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RCA Victor LD/LDS Soria Series, Uses the LM/LSC Numbering System RCA Discography Part 29 - By David Edwards, Mike Callahan, and Patrice Eyries. © 2018 by Mike Callahan RCA Victor LD/LDS Soria Series, Uses the LM/LSC numbering system. LD/LDS 2346 – The Vienna of Johann Strauss – Herbert Von Karajan and Wiener Philharmoniker [1959] Die Fledermaus: Overture/Annen Polka, Op. 117/Delirien Waltz, By Josef Strauss/Gypsy Baron: Overture/Auf Der Jagd Polka/Tales From The Vienna Woods LD/LDS 2347 – Symphony No 104 in D (Haydn)/Symphony No. 40 in G Minor K. 550 (Mozart) – Karajan and the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra [1959] LD/LDS 2348 – Symphony No. 7 (Beethoven) – Herbert von Karajan and the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra [1959] LD/LDS 2351 – Symphony No. 1 in C Minor Op. 68 (Brahms) – Herbert Von Karajan and Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra [1959] LD/LDS 2384 – Don Quixote (Strauss) – Antonio Janigro, Milton Preves, Fritz Reiner and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra [1960] LD/LDS 2385 – La Voix Humaine (Poulenc) – Denise Duval, Georges Pretre and Orchestre du Theatre National de L’Opera-Comique [1960] LD/LDS 2447 – Messiah (Handel) – Jennifer Vyvyan, Monica Sinclair, Jon Vickers, Giorgio Tozzi Sir Thomas Beecham and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and Chorus [1960] LD/LDS 2513 – Concerto for Violin and Cello, in A Minor Op. 102 (Brahms) – Jascha Heifetz, Gregor Piatigorsky, Alfred Wallenstein and Orchestra [1961] LD/LDS 2554 – Sonata No. 2 in B Flat Minor, Op. 58/Sonata No. 3 in B Minor Op. 58 (Chopin) – Artur Rubinstein [1961] LD/LDS 2560 - Golden Age Of English Lute Music - Julian Bream [1961] Two Almaines (R. Johnson)/Fantasia (J. Johnson)/Walsingham (Cutting)/Mignarda (Dowland)/Almaine (Cutting)/Galliard (Rosseter)/Greensleeves (Cutting)/Galliard (Dowland)/Pavan (Morley)/Carman's Whistle (R. Johnson)/Pavan (Balman)/Mounsiers Almaine (Batchelar)/Pavan (Holborne)/Batell Galliard (Dowland)/Galliard (Holb) LD/LDS 2625 – Suite Provencale: La Creation du Monde (Milhaud) – Charles Munch and the Boston Symphony Orchestra [1962] LD/LDS 2656 – An Evening of Elizabethan Music – Bream Consort [1963] Mounsiers Almaine: Consort (William Byrd)/Pavin: Lute Solo/My Lord Of Oxenfords Maske: Consort (Byrd)/The Flatt Pavin: Lute Duet (John Johnson)/The Batchelars Delight: Consort (Richard Allison)/Kemps Jig: Lute Solo/Phillips Pavin: Consort (Peter Phillips)/O Mistresse Mine: Song To The Consort (Thomas Morley)/Fantasie: La Rondinella: Violin And Flute (Morley)/Joyne Hands: Consort (Morley)/Lachrimae Pavin: Consort (John Dowland)/Fantasie/: Lute Solo (Dowland)/De La Tromba Pavin: Consort (Allison)/It Fell On A Summers Day: Song To The Lute (Thomas Campian)/Dowlands Adew: Bass Viol And Lute (Dowland)/The Frog Galliard: Consort (Morley)/La Rosignoll: Lute Duet/Tarletons Resurrection, Lute Solo (Dowland)/Galliard: Can She Excuse: Consort (Dowland) LD/LDS 2663 – Schubert: Symphony #9 in C – Arturo Toscanini and the Philadelphia Orchestra [1963] 1 LD/LDS 6065 – The Royal Ballet – Ernest Ansermet and Royal Opera House Orchestra [11/59] Two Record Set. Contains Excerpts From The Nutcracker Suite, By Tchaikovsky, La Boutique Fantasque, By Rossini-Respighi, Coppeìlia, By Delibes, Giselle, By Adam, Swan Lake, By Tchaikovsky, Carnaval, By Schumann (Orchestrated By Roy Douglas), The Sleeping Beauty, By Tchaikovsky, And Les Sylphides, By Chopin (Orchestrated By Roy Douglas) LD/LDS 6075 – J.B (Archibald MacLeish) – Christopher Plummer, Raymond Massey, James Daly [1959] Two record set. LD/LDS 6077 – Berlioz: Requiem – New England Conservatory Chorus, Leopold Simoneau, Charles Munch and the Boston Symphony Orchestra [1960] Two record set. LD/LDS 6091 – Verdi: Requiem Mass – Leontyne Price, Rosalind Elias, Jussi Bjoerling, Giorgio Tozzi, Fritz Reiner, Orquesta Filamonica de Viena, Coro de Society of Friends of Music [1960] Two record set. LD/LDS 6098 – Romeo and Juliet: Dramatic Symphony Op. 17 (Berlioz) – Rosalind Elias, Cesare valletti, Giorgio Tozzi, Charles Munch and the Boston Symphony Orchestra, New England Conservatory Chorus [1972] LD/LDS 6152 – Ariadne Auf Naxos (Strauss) – Leonie Rysanek, Roberta Peters, Sena Jurinac, Jan Peerce, Erich Leindorf and the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra [1960] Three record set. LD/LDS 6164 – Carmen: An Opera in Four Acts (Bizet) – Leontyne Price, Mirella Freni, Franco Corelli, Robert Merrill, Herbert Von Karajan and Vienna State Opera Chorus, Vienna Boys Choir, Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra [1964] LD/LDS 6409 – Messiah (Handel) – Jennifer Vyvyan, Monica Sinclair, Jon Vickers, Giorgio Tozzi, Thomas Beecham and the Royal Philharmonic Chorus and Orchestra [11/59] Four record set. LD/LDS 6706 – Die Walkure (Wagner) – Birgit Nilsson, Gre Brouwenstijn, Rita Gorr, Jon Vickers, George London, David Ward and Erich Leinsdorf and the London Symphony Orchestra [1962] Five record set. LD/LDS 7021 – The Horowitz Collection - Vladimir Horowitz [196?] Two record Set. Variations On The Aria, La Ricordanza, Op. 33, By Czerny/Sonata No. 12 In F, K. 332, By Mozart/Rondo, From Sonata In B- Flat, Op. 47, No. 2, By Clementi/Variations On A Theme By Clara Wieck; Tra@Umerie (Reverie) (No. 7 From Linderscenen, Op. 15) By Schumann/Songs Without Words: Eìleìgie, Op. 85, No. 4; Spring Song, Op. 62, No. 6; The Shepherd’s Complaint, Op. 67, No. 5, By Mendelssohn/Andante Spianato And Grand Polonaise In E-Flat, Op. 22, By Chopin/Sonata No. 9, Op. 68, By Scriabin/Sonata, Op. 26, By Barbar/Sonata No. 7, Op. 83, By Prokofieff/Eìtude In A-Flat, By Moskowski/Danse Macabre, By Saint- Sae@ns, Transcribed By Liszt-Horowitz LD/LDS 7022 – Tosca (Puccini) – Leontyne Price, Giuseppe Di Stefano, Giuseppe Taddei, Herbert Von Karajan [196?] Two record set. Act I//Act I Concluded/Act II Part 1//Act II Concluded//Act III 2.
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