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Tchaikovsky: Francesco da Rimin (London Philharmonic Orchestra, con ducted by Sir Thomas Beecham; Colum bia; 6 sides; $3.50). The storms of Hell swirling about Dante's damned lovers Paolo and Francesca, were never driver more furiously...
...Journal of Commerce Critic Claudia Cassidy: "A blithe, scapegrace, carefree sort of score, it makes you think Walton must have whistled it when he drove his ambulance through the London streets, spiritually thumbing his nose at Hitler." Last week England's No. 1 conductor, peppery, opinionated Sir Thomas Beecham, led the New York City Symphony (WPA orchestra which gives cheap, workmanlike weekly concerts) in the first of two engagements. In less than a year, Sir Thomas has traveled 60,000 miles, from England via the U.S. to Australia and back, stepping from toe to toe along the way. (California...
...Columbia's November record releases. One of them is the overture to Don Giovanni. This is that famous overture which Mozart wrote the night before the first performance of the opera, while his wife fed him coffee to keep him awake. Listen to the overture, played superbly by Beecham and the London Philharmonic, and I think you will agree that there is something here more than the mere notes; the notes, lovely as they are, serve as a container, a melodic bowl, into which well the emotions of the composer...
...London Philharmonic Orchestra, one of the best ten in the world, has lived from hand to mouth for a year. When it needed money at the beginning of the war, its conductor and occasional angel, Sir Thomas Beecham (pills), said bitterly that all he could think of was to appeal to the Germans. But Sir Thomas succeeded during the winter in raising ?2,000. By midsummer that was nearly gone, and Philharmonic men began pooling their resources. Then appeared a new angel: Jack Hylton, popular dance-band leader. He guaranteed salaries and overhead-assumed a total contingent liability...
Haydn: Symphony No. 104 in D Major ("London") (London Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Thomas Beecham conducting; Columbia: six sides). Pillman Sir Thomas as usual prescribes 18th-Century music for what ails you. Tops in recording...