Johann Sebastian Bach

Part 4

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D’INDY—Symphony on a French Mountain Air for Orchestra and Piano—LP MILHAUD—Suite Française—LP MOZART—Concerto No. 21 for Piano and Orchestra in C major—LP SAINT-SAENS—Symphony in C minor, No. 3 for Orchestra, Organ and Piano, Op. 78—LP

_Under the Direction of Artur Rodzinski_

BIZET—Carmen—Entr’acte (Prelude to Act III) BIZET—Symphony in C major—LP BRAHMS—Symphony No. 1 in C minor—LP BRAHMS—Symphony No. 2 in D major—LP COPLAND—A Lincoln Portrait (with Kenneth Spencer, Narrator)—LP ENESCO—Roumanian Rhapsody—A major, No. 1—LP GERSHWIN—An American in Paris—LP GOULD—“Spirituals” for Orchestra—LP IBERT—“Escales” (Port of Call)—LP LISZT—Mephisto Waltz—LP MOUSSORGSKY—Gopack (The Fair at Sorotchinski)—LP MOUSSORGSKY-RAVEL—Pictures at an Exhibition—LP PROKOFIEFF—Symphony No. 5—LP RACHMANINOFF—Concerto No. 2 in C minor for Piano and Orchestra (with Gygory Sandor, piano) RACHMANINOFF—Symphony No. 2 in E minor SAINT-SAENS—Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 4 in C minor (with Robert Casadesus)—LP SIBELIUS—Symphony No. 4 in A minor TSCHAIKOWSKY—Nutcracker Suite—LP TSCHAIKOWSKY—Suite “Mozartiana”—LP TSCHAIKOWSKY—Symphony No. 6 in B minor (“Pathétique”)—LP WAGNER—Lohengrin—Bridal Chamber Scene (Act III—Scene 2)—(with Helen Traubel, soprano, and Kurt Baum, tenor)—LP WAGNER—Lohengrin—Elsa’s Dream (Act I, Scene 2) (with Helen Traubel, soprano) WAGNER—Siegfried Idyll—LP WAGNER—Tristan und Isolde—Excerpts (with Helen Traubel, soprano) WAGNER—Die Walküre—Act III (Complete) (with Helen Traubel, soprano and Herbert Janssen, baritone)—LP WAGNER—Die Walküre—Duet (Act I, Scene 3) (with Helen Traubel, soprano and Emery Darcy, tenor)—LP WOLF-FERRARI—“Secret of Suzanne,” Overture

_Under the Direction of Igor Stravinsky_

STRAVINSKY—Firebird Suite—LP STRAVINSKY—Fireworks (Feu d’Artifice)—LP STRAVINSKY—Four Norwegian Moods STRAVINSKY—Le Sacre du Printemps (The Consecration of the Spring)—LP STRAVINSKY—Scènes de Ballet—LP STRAVINSKY—Suite from “Petrouchka”—LP STRAVINSKY—Symphony In Three Movements—LP

_Under the Direction of Sir Thomas Beecham_

MENDELSSOHN—Symphony No. 4, in A major (“Italian”) SIBELIUS—Melisande (from “Pelleas and Melisande”) SIBELIUS—Symphony No. 7 in C major—LP TSCHAIKOWSKY—Capriccio Italien

_Under the Direction of John Barbirolli_

BACH-BARBIROLLI—Sheep May Safely Graze (from the “Birthday Cantata”)—LP BERLIOZ—Roman Carnival Overture BRAHMS—Symphony No. 2, in D major BRAHMS—Academic Festival Overture—LP BRUCH—Concerto No. 1, in G minor (with Nathan Milstein, violin)—LP DEBUSSY—First Rhapsody for Clarinet (with Benny Goodman, clarinet) DEBUSSY—Petite Suite: Ballet MOZART—Concerto in B-flat major (with Robert Casadesus, piano) MOZART—Symphony No. 25 in G minor, K. 183 RAVEL—La Valse RIMSKY-KORSAKOV—Capriccio Espagnol SIBELIUS—Symphony No. 1, in E minor SIBELIUS—Symphony No. 2, in D major SMETANA—The Bartered Bride—Overture TSCHAIKOWSKY—Theme and Variations (from Suite No. 3 in G)—LP

_Under the Direction of Andre Kostelanetz_

GERSHWIN—Concerto in F (with Oscar Levant)—LP

_Under the Direction of Dimitri Mitropoulos_

KHACHATURIAN—Concerto for Piano and Orchestra (with Oscar Levant, piano)—LP

VICTOR RECORDS

_Under the Direction of Arturo Toscanini_

BEETHOVEN—Symphony No. 7 in A major BRAHMS—Variations on a Theme by Haydn DUKAS—The Sorcerer’s Apprentice GLUCK—Orfeo ed Euridice—Dance of the Spirits HAYDN—Symphony No. 4 in D major (The Clock) MENDELSSOHN—Midsummer Night’s Dream—Scherzo MOZART—Symphony in D major (K. 385) ROSSINI—Barber of Seville—Overture ROSSINI—Semiramide—Overture ROSSINI—Italians in Algiers—Overture VERDI—Traviata—Preludes to Acts I and II WAGNER—Excerpts—Lohengrin—Die Götterdämmerung—Siegfried Idyll

_Under the Direction of John Barbirolli_

DEBUSSY—Iberia (Images, Set 3, No. 2) PURCELL—Suite for Strings with four Horns, two Flutes, English Horn RESPIGHI—Fountains of Rome RESPIGHI—Old Dances and Airs (Special recording for members of the Philharmonic-Symphony League of New York) SCHUBERT—Symphony No. 4 in C minor (Tragic) SCHUMANN—Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in D minor (with Yehudi Menuhin, violin) TSCHAIKOWSKY—Francesca da Rimini—Fantasia

_Under the Direction of Willem Mengelberg_

J. C. BACH—Arr. Stein—Sinfonia in B-flat major J. S. BACH—Arr. Mahler—Air for G String (from Suite for Orchestra) BEETHOVEN—Egmont Overture HANDEL—Alcina Suite MENDELSSOHN—War March of the Priests (from Athalia) MEYERBEER—Prophète—Coronation March SAINT-SAENS—Rouet d’Omphale (Omphale’s Spinning Wheel) SCHELLING—Victory Ball WAGNER—Flying Dutchman—Overture WAGNER—Siegfried—Forest Murmurs (Waldweben)

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