The Mono Era On HMV & Columbia Graphophone 1926-1959 - 53CD Box Set

Sir Thomas Beecham's mono legacy is gathered across this expansive Warner Classics edition, tracing HMV and Columbia Graphophone recordings from 1926 to 1959 through opera, symphonic repertoire and English orchestral music.

This remastered 53CD box set follows the published programme in its original CD and CD-range groupings.

CD 1
1. MOZART Die Zauberflöte: Overture
2. MOZART Symphony No. 34
3. MOZART Divertimento No. 2: Minuet No. 2
4. BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 2

CD 2
1. MENDELSSOHN A Midsummer Night's Dream: Scherzo
2. BORODIN Prince Igor (excerpts)
3. RIMSKY-KORSAKOV March
4. DELIUS The Walk to the Paradise Garden
5. DELIUS Two Pieces for Small Orchestra
6. DELIUS Brigg Fair
7. ATTERBERG Symphony No. 6

CD 3-4
1. HANDEL Messiah (Labbette, Brunskill, Eisdell, Williams)

CD 5
1. Songs and opera arias by GRIEG, PONCHIELLI, PUCCINI, MASCAGNI, VERDI and DELIUS (Labbette, Turner)
2. PUCCINI La Bohème (excerpts)

CD 6-7
1. GOUNOD Faust (Nash, Licette, Easton)

CD 8
1. HANDEL Concerto Grosso Op. 6 No. 3 (excerpts)
2. HANDEL The Origin of Design
3. HANDEL The Gods Go a'Begging (excerpts)
4. HANDEL Arrival of the Queen of Sheba
5. HANDEL Israel in Egypt (excerpts)
6. R. STRAUSS Don Quixote (Wallenstein, Piastro, Pollain)

CD 9
1. MOZART Violin Concerto No. 4
2. MENDELSSOHN Violin Concerto in E Minor
3. PROKOFIEV Violin Concerto No. 1 (Szigeti)

CD 10
1. ROSSINI Overtures from La scala di seta, Guillaume Tell and La Gazza Ladra
2. RESPIGHI Rossiniana
3. BORODIN Prince Igor (excerpts)
4. MENDELSSOHN A Midsummer Night's Dream (excerpts)
5. MENDELSSOHN The Hebrides
6. NICOLAI Die Lustigen Weiber von Windsor: Overture

CD 11
1. DELIUS Paris, The Song of a Great City
2. DELIUS Eventyr
3. DELIUS Koanga: Closing Scene
4. DELIUS Summer Night on the River
5. DELIUS Intermezzo
6. DELIUS Over the Hills and Far Away
7. DELIUS In a Summer Garden

CD 12
1. DELIUS Hassan
2. DELIUS Sea Drift (Brownlee)
3. DELIUS Appalachia
4. DELIUS La Calinda

CD 13
1. DELIUS A Mass of Life: Prelude
2. DELIUS La Calinda
3. DELIUS Irmelin Prelude
4. DELIUS 4 Songs
5. DELIUS Songs of Sunset
6. DELIUS An Arabesque
7. DVO?ÁK Slavonic Rhapsody No. 3
8. DVO?ÁK Legends Nos. 2 and 3

CD 14
1. WAGNER Preludes and Overtures
2. WAGNER Arias

CD 15-17
1. WAGNER Tristan und Isolde (Flagstad, Melchior, Klose, Nilsson)

CD 18
1. BIZET Orchestral Suites from La Jolie Fille de Perth and L'Arlésienne
2. BERLIOZ Le Carnaval Romain
3. BERLIOZ La Damnation de Faust (excerpts)
4. OFFENBACH Les Contes d'Hoffmann, Orchestral Suite
5. DEBUSSY Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune

CD 19
1. BRAHMS Symphony No. 2
2. BRAHMS Tragic Overture
3. BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 2

CD 20
1. HAYDN Symphonies Nos. 93, 99 and 104
2. HANDEL The Gods Go a'Begging (excerpts)

CD 21
1. MOZART Symphonies Nos. 29, 31 and 34
2. MOZART Overture from Le Nozze di Figaro
3. MOZART Overture from Don Giovanni

CD 22
1. MOZART Symphonies Nos. 35, 36 and 38

CD 23
1. MOZART Symphonies Nos. 39-41

CD 24-25
1. MOZART Die Zauberflöte (Rosvaenge, Lemnitz, Berger)
2. MOZART Mass in C Minor, K. 427 (excerpts)

CD 26
1. SCHUBERT Symphonies Nos. 5 and 8
2. SUPPÉ Ein Morgen, ein Mittag und ein Abend in Wien: Overture
3. MENDELSSOHN Ruy Blas
4. ROSSINI Semiramide: Overture
5. J. STRAUSS II Frühlingsstimmen

CD 27
1. SIBELIUS Violin Concerto (Heifetz)
2. SIBELIUS The Tempest (excerpts)
3. SIBELIUS Festivo
4. SIBELIUS Lemminkäinen's Return
5. SIBELIUS The Bard

