The Mono Era On HMV & Columbia Graphophone 1926-1959 – Thomas Beecham

CD 1 Mozart: Die Zauberflöte: Overture; Symphony No. 34; Divertimento No. 2: Minuet No. 2; Beethoven: Symphony No. 2.
CD 2 Mendelssohn: A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Scherzo; Borodin: Prince Igor (excerpts); Rimsky-Korsakov: March; Delius: The Walk to the Paradise Garden; Two Pieces for small orchestra; Brigg Fair; Atterberg: Symphony No. 6.
CD 3-4 Handel: Messiah (Labbette, Brunskill, Eisdell, Williams).
CD 5 Songs & Opera Arias by Grieg, Ponchielli, Puccini, Mascagni, Verdi, Delius (Labbette, Turner); Puccini: La bohème (excerpts).
CD 6-7 Gounod: Faust (Nash, Licette, Easton).
CD 8 Handel: Concerto grosso Op. 6 No. 3 (excerpts); The Origin of Design; The Gods Go a’Begging (excerpts); Arrival of the Queen of Sheba; Israel in Egypt (excerpts); R. Strauss: Don Quixote (Wallenstein, Piastro, Pollain).
CD 9 Mozart: Violin Concerto No. 4; Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto in E minor; Prokofiev: Violin Concerto No. 1 (Szigeti).
CD 10 Rossini: Overtures from La scala di seta, Guillaume Tell & La gazza ladra; Respighi: Rossiniana; Borodin: Prince Igor (excerpts); Mendelssohn: A Midsummer Night’s Dream (excerpts); The Hebrides; Nicolai: Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor: Overture.
CD 11 Delius: Paris, The Song of a Great City; Eventyr; Koanga: Closing Scene; Summer Night on the River; Intermezzo; Over the Hills and Far Away; In a Summer Garden.
CD 12 Delius: Hassan; Sea Drift (Brownlee); Appalachia; La Calinda.
CD 13 Delius: A Mass of Life: Prelude No. 3; La Calinda; Irmelin Prelude; 4 Songs; Songs of Sunset; An Arabesque; Dvořák: Slavonic Rhapsody No. 3; Legends Nos. 2 & 3.
CD 14 Wagner: Preludes & Overtures, Arias.
CD 15-17 Wagner: Tristan und Isolde (Flagstad, Melchior, Klose, Nilsson).
CD 18 Bizet: Orchestral suites from La Jolie Fille de Perth & L’Arlésienne; Berlioz: Le Carnaval romain; La Damnation de Faust (excerpts); Offenbach: Les Contes d’Hoffmann, Orchestral Suite; Debussy: Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune.
CD 19 Brahms: Symphony No. 2; Tragic Overture; Beethoven: Symphony No. 2.
CD 20 Haydn: Symphonies Nos. 93, 99 & 104; Handel: The Gods Go a’Begging (excerpts).
CD 21 Mozart: Symphonies Nos. 29, 31 & 34; Overtures from Le nozze di Figaro & Don Giovanni.
CD 22 Mozart: Symphonies Nos. 35, 36 & 38.
CD 23 Mozart: Symphonies Nos. 39-41.
CD 24-25 Mozart: Die Zauberflöte (Rosvaenge, Lemnitz, Berger); Mass in C minor (excerpts).
CD 26 Schubert: Symphonies Nos. 5 & 8; Suppé: Ein Morgen, ein Mittag und ein Abend in Wien: Overture; Mendelssohn: Ruy Blas (Overture); Rossini: Semiramide: Overture; J. Strauss II: Frühlingsstimmen.
CD 27 Sibelius: Violin Concerto (Heifetz); The Tempest (excerpts); Festivo; Lemminkäinen’s Return; The Bard.
CD 28 Sibelius: Symphony No. 4; Finlandia; In Memoriam; Kuolema; En Saga; Pelléas et Mélisande (excerpts).
CD 29 Bizet: Carmen, Orchestral suite; Grieg: Peer Gynt, Suite No. 1; Chabrier: España; Franck: Symphony in D minor; Grétry: Zémire et Azor: Pantomime.
CD 30 Weber: Overtures from Der Freischütz & Oberon; Berners: The Triumph of Neptune (excerpts); Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 12 (Kentner); Handel: The Faithful Shepherd.
CD 31 Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5; Francesca da Rimini; A. Beecham: 3 Songs.
CD 32 Tchaikovsky: Romeo and Juliet; Symphony No. 3; Verdi: Macbeth (excerpts).
CD 33 Sibelius: Symphony No. 2; Karelia Suite; Tapiola.
CD 34 Chabrier: Joyeuse marche; Debussy: Printemps; Bax: The Garden of Fand; Saint-Saëns: Le Rouet d’Omphale; Massenet: Le dernier sommeil de la Vierge; Berlioz: Le Roi Lear; Liszt: Orpheus.
CD 35 Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 4; Mendelssohn: Octet: Scherzo; Die schöne Melusine; A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Overture; 2 Songs Without Words; Dvořák: The Golden Spinning Wheel.
CD 36 R. Strauss: Der Bürger als Edelmann; Don Quixote (Lampe, Tortelier, Rubens); Feuersnot: Liebesszene; Salome: Dance of the Seven Veils.
CD 37 R. Strauss: Träumerei am Kamin; Ein Heldenleben; Delius: Violin Concerto (Pougnet); Dance Rhapsody No. 1.
CD 38 Delius: Dance Rhapsodies Nos. 1 & 2; The Song of the High Hills (Hart, Jones); Songs of Sunset (Evans, Llewellyn); Marche-caprice; Irmelin Prelude; A Mass of Life: Prelude No. 6; 2 Songs (Suddaby).
CD 39 Delius: Piano Concerto (Humby Beecham); Brigg Fair; On the Mountains; 2 Pieces for small orchestra; Summer Evening; A Song before Sunrise; 2 Songs.
CD 40-41 Delius: A Village Romeo and Juliet (Soames, Dyer); Sea Drift (Clinton); Dance Rhapsody No. 1.
CD 42 Mozart: Concerto for Flute and Harp (Le Roy, Laskine); Violin Concerto No. 4 (Heifetz); Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto in E minor (Heifetz).
CD 43 Mozart: Divertimento No. 2; Divertimento No. 15 (excerpts); Die Zauberflöte: Overture; Haydn: Symphonies Nos. 40 & 102.
CD 44 Mozart: Violin Concerto No. 3 (De Vito); Piano Concerto No. 16 (excerpts) (Humby Beecham); Handel: Amaryllis Suite: Sarabande.
CD 45-46 Bantock: Fifine at the Fair; Beethoven: Rehearsal of Symphony No. 5; Puccini: La bohème (Los Ángeles, Björling, Merrill).
CD 47 Bizet: Patrie; Roma: Carnaval; Grétry: Zémire et Azor: Ballet Music; Gounod: Faust: Ballet Music; Massenet: Cendrillon: Waltz; Vidal: Gavotte.
CD 48 Haydn: Symphonies Nos. 93-95; Rehearsal of No. 101.
CD 49 Haydn: Symphonies Nos. 96 & 98; Beethoven: Symphony No. 7.
CD 50 Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4; German: Gipsy Suite.
CD 51 Franck: Symphony; Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique.
CD 52 Bizet: Symphony; Lalo: Symphony; Chabrier: Gwendoline: Overture.
CD 53 Sibelius: Symphony No. 2; Dvořák: Symphony No. 8; Wagner: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg: Prelude.

London Philharmonic Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, Berliner Philharmoniker, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre National de la Radiodiffusion Française, Sir Thomas Beecham

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