POLYPHONY2#AOL - Polyphony Recordings

LP's: RCA's - continued
701. LM-1834: TOSCANINI PLAYS YOUR FAVORITES - Egmont, Roman Carnival & Zampa Overtures;
Dance of the Hours; Finlandia; 4 Hungarian Dances. NBC Sym. [SD labels] A-- ......................................... 12.00
702. LM-1835: SCHUBERT - Symphony #9. Toscanini/NBC Sym. [Original issue in deluxe fold-open album
with eight-page booklet including an essay by Andre Malrois] [PD; 1S/1S] A- ............................................. 32.00
703. LM-1835: SCHUBERT - Symphony #9. Toscanini/NBC Sym. [later jacket, with Alpine mountain scene]
[WD; 21S/16S] A-............................................................................................................................................ 16.00
704. LM-1836: BRAHMS - Symphony #3. Toscanini/NBC Sym. [PD labels] A-........................................................ 16.00
705. LM-1838: MUSSORGSKY - Pictures at an Exhibition. FRANCK - Psyche & Eros. Toscanini/NBC. [SD;
31S/28S] A-...................................................................................................................................................... 18.00
706. LM-1839: LICIA ALBANESE - Highlights fr Madame Butterfly (w/Melton; Browning; Weissman/RCA
Orch); Arias from Louise, Boheme, La Wally, Cav, Manon Lescaut, Adriana (Trucco/RCA Sym).
[WD labels] A- ................................................................................................................................................. 15.00
707. LM-1841: JUSSI BJOERLING - Arias: Boheme, Faust, Cav, Pag, Africana, Carmen. ROBERT MERRILL
- Arias: Trovatore, Ballo, Rigoletto, Cav, Pag, Otello. [PD labels] A-............................................................ 12.00
708. LM-1847: TREASURY OF GRAND OPERA IN HIGH FIDELITY. Arias by Berger, Peters, Albanese,
de los Angeles, Stevens, Milanov, Warren, Bjoerling, Merrill, Peerce, Shaw Chorale. [PD labels]
B ......................................................................................................................................................................... 6.00
709. LM-1849: BOITO - Mefistofele Prologue. VERDI - Te Deum. Moscona; Toscanini/NBC Sym; Shaw
Chorale. [Spectacular Carnegie Hall sound in Boito!] [SD labels] A- ........................................................... 20.00
710. LM-1850: GLUCK - Orfeo ed Euridice, Act, II. Merriman; Gibson; Toscanini/NBC Sym; Shaw
Chorale. [11-22-52, Carnegie Hall] [PD labels] A- ........................................................................................ 15.00
711. LM-1851: MENDELSSOHN - Symphonies #4 & #5. Toscanini/NBC Sym. [SD labels] A- ............................... 16.00
712. LM-1852: FRANCK - Symphony in d. Cantelli/NBC Sym. [Mono-only original release; taped in stereo in
early 1954, but never issued in stereo until the late 1970's; prime candidate for a Classic Records first-
LSC issue!] [PD labels] A--(occ lgt tks sd 2)................................................................................................... 18.00
713. LM-1853: BRAHMS - Eleven Chorale Preludes (arrangements of Bach Chorales). Virgil Fox, organ at
Hammond Museum, Gloucester, Massachusetts. [PD labels] A- .................................................................... 15.00
714. LM-1854: SIBELIUS - Symphony #2. Stokowski/NBC Symphony Members. [with later jacket - which
I've never seen before! - an abstract painting of a dark, stormy coastline; Stokowski's essay, which
began on the front of original jacket, is now all on the back cover] [PD labels] A-(brief crackle, start
side 2) ............................................................................................................................................................... 35.00
715. LM-1856: TCHAIKOVSKY - Album for the Young; The Seasons (5 exc). SCHUMANN - Album for the
Young. Ania Dorfmann, piano. [with original jacket - itself in fine condition! - of a little girl on a
man's lap] [PD labels] B- to C+ ......................................................................................................................... 4.00
716. LM-1857: ITALIAN SONGS - Tosti(2), Donaudy, Buzzi-Peccia, Tirindelli, Santoliquido, Puccini,
Bianchini (Savina/Orch); Donaudy(2), Verdi(2), Sibella, Pieraccini (Marzollo, piano). Licia
Albanese, soprano (in all). [very scarce Albanese - only in print from August 1955 until February
1957] [PD labels] A- ........................................................................................................................................ 32.00
717. LM-1858: MORTON GOULD - Dance Variations (Whittemore & Lowe; Stokowski/SF Sym).
MENOTTI: Sebastian Suite (Stokowski/NBC Sym members). [The Menotti eventually (c.1978!) was
issued in stereo on LP; I don't think the Gould was ever reissued] [PD labels] B+(original jacket with
ballet dancer legs)............................................................................................................................................. 18.00
718. LM-1858: MORTON GOULD - Dance Variations (Whittemore & Lowe; Stokowski/SF Sym).
MENOTTI: Sebastian Suite (Stokowski/NBC Sym members). [The Menotti eventually (c.1978!) was
issued in stereo on LP; I don't think the Gould was ever reissued] [PD labels] A--(later cover: weird
photo of a guy in fishnet) ................................................................................................................................. 25.00
719. LM-1859: THE ART OF RUTH DRAPER - Dramatic Monologues: The Scottish Immigrant; Three
Generations in a Court of Domestic Relations. [recorded in NY, 1954, a couple of years before her
death; deleted July 1957; scarce item] [PD labels] A- ..................................................................................... 35.00