Thomas Beecham selected discography

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Selected discography of recordings conducted by Thomas Beecham:

• Balakirev
  • Symphony No 1 – Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (RPO)
• Beethoven
  • Piano Concerto No 4 – Artur Rubinstein/London Philharmonic Orchestra (LPO)
  • Ruins of Athens – Beecham Choral Society/ RPO
  • Symphony No 2 – RPO
  • Symphony No 7 – RPO
  • Symphony No 8 – RPO
  • Violin Concerto – Szigeti/ LPO
• Berlioz
  • Damnation of Faust: Danse des Sylphes/ Menuet des follets – RPO
  • Harold in Italy – Riddle/RPO
  • King Lear Overture – RPO
  • Le Corsaire Overture – RPO
  • Les Francs Juges Overture – RPO
  • Les Troyens Overture – RPO
  • Roman Carnival Overture – RPO
  • Symphonie Fantastique – RPO
  • Trojan March – RPO (one of his last recordings, made in stereo in December 1959)
  • Waverley Overture – RPO
• Bizet
  • Carmen – Victoria de Los Angeles, Nicolai Gedda/French National Radio Orchestra
  • Carnaval à Rome – RPO
  • La Jolie Fille de Perth suite – RPO
  • L'Arlésienne Suites 1 & 2 – RPO
  • Patrie Overture – RPO
  • Symphony in C – French National Radio Orchestra
• Boccherini
  • Overture in D – RPO
• Borodin
  • Polovtsian Dances – Beecham Choral Society/RPO
• Brahms
  • Academic Festival Overture – RPO
  • Symphony No 2 – RPO
  • Tragic Overture – LPO
• Chabrier
  • España – RPO
  • Gwendoline Overture – French National Radio Orchestra
  • Joyeuse Marche – RPO
• Cherubini
  • Les deux journées – RPO
• Debussy
  • Cortège & Air de danse – RPO
  • Prélude à l'après midi – RPO
• Delibes
  • Le Roi s'amuse – RPO
• Delius
  • Appalachia – BBC Chorus/LPO
  • Brigg Fair – RPO
  • Dance Rhapsody No 2 – RPO
  • Fennimore & Gerda Intermezzo – RPO
  • Florida Suite: Daybreak & Dance – RPO
  • Irmelin Prelude – RPO
  • On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring – RPO
  • Sleighride – RPO
  • Song Before Sunrise – RPO
  • Summer Evening – RPO
  • Summer Night on the River – RPO
• Dvořák
  • Legend in G minor – RPO
  • Slavonic Rhapsody No 3 – LPO
  • Symphony No 8 – RPO
• Fauré
  • Dolly Suite – French National Radio Orchestra
  • Pavane – French National Radio Orchestra
• Franck
  • Symphony – French National Radio Orchestra
• Goldmark
  • Rustic Wedding Symphony – RPO
• Gounod
  • Faust Ballet music – RPO
  • Le sommeil de Juliette – RPO
• Grétry
  • Zémire et Azore ballet music – RPO
• Grieg
  • Peer Gynt music – RPO
  • Symphonic dance in A – RPO
• Handel
  • Amaryllis – RPO
  • Love in Bath – RPO
  • Messiah (complete) – Jon Vickers et al/ RPO
  • Solomon (complete) – John Cameron/ RPO
  • The Faithful Shepherd – RPO
  • The Gods Go A'Begging – RPO
  • The Great Elopement – LPO
• Haydn
  • Symphonies 93 – 104 – RPO
  • The Seasons – Morison, Young, Langdon /RPO
• Lalo
  • Symphony – RPO
• Massenet
  • Last sleep of the Virgin – RPO
  • Waltz from Cendrillon – RPO
• Mendelssohn
  • Fair Melusine Overture – RPO
  • Symphony No 4, Italian – RPO
• Mozart
  • Clarinet Concerto – Jack Brymer/RPO
  • The Magic Flute Overture – RPO
  • The Magic Flute (complete) – Lemnitz, Roswaenge, Berlin Philharmonic
  • Flute & Harp Concerto – Le Roy, Laskine/RPO
  • German Dance K605 – RPO
  • Haffner March K249 – RPO
  • The Marriage of Figaro Overture – LPO
  • Minuet from Divertimento in D K131 – RPO
  • Requiem – Morison et al/RPO
  • Symphony No 31 – Suisse Romande Orchestra
  • Symphony No 34 – Suisse Romande Orchestra
  • Symphony No 35 – LPO
  • Symphony No 36 – LPO
  • Symphony No 38 – LPO
  • Symphony No 39 – Suisse Romande Orchestra
  • Symphony No 40 – LPO
  • Symphony No 41 – RPO
  • Thamos: Entr'acte – RPO
• Mussorgsky
  • Khovanshchina Dance of the Persian Slaves – RPO
• Offenbach
  • Les Contes des Hoffman suite – RPO
• Puccini
  • La Bohème – Jussi Bjorling, Victoria de Los Angeles/ RCA Victor Symphony Orchestra
• Rimsky-Korsakov
  • Scheherazade – RPO
• Rossini
  • La Cambiale di matrimonio Overture – RPO
  • La Gazza Ladra Overture – RPO
  • Semiramide Overture – RPO
• Saint-Saëns
  • Rouet d'Omphale – RPO
  • Samson & Dalila Dance of the Priestesses/ Bacchanale – RPO
• Schubert
  • Symphony No 1 – RPO
  • Symphony No 2 – RPO
  • Symphony No 3 – RPO
  • Symphony No 5 – RPO
  • Symphony No 6 – RPO
  • Symphony No 8 – RPO
• Sibelius
  • Symphony No 2 – BBC Symphony Orchestra
  • Symphony No 4 – LPO
  • Symphony No 6 – RPO
  • Symphony No 7 – RPO
  • Tapiola – LPO
  • Valse Triste – RPO
  • Karelia Suite – RPO
• Smetana
  • Bartered Bride Overture – RPO
  • Bartered Bride Polka – RPO
• Strauss
  • Don Quixote – Wallenstein/New York Philharmonic Orchestra
  • Ein Heldenleben – RPO
• Suppé
  • Morning Noon and Night – RPO
  • Poet & Peasant Overture – RPO
• Tchaikovsky
  • Eugene Onegin , waltz – RPO
  • Francesca da Rimini – LPO
• Vidal
  • Zino Zina Gavotte – RPO
• Wagner
  • Die Meistersinger Prelude – RPO
  • Die Meistersinger Suite – RPO
  • Flying Dutchman Overture – RPO
  • Götterdämmerung Funeral March – RPO
  • Götterdämmerung Rhine Journey – RPO
  • Lohengrin Prelude – RPO
  • Parsifal Karfreitagszauber – RPO
• Weber
  • Der Freischütz Overture – LPO
  • Oberon Overture – LPO

