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1PD1 Live at the Crystal Palace

London's Crystal Palace was, until it burnt down in 1936, home to the National Brass Band Festivals, the Handel Festival conducted by Sir Henry Wood, church choir and childrens orchestra festivals. They are all represented here. The atmosphere of a vast glass hall that could accommodate 3000 musicians on the stage and have 60,000 people in the audience has to be heard.
1926-1935 recordings

1PD2 Crystal Palace Champions

London's Crystal Palace was from 1900, until it burnt down in 1936, home to the National Brass Band Festivals. This album combines performances by winnig bands of test pieces and massed band performances recorded at the festivals in the Crystal Place conducted by John Henry Iles.
1928-1936 recordings

1PD3 Sir Henry's Themes and Variations
recordings of Sir Henry Wood conducting Delius - Dance Rhapsody, Holbrooke - Three Blind Mice, Symphonic Variations, Glinka - Ruslan And Ludmilla - Overture, Bruckner - Overture In G Minor, Dohnanyi Symphonische Minuten ,Dvorak - Symphonic Variations, Rameau - Fetes d'Hebe - Tambourin, Handel - Rodrigo - Sailors' Dance and Almira - Rigaudon

2PD3 Wood's Eroica

• Beethoven Symphony No 3 Eroica [listen]
  
• Bach (arr Klenovsky) Toccata and Fugue in D minor BWV 565 [listen]
• Bach Brandeberg Concerto No 6 [listen]
  
• Bach (arr Welhelmj) Suite No 3 - Air [listen]
• Bach (arr Wood) Gavotte in E [listen]

Sir Henry J Wood, founder of the Promenade Concerts (the Proms) was in the vanguard of improvoing the standard of orchestral playing early in the twentieth century. After World War I his efforts to drive up standards were taken on by Sir Hamilton Hary in Manchester with the Halle, Sir Adrian Boult with the BBC and Sir Thomas Beecham and the London Philharmonic Orchestra. The recordings on this disc are all of music beloved by Sir Henry.

In November 1926 Sir Henry Wood conducting his Queens Hall Orchestra recorded for Columbia an electrifying performance of Beethoven Symphony No 3 Erocia. However the recording , an early electrical recording, suffers from a dead acoustic and resonating hum plus surface defects. Three sets of discs were sourced and engineers at Beulah have been working on the acoustics the hum and the pressing faults that result in surface defects. We think the result demonstrates how powerful a conductor was Sir Henry Wood.

1PD5 Historic London Organs

London's Alexandra Palace organ and the Queen Hall organ are featured here in 1930s recordings made by George Cunningham. Reginald Goss Custard, Marcel Dupre, Arthur Meale, Albert Schweitzer and Geroge Thalben Ball.

1PD6 Coates conducts Tchaikovsky

Albert Coates conducts the National Symphony Orchetsra in Symphony No 6 Pathetique and the Romeo and Juliet Fantasy Overture

1PD7 The Clouds Will Soon Roll By

Theatre and cinema organs across England played by great orangists in their heydays. Features :

• Quentin M McLean
• Terance Casy
• Gilbert Chadley and Alfred Ulge
• Reginald Foort
• Reginald Dixon
• Reginald New
• Harry Davidson
• Sydney Gustard
• Leslie James
• Sandy MacPherson
• Edward O'Henry
• Harold Ramsey
• F Rowland Tims
• Sidney Torch

2PD7 Whistling in the Dark
More theatre and cinema organs across England played by great orangists in their heydays. Features :

• Al Bollington
• Alex Taylor
• Archie Parkhouse
• Reginald Foort
• Reginald Dixon
• Sydney Gustard
• Harry Davidson
• Sidney Torch
• Leslie James
• Sandy MacPherson
• Edward O'Henry
• Harold Ramsey
• F Rowland Tims
• Donald Thorne

14PD8 Collins Sibelius Cycle
Recorded between 1952 and 1955 the Hasting born Anthony Collins takes the London Symphony Orchestra on a journey through all seven symphonies. At times you can sense the orchestra are on the edge of their seats.
The four disc set contains:

• Symphonies nos 1 to 7
• Karelia Overture
• Pohjola's Daughter
• Nightride and Sunrise
• Pelleas and Melisande - excerpts

Anthony Collins' 1952-55 Sibelius cycle with the LSO for Decca has acquired something of a cult status over the decades. Personally, I've long held mixed feelings about this much vaunted venture so was profoundly grateful for the chance to renew acquaintance and see if my reactions would alter. Of course Kenneth Wilkinson's hugely vivid and tastefully balanced Kingsway Hall sound remains an enormous pleasure in itself. Beulah's thankfully non-interventionist transfers are slightly less smooth but have marginally more body and projection than Tony Hawkins' exemplary previous efforts for this same label.
A disappointingly tentative, undermotivated Fourth aside, Collins' readings possess a red-blooded fevour and thrusting energy to which many will rightly respond.

