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BERLIOZ, BEETHOVEN, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Thomas Beecham

Grande Messe des Morts / Symphony No. 7

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Berlioz: Grande Messe des Morts Op.5 Beethoven: Symphony No. 7 Mendelssohn: Overture The fair Melusina
  • Royal Philharmonic Orchestra - orchestra
  • BBC Symphony Orchestra - orchestra
  • Sir Thomas Beecham - conductor
  • BERLIOZ
  • BEETHOVEN
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2 CD:

Nr kat.: BBCS4403
Label  : BBC Legends

The Royal Albert Hall in 1951 proved a tricky environment for recording; despite every engineering effort the sound quality of the RPO Corsaire – percussive tuttis, tremulous legato strings – is unappealing, whereas the Trojan March, recorded in Bristol a few months later, sounds deep, even stodgy. Yet even through Le corsaire there shine Beecham’s outstanding qualities as a Berliozian; and they are still more ingratiatingly present in a grand account of King Lear (RFH, 1954) and an excellent Harold in Italy, recorded in the Usher Hall during the 1956 Edinburgh Festival. Beecham’s Berlioz is at the same time careful in its consideration of the composer’s notated intentions (the dynamic range of this recording shames many recent studio CDs of Berlioz), and daring in its exploitation of total control to enlarge phrases, zip ahead with a new section and attain from a melting account of slower music climaxes of dizzy abandon. Riddle’s strong-toned viola-playing responds admirably to Beecham’s determination, all too rarely emulated, to take literally Berlioz’s request to accelerate, in the first movement, to something like double the original speed. The middle movements of Harold are particularly enjoyable: the opening Adagio, however, is marred by a fit of coughing unseasonable in August, even for Edinburgh. Julian Rushton