Sir Thomas Beecham - Royal Philharmonic Orchestra - ica classics: ICAC5148 - 4 CDs or download

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His mercurial personality was almost invariably at its most beguiling live in concert. One sense an extra degree of imperativeness in gripping performances of Haydn’s symphonies Nos 99 and 101,... — BBC Music Magazine, August 2018, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 29th Mar 2018
Catalogue No: ICAC5148
Label: ica classics
Length: 4 hours 34 minutes

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Haydn: Symphony No. 99 in E flat major

Work length26:08

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Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Sir Thomas Beecham
Recorded: 16 September 1954
Recording Venue: Royal Albert Hall, London, United Kingdom

I. Adagio - Vivace assai (Live)

Track length7:44

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$2.60

II. Adagio (Live)

Track length7:15

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III. Menuet. Allegretto (Live)

Track length6:31

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$1.30

IV. Finale. Vivace (Live)

Track length4:38

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Haydn: Symphony No. 101 in D major 'The Clock'

Work length27:34

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$7.80

Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Sir Thomas Beecham
Recorded: 25 October 1959
Recording Venue: Royal Festival Hall, London, United Kingdom

I. Adagio - Presto (Live)

Track length6:56

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II. Andante (Live)

Track length8:17

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III. Menuet. Allegro (Live)

Track length7:45

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IV. Finale. Vivace (Live)

Track length4:36

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Boccherini: Symphony No. 28, G521

Work length8:05

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Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Sir Thomas Beecham

Symphony in D Major, Op. 43, G. 521 (Live)

Track length8:05

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Mendelssohn: A Midsummer Night's Dream Overture, Op. 21

Work length12:49

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$3.85

Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Sir Thomas Beecham

A Midsummer Night's Dream Overture, Op. 21, MWV P3 (Live)

Track length12:49

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Mozart: Symphony No. 36 in C major, K425 'Linz'

Work length25:45

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Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Sir Thomas Beecham
Recorded: 15 December 1954
Recording Venue: Royal Festival Hall, London, United Kingdom

I. Adagio - Allegro spiritoso (Live)

Track length8:07

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II. Poco adagio (Live)

Track length8:23

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III. Menuetto (Live)

Track length3:51

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IV. Presto (Live)

Track length5:24

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Mozart: Symphony No. 39 in E flat major, K543

Work length23:44

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Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Sir Thomas Beecham
Recorded: 7 April 1954
Recording Venue: Royal Festival Hall, London, United Kingdom

I. Adagio - Allegro (Live)

Track length8:08

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$2.60

II. Andante con moto (Live)

Track length7:28

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III. Menuetto. Allegretto (Live)

Track length4:10

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IV. Finale. Allegro (Live)

Track length3:58

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Beethoven: Symphony No. 2 in D major, Op. 36

Work length32:28

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$9.05

Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Sir Thomas Beecham
Recorded: 14 November 1956
Recording Venue: Royal Festival Hall, London, United Kingdom

I. Adagio molto - Allegro molto (Live)

Track length9:50

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II. Larghetto (Live)

Track length11:36

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III. Scherzo (Live)

Track length4:05

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IV. Allegro molto (Live)

Track length6:57

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Brahms: Symphony No. 2 in D major, Op. 73

Work length37:58

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$10.35

Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Sir Thomas Beecham
Recorded: 4 November 1959
Recording Venue: BBC Studio 1, Maida Vale, London, United Kingdom

I. Allegro non troppo (Live)

Track length14:39

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II. Adagio non troppo - L'istesso tempo, ma grazioso (Live)

Track length8:44

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III. Allegretto grazioso quasi andantino - Presto ma non assai (Live)

Track length5:51

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IV. Allegro con spirito (Live)

Track length8:44

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Excerpt, Wagner: Der fliegende Holländer

Work length10:05

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Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Sir Thomas Beecham

Overture (Live)

Track length10:05

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Liszt: A Faust Symphony, S108

Work length1:09:40

Album only

Alexander Young (tenor)
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Beecham Choral Society
Sir Thomas Beecham
Recorded: 14 November 1956
Recording Venue: Royal Festival Hall, London, United Kingdom

I. Faust (Live)

Track length26:34

Album only

II. Gretchen (Live)

Track length19:56

$4.00

$5.15

III. Mephistopheles (Live)

Track length17:18

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IV. Final Chorus (Live)

Track length5:52

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$1.30

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This release has been sourced from the Richard Itter archive. The collection is very important for collectors because it has never been released before onto the market. Beecham caught 'live' often showed the mercurial side of his character and no performance was the same, either in the studio or in the concert hall. David Patmore confirms this in his booklet essay: 'What Beecham sought at all times was freshness, and his unpredictability was a way to achieve this'. So here we have different and valuable alternatives to the studio performances. All the performances included here are from Beecham's final years, between 1954 when he had fully established the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and himself as central figures in England's musical life, to 1959 where he conducted extraordinarily memorable accounts of Haydn's Symphony No.101 and Brahms' Symphony No.2. Every broadcast is captured here in exemplary sound for the time. Apart from Liszt's Faust Symphony and Haydn's Symphony No.101, none of the performances in this set have ever appeared on CD before as far as is known. Even the Beethoven Symphony No.2 recorded here at the Royal Festival Hall on the 14th November 1956 is different to the BBC Legends version recorded a month later in the BBC's Maida Vale Studios on the 23rd December 1956.

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August 2018

His mercurial personality was almost invariably at its most beguiling live in concert. One sense an extra degree of imperativeness in gripping performances of Haydn’s symphonies Nos 99 and 101, which by comparison with Beecham’s studio accounts for EMI dating from the same period, lean more towards vibrant authority and majestic sweep tan twinkle-in-eye breeziness and charm.

Sir Thomas Beecham - Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

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