Editing Arturo Toscanini (section)

===Overview===
Toscanini made his first recordings in December 1920 with the La Scala Orchestra in the Trinity Church studio of the [[Victor Talking Machine Company]] in [[Camden, New Jersey]], and his last with the NBC Symphony Orchestra in June 1954 in [[Carnegie Hall]]. His entire catalog of commercial recordings was issued by [[RCA Victor]], save for two recordings for Brunswick in 1926 (his first by the electrical process) with the [[New York Philharmonic]] and a series of recordings with the [[BBC Symphony Orchestra]] from 1937 to 1939 for [[EMI]]'s [[His Master's Voice (British record label)|His Master's Voice]] label (issued in the US by RCA Victor, EMI's American affiliate). Toscanini also conducted the New York Philharmonic in Carnegie Hall for RCA Victor in several recordings in 1929 and 1936. He made a series of long-unissued recordings with the [[Philadelphia Orchestra]] for RCA Victor in Philadelphia's Academy of Music in 1941 and 1942. All of Toscanini's commercially issued RCA Victor and EMI recordings have been digitally remastered and released on [[compact disc]]. There are also recorded concerts with various European orchestras, especially with [[La Scala]] Orchestra and the [[Philharmonia Orchestra]].
In 2012, [[RCA Red Seal]] released a new 84 CD boxed set reissue of Toscanini's complete RCA Victor recordings and commercially issued EMI recordings with the BBC Symphony Orchestra.<ref>{{Citation|title=Arturo Toscanini: The Complete RCA Collection|date=2012|url=https://www.amazon.com/Arturo-Toscanini-The-Complete-Collection/dp/B006VKKAWQ/ref=pd_rhf_ee_shvl39|access-date=2023-03-17|publisher=RCA Red Seal|language=English}}</ref> In 2013, [[EMI Classics]] issued a 6-CD set containing Toscanini's complete EMI recordings with the BBC Symphony. 
Toscanini's dislike of recording was well-known; he especially despised the acoustic method, and for several years he recorded only sporadically as a result. He was fifty-three years old and had been conducting for thirty-four years when he made his first records in 1920, and did not begin recording on a regular basis until 1938, after he became conductor of the NBC Symphony Orchestra at the age of seventy. Over the years as the recording process improved, so did Toscanini's attitude towards making records and eventually he became more interested in preserving his performances for posterity. The majority of Toscanini's recordings were made with the NBC Symphony and cover the bulk of his repertoire. These recordings document the final phase of his 68-year conducting career.{{citation needed|date=September 2023}}