Royal Philharmonic Orchestra & Sir Thomas Beecham
Release Date: 23 August 2019
Label: First Hand Records
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 5060216346359
Genres: Classical Orchestral
Description
Early stereo recordings, Vol. 2 brings together the music-making of three conductors, Sir Thomas Beecham, Rudolf Kempe and Harry Blech, who were central to London musical life during the 1950s in completely representative repertoire, as well as one of the major singers of the period, Hans Hotter. All their performances are presented in stereo recordings that testify to the burgeoning engineering brilliance of EMI during this period.
Key features of this release are the first ever release in stereo of Beecham's Haydn Symphony No. 97 (1957) and the earliest surviving EMI experimental stereo recording in two movements from Schubert's Winterreise with Hans Hotter and Gerald Moore at No. 1A Studio, Abbey Road, on 25 May 1954, published here for the first time. The album also includes the first release in stereo of the first movement from Haydn's Salve Regina and the earliest stereo recording of the London Mozart Players, plus the first release in stereo on compact disc of Mozart's Symphony No. 34 and the first release of stereo version (mvts 2-4) of Schubert's Symphony No. 3.
Hearing these recordings is an unforgettable experience.
This is the second of at least three volumes of EMI early stereophonic recordings, released in a joint venture with the Archive of Recorded Sound (ARS). EMI started to record in stereo in 1954 and all the recordings in this new series are from this historic period of recorded music. All the releases will appear for the first time in some form and feature many of the greatest classical artists of the time.
Artists:
April Cantelo - Soprano
Marjorie Thomas - Contralto
Thomas Helmsley - Tenor
John Cameron - Baritone
Hans Hotter - Baritone
Gerald Moore - Piano
London Mozart Players
Harry Blech
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Sir Thomas Beecham
Philharmonia Orchestra
Rudolf Kempe
Tracklisting
Noxwode, Conor Gricmanis
Tessa Lark, Jon Batiste, Michael Cleveland, Sierra Hull, Edgar Meyer
David de Winter and The Brook Street Band
Alexander Baillie & Nigel Yandell
Orquestra Sinfonica Portuguesa; Alvaro Cassuto
The Flautadors Recorder Quartet
The Telling
Sarah Cahill
Yoichi Sugiyama
David Rabinovich
Badische Staatskapelle, Georg Fritzsch
Badische Staatskapelle, Georg Fritzsch
Badische Staatskapelle, Georg Fritzsch
Roberto Prosseda, London Philharmonic Orchestra / Nir Kabaretti
Trondheim Symphony Orchestra, Peter Szilvay, Aage Richard Meyer, Cam Kjoll, Ruth Potter
Joshua Bell
