In his 1944 film, the Italian conductor Arturo Toscanini also incorporated " The Internationale " for the Soviet Union and " The Star-Spangled Banner " representing the United States.

The composer was also impressed when Toscanini consulted him personally about the Te Deum, suggesting an allargando where it was not set out in the score.

Although he also worked with Wagnerian heldentenor Lauritz Melchior, he would not work with Melchior's frequent partner Kirsten Flagstad after her political sympathies became suspect during World War II ; it was Helen Traubel who sang with Melchior instead of Flagstad at the Toscanini concerts.

Horowitz also became close to Toscanini and his family.

Toscanini also recorded with the New York Philharmonic in Carnegie Hall for RCA Victor in 1929 and 1936.

The two Toscanini concerts recorded in stereo have been issued on LP and CD and have also been offered for download in digitally enhanced sound by Pristine Classical, a company which produces digitally enhanced versions of older classical recordings.

One more example of Toscanini and the NBC Symphony in stereo now also exists.

Frank and Dyment also discuss Maestro Toscanini's performance history in the 50th anniversary issue of Classic Record Collector ( 2006, 47 ) Frank with ' Toscanini – Myth and Reality ' ( 10 – 14 ) and Dyment ' A Whirlwind in London ' ( 15 – 21 ) This issue also contains interviews with people who performed with Toscanini – Jon Tolansky ' Licia Albanese – Maestro and Me ' ( 22 – 6 ) and ' A Mesmerising Beat: John Tolansky talks to some of those who worked with Arturo Toscanini, to discover some of the secrets of his hold over singers, orchestras and audiences.

Some contemporary critics, particularly Virgil Thomson, also took Toscanini to task for not paying enough attention to the " modern repertoire " ( i. e., 20th-century composers, of which Thomson was one ).

Toscanini has also been criticized for lack of nuance and metronomic ( rhythmically too rigid ) performances:

The show, hosted by NBC announcer Ben Grauer, who had also hosted many of the original Toscanini broadcasts, featured interviews with members of the conductor's family, as well as musicians of the NBC Symphony, David Sarnoff, and noted classical musicians who had worked with the conductor, such as Giovanni Martinelli.

The Library also has many other collections that have Toscanini materials in them, such as the Bruno Walter papers, the Fiorello H. La Guardia papers, and a collection of material from Rose Bampton.

He gave performances under Bruno Walter and Arturo Toscanini, and he also played the solo part in Richard Strauss ' Don Quixote under the composer.

Some classical music albums released at the beginning of the LP era were also distributed as EP albums — notably the seven operas that Arturo Toscanini conducted on radio between 1944 and 1954.

Brunswick also embarked on an ambitious domestic classical recording program, recording the New York String Quartet, the Cleveland Orchestra under Nikolai Sokoloff ( who had been recording acoustically for Brunswick since 1924 ), and in a tremendous steal from Victor, the New York Philharmonic with conductors Willem Mengelberg and Arturo Toscanini.

Furtwängler, whom many regard as the greatest interpreter of Wagner ( although Toscanini was also admired in this composer ) and Bruckner, conducted Beethoven and Brahms with a good deal of inflection of tempo – but generally in a manner that revealed the structure and direction of the music particularly clearly.

" Rosen has also named Arturo Toscanini as a great influence.

Toscanini recommended Giulini for the musical directorship at La Scala ; Giulini had also won the attention and support of Victor de Sabata, the principal conductor of La Scala.

Some non-Jewish foes of the regime also emigrated — Toscanini, for one.

Arturo Toscanini performed as cellist in the orchestra at the world premiere and began his friendship with Verdi ( a composer he revered as highly as Beethoven ).

* March 26 – The first half of Giuseppe Verdi's opera Aida, conducted by legendary conductor Arturo Toscanini, and performed in concert ( i. e. no scenery or costumes ), is telecast by NBC, live from Studio 8H at Rockefeller Center.

Of this version, about three minutes were cut for performance by Toscanini, and it is this shortened version that is usually performed.

This operation was performed by Arturo Toscanini himself.

The NBC Symphony performed weekly radio concert broadcasts with Toscanini and other conductors and served as house orchestra for the network, beginning November 13, 1937 and continuing until 1954.

* Grofé's Grand Canyon Suite, performed by the NBC Symphony, conducted by Arturo Toscanini.

Serge Koussevitzky performed it to commemorate the death of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and Bruno Walter performed the entire symphony at the memorial concert for Arturo Toscanini.

Toscanini resigned in protest, artists of Jewish descent like Reinhardt and Georg Solti had to emigrate, and the Jedermann, last performed by Attila Hörbiger, had to be dropped.

#[...] it is not his conclusion that is performed in productions of Turandot but only what the premiere conductor Arturo Toscanini included from it ... Puccini had worked for nine months on the following concluding duet and at his death had left behind a whole ream of sketches ... Alfano had to reconstruct ... according to his best assessment ... and with his imagination and magnifying glass " since Puccini's material " had not really been legible.

