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Article: A healthy dose of Beecham.(Review)
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- The Mail on Sunday (London, England)
- Article date:
- April 29, 2001
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Byline: DAVID MELLOR
Sir Thomas Beecham Berlioz, with the Royal Philharmonic, BBC Legends ***** (EXCELLENT)
Delius, with the Royal Philharmonic, EMI ***** (EXCELLENT) Elgar, Enigma Variations etc, with the Royal Philharmonic, Sony **** (RECOMMENDED)
Beecham Favourites, with the London Philharmonic, Dutton Essential Archive ***** (EXCELLENT)
Forty years on from his death in March 1961, Sir Thomas Beecham remains perhaps the finest, certainly the most exhilarating, conductor these islands have produced.
Only Sir John Barbirolli and, maybe in due course, Sir Simon Rattle can be mentioned in the same breath.
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