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Click on the cover image for more information (including reviews) and to order using mail, telephone or Netsounds card payment 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] PayPal customers use this box 1PD19 Historic Grenadiers THE BAND OF THE GRENADIER GUARDS 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 [More information] PayPal customers use this box 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. PayPal price £9.95 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] PayPal price £9.95 1PD30 Berlioz Interpretations 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] PayPal price £9.95 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 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 [listen] Recorded in the Victoria Hall, Geneva: J. S. Bach Fantasia and Fugue in G minor BWV 542 [listen] J. S. Bach Toccata and Fugue in D minor BWV 565 [listen] Franz Liszt Fantasie und Fuge uber den "Ad nos ad salutarem undam" [listen] Charles-Marie Widor Variations on Symphony No. 9 "Gothique" Op.70 [listen] PayPal price £9.95 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 [Listen] PayPal price £9.95 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]. PayPal price £9.95 5PD10 The Art of Campoli II Alfredo Campoli plays Beethoven Violin Concerto in D London Symphony Orchestra conductor Josef Krips [listen] Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto in D London Symphony Orchestra Orchestra conductor Ataulfo Argenta [listen] PayPal price £9.95 1PD26 Anthony Collins Conducts British Music Anthony Collins Conducts the New Symphony Orchestra of London in Sullivan Overture di ballo [Listen] Gardiner Shepherd Fennell Dance [Listen] Grainger Shepherd's Hey [Listen] Anthony Collins Conducts the London Symphony Orchestra of London in 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] PayPal price £9.95 1PD28 Kirsten Flagstad sings Brahms Vier ernste Gesange [Listen] (Edwin McArthur piano) Mahler Kindertotenlieder [Listen] Mahler Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen [Listen] Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor Sir Adrian Boult, recorded 1956/7 PayPal price £9.95 5PD15 Boult's Elgar Sir Adrian Bout conducts: In The South (Alassio) Overture [listen] Symphony No 2 [listen] Sospiri [listen] BBC Symphony Orchestra "The greatest recording ever made" of Elgar's Second Symphony. "One of my Desert Island Discs choices" Rob Cowan BBC Radio 3 16 October 2005 PayPal price £9.95 4PD12 Boult's Tchaikovsky Sir Adrian Bout conducts: Symphony No 3 in D major Op.29 The Polish [listen] London Philharmonic Orchestra Suite No 3 in G major Op. 55 [listen] Paris Conservatoire Orchestra PayPal price £9.95 1PD27 The Art of Basil Cameron Percy Grainer, 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 [listen] Antonin Dvorak - Symphony No. 8 in G Op. 88 [listen] Edvard Grieg - Peer Gynt Suites Nos. 1 & 2 [listen] Percy Grainger - Jutish Melody [listen] PayPal price £9.95 14PD15 Visions of Elgar by Sir Adrian Boult, Anthony Collins, Eduard van Beinum, Sir Malclom Sargent , Richard Lewis, Majorie Thomas, Isobel Bailie, Alfredo Campoli and Anthony Pini The four disc set contains: Sir Adrian Boult conducting In the South Overture Symphony No 2 Violin Concerto with Alfredo Campoli [listen] 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 Baillie [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 - Overture in D minor [listen] [listen] Conducted by Albert Coates PayPal price £29.85 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 disc 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) [listen] Dance Duet from Act I Hansel und Gretel (1893) (Humperdinck) [listen] Manchester School Children's Choir Water Music (1715-17) - 1 Allegro (Handel arr Harty) London Philharmonic Orchestra [listen] Irish Symphony - Scherzo (Harty) [listen] With the Wild Geese (Harty) [listen] The Corsair Overture (Berlioz) [listen] Royal Hunt and Storm from Les Troyens (Berlioz) [listen] Hungarian Rhapsody No 4 (Liszt arr Doppler) [listen] Flight of the Bumble Bee from Act III The Tsar Saltan (1900) (Rimsky Korsakov) [listen] Kovanschchina - Prelude (1886) (Mussorgsky) [listen] PayPal price £9.95 1PD24 George Malcolm plays Bach and Scarlatti This disc 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 disc 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] PayPal price £9.95 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]. PayPal price £9.95 3PD13 Sargent's Beethoven Sir Malcolm Sargent conducts the National Symphony Orchestra (recored in 1945/6) in Beethoven Symphonies 4 [Listen] and 5 [Listen], plus Grieg's Lyric Suite [Listen] PayPal price £9.95 14PD8 Collins Sibelius Cycle Recorded between 1952 and 1955 the Hastings 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 [Listen to Symphony No 1] [Listen to Symphony No 2] [Listen to Symphony No 3] [Listen to Symphony No 4] [Listen to Symphony No 5] [Listen to Symphony No 6] [Listen to Symphony No 7] Karelia Overture [Listen] Pohjola's Daughter [Listen] Nightride and Sunrise [Listen] Pelleas and Melisande - excerpts [Listen] PayPal price £29.85 2PD15 Van Beinum Conducts Elgar Cockaigne Overture [listen] Cello Concerto (Anthony Pini - cello) [listen] Wand of Youth Suites [listen] Elegy [listen] London Philharmonic Orchestra Eduard van Beinum (conductor) Recorded in the Kingsway Hall, London 1949/1950 PayPal price £9.95 12PD23 Bizet - The Fair Maid of Perth We have reissued a recording of a live studio performance of Bizet's charming Fair Maid of Perth conducted by Sir Thomas Beecham. [listen] 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 Two disc set 134 minutes. PayPal price £19.90 2PD12 Boult's Planets Sir Adrian Boult conducts the wartime BBC Symphony Orchestra in Holst's Planet Suite [Listen] . Released with earlier recordings of Crown Imperial (Walton) [Listen] and Variations on a Theme by Thomas Tallis (Vaughan Williams) [Listen] PayPal price £9.95 Listen To Our Tracks on our YouTube Channel ARTIST BIOGRAPHIES - Read about artists featured on Beulah