Bach: Phoebus and Pan; Balfe: The Bohemian Girl; Beethoven: Fidelio; Benjamin: The Devil Take Her; Berlioz: Faust. The Trojans; Bizet: Carmen, The Pearl Fishers, The Fair Maid of Perth; Borodin: Prince Igor; Charpentier: Louise; Cherubini: The Water Carrier; D'Albert: Tiefland; Dargomizhsky: Roussalka; Debussy: L'enfant Prodigue, Pelléas et Mélisande; De Lara Naïl; Delius: Koanga, Irmelin, A Village Romeo and Juliet; Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor; Flotow: Martha; Gluck: Orfeo; Goossens: Don Juan De Maflara; Gounod: Faust, Romeo and Juliet; Grétry: Le Tableau Parlant, Zémire et Azor; Holbrooke: Dylan; Lecocq: La File De Madame Angot; Leoncavallo: Pagliacci.; Mascagni: Cavalleria Rusticana; Massenet: Manon, Thals, Werther, ; Moussorgsky: Boris Godunov, Khovanschina; Mozart: Figaro, The Impresario, The Seraglio, Don Giovanni, Così Fan; Tutte, The Magic Flute; Offenbach: Tales Of Hoffmann; Puccini: Bohème, Butterfly, Tosca, Turandot, Manon Lescaut, ; Rimsky-Korsakov: Ivan The Terrible, Sadko, Le Coq D'Or; Rossini: The Barber of Seville ; Saint-Saëns: Samson et Dalila; Smetana: The Bartered Bride; Smyth: The Wreckers, The Boatswain's Mate; Stanford: Shamus O'brien; Strauss, J: Die Fledermaus; Strauss, R: Elektra, Salome, Rosenkavalier, Ariadne, Feuersnot; Thomas: Mignon, ; Vaughan-Williams: Hugh The Drover; Verdi: Il Trovatore, LaTraviata, Aida, Don Carlos, Rigoletto, Un Ballo in Maschera, Otello, Falstaff; Wagner: The Flying Dutchman, Tannhaüser, Lohengrin, Tristan and Isolde, Die Meistersinger, Das Rheingold, Die Valkyrie, Siegfried, Götterdämmerung; Weber: Freischütz; Wolf-Ferrari: Gioielli Della Madonna.

[edit] Reference

Procter-Gregg, Humphry (ed) (1976). Beecham Remembered, pp. 201-03. London: Duckworth. ISBN 0-7156-1117-8