Compact discs.

Program notes by Robert Matthew-Walker about Toscanini's performances of the music inserted in container.

Recorded from live performance broadcasts, chiefly in NBC Studio 8-H (Op. 90 from Carnegie Hall); dates given in contents. Although Matthew-Walker's notes refer to the set containing "the 1938 account of the Italian Symphony", the container lists the date as Feb. 28, 1954.

Scottish.

Reformation.

Hebrides.

Italian.

Toscanini broadcasts series

Symphony no 3 in A minor, op. 56 : "Scottish" (Apr. 5, 1941) (32:42)

Symphony no 5 in D, op. 107 : "Reformation" (Nov. 8, 1942) (26:51)

A midsummer night's dream. Overture, op. 21 (11:43) ; [from] Op. 61 : Song & fairy chorus "Ye spotted snakes" (Edna Philips, soprano) (Nov. 1, 1947) (3:46)

Overtures. The Hebrides, op. 26 (Nov. 4, 1945) (9:19) ; Die schöne Melusine, op. 32 (Jan. 1, 1947) (8:50)

String quintet no 2 in Bb, op 87. III : Adagio e lento (Jan. 11, 1947) (7:54)

Violin concerto in E minor, op. 64 (Sept. 4, 1944) (23:39)

Symphony no 4 in A major, op. 90 : "Italian" (Feb. 28, 1954 [sic ; see note]) (25:54).

NBC Symphony Orchestra.