6PD8 Popular Sibelius

Anthony Collins conducting the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra play

• Finlandia [Listen]
• Karelia Suite [Listen]
• The Swan of Tuolena [Listen]
• En Saga [Listen]
• Romance in C major [Listen]

Eduard van Beinum conducts the Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam in Tapiola [Listen]

1PD9 Tattoo

This album of 21 tracks was recorded live at the pre-war Aldershot Tattoos. The sound of 1,000 bandsmen marching around Rushmoor Area is unique and never to be repeated.

4PD10 The Art of Campoli

Alfredo Campoli performed the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto [listen] over 900 times during his career as a soloist. On this disc we release his 1949 recording with the London Philharmonic conducted by Eduard van Beinum. It is coupled with his 1954 recording of the Elgar Violin Concerto under the baton of Sir Adrian Boult [listen].

Rob Cowan in Gramophone for February 2006 writes:

The reappearance of the Beulah label brings with it a number of old friends, none more welcome than Alfredo Campoli's consistently sympathetic 1954 account of Elgar's Violin Concerto with the London Philharmonic under Sir Adrian Boult. You might say that Campoli's urbane and warmly felt account is the nearest thing we have to a Kreisler Elgar Concerto. The coupling is equally valuable: Campoli, the LPO and Eduard van Beinum in the Mendelssohn Concerto, a nicely transferred 1949 recording impressive as much for van Beinum's incisive conducting as for the smiling demeanor of Campoli's interpretation.

Jonathan Woolf at Music Web International writes that Campoli has withstood the ravages of time, technological advance and successive critical judgments with lasting assurance. Read his full review.

5PD10 The Art of Campoli II
Alfredo Campoli plays

• Beethoven Violin Concerto in D [Listen]
  London Symphony Orchestra conductor Josef Krips
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  Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto in D [Listen]
  London Symphony Orchestra Orchestra conductor Ataulfo Argenta

6PD10 The Art of Campoli III
Alfredo Campoli plays

• Bliss Violin Concerto [Listen]
• Bliss Theme and Cadenza for Violin and Orchestra [Listen]
  London Symphony Orchestra conductor Sir Arthur Bliss
• Pagaini/Kreisler Concerto in D major in one movement [Listen]
  National Symphony Orchestra Orchestra conductor Victor Olof
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• Hummel Rondo in E flat [Listen]
• Debussy La fille aux cheveux de lin [Listen]
• Bazzini La ronde des lutins [Listen]
• Hubay Zephyr Op.30 No.5 [Listen]
  with Eric Gritton, piano

7PD10 Ultimate Campoli
Alfredo Campoli plays

• Mendelssohn Violin Concerto [Listen]
• Bruch Scottish Fantasy [Listen]
  London Philharmonic Orchestra conductor Sir Adrian Boult
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• Saint Saens Havanaise [Listen]
  
• Saint Saens Introduction and rondo capriccioso [Listen]
  London Symphony Orchestra Orchestra conductor Anatole Fistoulari

1PD11 Tchaikovsky Symphonies
Two historic recordings. The first recording of Symphony No2 was by the Cincinatti Orchestra conducted by Sir Eugene Goossens in February 1941. [Listen]
Two years later The National Symphony Orchestra assembled in London's Kigsway Hall to record Symphony No 5 conducted by Sidney Beer in the first ffrr recording. [Listen]

Edward Greenfield in The Gramophone ( May 1995) writes of the Second Symphony - "Goossens brisk and dramatic reading comes over with spelindid bite... his springing of rhythm is most persuasive "
He writes about the Fifth Symphony - "Sdney Beer was highly regarded by the many musicans he worked with, generously spending his wealth at a difficult time on bringing together a remarkable body of players, including such stars as Dennis Brain, Gareth Morris, Leon Goossens, Reginal Kell and Bernard Walton. As his fresh and direct reading of Tchaikovsky's Fifth demonstrates (sadly marred by a tradional 100 bar cut in the finale) he was able to inspire them on record to produce elctrifying results. "

