24/48: Massimo Freccia / Filharmonica di Roma - Reader's Digest 1960

Rossini:  "Semiramide" overture     Tchaikovsky:  "Sleeping Beauty" - waltz    Tchaikovsky:  Marche Slave, op.31
Herold:  "Zampa" overture    Verdi:  "Aida" Grand March    Handel:  "Xerxes" largo    Ponchielli:  "La Gioconda" Dance of the Hours
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Glinka:  "Russlan & Ludmilla" overture    Rubinstein:  Kamennoi-Ostrow    Rossini:  "William Tell" overture     Verdi:  "La Traviata" Preludes to Acts.1/3
Mascagni:  "Cavalliera Rusticana" intermezzo    Wagner:  "Die Gotterdamurung" Siegfried's Rhine Journey    Wolf-Ferrari:  "Susanna's Secret" overture **
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Orchestra Filharmonica di Roma  conducted by  Massimo Freccia 
Reader's Digest  RDS 5003/5009   12LP set: 1961 Decca LP's / matrices: L70Y6506/7 & 6517/8 - 1W/2W,  ** (1976 set RDS 9178)      Label pics >>> 

24/48: Sir Thomas Beecham / Royal Philharmonic - Dvorak. Symphony 8 / Wagner. Die Meistersinger - BBC 1959

Antonin Dvorak:  Symphony no.8 (4) in G major, op.88  
I: Allegro con brio ~ II: Adagio ~ III: Allegretto grazioso ~ IV: Allegro ma non troppo
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Richard Wagner: "Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg",  Act.1 - prelude
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Royal Philharmonic Orchestra  conducted by  Sir Thomas Beecham       
HMV  ALP 2003   1963 First edition.   Matrices: 2XEA 2233 -1N / 2XEA 2234 -2N  
Live:  25 October 1959 - Royal Festival Hall  / 4 November 1959 - BBC Home Service concert.
From Sir Richard Attenborough's collection.      2004 MusicWeb CD review >>>      Sleeve-note / EMG review >>>