole e conservatori che dovrebbero tramandare la sua figura splendida di uomo e di artista costantemente. Ah già, che sbadato..........: dobbiamo in fretta cancellare tutta la nostra identità etnico-culturale, ce lo chiede il neoliberismo sovranazionale criminale.

+renato45222 se il figlio di Wagner preferiva Toscanini a Furtwangler ci sarà pure un motivo. Tutti grandi artisti, ma il genio non si discute.

Zgadzam sie Svietlana. Ale mozesz pisac po angielsku.

@@johnfalstaff2270 вы это что написали? Не поняла

@@svetlana5921, do not pretend you did not understand. It very easy to find it out.

Giovanni vitolo assistere ad una esecuzione di qualcosa che lui dirige È un incanto ,io impazzisco quando Lo vedo dirigere,maestro devi vivere In eterno.

There are a number of fairly good quality mono recordings of Toscanini performances available on RU-vid. Too many of his recordings, including the filmed ones like this, were done in the horribly dry, closet-like acoustics of NBC Studio 8H, possibly the worst ever venue for an orchestra performance. For better sound, look for ones recorded in Carnegie Hall, or other actual concert halls, which provide vastly better sonics.

@@leestamm3187 Thanks for your kind answer

@@freeassange8864 George Orwell: "All propaganda is lies, even when one is telling the truth. "

,....This 's GREAT & E.Mravinsky was GREAT to in that overture...!!!

Television had such great potential but must be considered one of the great disappointments of our age. And that goes double for NBC.

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This is cause he wasnt a nazi like Karajan, originally named KARAJANNIS, Greek, he hid his non arian name behind a more German sounding pseudonymous

Man said nazi

I think Karajan created one of the best sounding orchestras and he always observed all the little details and nuances in the score. They’re both great in their own right.

Frank Miller was Principal Cello with Chicago 1959-1985. He was principal with the NBC Symphony 1939-1954. He was considered an outstanding musician and section leader. It is compelling to watch him in this video, his eyes darting from the score to Toscanini.

@@halross3447 Yes. Frank and I were cordial friends throughout the 1980's and I really enjoy it when people appreciate him.

Well, great played music. Toscanini makes architecture very well. But Arturos conducting marks are quite simply and like metronome

@Luigi Raimondo Pomo yes all great conductors i agree. i just love ARTURO.

Оf course, my friend, of course! 100 times better of all others!

He was a MAGICIAN playing conductor...

LOL YH

I agree with you!

WAGNER must.... absolutely!

I'm not sure that's an oboe. I think it's a clarinet playing high notes. Anyhow, I enjoy watching Toscanini' s control over the orchestra. At one point I'm sure he is saying something to the strings on his right.

Heheh, I was looking to see if anyone caught that look between the two cellists at 12:06. I'd bet that Maestro did something that caught their funnybones. Probably gave the stinkeye to someone. Toscanini was not shy about letting his musicians know when they had screwed up.

Thanks for Navalny...

It was Toscanini original intention to become a composer it was the music of Vagner that convinced him otherwise Richard

Thank you very much indeed for sharing your memories about American TV in the 50s !!! I'm from Ukraine.

FURTWAENGLER

@@anjalialaniz, he is too pathetic to my taste.

@@johnfalstaff2270 As a man ,certainly not! He was no real Nazi at all! As a musician and conductor certainly not, either! Rubbish!

@@anjalialaniz, everybody is entitled to express his/her own opinion. Why did you mention Furtwaengler if you despise him?

@@johnfalstaff2270 Obviously people are entitled to their opinions. Where do I indicate that I believe otherwise? I am sharing my OWN opinion that Maestro Furtwangler conducts Wagner just as competently as Toscanini. Where, pray tell, do I disparage Furtwangler? Is it not self-evident based on my commentary that I admire, rather than despise, Furtwangler? FFS! YOU say he is pathetic and you claim that --I-- "despise" him?

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