2PD11 Russian Masters

Historic 1940s recordings. Eduard van Beinum conducts the Concertgebouw Orchestra in Stravinsky's Rite of Spring [Listen]

Albert Coates condcuts Mussorgsky and Rimsky Korsakov

• Mussorgsky

• Sorochinsky Fair - Gopak [Listen]
• A Night on the Bare Mountain [Listen]

• Rimsky Korsakov

• The Snow Maiden - Dance of the Tumblers [Listen]
• Le Coq d'OR - Introduction and Cortege de Noces [Listen]

1PD12 Boult's BBC Years

Sir Adrian boult created the BBC Symphony Orchestra and withoin a very short time after its creation in 1930 it had established itself as a world class orchestra. This disc contains recordings made during the first ten years of the orchestra. It contains:

• Tchaikovsky - Capriccio Italien [Listen]
• Tchaikovsky - Serenade in C [Listen]
• Beethoven- Symphony No. 8 in G Op. 88 [Listen]
• Humperdink - Hasel and Gretel Overture [Listen]

2PD12 Boult's Planets

Sir Adrain Boult conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra in:

• Holst Planets Suite
• Walton Crown Imperial
• Vaughan Williams Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis

3PD12 Boult's Schubert

Sir Adrain Boult conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra in:

• Schubert Symphony No 9The Great
• Wagner Die Meistersinger Overture
• Medelssohn Hebrides Overture

4PD12 Boult's Tchaikovsky

Sir Adrian Bout conducts:

• Symphony No 3 in D major Op.29 The Polish
  London Philharmonic Orchestra
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  Suite No 3 in G major Op. 55
  Paris Conservatoire Orchestra
  

1PD13 Sargent Conducts British Music
Features the soundtrack from Insturments of the Orchestrawith Britten's Young Persons Guide to the Orchestra
plus music by Bax, Coleridge-Taylor, Elgar, Holst, Vaughan Williams,

2PD13 Sargent's Enigma
Sir Malcolm Sargent is remembered as a great choral conductor. Many of the older generation can recall him conducting vast choruses singing Handel, Mendelssohn or Coleridge Taylor in the Royal Albert Hall. His reputation as an orchestral conductor is marred by stories of his attitude towards the musicians in orchestras. However his recorded legacy, on this disc mainly with the London Symphony Orchestra, demonstrates a musical intellect at work. If he takes liberties then they are for justifiable musical reasons. The disc starts with a stately Overture to Handel's Messiah [listen] and closes with the Pastorale Symphony [listen] from the same work. Between these statements are his interpretations of Elgar's Enigma Variations (a work he conducted often) [listen], a suite of dances from the dramatic music of Purcell arranged by Albert Coates [listen], Holst's Perfect Fool Ballet Music [listen] and Coleridge Taylor's Othello Suite [Listen].

"Another welcome return, Sir Malclom Sargent's Enigma Variations with the London Symphony Orchestra, extrovert, well juddged and in Nimrod, noble, presented on a well transferred Beulah CD in company with Albert Coates' Purcell Suite and a menu of Handel, Holst and Coleridge-Taylor from some years earlier. Nostalgia with a good musical pedigree." -Robert Cowan in Gramophone December 2007

3PD13 Sargent's Beethoven

Sir Malcolm Sargent conducts the National Symphony Orchestra (recored in 1945/6) in Beethoven Symphonies 4 and 5, plus Grieg's Lyric Suite
"I have heard performances which critics would have raved about had some conductor from Russia been responsible for them, conducting them half as well and truthfully." Neville Cardus writing Sir Malcolm Sargent's obituary in The Guardian 4 October 1967
The National Symphony Orchestra was a remarkable wartime phenomena. Created by Victor Olof for fellow conductor Sidney Beer in 1942 when London orchestras were depleted by the call to arms this orchestra consisted mainly of young musicians in British Army and Royal Air Force bands stationed in and around London. They were based in London's premier recording venue for orchestras, the Methodist Church's Kingsway Hall.

Robert Matthew-Walker in February 2008 International Record Reivew writes: It is good to be reminded of this conductor at his best, as he consistenly is in No. 4, in which all four movements are played at virtually ideal tempos, a reading that is remarkably "straight", unfussy and wholly classical in feeling...this CD is a worthy memento of a much loved British musician.

