Blue Network Symphony Orchestra
The Blue Network Symphony Orchestra was an American broadcast orchestra associated with the Blue Network.
The Blue Network was originally part of NBC and later became the American Broadcasting Company, ABC.
The orchestra was used for radio concert broadcasts and studio performances.
NICOLAI The Merry Wives of Windsor: Overture
ELGAR Serenade for Strings
HANDEL-BEECHAM Love in Bath: The Great Elopement
DELIUS The Walk to the Paradise Garden
J. STRAUSS II Voices of Spring
WAGNER Götterdämmerung: Siegfried’s Funeral March
SIBELIUS Pelléas et Mélisande Suite: The Death of Mélisande
MOZART Divertimento, K 131: Adagio
SCHUBERT Symphony No. 8, “Unfinished.”
TCHAIKOVSKY Serenade in C: Elegie
BERLIOZ Les Troyens: Trojan March
MOZART Symphony No. 31
HANDEL-BEECHAM Piano Concerto
CHABRIER España
MOZART The Impresario - Overture
SAINT-SAENS Omphale’s Spinning Wheel
BERLIOZ The Trojans - Royal Hunt and Storm
BERLIOZ Hungarian March
Recorded in 1945
Sir Thomas Beecham, conductor
Blue Network Symphony Orchestra
NICOLAI The Merry Wives of Windsor: Overture
ELGAR Serenade for Strings
HANDEL-BEECHAM Love in Bath: The Great Elopement
DELIUS The Walk to the Paradise Garden
J. STRAUSS II Voices of Spring
Live broadcast on ABC/Blue Network, 4pm, 7 April 1945
Total duration: 54:43
Sir Thomas Beecham, conductor
Blue Network Symphony Orchestra
WAGNER Götterdämmerung: Siegfried’s Funeral March
SIBELIUS Pelléas et Mélisande Suite: The Death of Mélisande
MOZART Divertimento, K 131: Adagio
SCHUBERT Symphony No. 8, “Unfinished.”
TCHAIKOVSKY Serenade in C: Elegie
BERLIOZ Les Troyens: Trojan March
Live broadcast on ABC/Blue Network, 4pm, 14 April 1945
Total duration: 57:50
Sir Thomas Beecham, conductor
Blue Network Symphony Orchestra
MOZART Symphony No. 31
HANDEL-BEECHAM Piano Concerto
CHABRIER España
Live broadcast on ABC/Blue Network, 4pm, 21 April 1945
Total duration: 53:13
Sir Thomas Beecham, conductor
Blue Network Symphony Orchestra
HAYDN Symphony No. 102
MOZART The Impresario - Overture
SAINT-SAENS Omphale’s Spinning Wheel
BERLIOZ The Trojans - Royal Hunt and Storm
BERLIOZ Hungarian March
Live broadcast on ABC/Blue Network, 4pm, 28 April 1945
Total duration: 53:37
Sir Thomas Beecham, conductor
Blue Network Symphony Orchestra
DELIUS A Village Romeo and Juliet
DELIUS The Walk to the Paradise Garden (bonus track)*
Live performance broadcast, 1962
*Live radio broadcast, 1945
Total duration: 119:00 (opera: 109:59; bonus: 9:01)
Sali – John Wakefield
Vrenchen – Elsie Morison
The Dark Fiddler – Neil Easton
Manz - Lawrence Felley
Marti - Donald McIntyre
Meredith Davies, conductor
Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of Sadler's Wells Opera
*Sir Thomas Beecham, conductor
*Blue Network Symphony Orchestra
