Beethoven / Young: Sir Thomas Beecham Live

Beethoven / Young: Sir Thomas Beecham Live - COMPACT DISCS

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Title:

Sir Thomas Beecham Live

Artist:

Beethoven / Young

Label:

Ica Classics

Product Type:

COMPACT DISCS

UPC:

5060244551480

Genre:

Classical

Release Date:

2018-04-06

Number of Discs:

4

Additional Details:

4 PACK

Sir Thomas 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. 'What Beecham sought at all times was freshness, and his unpredictability was a way to achieve this' (David Patmore). All the performances included here from the Edinburgh Festival, London's Royal Albert Hall, Royal Festival Hall and the BBC Studios are from Beecham's final years, from 1954 when he had fully established the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and himself as central figures in England's musical life, to 1959 when he conducted an extraordinarily memorable account of Brahms's Symphony No.2. Every broadcast is captured here in exemplary sound for the time, and apart from the Liszt and Haydn Symphony No.101, none of the performances in this set have appeared on an album before, which makes it extremely important for all collectors of the conductor.

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