4PD13 Sargent at the BBC

From 1947 until his death 20 years later Sir Malclom Sargent was cheif conductor of the Henry Wood Proms. His concerts were given with the BBC Symphony Orchestra. The relationship between Sargent and the orchestra could at times be very tense, but Sargent could also manage to bring the best out of them such as the recordings made in 1958 just after he had resigned as the orchestra's cheif conductor.

• Britten- Varitaions and Fugue on a Theme by Purcell [Listen]
• Chabrier - Fete Polonaise [Listen]
• Dvorak - Slavonic Dance No.10 [Listen]
• Elgar - Pomp and Circumstance March No 1 [Listen]
• Litolff - Scherzo [Listen]
  Shura Cherkassky (piano)
• Sullivan - Overture Di Ballo [Listen]
• Tchaikovsky - Tatiana's Letter Scene [Listen] (from Eugnen Onegin)
  Joan Hammond (Soprano)
• Tchaikovsky - Andante cantabile [Listen]

2PD15 Van Beinum Conducts Elgar

Cockaigne Overture
Cello Concerto
(Anthony Pini - cello)
Wand of Youth Suites
Elegy

London Philharmonic Orchestra
Eduard van Beinum (conductor)

Recorded in the Kingsway Hall, London
1949/1950

Andrew Achenbach writing in The Gramophone Magazine, September 2006:

...I thoughly enjoyed reaquainting myself with this performance of the Elgar Concerto ... its a selfless, intensely musical reading, notable for the soloist's hard working dedication and Eduard van Beinum's observant support. For once the great slow movement is not pulled around - and how instinctively these artists tap the vein of arching sorrow under those darkening skies.

Cockaigne fairly swaggers with exuberance, the LPO responding with tremendous zest and fresh-faced application for its then chief, yet there's tenderness, poetry and humour aplenty when required. even finer are the Wand of Youth Suites. Van Beinum extracts heaps of vigor, innocence, nostalgia and wit from these captivating miniatures, and I'd place his poetic and strongly characterised accounts at the top of the pile... So if you failed to snap up this valuable compilation first time round, you've no excuse now.

Rob Cowan on Radio 3 CD Review (23 September 1995) said of this performance of the Cockaigne Overture " I was bowled over...it has newsreel type excitement ". He went on to remark that Anthony Pini's performance of the Cello Concerto was "equivalent to the Albert Sammons Violin Concerto, very straightforward, very deep as an introspection, very personal but not over demonstrative. Its extremely moving. "

4PD15 Elgar's Falstaff
On this disc Anthony Collins conducts performances of Elgar's symphonic study Falstaff, Introduction and Allegro for Strings and the Serenade for Strings, whilst Sir Malcolm Sargent conducts three marches, Pomp and Circumstance Nos 1 and 4 and Imperial March.

"Collins' instinct for the dramatic from his experience in films stands him in excellent stead in Falstaff. This is a very good version indeed, worthy to stand alongside the fine accounts by Tate and Rattle. " Elgar Society Journal Nov. 1995.

"Few match Collins in the way his timing helps you visualize the story behind each incident. This is an invaluable offering to remind us of the mastery of a conductor whose achievement was never fully appreciated in this country in his lifetime. " Gramphone Feb 1996.

5PD15 Boult's Elgar

Sir Adrian Bout conducts:

• In The South (Alassio) Overture
• Symphony No 2
  BBC Symphony Orchestra, recorded Bedford 1944
  
• Sospiri
  BBC Symphony Orchestra, recorded London 1937
  

14PD15 Visions of Elgar

This four disc set contains:

• Sir Adrian Boult conducting
  In the South Overture [Listen]
  Symphony No 2 [Listen]
  Violin Concerto with Alfredo Campoli [Listen]
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• Anthony Collins conducting
  Falstaff [Listen]
  Introduction and Allegro for Strings [Listen]
• 
  
• Eduard van Beinum conducting
  Cockaigne Overture [Listen]
  Cello Concerto with Anthony Pini [Listen]
• 
  
• Sir Malcolm Sargent conducting
  Dream of Gerontius (extracts) with Richard Lewis and Marjorie Thomas [Listen]
  The Kingdom (extract) with Isobel Bailie [Listen]
  I Sing The Birth with the Royal Choral Society [Listen]
  Imperial March [Listen]
  Pomp and Circumstance Marches Nos 1 and 4 [Listen]
  Variations on an Original Theme (Enigma) [Listen]
• 
  
• Plus Elgar's vision of:
  Handel - Overtrue in D minor [Listen]
  Bach - Fantasia and Fugue in C minor BWV 537 [Listen]
  Conducted by Albert Coates

