What's New For November

CD Price Match

This month we match the lowest price for our compact discs available on Amazon. This offer is limited to those using PayPal and is only available by using THIS LINK. Currently the lowest price is £ 5.19 for 1PD25 Hamilton Harty composer, conductor and arranger
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More Albums from iTunes Plus

We now have 26 albums that can be downloaded from iTunes Plus. Sixteen of the albums are from our back catalogue and are no longer available on compact disc, but you can still enjoy them by using iTunes Plus

The latest addition from our back catalogue is



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.

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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]

• 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]

What The Critics Say

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. However for me Beulah's star release has Anthony Collins conduct a programme of "British" music. Rarely have I encountered a more sensitively nuanced reading of Vaughan Williams Tallis Fantasia, with some beautifully judged perspectives, or more luminously played Delius (the "Walk" from Romeo and Juliet and A Song of Summer). All are with the LSO where as the Sullivan's Overture di Ballo (a superb perfomance), Gardiner's Shepherd's Fennell's Dance and Grainger's Shepherd's Hey are with the New Symphony Orchestra. Beualh adds Vaughan Williams' Greensleveves Fantasia, another emmborable LSO recording. The transfers are frst rate.

1PD32 Historic Schubert Historic performances from the 78rpm era: Symphony No 9 "The Great" BBC Symphony Orchestra conductor Sir Adrian Boult [Listen] Symphony No 8 Unfinished National Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor Anatole Fistoulari [Listen] Rosamunde - Entr'acte Act II, Basle Symphony Orchestra, conductor Felix Weingartner [Listen] PayPal customers special price £8.75 This album is not available for sale to North America

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 customers special price £7.75 This album is not available for sale to North America

Forty Years On

Forty years on Reading, and other trolleybuses, live on at the Sandtoft Trolleybus museum in Lincolnshire, the world's largest trolleybus museum.

London, the world's largest trolleybus system had closed in 1962 and within 10 years all the other British systems closed.
London trolleybuses in our DVD double album YB39D CAPITAL TRANSPORT/ALL THAT MIGHTY HEART

All That Mighty Heart

Contains two of our most popular discs featuring London and its public transport from 1933 to 1983. Includes The Elephant Will Never Forget(1952) along with Moving Millions (1947), Opertaing London(1953), Children's Coronation(1953), All That Mighty Heart(1962), London on the Move(1968) and Moving London(1983) plus two audio extras London Transport Board(1933) a comic monologue by John Tilley and Cockaigne Overture(1949) by Elgar performed by the London Philharmonic Orchestra (75 years old this year). Post war London Transport was the subject of a film, Moving Millions made for the LTPB in 1947 by the Crown Film Unit and shown overseas through the COI. It features the Underground and its extenstions, as well as the familiar red bus, trams, trolleybuses and Green Line coaches . Some twenty years on and British Transport Films were commissioned to make an updated version entitled London on the Move. Now in the swinging sixties with the Victoria Line in action and the first generation Red Arrow buses. In 1983 London Transport made Moving London a celebration of its fifty years service to the capital.As well as reviewing the past the film looks to the future with new trains and new buses. The video ends with the most famous British Transport Film of all The Elephant Will Never Forget, recalling the last week of trams in July 1952. In 1962 British Transport Films released All That Mighty Heart, a day in the life of London and London Transport. It follows the course of the day by reference to radio and televison programmes of the time. This colour film was originally started in 1953 as BTF production no 121 with a working title Operating London. For some unkown reason the project was abandoned. Some shots found their way into All That Mighty Heart, the rest were discarded. Now, over fifty years later some of the material salvaged from the cutting room floor has been complied for this DVD. It features buses at Fords works, STLs on route 101, Trolleybuses in Woolwich, at Hampton Court and in the Commercial Road, trams in South East London ( originally shot in 1952), Golders Green signal box, standard and 38 tube stock, and many central London scenes. Also shot in 1953 is Children's Coronation the story of how London Transport ferried school children from all over London to the big event of the year. Contains an audio extra. Elgar - Cockaigne Overtureplayed by the London Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Eduard van Beinum. Recorded in the Kingsway Hall, London in 1949. Black and white and colour. 104 mins. plus 17 mins audio extras

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