Listen to Discover Classical on Saturdays at noon for Retro Recordings as Aaron Mood presents historic performances of your favorite music. You'll hear definitive recordings from the last century, such as Leopold Stokowski leading the NBC Symphony, Renata Tebaldi singing Puccini and Mascagni conducting Mascagni.
Johann Sebastian Bach was the cantor, or music director, at St. Thomas' Church in Leipzig for 27 years. In the mid-20th century, Karl Richter would be appointed to that same position, overseeing a renovation of his predecessor's tomb, and performing a number of his works. We'll hear Richter conducting the Munich Bach Orchestra in a 1968 recording of Bach's Orchestra Suite No. 1 in C, BWV 1066.
Jascha Heifetz is widely considered the greatest violinist of the 20th century, and was the highest-paid violinist in the world by his 18th birthday in 1919, We'll hear a somewhat older Heifetz in a 1943 recording of Mozart's Violin Concerto No. 5 in A.