1PD16 Lehar conducts Lehar
recordings made with the Tonhalle Orchestra of Zurich in 1947

1PD17 Van Beinum Conducts Berlioz

• Symphonie Fantastique
• La Damnation de Faust, Op. 24:

• Minuet Des Feux Follets
• Marche Hungroise
• Ballet de Sylphes

• Les Troyennes, H. 133b: Marche Troyenne

2PD17 Van Beinum Conducts Mahler

• Symphony No 4 [listen]
  
  Margaret Ritchie (Soprano) Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam conducted by Eduard van Beinum
• Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen[listen]
  Eugenia Zareska (mezzo-soprano), London Philahrmonic Orchestra conducted by Eduard van Beinum
  

3PD17 The Art of Eduard van Beinum

• Rossin La Scala di Seta Overture [listen]
• Brahms Variations on a Theme by Haydn [listen]
• Haydn Symphony No. 94 in G major [listen]
• Mozart Symphony No. 33 In B-Flat Major, K. 319 [listen]
  Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam conducted by Eduard van Beinum
• Prince Igor, Act II - Polovtsian Dances [listen]
  London Philharmonic Choir, London Philahrmonic Orchestra conductor Eduard van Beinum
  

4PD17 The Art of Eduard van Beinum II

• Brahms Academic Festival Overture [listen]
• Handel/Harty Water Music [listen]
• Haydn Symphony No. 100 in G major * [listen]
• Mendelssohn A Midsummer Night's Dream -Overture, nocturne, scherzo [listen]
• Brahms Tragic Overtrue [listen]

Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam
* London Philhramonic Orchestra
conducted by Eduard van Beinum

1PD18 Original Brahms

Max Fiedler, who conducted Brahms' music for the composer is here featured conducting the Academic Festival Overture and Symphony No2 with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra.

1PD19 Historic Grenadiers

The band of the Grenadier Guards is the oldest band in the British Army. During the time Major George Miller directed the band they cut many discs, mainly for Columbia. This album has a selection of their recordings from marches to novelty numbers.
1930s recordings

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12PD23 Bizet - The Fair Maid of Perth

A recording of a live stuido performance of Bizet's charming Fair Maid of Perth conducted by Sir Thomas Beecham.
The strong cast reflects the best of British singers of the day. It includes:

• Gwen Catley
• Lorely Dyer
• Richard Lewis
• Trefor Jones
• Norman Walker
• Owen Brannigan

There is some surface noise from the acetates but overall the sound quality is good. The notes include a comment made by Philip Hope-Wallace when the broadcast was repeated in 1979 to mark the centenary of Beecham's birth. He wrote: "the beguiling melodies are exactly the sort of light music which Beecham could give a delicacy and vitality all its own. It is a lovely recording which does not sound its age of nearly 30 years ago." Twenty-two years further on those comments remain entirely apt. ...
...admirers of Bizet should snap up this issue while they can. The same applies to devotees of Beecham, the more so since this is a 'live' performance caught on the wing and a splendid example of his art in music to which he was so well suited.

1PD24 George Malcolm plays Bach and Scarlatti

This album celebrates four genii: two great composers, an influential instrument maker and George Malcolm. For a whole generation his playing brought baroque keyboard music to life. George Malcolm's favourite instrument was built by Thomas Goff, and was known for its marvellous dynamic qualities, which Malcolm used to exciting and dramatic effect as can be heard on this album of:

• Bach

• Italian Concerto BWV 971, [listen]
  
• Chromatic Fantasia and Fugue BWV 903
  

• Domenico Scarlatti

• Sonata in G major [listen]
• Sonata in D major L424 [listen]
• Sonata in A major L495 [listen]
• Sonata in D minor L413 [listen]
• Sonata in B flat major L497 [listen]
• Sonata in F major L326 [listen]
• Sonata in C major L457 [listen]
• Sonata in G major L331 [listen]
• Sonata in B flat major L498 [listen]
• Sonata in F minor L475 [listen]
• Sonata in E minor L23 [listen]
• Sonata in B major L450 [listen]
• Sonata in B minor L33 [listen]
• Sonata in A major L483 [listen]
• Sonata in D major L461 [listen]
• Sonata in G major L487 [listen]

George Malcolm's Technicolor stop-changing for Scarlatti has a "naughty but nice" appeal. His flair , urbanity, wit (and fallibility) are an enlivening supplement to recent "period" proprieties. (Perfomance ****) - BBC Music Magazine November 2007

1PD25 Hamilton Harty
composer, conductor and arranger

Although now best known as a conductor, during his lifetime Hamilton Harty enjoyed a fine reputation as composer, arranger and accompanist. This album celebrates all four talents.

