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LPO: The Formative Years - Pioneering sound recordings from the 1930s | LPO LPO0040

LPO: The Formative Years - Pioneering sound recordings from the 1930s

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Label: LPO

Cat No: LPO0040

Barcode: 0854990001406

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Orchestral

Release Date: 28th September 2009

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Contents

Works

Mozart
Symphony No.39 in E flat major, K.543 (excerpts)

Mozart
Symphony No.41 in C major, K.551 (Jupiter)

Delius
On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring

Rimsky-Korsakov
Suite from ‘The Golden Cockerel’ (excerpts)

Artists

London Philharmonic Orchestra

Conductor

Sir Thomas Beecham

Works

Mozart
Symphony No.39 in E flat major, K.543 (excerpts)

Mozart
Symphony No.41 in C major, K.551 (Jupiter)

Delius
On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring

Rimsky-Korsakov
Suite from ‘The Golden Cockerel’ (excerpts)

Artists

London Philharmonic Orchestra

Conductor

Sir Thomas Beecham

About

Two of the most significant pioneering experiments in sound recording, stereophonic sound and recording on tape, involved the London Philharmonic Orchestra and its founder Sir Thomas Beecham. At Beecham’s famous mono recording session of Mozart’s Jupiter Symphony in 1934, engineers experimented simultaneously with stereo sound and, during a tour of Germany in 1936, part of one of the Orchestra’s concerts was recorded using the revolutionary invention of tape. The results of these landmark moments in the Orchestra’s history are restored here for the first time in full.

Astonishingly, when Beecham started conducting in the early 1900s, Mozart’s music was hardly known in the UK. With the single-mindedness for which he was renowned, the conductor set out to change this perspective, giving performances that bore out his claim that the two virtues necessary for a successful presentation of the music were ‘the maximum of virility, coupled with the maximum of delicacy’. Nowhere did he combine these two elements more effectively than in his approach to Mozart’s symphonies, where his bold, masculine phrasing, sense of line and fastidious attention to detail virtually created a new style.

Contents:
Mozart: Symphony No.39 in E flat major, K.543 (excerpts)
Delius: On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring
Rimsky-Korsakov: Suite from ‘The Golden Cockerel’ (excerpts)
Recorded live during a concert at BASF Feierabendhaus, Ludwigshafen, Germany, 19 November 1936

Mozart: Symphony No.41 in C major, K.551 (Jupiter)
Mozart: Symphony No.41 in C major, K.551 (Jupiter) (excerpts)
Recorded at Abbey Road Studios London, 19 March 1934

Alan Blumlein stereo tests:
Binaural/Stereo test by Alan Blumlein ‘Walking, Talking’
Recorded 15 December 1933

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