The Toscanini Collection · Highlights

Total Playing Time: 69:46 BMG Classics presents “The Toscanini Collection” on RCA Victor Gold Seal—a landmark of the CD era—on 82 compact discs and 10 Laser Discs (or 9 Video-cassettes), to be released between 1990 and 1994. “The Toscanini Collection—Highlights” demonstrates both the wide-ranging artistry of Arturo Toscanini and the superb digital remastering by RCA, the record label of Toscanini. Tracks 4, 5, and 6: Tape/disc sources: “Toscanini Legacy” collection, Rodgers and Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound, The New York Public Library at Lincoln Center Tracks 5 and 7: R&H Archives Track 7: Disc source: NBC Collection, Library of Congress Restoration/Remastering: BMG Studios Tracks 4, 6 and 7: 1991 Release The analog recording source for this compact disc was made before noise-reduction methods such as Dolby were available. In the digital remastering, some effort to minimize the inherent tape hiss was made; radical methods have not been used in order to preserve the full-frequency content of the original recordings. Therefore, some noise may be experienced in the reproduction on wide-range equipment.