Between 1993 and 2001 Beulah established itself as an award winning and highly acclaimed classical music and middle of the road compact disc label. Now we are re-issuing the best performances from our back catalogue at £9.95 each (only £7.99 if downloaded from iTunes). To listen to track samples click on the disc's iTunes link.
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Listen To Our Top Ten Tracks
These tracks are complied by the number of visits to them at YouTube.
Holst The Plantes Suite - Sir Adrian Boult
Elgar Pomp and Circumstance March No 4 - Sir Malcolm Sargent
Purcell Nymphs and Shepherds - Manchester Schools Children Choir
Tchaikovsky Symphony No 3 - Sir Adrian Boult
Brahms Vier ernste Gesange - Kirsten Flagstad
Mahler Kindertotenlieder - Kirsten Flagstad
Elgar Cockaigne Overture - Eduard van Beinum
Sibelius Symphony No 1 - Anthony Collins
Elgar Imperial March - Sir Malcolm Sargent
Sibelius Symphony No 3 - Anthony Collins
Reviewer Tries the One Sound Test
It is rare these days for a record company to suggest that its recordings should be played through one loudspeaker only! - but Beulah does , advising us to obtain the best sound from the original mono balance thereby. Thanks to an enthusiast hi-fi friend I have heard the result and it is quite remarkable. - Robert Matthew-Walker wrting in International Record Review November 2007
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4PD12 Boult's Tchaikovsky
Sir Adrian Bout conducts:
Symphony No 3 in D major Op.29 The Polish
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Suite No 3 in G major Op. 55
Paris Conservatoire Orchestra
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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
Antonin Dvorak - Symphony No. 8 in G Op. 88
Edvard Grieg - Peer Gynt Suites Nos. 1 & 2
Percy Grainger - Jutish Melody
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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
Anthony Collins conducting Falstaff Introduction and Allegro for Strings
Eduard van Beinum conducting Cockaigne Overture Cello Concerto with Anthony Pini
Sir Malcolm Sargent conducting
Dream of Gerontius (extracts) with Richard Lewis and Marjorie Thomas
The Kingdom (extract) with Isobel Bailie
I Sing The Birth with the Royal Choral Society Imperial March Pomp and Circumstance Marches Nos 1 and 4 Variations on an Original Theme (Enigma)
Plus Elgar's vision of:
Handel - Overtrue in D minor
Bach - Fantasia and Fugue in C minor BWV 537
Conducted by Albert Coates
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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)
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)
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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, Chromatic Fantasia and Fugue BWV 903 and sixteen sonatas by Domenico Scarlatti.
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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 and closes with the Pastorale Symphony form the same work. Between these statements are his interpretations of Elgar's Enigma Variations ( a work he conducted often), a suite of dances from the dramatic music of Purcell arranged by Albert Coates, Holst's Perfect Fool Ballet Music and Coleridge Taylor's Othello Suite.
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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
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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
Karelia Overture
Pohjola's Daughter
Nightride and Sunrise
Pelleas and Melisande - excerpts
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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.
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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
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4PD10 The Art of Campoli
Alfredo Campoli performed the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto 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.
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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.
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 BranniganTwo disc set 134 minutes.
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2PD12 Boult's Planets
Sir Adrian Boult conducts the wartime BBC Symphony Orchestra in Holst's Planet Suite. Released with earlier recordings of Crown Imperial (Walton) and Variations on a Theme by Thomas Tallis (Vaughan Williams)
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