In 1993, the opening theme was used in the film Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould in the scene on Lake Simcoe as performed by the NBC Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Arturo Toscanini ( recorded 1952 ).

It was performed for the first time in 1938, in a radio broadcast from a New York studio attended by an invited audience, conducted by Arturo Toscanini, who also took the piece on tour to Europe and South America.

* Vladimir Horowitz performed this piece as part of a World War II fund-raising concert in 1943, with his father-in-law, the conductor Arturo Toscanini, conducting the NBC Symphony Orchestra.

The NBC Symphony Orchestra performed a number of Martucci's orchestral works in 1938, 1940, 1941, 1946, and 1953 ; although the performances were preserved on transcription discs, none was approved for commercial release by Toscanini.

Some Toscanini biographers ( including Mortimer Frank and Harvey Sachs ) have questioned the merit of the compositions and indicate that they do not care for them, speculating that Toscanini may have performed them out of a sense of duty.

Arturo Toscanini was just one of the celebrated conductors under whose baton he performed.

Horszowski performed with the NBC Symphony Orchestra under Toscanini, with whom he was friends, in 1943 and 1953.

Gillis is best remembered as the composer of his Symphony No. 5½, A Symphony for Fun, originally performed by Arturo Toscanini and the NBC Symphony Orchestra during a September 21, 1947, broadcast concert that Gillis also produced ; it was preserved on transcription discs but not commercially issued.

Among the conductors he performed under were Arturo Toscanini and Serge Koussevitsky.

* Mendelssohn, Symphony No. 4 " Italian ", ( 1954, exists in two versions: one as approved by Toscanini with excerpts from the rehearsals, and the unedited broadcast )

On February 22, 1941, Traubel sang with tenor Lauritz Melchior in excerpts from Wagnerian operas on the live broadcast concert of the NBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Arturo Toscanini.

Soon after graduating from Berkeley, he moved to New York, mainly to be near the conductor Arturo Toscanini.

Arturo Toscanini conducted the vast forces of combined orchestras and choirs composed of musicians from throughout Italy at the state funeral for Verdi in Milan.

Prior to Verdi's body's being driven from the cemetery to the official memorial service and its final resting place at the Casa di Riposo per Musicisti, Arturo Toscanini conducted a chorus of 820 singers in " Va, pensiero ".

Toscanini conducted the entire opera from memory, with great success.

However, in his biography of Toscanini, Harvey Sachs claims that Toscanini did conduct the second and third performances before withdrawing from the production due to nervous exhaustion.

Strauss's seeming relationship with the Nazis in the 1930s attracted criticism from some noted musicians, including Arturo Toscanini, who in 1933 had said, " To Strauss the composer I take off my hat ; to Strauss the man I put it back on again ," when Strauss had accepted the presidency of the Reichsmusikkammer.

Other conductors who have recorded the work include Arturo Toscanini, Daniel Barenboim, Sir Georg Solti, Leonard Bernstein, Giuseppe Sinopoli, Leopold Stokowski, Eugene Ormandy, William Steinberg and André Previn, as well as leading English conductors from Sir Henry Wood and Sir Adrian Boult to Sir Simon Rattle.

Encouraged by Arturo Toscanini, Rota moved to the United States where he lived from 1930 to 1932.

Guest conducting the BBC SO in the 1930s: from top left, clockwise, Thomas Beecham | Beecham, Serge Koussevitzky | Koussevitzky, Willem Mengelberg | Mengelberg, Richard Strauss, Arturo Toscanini | Toscanini, Bruno Walter | Walter, Anton Webern | Webern, Felix Weingartner | Weingartner

Leopold Stokowski served as principal conductor from 1941-1944 on a three-year contract following a dispute between Toscanini and NBC.

RCA has only reissued recordings that were personally approved by Toscanini, including some broadcast performances such as the seven complete operas he conducted at NBC between 1944 and 1950 ; however, other labels have released discs taken from off-the-air recordings of NBC broadcast concerts.

In 1980, it was used by Zubin Mehta and the New York Philharmonic Orchestra in a series of special televised NBC concerts called " Live From Studio 8H ", the first one being a tribute to Toscanini, punctuated by clips from his television concerts.

Sachs wrote that an Italian journalist, Raffaele Calzini, said Toscanini told him, " My son Walter sent me the test pressing of the Ninth from America ; I want to hear and check how it came out, and possibly to correct it.

There were two Toscanini telecasts in 1949, both devoted to the concert performance of Verdi's Aida from studio 8H.

There were no Toscanini telecasts in 1950, but they resumed from Carnegie Hall on November 3, 1951, with Weber's overture to Euryanthe and Brahms ' Symphony No. 1.

On March 15, 1952, Toscanini conducted the Symphonic Interlude from Franck's Rédemption ; Sibelius's En Saga ; Debussy's " Nuages " and " Fetes " from Nocturnes ; and the overture of Rossini's William Tell.

Another criticism leveled at Toscanini stems from the constricted sound quality that comes from many of his recordings, notably those made in NBC's Studio 8-H.