GREAT RECORDINGS phase 19

SIBELIUS
Symphony No. 7 etc

Thomas Beecham

5 09692 2 (D&T)
5 09693 2 (Angel)

Stereo
ADD
Recorded 1955
1:16:33 (1CD)

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These early stereo recordings all date from November and December 1955. Beecham had celebrated Sibelius’s 90th birthday (8 December 1955) with a concert in London that had included Pelléas et Mélisande and Tapiola; and in the course of a birthday tribute broadcast by the BBC he typically spoke of ‘that rather strange composition – very strange indeed – Oceanides, which incidentally, the composer has asked me to record...Of course I shall do it’.

Beecham had previously recorded the Seventh Symphony with the New York Philharmonic in 1942, and during his final decade it was a frequent feature of his concert programmes all over the world.

Again, this new ART remastering improves greatly on the compilation’s 1990 appearance in the Beecham Edition.