Carnegie Hall

Product Description The Bel Canto Society print of Carnegie Hall is the only one that is complete, with all the musical selections. The currently competing version is missing Lily Pons's "Vocalise" (Rachmaninoff) and more than half of Bruno Walter's Meistersinger prelude. Moreover, although that version announces Rise Stevens in "Mon coeur s'ouvre a ta voix" ( Samson et Dalila), it omits the selection and jumps to the next one. The Bel Canto Society version includes these selections complete and all others. The Bel Canto Society version has PCM audio, with the transfer from analog to digital using the Lavry Gold converter. The competing version has Dolby Digital audio, at 192kHz, which omits 87 percent of the sound. Review " Carnegie Hall contains indelible scenes of some of music's top personalities of the 1940s at work performing." -- John Ardoin, reviewing in The Dallas Morning News: "Buy the DVD and enjoy some sterling music-making from some of the finest artists of the 20th century." -- Lawrence A. Johnson, reviewing in Gramophone: From the Contributor The basic plot: An employee of Carnegie Hall wants her son to be a musician and raises him in the hall. They attend performances by many greats of the day. Musical selections include: Bruno Walter: Wagner, Die Meistersinger, Prelude; Lily Pons: Rachmaninoff, "Vocalise" and Delibes, Lakme, "Bell Song"; Gregor Piatigorsky: Saint-Saens, The Carnival of the Animals, "The Swan"; Rise Stevens: Saint-Saens, Samson et Dalila, "Mon coeur s'ouvre a ta voix" and Bizet, Carmen, "Seguidilla"; Artur Rodzinski: Beethoven, Fifth Symphony, transition to the Fourth Movement plus an extended excerpt from the Fourth Movement; Artur Rubinstein: Chopin, "Heroic" Polonaise, in A-flat and De Falla, El Amor Brujo, "The Ritual Fire Dance" (arranged for piano); Jan Peerce: Di Capua, "O sole mio"; Ezio Pinza: Verdi, Simon Boccanegra, "A te l'estremo addio"; Mozart, Don Giovanni, "Fin ch'han dal vino"; Vaughn Monroe Sam Coslow: "Beware, My Heart" and Frank Ryerson and William Moore: "The Pleasure's All Mine"; Jascha Heifetz & Fritz Reiner: Tchaikovsky, Violin Concerto, First Movement; Leopold Stokowski: Tchaikovsky, Fifth Symphony, Second Movement; and Harry James, Charles Previn, conductor: Hal Borne, "Brown Danube." Other music includes M. & W. Portnoff, "57th Street Rhapsody"; Gregory Stone, "Sometime We Will Meet