From the Beecham humidor on his birthday…

Beecham conducts the nascent London Philharmonic in Tchaikovsky’s “Polish” Symphony

Beecham interview and rehearsal

Beecham conducts his arrangements of Handel

Mozart

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vA83lt-Kg0M

More about Beecham here:

https://www.theguardian.com/friday_review/story/0,3605,468909,00.html

In Delius:

Berlioz:

Schubert:

Liszt:

Balakirev:

Vintage Handel:

Sibelius:

“The British may not like music, but they absolutely love the noise it makes.”

Happy birthday, Sir Thomas Beecham (1879-1961)