Beecham / London Philharmonic Formative Years -Pioneering Sound Recording from The 1930's

The Formative Years - Pioneering Sound Recordings from the 1930s

Mozart Symphony No. 39 in E flat major, K.543 (excerpts)
Delius On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring
Rimsky-Korsakov Suite from ‘The Golden Cockerel’ (excerpts)
Recorded live during a concert at BASF Feierabendhaus, Ludwigshafen, Germany, 19/11/1936

Mozart Symphony No. 41 in C major, K.551 (Jupiter) Rec. Abbey Road 19/3/1934
Mozart Symphony No. 41, K.551 (Jupiter) (excerpts) Rec. Abbey Road 19/3/1934 - Alan Blumlein stereo tests

London Philharmonic Orchestra / Sir Thomas Beecham, conductor

Binaural/Stereo test by Alan Blumlein ‘Walking, Talking’ (Rec. 15 December 1933)

Two of the most significant pioneering experiments in sound recording, stereophonic sound and recording on tape, involved the London Philharmonic Orchestra and its founder Sir Thomas Beecham. At Beecham’s famous mono recording session of Mozart’s Jupiter Symphony in 1934, engineers experimented simultaneously with stereo sound and during a tour of Germany in 1936 part of one of the Orchestra’s concerts was recorded using the revolutionary invention of tape. The results of these landmark moments in the Orchestra’s history are restored here for the first time in full.