Thomas Beecham - The ABC Blue Network Concerts, Complete (1945) [2016]

A tremendous reading - fluctuating, brimming, teeming with ardent lyricism, and a fulsome example of Beecham’s art.

Tracks:

Volume 1
NICOLAI The Merry Wives of Windsor: Overture
ELGAR Serenade for Strings
HANDEL-BEECHAM Love in Bath: The Great Elopement
DELIUS The Walk to the Paradise Garden
J. STRAUSS II Voices of Spring


Volume 2
WAGNER Götterdämmerung: Siegfried’s Funeral March
SIBELIUS Pelléas et Mélisande Suite: The Death of Mélisande
MOZART Divertimento, K 131: Adagio
SCHUBERT Symphony No. 8, “Unfinished.”
TCHAIKOVSKY Serenade in C: Elegie
BERLIOZ Les Troyens: Trojan March


Volume 3
MOZART Symphony No. 31
HANDEL-BEECHAM Piano Concerto
CHABRIER España


Volume 4
HAYDN Symphony No. 102
MOZART The Impressario - Overture
SAINT-SAENS Omphale’s Spinning Wheel
BERLIOZ The Trojans - Royal Hunt and Storm
BERLIOZ Hungarian March

Personnel:

Sir Thomas Beecham, conductor
Blue Network Symphony Orchestra