Eighty years ago, on Oct 27 1945, the cream of London’s orchestral players gathered together in Kingsway Hall for the first ...

Britain was struck last week by a tempest-on-a-podium. High winds raged around goateed, TNT-tempered Conductor Sir Thomas Beecham. Returning from one of his frequent guest-conducting tours, Sir Thomas ...

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Sir Thomas Beecham: brought out the best in orchestras Credit: Photo: Lebrecht Music & Arts/Lebrecht Music & Arts The great English conductor Sir Thomas Beecham is no longer as revered today as he was ...

Tempo is the premier English-language journal devoted to 20th-century and contemporary concert music. Literate and scholarly articles, often illustrated with music examples, explore many aspects of ...

4 Extra Debut. Politician and broadcaster David Mellor chooses the conductor Sir Thomas Beecham. With Matthew Parris. From April 2009. Show more Matthew Parris presents the biographical series in ...

The result is not perfection, because it’s impossible to “copy” a record without some loss of its primal quality; yet a comparison of this new version with any of the old Caruso pressings is the ...

Two London houses associated with renowned conductor Sir Thomas Beecham—who founded the London Philharmonic—have hit the market within days of each other. Owned and selling separately, the two ...

Frederick James Gwydion Holbrooke (Gwydion Brooke), bassoonist: born Kentford, Suffolk 16 February 1912; married 1961 Jean Graham (two sons); died Bury St Edmonds, Suffolk 27 March 2005. Frederick ...