Classics of the Phonograph

Ballet music lives a different life on the ballet stage than on the concert platform.

Hear Arturo Toscanini's interpretations of music by Prokofiev, Shostakovich, Stravinsky, and Ravel.

Hear excerpts from historic performances of this work

Hear the lost recordings of this brilliant American pianist.

Hear one of the most successful recording artists in history.

In the later 1940s, his music became very popular in the United States.

Hear these pianists play concertos with Toscanini.

They have a special place in the repertory of the famous German conductor Wilhelm Furtwaengler.

Two of the outstanding women violinists of the mid-twentieth century were Erika Morini and Ida Haendel.

The longest running maestro of the mid-twentieth century.