Beethoven Fidelio Arturo Toscanini Acts 1 & 2 Jan Peerce Rose Bampton 1944 2 CD

Description: Beethoven Fidelio Arturo Toscanini Acts 1 & 2 Jan Peerce Rose Bampton 1944 2 CD. Plastic jewel case with no cover art, just the 2 CD's fine condition as shown - see photos. TOSCANINI Beethoven: Fidelio (1944) - PACO077Jan Peerce FlorestanoRose Bampton LeonoraChorus directed by Peter WilhouskyNBC Symphony OrchestraArturo Toscanini, conductorToscanini's Fidelio: "daring, fierce, mesmerizing"The broadcasts from which this recording originated were transmitted a week apart, and the normal mid-programme talk was omitted in order to fit each act into a one-hour slot. Also omitted was almost all dialogue, with the opera staged more as a concert piece than a staged work. An error by soprano Rose Bampton in the Abscheulicher led to a re-recording of this at an RCA Toscanini recording session in Carnegie Hall the following June 14th, and it is this version which RCA subsequently used in their releases of the recording - we have stayed with this version for our issue.The sound quality of the original recording was adequate, but huge strides forward have been made with the application of 32-bit XR remastering, which has particularly favoured the solo voices here. Although the frequency range tops out at around 10kHz, there is plenty of 'air' and brightness to be heard, albeit with a degree of background hiss at times. I was also able, for the first time, to iron out some quite pronounced pitch variations caused by the original recording equipment drifting up and down in speed.

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