Ein Heldenleben Strauss/Sir Thomas Beecham/RPO SKU: HIQLP020del Barcode: 5060218890201 20.00 £20.00 Genre: Classical Label: Hi Q Released Date: 26th May 2012 Buying Format: 180g 1LP Out of stock Back Order Add to your Wishlist Description Product Info Sir Thomas Beecham as a conductor was largely self-taught. Born into a rich industrial family, he was able to access funds to nurture his musical talent and later found and sustain orchestras, like the London Philharmonic and the Royal Philharmonic, featured here in this famous recording of Strauss’s last and largest tone poem. His flamboyant style and acerbic wit often created enemies amongst his peers (Boult found him ‘repulsive’ and Barbirolli mistrusted him) and admirers amongst contemporary composers, such as Strauss, Stravinsky and Sibelius, who sent telegrams for Beecham’s 70th birthday celebrations only for Beecham to quip “Nothing from Mozart?”. Recorded on April 17 & 22, 1958 at the Kingsway Hall, London. Produced by the legendary Victor Olof and Peter Andry and Engineered by Robert Gooch. As Olof writes on the sleeve: “This recording… is virtually the last major orchestral work that Sir Thomas Beecham taped… I do not remember his making fun at all during these sessions, as he was apt to do on most occasions. Maybe he considered this as his lasting memorial to an old friend, little realizing that it would also be his own memorial…” Cut at Abbey Road Studios from the original stereo analogue master tapes with the Neumann VMS82 lathe fed an analogue pre-cut signal from a specially adapted Studer A80 tape deck with additional ‘advance’ playback head, making the cut a totally analogue process. In the original 1961 review Edward Greenfield of the GRAMOPHONE wrote: “No more fitting tribute to Beecham’s memory could be imagined than this… Beecham finds greater richness, a more truly forceful heroism than any other conductor I know… on almost every page Beecham finds special felicities – the sensuousness of the harp glissandi in the love music that never deteriorates into sentimentality, the climax at figure 37 when the horns burst out and Beecham so much more effectively than anyone else lets them be heard through the complex web of the scoring…” Features: • Hi-Q Records Supercuts 180g Vinyl • Cut from the Original Analogue EMI Master Tapes at Abbey Road Studios! • Superior Audiophile Pressing • Features Original Album Artwork Musicians: Royal Harmonic Orchestra Sir Thomas Beecham, conductor Artist Strauss/Sir Thomas Beecham/RPO Genre Classical Label Hi Q Buying Options 180g 1LP Format 180g , 1LP Condition New Country United Kingdom Track Listings Selections: Richard Strauss (1864-1949) Ein Heldenleben "A Hero's Life" Symphonic Poem Op. 40 1. Der Held (The Hero) 2. Des Helden Widersacher (His Adversaries) 3. Des Helden Gefahrtin (His Companion) 4. Des Helden Walstatt (His Battlefield) 5. Des Helden Walstatt (His Battlefield - conclusion) 6. Des Helden Friedenswerke (His Peaceful Labours) 7. Des Helden Weltflucht und Vollendung (His Retirement and Life's Fulfilment) 8. 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