Moura Lympany - The Beecham Collection: RPO - The Early Days (2014)

All recorded 10 November 1946 – Previously unissued.
The recording of this concert is an historic document in that it is the earliest known of the RPO and shows it with its first set of players.

SIR THOMAS BEECHAM, Bart., C.H.
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Moura Lympany – Piano.

This CD is based on a concert which took place at the Davis Theatre, Croydon, South London on 10th November 1946. It contains some of Sir Thomas’s “favourites” — Mendelssohn’s Overture to A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Wagner’s Prelude to Act III “Die Meistersinger”, Mozart’s Symphony No.40 in G minor,and Schumann’s Piano Concerto in A minor with Moura Lympany.