It contains recordings made between 1926 and 1934 with Sir Hamilton Harty conducting the Halle Orchestra unless othewise shewn:

• Nymphs and Shepherds from Act VI The Libertine (1692) (Purcell)
  Dance Duet from Act I Hansel und Gretel (1893) (Humperdinck)
  Manchester School Children's Choir
• Water Music (1715-17) - 1 Allegro (Handel arr Harty)
  London Philharmonic Orchestra
• Irish Symphony - Scherzo (Harty)
• With the Wild Geese (Harty)
• The Corsair Overture (Berlioz)
• Royal Hunt and Storm from Les Troyens (Berlioz)
• Hungarian Rhapsody No 4 (Liszt arr Doppler)
• Flight of the Bumble Bee from Act III The Tsar Saltan (1900) (Rimsky Korsakov)
• Kovanshchina - Prelude (1886) (Mussorgsky)
  

1PD26 Collins Conducts British Music

Anthony Collins Conducts

• Sullivan Overture di ballo [Listen]
• Gardiner Shepherd Fennell Dance [Listen]
• Grainger Shepherd's Hey [Listen]
• Vaughan Williams Fantasia on a theme by Thomas Tallis [Listen]
• Vaughan Williams Fantasia on "Greensleeves" [Listen]
• Delius A walk to the Paradise Garden [Listen]
• Delius A Song of Summer [Listen]

1PD27 The Art of Basil Cameron

Percy Grainger, who had taken part in Basil Cameron's 1914 Torquay music festival described Cameron as possessing a "peculiar quality of excitement and exhilaration". Sir Henry Wood described Cameron as having a "real grip over the orchestra". On this disc you can hear exactly why these views were expressed. It contains:

• Gabriel Pierne - March of the Little Lead Soldiers
• Antonin Dvorak - Symphony No. 8 in G Op. 88
• Edvard Grieg - Peer Gynt Suites Nos. 1 & 2
• Percy Grainger - Jutish Melody

1PD28 Falgstad Sings Brahms and Mahler

Kirsten Flagstad sings

• Brahms Vier ernste Gesange
  (Edwin McArthur piano)
• Mahler Kindertotenlieder
  
• Mahler Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen
  Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor Sir Adrian Boult, recorded 1956/7

1PD29 The Art of Jeanne Demessieux
These are recordings of Jeanne Demessiuex early in her career playing the organs of the Victoria Hall, Geneva and St Mark's, North Audley Street, London. Her concert career took off after she separated late in 1946 from her teacher and lover Marcel Dupre. The recordings made in St Mark's in May 1947 were the first of her recordings for Decca made in St Marks and subsequently in the Victoria Hall, Geneva.

• Recorded in St Mark's North Audley Street:

• Charles-Marie Widor Symphony No. 5 in F minor Op.42 No 1 - Toccata (allegro) [listen]
  
• Jeramiah Clarke (ascribed to Henry Purcell) Trumpet Tune in D [listen]
  
• Felix Medelssohn Organ Sonata No 3 in A major Op.65 No. 3 - 1. Con moto maestoso

• Recorded in the Victoria Hall, Geneva:

• J. S. Bach Fantasia and Fugue in G minor BWV 542
• J. S. Bach Toccata and Fugue in D minor BWV 565
• Franz Liszt Fantasie und Fuge uber den "Ad nos ad salutarem undam"
• Charles-Marie Widor Variations on Symphony No. 9 "Gothique" Op.70

1PD30 Berlioz Interpretations

Berlioz as interpreted by Eduard van Beinum, Charles Munch, Victor de Sabata abd Sir Hamilton Harty

• Le Corsair Overture Op. 21
  Paris Conservatoire Orchestra conductor Charles Munch [listen]
  
• Symphonie fantastique Op.14
  Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam conductor Eduard van Beinum [listen]
• Le Carneval romain Overture Op. 9
  London Philharmonic Orchestra conductor Victor de Sabata [listen]
• Marche Troyenne
  London Symphony Orchestra conductor Sir Hamilton Harty [listen]
• Le roi Lear Overture Op. 4
  London Symphony Orchestra conductor Sir Hamilton Harty [listen]

