简介
All First Releases
Recorded Live.
- "A Memoir" from a documentary.
Liner Notes
The eminent Russian conductor Serge Koussevitzky (1874-1951) visited the London Philharmonic for concerts at the Royal Albert Hall in June, 1950: on June 1 for Sibelius, and June 8 for Tchaikovsky. Koussevitzky and the LPO were not strangers to each other, his having recorded Mozart, Beethoven and Haydn with [a=Sir Thomas Beecham]’s newly-formed ensemble (1932) not long after its founding, in 1934. When Koussevitzky revisited the ensemble in 1950, their leader was the gifted Dutchman [a=Eduard van Beinum], who had maintained the lustrous discipline that responds so well to Koussevitzky’s tempos and dyn