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Included in the program are Handel's suite from the music for the Royal Fireworks; Prelude, Fugue and Postlude, by Honegger; Bacchus at Ariane, from Roussel's Ballot Second Suite, Opus 43; and Beethoven's Symphony Number Three in E-flat major, the Eroica, Opus Number Five...
Conductor Beecham's crooning modesty did not come from any qualms about the quality of his orchestra. As orchestras go, his Royal Philharmonic is almost brand-new (though the Royal Philharmonic Society, which sponsors it, can boast that it commissioned a tenth symphony from Beethoven, which he never lived to write). But Sir Thomas had painstakingly collected his orchestra himself after World War II-"because there was no existing British orchestra of a high enough standard to maintain my reputation." After five years of drilling and polishing, he was confident that the Royal Philharmonic was one that he could...
...luscious as U.S. strings, not so dry and nasal as the French. The woodwinds, clearly articulate, played with a tone of pure gold. It was a glossily polished performance-for some a disappointment because of its fussiness. But all in all, through Sibelius' tone poem Tapiola, a Beethoven Eighth Symphony laid out with the precision and charm of an English garden, and a final lurid "Dance of the Seven Veils" from Richard Strauss's Salome, the audience heard distinctively clean-clipped accents and gorgeous sonorities unmarred by a single ugly sound...
Chopin was interested. Thalberg agreed. Liszt's old teacher, onetime Beethoven Pupil Carl Czerny, promised to come from Vienna. The others were Thalberg's teacher, Johann Peter Pixis, Pianist-Composer Henri Herz and Liszt himself...
Greater voices could still be heard in the U.S.'s Metropolitan Opera; Milan's La Scala performed most Italian operas more brilliantly. But nowhere in the world could music lovers hear Mozart, Beethoven and Strauss operas performed with such polish or hear so much German, Italian and French repertory in a single season...