1PD31 Munch in London
Charles Munch was engaged by Decca to record with the Paris Conservatoire Orchestra during their tours of Britain in 1946 and 1947. Here are four fine examples of that collaboration:

• Beethoven Symphony No. 8 in F major Op.93 [listen]
• Saint-Saens Le rouet d'Omphale Op.31 [listen]
• Mendelssohn Symphony No 5 in D major Op.107 "Reformation" [listen]
• Ravel Daphnis et Chloe Suites Nos 1 and 2 [listen]

1PD32 Historic Schubert

Historic performances from the 78rpm era:

• Symphony No 9 "The Great"
  BBC Symphony Orchestra conductor Sir Adrian Boult [Listen]
  

  "Boult's orchestra was in the virtuoso league...The precision is wondrous to hear...You will find yourself noticing things you have never heard before..." Rob Barnett at Classical Music on the Web

  
  
• Symphony No 8 Unfinished
  National Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor Anatole Fistoulari [Listen]
  
• Rosamunde - Entr'acte Act II,
  
  Basle Symphony Orchestra, conductor Felix Weingartner

Robert Cowen writes in Gramophone for December 2008:

I was happy to encounter Beulah's expert transfer/remastering of Sir Adrian Boult's first recording of Schubert's Ninth, a brilliantly executed performance (BBCSO), swift and breezy, and, as almost always with Boult, acutely structure-conscious. I was grateful to discover Anatole Fistoulari's 1944 Unfinished with the National Philharmonic, a fresh and dramatic reading, though not quite as well recorded at the Boult.

1PD33 Conrad Hansen plays Mozart Piano Sonatas Vol 1

Conrad Hansen plays Mozart sonatas on a fortepiano.

• Piano Sonata No. 6 in D, K. 284, "Durnitz" [listen]
• Piano Sonata No. 8 in A Minor, K. 310[listen]
• Piano Sonata No. 12 in F, K. 332 [listen]
• Piano Sonata No. 14 in C minor, K. 457 [listen]

2PD33 Conrad Hansen plays Mozart Piano Sonatas Vol 2

Conrad Hansen plays Mozart sonatas on a fortepiano.

• Piano Sonata No. 1 in C, K. 279 [listen]
• Piano Sonata No. 2 in F, K. 280[listen]
• Piano Sonata No. 3 in B flat, K. 281[listen]
• Piano Sonata No. 4 in E flat, K. 282[listen]
• Piano Sonata No. 5 in G K. 283[listen]

1PD34 Tchaikovsky Interpretations

• Francesca da Rimini [listen]
• Evgenii Onegin - Waltz [listen]
  Polonaise [listen]
  London Philharmonic Orchestra conductor Sir Thomas Beecham
• Serenade In C Major Op.48[listen]
  BBC Symphony Orchestra conductor Sir Adrian Boult
• Romeo and Juliet Fantasy Overture [listen]
  National Symphony Orchestra conductor Albert Coates

1PD35 The World of Dennis Brain

• Benjamin Britten - Serenade for tenor, horn and strings [Listen]
  Peter Pears (tenor), Dennis Brain (horn), strings of the New Symphony Orchestra of London, conductor Sir Eugene Goossens
  
• Beethoven - Horn Sonata in F major Op.17 [Listen]
  Dennis Brain (horn) Dennis Matthews (piano)
  
• Edward Williams - Open House [Listen]
  Natalie James (oboe), Bernard Walton (clarinet), Dennis Brain (horn), Cecil James (bassoon)
  
• Dukas - Villanelle[Listen]
  Dennis Brain (horn), Gerald Moore (piano)
  
• Mozart - Cosi fan Tutte - Per pieta ben mio [Listen]
  Joan Cross (soprano), Dennis Brain (horn), Philharmonia Orchestra conductor Lawrance Collingwood
  
• Tchaikovsky - Symphony No 5 - II Andante cantabile, con alcuna licenza [Listen]
  Dennis Brain (horn), National Symphony Orchestra conductor Sidney Beer
  

1PD37 Richard Lewis - Lyric Tenor

Richard Lewis was, quite simply, one of the finest lyric tenors Great Britain has ever produced as this album demonstrates with

