Thomas Beecham - Thomas Beecham conducts Mozart Vol. 3 (2014)
BAND/ARTIST: Thomas Beecham
- Title: Thomas Beecham conducts Mozart Vol. 3
- Year Of Release: 2014
- Label: Pristine [PASC415]
- Genre: Classical
- Quality: FLAC (Tracks) | 24 Bit/48 kHz
- Total Time: 01:11:59
- Total Size: 769 mb (+3%rec.)
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Sir Thomas Beecham conducts Mozart Symphonies - the 1950s Columbia recordings
Third of three volumes, plus the Bassoon Concerto and Beecham's very first, 1912 Mozart recording
As with previous issues in this series, the symphony recordings here were made for American releases on the US Columbia label, which had long since cut its ties with its British namesake. Yet, unlike several of the Mozart symphony recordings Beecham made for US Columbia it was issued in the UK on EMI's Columbia subsidiary, which at the time was still a 78rpm-only operation. It is one of the few of this series that Beecham returned to EMI's Abbey Road studios later that decade to remake, the Columbia recordings having taken place in London's Kingsway Hall. The 1954 recording of the 40th Symphony, by contrast, found its British issue on the Philips label, two years after its recording. Beecham had previously recorded it with the London Philharmonic for EMI in 1937; this is his only other studio recording.
The two other recordings presented here almost serve to bookend the conductor's recorded career. The Bassoon Concerto was originally issued as a mono LP but was also recorded in stereo, and this is the version presented here from December 1958, and a very good hi-fi recording it is too; where the symphonies needed quite a lot of resurrecting, this was generally fine. By contrast, the 1912 recording of the overture to Figaro was his first outing with Mozart and from his second stint in the recording studio, having cut seven sides in 1910. This acoustic recording has been significantly updated in this XR remastering. ~Andrew Rose
Tracks:
MOZART Symphony No. 40 in G minor, K.550
MOZART Symphony No. 41 in C major, K.551, "Jupiter"
MOZART Bassoon Concerto in B flat major, K.191
Gwydion Brooke, bassoon
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Thomas Beecham
MOZART The Marriage of Figaro: Overture
Beecham Symphony Orchestra, Thomas Beecham
Third of three volumes, plus the Bassoon Concerto and Beecham's very first, 1912 Mozart recording
As with previous issues in this series, the symphony recordings here were made for American releases on the US Columbia label, which had long since cut its ties with its British namesake. Yet, unlike several of the Mozart symphony recordings Beecham made for US Columbia it was issued in the UK on EMI's Columbia subsidiary, which at the time was still a 78rpm-only operation. It is one of the few of this series that Beecham returned to EMI's Abbey Road studios later that decade to remake, the Columbia recordings having taken place in London's Kingsway Hall. The 1954 recording of the 40th Symphony, by contrast, found its British issue on the Philips label, two years after its recording. Beecham had previously recorded it with the London Philharmonic for EMI in 1937; this is his only other studio recording.
The two other recordings presented here almost serve to bookend the conductor's recorded career. The Bassoon Concerto was originally issued as a mono LP but was also recorded in stereo, and this is the version presented here from December 1958, and a very good hi-fi recording it is too; where the symphonies needed quite a lot of resurrecting, this was generally fine. By contrast, the 1912 recording of the overture to Figaro was his first outing with Mozart and from his second stint in the recording studio, having cut seven sides in 1910. This acoustic recording has been significantly updated in this XR remastering. ~Andrew Rose
Tracks:
MOZART Symphony No. 40 in G minor, K.550
MOZART Symphony No. 41 in C major, K.551, "Jupiter"
MOZART Bassoon Concerto in B flat major, K.191
Gwydion Brooke, bassoon
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Thomas Beecham
MOZART The Marriage of Figaro: Overture
Beecham Symphony Orchestra, Thomas Beecham
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