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MENDELSSOHN Overture: The Fair Melusine
GHEDINI Musica da Concerto per Viola ed Archi
DVOŘÁK Symphony No. 8
Recorded live in 1959
Total duration: 70:43
Frederick Riddle, viola
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
conducted by Sir Thomas Beecham
ADDISON Ballet Suite, Carte Blanche
BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 7
SAINT-SAËNS Dance of the Priestesses (Samson & Delilah)
GOUNOD Juliet's Dream (Romeo and Juliet)
Recorded live in 1959
Total duration: 56:49
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
conducted by Sir Thomas Beecham
BERLIOZ Grande Messe des Morts (Requiem)
Live broadcast recording, 1959
Total duration: 78:48
Richard Lewis, tenor
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and Chorus
conducted by Sir Thomas Beecham
BIZET Carmen
Live broadcast performance, 1943
Total duration: 2hr 32:32
Carmen - Lily Djanel
Don José - Raoul Jobin
Micaëla - Licia Albanese
Escamillo - Leonard Warren
Chorus and Orchestra of the Metropolitan Opera
conducted by Sir Thomas Beecham
BIZET The Fair Maid of Perth
(La jolie fille de Perth, sung in English)
Studio broadcast recording, 1956
Total duration: 2hr 14:39
Catherine Glover - Mattiwilda Dobbs
Henry Smith - Alexander Young
Le Duc de Rothsay - Kevin Miller
Ralph - David Ward
Mab - Anna Pollack
Simon Glover - Owen Brannigan
BBC Chorus
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
conducted by Sir Thomas Beecham
ARNELL Punch and the Child - Ballet Music
DELIUS An Arabesque
BERNERS The Triumph of Neptune - Suite
Recorded 1950-55
Total duration: 59:16
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Einar Nørby, baritone
The Philadelphia Orchestra
Robert Grooters, baritone
Sir Thomas Beecham, conductor