• Edward Elgar - The Dream of Gerontius Op. 38 - Sanctus Fortis [Listen]
  Huddersfield Choral Society (chorus master; Herbert Bardgett)
  Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
  Sir Malclom Sargent (conductor)
  Huddersfield Town Hall 4-6 October 1954
• William Walton - Troilus and Cressida Act 2: If one last doubt remain [Listen]
  Chrous and Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London
  Sir Malcolm Sargent (conductor)
  Live broadcast of the first performance from the Royal Opera House 3 December 1954*
• Benjamin Britten - Les Illuminations Op. 18 [Listen]
  Victoria Symphony Orchestra
  Tibor Paul (conductor)Berthold Goldschmidt - Mediterranean Songs [Listen]
  London Symphony Orchestra Berthold Goldschmidt (conductor)
  Studio 1, BBC, Maida Vale, London W9. Live broadcast at 8pm 18 December 1959 *
• George Frideric Handel - Jephtha HWV 70[Listen]
  Act 2: Deeper Still and Deeper, Waft her, angel, through the skies
  Act3: For ever blessed be thy holy name
  London Symphony Orchestra Sir Malcolm Sargent (conductor)
  EMI No. 1 Studio, Abbey Road, London 27 January 1957

1PD38 Russian Classics of the 78 Era

Recordings made between 1928 and 1947 .

• Sir Hamilton Harty conducts
  • Russia (Balakirev)
  • Capriccio espagnol (Rimsky-Korsakov)
• Grzegorz Fitelberg conducts
  • Tale of Tsar Saltan Orchestral Suite (Rimsky-Korsakov)
• Sir Adrian Boult conducts
  • Kikimora (Liadov)
  • Marche Slav (Tchaikovsky)
• Stanford Robinson conducts
  • Nutcraker - Valse de fleurs(Tchaikovsky)
• Enrique Jordá conducts
  • Khovanshchina Prelude (Mussorgsky arr Rimsky-Korsakov)

1RF3 English Organ Music
played by Matthew Morley at the organ of St Barnabas, Dulwich, London

William H. Harris Flourish For An Occasion
John Stanley Voluntary Vii
Thomas Arne Concerto No. 1- Introduction And Fugue
William Russell Voluntary Xv
C. Hubert H. Parry Fantasia And Fugue In G
Herbert Howells Rhapsody Op.17 No. 1
Rhapsody Op.17 No. 2
Rhapsody Op.17 No. 3
Patrick Gowers Toccata
Peter Maxwell Davies Three Organ Voluntaries:
Psalm 124
O God Abufe
All Sons Of Adam

Read the liner notes on English Organ Music

1RF2 O Sprite Heroic
The Trinty Consort sing the words of Philip Sidney set to music by Byrd, Mundy, Ferrabosco, Pilkington, Vautor, Ward and Youll.

read the liner notes by Gavin Alexander

1RF4 When The Heart Is Young: A Recital of Songs by Franz Lehár
Sarah Leonard sings songs by the master of Viennese operetta Franz Lehár. Accompanied by Andrew Ball (piano)

Rob Barnett writes for Classical Music on the Web:

Unlike many Beulah issues this recital is a new recording. It showcases the voice of Sarah Leonard and the lyric delights of Franz Lehár. A glance through the Gramophone database reveals Sarah Leonard as a seasoned recording artist with many discs to her name. The territory takes in Monteverdi and Purcell but with the preponderance in favour of the more modern repertoire: John Harle, Michael Nyman, Alexander Goehr, Gorecki, Bryars and Schnittke. She has also recorded British songs. Lehár is not a name I would have associated with her voice - my problem - not hers. On Radio 3 she has broadcast songs by Bax and at least one vocal work by Elisabeth Maconchy (The Golden Echo and the Leaden Echo). Although only one of these nineteen songs comes from an operetta several of them have the inflections and spirit I associate with Lehar's 'centre of gravity (or is it levity?). Some of the accompaniments cry out for orchestral treatment (perhaps they exist?) although vivid work by Andrew Ball is never in doubt. The singing is ripe and affecting; singing with the meaning of the words as well as with the musical line. If I have one reservation it is that I had the impression that some of the higher notes were not as comfortably handled as they might have been. The impression is sometimes effortful rather than effortless. However the important thing is the spirit of these songs and that seems well caught. Leonard excels in Die Du Mein Alles Bist with its birdsong - all silvery restraint; while Das Lockende Lied is a coloratura display of Queen Of Night melisma. Mucht's jubelnd rather recalled the Disney musical film 'Beauty and the Beast'. A highlight is Nimm mich mit with its grand heroic inflection in the piano as well as a touch of Griegian simplicity.

Read Andrew lamb's essay on Lehár Songs