Article: CD Reviews: Haydn: The Seasons -RPO/Beecham (SOMM-BEECHAM 16-2).(Features)

Article: Haydn: Symphonies Nos. 99-104.(Sound Recording Review)
Sensible Sound;  September 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... mention the late Haydn symphonies without mentioning Sir Thomas Beecham. The symphonies ... these final six of Haydn's twelve "London" Symphonies from Beecham are hard to beat ... disappointments not to have Beecham's Haydn included my then ...

Encyclopedia entry: Beecham, Sir Thomas
Who's Who in the Twentieth Century;      523 words ... ... and in 1915 he formed the Beecham Opera Company (which in 1923 ... Philharmonic Orchestra (1947). Beecham's musical tastes were wide, but he excelled in Mozart and Haydn and was responsible for introducing ... sharp wit and quick repartee. Beecham published his autobiography ...

Encyclopedia entry: Sir Thomas Beecham
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition;      559 words ... ... 1961, English conductor. Beecham was educated at Oxford but ... Philharmonic Orchestra, London. Beecham wrote a biography (1958 ... excelled at interpreting Mozart, Haydn, Handel, Berlioz, and Sibelius ... services to British music, Beecham was knighted in 1916; he also ...

Dictionary definition: Beecham, (Sir) Thomas
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music;      493 words ... ... of Eng. mus. life with which Beecham was not closely, often controversially ... leading Brit. orchs. Founded Beecham SO 1909, Beecham Opera Co. 1915, LPO 1932, and ... Notable interpreter of Mozart, Haydn, Sibelius, Strauss, and Fr ...

Article: Variations on a Theme by Haydn.1/The Garden of Fand.1/Don ...
Fanfare;  May 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... Variations on a Theme by Haydn.1 BAX The Garden of ... Quixote2 & * Thomas Beecham, cond; John Kennedy ... and, the fact is, the Beecham Society discs ironically ... here in the U.S. The Haydn and Bax come from the ... of "studio concerts" Beecham and his RPO gave for ...

Article: From brilliant Mozart to beguiling Haydn.(Knight Ridder ...
Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service;  January 15, 2002 ;     678 words ... ... recorded performances. The Haydn symphonies are, taken as a ... offer radiant, warm, beguiling Haydn played in a resonant concert hall atmosphere. Davis catches Haydn's humor, energy, lyricism ... drama as well as any conductor, Beecham included. In fact, it is Sir ...

Article: Haydn: the "London" Symphonies, Nos. 93-104; plus ...
Sensible Sound;  July 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... Eugene Jochum recorded for DG Haydn's last twelve symphonies ... charming as the Klemperer and Beecham discs are on EMI, as spirited ... inconsistent in performance, the Beecham too thin and noisy in sound ... his historic set of complete Haydn symphonies can match Jochum ...