Editing Arturo Toscanini (section)

===Notable recordings===
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Among his most critically acclaimed recordings, many of which were not officially released during his lifetime, are the following (with the [[NBC Symphony Orchestra|NBC Symphony]] unless otherwise shown):

*[[Ludwig van Beethoven|Beethoven]], [[Symphony No. 3 (Beethoven)|Symphony No. 3]] "Eroica" (1953; also 1939 and 1949 recordings)
*Beethoven, [[Symphony No. 6 (Beethoven)|Symphony No. 6]] "Pastoral" (1952)
*Beethoven, [[Symphony No. 7 (Beethoven)|Symphony No. 7]] (1936, [[New York Philharmonic|Philharmonic-Symphony of New York]])
*Beethoven, [[Symphony No. 9 (Beethoven)|Symphony No. 9]] (1952 and 1938) (only the 1952 recording was released officially)
*Beethoven, [[Missa Solemnis (Beethoven)|Missa Solemnis]], (1953 and 1940 NBC broadcast) (Only the 1953 version was released officially.)
*[[Hector Berlioz|Berlioz]], ''[[Roméo et Juliette (Berlioz)|Roméo et Juliette]]'' (1947 NBC broadcast) (only excerpts released during Toscanini's lifetime)
*[[Johannes Brahms|Brahms]], [[Symphony No. 1 (Brahms)|Symphony No. 1]] (1941)
*Brahms, [[Symphony No. 2 (Brahms)|Symphony No. 2]] (1952 and February 1948 broadcast)
*Brahms, Symphony No. 3 (February 1948 broadcast) (October 1952 concert, Philharmonia Orchestra)
*Brahms, [[Symphony No. 4 (Brahms)|Symphony No. 4]] (1951 and 1948 broadcast)
*[[Johannes Brahms|Brahms]], Four Symphonies, Tragic Overture and Haydn Variations, 1952, [[Philharmonia Orchestra]], London (his only appearances with that orchestra, produced by [[Walter Legge]]).
*[[Claude Debussy|Debussy]], ''[[La mer (Debussy)|La mer]]'' (1950 and 1940 broadcast; only the 1950 version was released officially)
*[[Antonín Dvořák|Dvořák]], [[Symphony No. 9 (Dvořák)|Symphony No. 9 "From the New World"]] (1953)
*Mendelssohn, Incidental Music from ''A Midsummer Night's Dream'', (NBC 1947, studio and broadcast versions; Philadelphia 1941); Scherzo, New York Philharmonic, (1929)
*[[Felix Mendelssohn|Mendelssohn]], [[Symphony No. 4 (Mendelssohn)|Symphony No. 4 "Italian"]], (1954, exists in two versions: one as approved by Toscanini with excerpts from the rehearsals, and the unedited broadcast)
*Mendelssohn, [[Symphony No. 5 (Mendelssohn)|Symphony No. 5 "Reformation"]], (1942 broadcast, 1953 studio recording. The 1953 version is the one officially released.)
*[[Giacomo Puccini|Puccini]], ''[[La bohème]]'' (1946 broadcast)
*[[Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart|Mozart]], ''[[Die Zauberflöte]]'' (1937, [[Salzburg Festival]]; poor sound)
*[[Modeste Mussorgsky|Mussorgsky]], ''[[Pictures at an Exhibition]]'' (1938, 1948 and 1953 broadcast, studio recording 1953, all of them in the version orchestrated by [[Maurice Ravel]]. The studio recording from January 1953 is the only one to have been officially released.)
*[[Franz Schubert|Schubert]], [[Symphony No. 9 (Schubert)|Symphony No. 9]] (Philadelphia, 1941; NBC 1947 and 1953)
*[[Tchaikovsky]], [[Piano Concerto No. 1 (Tchaikovsky)|Piano concerto No. 1 in B flat minor, Op. 23]], Vladimir Horowitz and NBC Symphony, (live recording of April 25, 1943 [[War Bonds]] benefit concert at Carnegie Hall, first issued in 1959 on LP by RCA Victor)
*[[Giuseppe Verdi|Verdi]], ''[[Requiem (Verdi)|Requiem]]'' (1940 NBC broadcast; and 1951 studio recording)
*Verdi, ''[[Un ballo in maschera]]'' (1954 NBC broadcast)
*Verdi, ''[[Falstaff (opera)|Falstaff]]'' (1937, [[Salzburg Festival]] with restored sound on the Treasury of Immortal Performances label (Andante version out of print); 1950 NBC broadcast)
*Verdi, ''[[Rigoletto]]'' (Act III only, 1944; from World War II [[Red Cross]] benefit concert held in [[Madison Square Garden]], with the combined forces of the New York Philharmonic and the NBC Symphony; the entire concert, complete with an auctioning of one of Toscanini's batons, was released on an unofficial recording in 1995)
*Verdi, ''[[Otello]]'' (1947 NBC broadcast)
*[[Richard Wagner|Wagner]], ''[[Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg]]'' (1937, [[Salzburg Festival]]; original Selenophone sound-on-film recording restored on Treasury of Immortal Performances label (Andante version out of print).)