It was inevitable that the Boston Symphony – hailed as “The Aristocrat of Orchestras” in the early '60s by RCA Victor, its long-time record company – would spin off an ensemble from its ...

The orchestra left Victor in 1943 simply because it felt that it had been relegated by the company to the No. 3 position, behind Koussevitzky’s Boston Symphony and Toscanini’s NBC Symphony ...

Beethoven: Overtures:Leonore,Nos. 1, 2. and 3;Fidelio; Coriolan (Charles Munch conducting Boston Symphony Orchestra; RCA Victor LM-2015: 12″). The matchless sound of the BSO may never have been ...