CD 28
1. SIBELIUS Symphony No. 4
2. SIBELIUS Finlandia
3. SIBELIUS In Memoriam
4. SIBELIUS Kuolema
5. SIBELIUS En Saga
6. SIBELIUS Pelléas et Mélisande (excerpts)

CD 29
1. BIZET Carmen, Orchestral Suite
2. GRIEG Peer Gynt, Suite No. 1
3. CHABRIER España
4. FRANCK Symphony in D Minor
5. GRÉTRY Zémire et Azor: Pantomime

CD 30
1. WEBER Overtures from Der Freischütz and Oberon
2. BERNERS The Triumph of Neptune (excerpts)
3. MOZART Piano Concerto No. 12 (Kentner)
4. HANDEL The Faithful Shepherd

CD 31
1. TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No. 5
2. TCHAIKOVSKY Francesca da Rimini
3. A. BEECHAM 3 Songs

CD 32
1. TCHAIKOVSKY Romeo and Juliet
2. TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No. 3
3. VERDI Macbeth (excerpts)

CD 33
1. SIBELIUS Symphony No. 2
2. SIBELIUS Karelia (excerpts)
3. SIBELIUS Tapiola

CD 34
1. CHABRIER Joyeuse Marche
2. DEBUSSY Printemps
3. BAX The Garden of Fand
4. SAINT-SAËNS Le Rouet d'Omphale
5. MASSENET Le Dernier Sommeil de la Vierge
6. BERLIOZ Le Roi Lear
7. LISZT Orpheus

CD 35
1. BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No. 4
2. MENDELSSOHN Octet: Scherzo
3. MENDELSSOHN Die schöne Melusine
4. MENDELSSOHN A Midsummer Night's Dream: Overture
5. MENDELSSOHN 2 Songs Without Words
6. DVO?ÁK The Golden Spinning Wheel

CD 36
1. R. STRAUSS Der Bürger als Edelmann
2. R. STRAUSS Don Quixote (Lampe, Tortelier, Rubens)
3. R. STRAUSS Feuersnot: Liebesszene
4. R. STRAUSS Dance of the Seven Veils

CD 37
1. R. STRAUSS Träumerei am Kamin
2. R. STRAUSS Ein Heldenleben
3. DELIUS Violin Concerto (Pougnet)
4. DELIUS Dance Rhapsody No. 1

CD 38
1. DELIUS Dance Rhapsodies Nos. 1 and 2
2. DELIUS The Song of the High Hills (Hart, Jones)
3. DELIUS Songs of Sunset (Evans, Llewellyn)
4. DELIUS Marche-Caprice
5. DELIUS Irmelin Prelude
6. DELIUS On the Mountains
7. DELIUS 2 Songs (Suddaby)

CD 39
1. DELIUS Piano Concerto (Humby Beecham)
2. DELIUS Brigg Fair
3. DELIUS On the Mountains
4. DELIUS Two Pieces for Small Orchestra
5. DELIUS Summer Evening
6. DELIUS A Song Before Sunrise
7. DELIUS 2 Songs

CD 40-41
1. DELIUS A Village Romeo and Juliet (Soames, Dyer)
2. DELIUS Sea Drift (Clinton)
3. DELIUS Dance Rhapsody No. 1

CD 42
1. MOZART Concerto for Flute and Harp (Le Roy, Laskine)
2. MOZART Violin Concerto No. 4
3. MENDELSSOHN Violin Concerto in E Minor (Heifetz)

CD 43
1. MOZART Divertimento No. 2
2. MOZART Divertimento No. 15 (excerpts)
3. MOZART Die Zauberflöte: Overture
4. HAYDN Symphonies Nos. 40 and 102

CD 44
1. MOZART Violin Concerto No. 3 (de Vito)
2. MOZART Piano Concerto No. 16 (excerpts) (Humby Beecham)
3. HANDEL Amaryllis Suite: Sarabande
4. BANTOCK Fifine at the Fair
5. BEETHOVEN Rehearsal of Symphony No. 5

CD 45-46
1. PUCCINI La Bohème (Los Ángeles, Björling, Merrill)

CD 47
1. BIZET Patrie
2. BIZET Roma: Carnaval
3. Ballet music from GRÉTRY Zémire et Azor and GOUNOD Faust
4. MASSENET Cendrillon: Waltz
5. VIDAL Zino-Zina: Gavotte

CD 48
1. HAYDN Symphonies Nos. 93-95
2. HAYDN Rehearsal of Symphony No. 101

CD 49
1. HAYDN Symphonies Nos. 96 and 98
2. BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 7

CD 50
1. TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No. 4
2. GERMAN Gipsy Suite

CD 51
1. FRANCK Symphony
2. BERLIOZ Symphonie Fantastique

CD 52
1. BIZET Symphony
2. LALO Symphony
3. CHABRIER Gwendoline: Overture

CD 53
1. SIBELIUS Symphony No. 2
2. DVO?ÁK Symphony No. 8
3. WAGNER Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg: Prelude