Victoria de los Angeles (soprano)
Ilse Hollweg (soprano)
Lois Marshall (soprano)
Janine Micheau (soprano)
Denise Monteil (soprano)
Elsie Morison (soprano)
Jennifer Vyvyan (soprano)
Marcelle Croisier (mezzo-soprano)
Monique Linval (mezzo-soprano)
Maureen Forrester (contralto)
Monica Sinclair (contralto)
Nicolai Gedda (tenor)
Michel Hamel (tenor)
Richard Lewis (tenor)
Walter Midgley(tenor)
Leopold Simoneau (tenor)
Gerhard Unger (tenor)
Alexander Young (tenor)
Jean-Christophe Benoit (baritone)
Ernest Blanc (baritone)
John Cameron (baritone)
Xavier Depraz (bass)
Gottlob Frick (bass)
Michael Langdon (bass)
Marian Nowakowski (bass)
Bernard Plantey (baritone)
Hilde Volk (speaker)
Hansgeorg Laubenthal (speaker)
Fritz Hopper (speaker)
Manfred Schmidt (speaker)
Steven Staryk (violin)
John Kennedy (cello)
Terence MacDonagh (oboe)
Jack Brymer (clarinet)
Gwydion Brooke (bassoon)
Beecham Choral Society
Choeurs et Maitrise de la Radiodiffusion Francaise
Petits Chanteurs de Versailles
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Orchestre National de la Radiodiffusion Francaise
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

Works

Anonymous

God Save the Queen

Balakirev, Mili

Symphony no.1 in C major

Beecham, Thomas

Amaryllis: suite (after Handel)

» Gavotte

» Scherzo

The Gods go a'Begging: ballet suite (after Handel)

Beethoven, Ludwig van

Mass in C major, op.86
Symphony no.2 in D major, op.36
Symphony no.7 in A major, op.92
The Ruins of Athens, op.113

Berlioz, Hector

La Damnation de Faust, op.24 H111

» Ballet des Sylphes

» Menuet des follets

Le Corsaire: Overture, op.21 H101
Les Troyens

» Chasse royale et Orage

» Marche troyenne

Symphonie fantastique, op.14 H48

Bizet, Georges

Carmen Suite no.1
Carmen
L'Arlesienne Suite no.1
L'Arlesienne Suite no.2 (arr. Guiraud)
Symphony in C major

Borodin, Alexander

Prince Igor

» Polovtsian Dances

Brahms, Johannes

Academic Festival Overture, op.80
Schicksalslied, op.54
Symphony no.2 in D major, op.73

Chabrier, Alexis Emmanuel

Joyeuse Marche

Debussy, Claude

L'Enfant prodigue

» Cortege et Air de danse

Prelude a l'Apres-midi d'un faune

Delibes, Leo

Le Roi s'amuse: Suite

Delius, Frederick

A Song Before Sunrise
Brigg Fair
Dance Rhapsody no.2
Fennimore and Gerda

» Intermezzo (arr. Eric Fenby)

Florida Suite
Irmelin

» Prelude

Marche Caprice
Over the Hills and Far Away
Pieces (2) for Small Orchestra
Small Tone Poems (3)

» no.2 Sleigh Ride

Songs of Sunset (8)
Summer Evening

Dvorak, Antonin

Legends (10), op.59

» no.3 Allegro giusto

Faure, Gabriel

Dolly Suite, op.56 (orch. Henri Rabaud)
Pavane, op.50

Franck, Cesar

Symphony in D minor, op.48

Gounod, Charles

Romeo et Juliette

» Le sommeil de Juliette

Grieg, Edvard

In Autumn, op.11
Old Norwegian Romance with variations, op.51
Peer Gynt, op.23 (highlights)
Symphonic Dances, op.64

» no.2 in A major 'Allegretto grazioso'

Handel, George Frideric

Love in Bath (Suite arr. by Thomas Beecham)
Solomon, HWV67 (excerpts)

A Faust Symphony, S108
Orpheus: symphonic poem, S98
Psalm 13 'Herr, wie lange willst du', S3

Mendelssohn, Felix

A Midsummer Night's Dream: Overture, op.21
The Fair Melusine Overture, op.32

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

» Entracte no.2

Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolai

Scheherazade, op.35

Rossini, Gioachino

La Cambiale di Matrimonio

» Overture

La gazza ladra (The Thieving Magpie)

» Overture

Semiramide

» Overture

Saint-Saens, Camille

Le Rouet d'Omphale, op.31
Samson et Dalila, op.47

» Bacchanale

» Danse des Pretresses de Dagon

Schubert, Franz

Symphony no.3 in D major, D200
Symphony no.5 in B flat major, D485
Symphony no.6 in C major, D589

Sibelius, Jean

Pelleas and Melisande, op.46 (excerpts)
Symphony no.7 in C major, op.105
Tapiola, op.112
The Oceanides, op.73
Valse triste, op.44 no.1

Strauss, Richard

Ein Heldenleben (A Hero's Life), op.40

Suppe, Franz von

Dichter und Bauer (Poet and Peasant)

» Overture

Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Ilyich

Eugene Onegin, op.24

» Waltz

Symphony no.4 in F minor, op.36

» I Andante sostenuto - Moderato con anima

Artists

Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Orchestre National de la Radiodiffusion Francaise

Conductors

About

There can be few, if any, musicians who have singlehandedly done so much in the establishment of resources for musical performance than Sir Thomas Beecham.

Sir Thomas Beecham was a singular figure in the history of classical music. An autodidact conductor and heir to the Beecham pharmaceutical fortune, he used his wealth to revolutionize the British musical landscape. Through founding orchestras and organizing opera seasons, he left an indelible mark on 20th-century music. This affable, brilliant, usually charming, ever-communicative, quick-witted, dedicated conductor was the most gifted executive musician England has ever produced.

This box set brings together all the stereo recordings from his rich discography for Columbia Gramophone and HMV. The albums are presented as original pairing programmes, with two of them sometimes placed on the same CD when they were too short. Many of these albums were produced at a turning point in recording history, when the industry was moving from mono to stereo recordings; some originally released in mono were later released in stereo for only part of the original program as not all works had been recorded in both mono and stereo.

The main recordings displayed in this box are the legendary Carmen with Victoria de los Angeles, Mozart’s Die Entführung aus dem Serail, Peer Gynt featuring Ilse Hollweg’s Solveig, Berlioz’s Symphonie fantastique, various Delius recordings, a French Romantic Album (with Fauré’s Dolly and the First Suite from Carmen), Franck’s Symphony in D minor, Rimsky-Korsakov Scheherazade, and the famous ‘Lollipops’ albums.

Another box devoted to the Mono Recordings Era by Sir Thomas Beecham will be released later in autumn 2025.

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