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Whilst these recordings preserved the main body of both concerts, it would appear that only the encores from the second concert have survived, which alas deprives us of the opportunity to hear Beecham's Delius one more time. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhilst some of these recordings have been previously issued on the BBC Legends label, the sound quality heard on the present releases is considerably improved thanks in no small part to XR remastering. Here the orchestral timbre is much more realistic, the hard, harsh edges of the original recordings have been softened, and a rich body of sound restored. Our series also includes recordings never previously issued. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI have elected to remove the announcements dubbed on by the BBC for later rebroadcast. The length of both concerts has required a certain amount of juggling in order to fit three single-CD volumes.     \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e Andrew Rose\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_cover_thumbnail1_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_cover_thumbnail2_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_cover_download_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_sample1_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_sample2_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_sample3_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_sample4_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_sample5_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_sample6_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab2_labelfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5fFull Track Listing578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab2_typefb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5ftrack_listing578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab2_contentfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eHAYDN  \u003c\/b\u003eSymphony No. 101 in D major, Hob. I:101, \"The Clock\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1. 1st mvt. - Adagio - Presto  (6:52)\u003cbr\u003e2. 2nd mvt. - Andante  (8:06)\u003cbr\u003e3. 3rd mvt. - Menuet (Allegretto) - Trio  (7:38)\u003cbr\u003e4. 4th mvt. - Finale (Vivace)  (4:37)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eLALO   \u003c\/b\u003eSymphony in G minor\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e5. 1st mvt. - Andante - Allegro non troppo  (8:19)\u003cbr\u003e6. 2nd mvt. - Vivace  (5:37)\u003cbr\u003e7. 3rd mvt. - Adagio  (7:04)\u003cbr\u003e8. 4th mvt. - Allegro  (5:44)\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e9. \u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eDEBUSSY \u003c\/b\u003eL'enfant prodigue: Cortège et Air de Danse\u003c\/span\u003e  (4:45)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRoyal Philharmonic Orchestra    \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003econducted by \u003cb\u003eSir Thomas Beecham\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eXR remastering by Andrew Rose\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCover artwork based on a photograph of \u003cbr\u003eSir Thomas Beecham\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHaydn \u0026amp; Lalo\u003cbr\u003eRecorded 25 October 1959\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDebussy\u003cbr\u003eRecorded 8 November 1959\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRecorded at the Royal Festival Hall\u003cbr\u003eLondon by BBC Transcription Services\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTotal duration:  58:42    \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab2_cover_thumbnail1_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab2_cover_thumbnail2_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab2_cover_download_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab2_sample1_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab2_sample2_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab2_sample3_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab2_sample4_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab2_sample5_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab2_sample6_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab3_labelfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5fCover Art578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab3_typefb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5fcover_art578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab3_contentfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab3_cover_thumbnail1_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5fcovers\/thumbs\/PASC502.jpg578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab3_cover_thumbnail2_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab3_cover_download_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5fcovers\/PASC502.pdf578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab3_sample1_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab3_sample2_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab3_sample3_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab3_sample4_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab3_sample5_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab3_sample6_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab4_labelfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5fPress review578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab4_typefb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5fcontent578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab4_contentfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 24px;\"\u003eBeecham, the beneficent host at the feast\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003eBy Neville Cardus\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Guardian, October 27, 1959\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\nSIR THOMAS BEECHAM returned to London’s routine concert scene on Sunday\nnight, and the crowded audience in the Festival Hall, falling at once under\nthe old spell, was rejuvenated into a fresh awareness of unburdened musical\ndelight. At the end of the programme, hardly anybody in the audience got up\nfrom his or her seat or showed the slightest intention of going home. Even\nthe critics stayed on—and no conductor, no musician, alive or dead, has\nreceived a rarer tribute than that.\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\nSir Thomas spoke to us, saying, “I suppose you are all waiting for an\nencore?” In a single voice the packed multitude roared “Yes!” and then Sir\nThomas said, “This is a matter requiring some thought. I know only a few\npieces.\"\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\nOne of his secrets is that he draws the audience into his circle. Other\ngreat conductors work on another dimension, so to say, withdrawn to a level\nto which we dare not approach intimately. Sir Thomas is the beneficent host\nat a feast to which we have been invited. He is the connoisseur. Moreover,\nduring this present age, in which music every day seems more and more in\ndanger of becoming an austere science, or one of the many means of\ndisseminating education and culture, he reminds us that the art originally\nwas designed to give pleasure to civilised men and women. Sunday's audience\nwent home happy. Seldom have I seen so many English people leaving a\nconcert hall as happy.\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\nSir Thomas presented a programme which with other conductors might not have\nbeen free of tedious moments. The “Clock” symphony of Haydn was followed by\nLalo's G minor symphony, a work hardly consistently engrossing, though not\nwithout agreeable periods linking it to Chausson (who also wrote a symphony\nnow sadly neglected here). Next we heard the G major Symphony of Dvořák.\nSir Thomas found the right approach to each of these pieces from its first\nphrases, and though every bar was suffused by his own personality,\nBeechamised unmistakably, yet each composer spoke, or rather sang, in his\nown voice.\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\nEven Sir Thomas's manner, his movements, changed as he modulated from Haydn\nto Lalo. In the Haydn symphony he bent down, stroking the music\naffectionately. For Lalo he became physically more upright and rhetorical.\nFor an octogenarian he was wonderfully animated and active. No conductor\nequals him in the way he curves a melody, floats in on the orchestra’s\nsurface, passes it on to another instrumental group, all the time keeping\nthe rhythm fluid and unbroken. The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra plays\nconstantly and always admirably in the Festival Hall; but under Sir Thomas\nit is enriched by a more luminous, more rounded texture which loses\nnothing, but gains, in distinction of inner parts.\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\nThe Dvořák symphony was unfolded in all its charming variety; pastoral\npoetry mingled with tones evoking legend and history, the wood-wind bubbled\nwith the joy of playing. Here, perhaps, lies the essential Beecham\nsecret—his baton calls up the spirit of delight and it is answered freely\nand generously. It is a fascinating prospect that within the next\ntwenty-four hours or so, the Festival Hall will have heard music conducted\nby Sir Thomas and by Klemperer—two artists worlds apart. Compared with the\ndifference, and temperamental distances between them, the North and South\nPoles are next door neighbours. But what a proof we have in Sir Thomas and\nKlemperer of the rich musical climate which nurtured them. 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