Selected discography of recordings conducted by Thomas Beecham:

J.S. Bach

• Phoebus and Pan

Balakirev

• Symphony No. 1 – Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (RPO)

Balfe

• The Bohemian Girl

Beethoven

• Piano Concerto No. 4 – Arthur Rubinstein/London Philharmonic Orchestra (LPO)

• The Ruins of Athens– Beecham Choral Society/ RPO

• Symphony No. 2 – RPO

• Symphony No. 7 – RPO

• Symphony No. 8– RPO

• Fidelio

Benjamin

• The Devil Take Her

Berlioz

• La damnation de Faust – RPO

• Harold in Italy – Riddle/RPO

• King Lear Overture – RPO

• Le Corsaire Overture – RPO

• Les Francs Juges Overture – RPO

• Les Troyens Overture – RPO

• Roman Carnival Overture – RPO

• Symphonie fantastique – RPO

• Trojan March – RPO (one of his last recordings, made in stereo in December 1959)

• Waverley Overture – RPO

Bizet

• Carmen – Victoria de Los Angeles, Nicolai Gedda/French National Radio Orchestra

• Carnaval à Rome – RPO

• La jolie fille de Perth suite – RPO

• L'Arlésienne Suites 1 & 2 – RPO

• Patrie Overture – RPO

• Symphony in C – French National Radio Orchestra

Boccherini

• Overture in D – RPO

Borodin

• Polovetsian Dances – Beecham Choral Society/RPO

Brahms

• Academic Festival Overture – RPO

• Symphony No. 2 – RPO

• Tragic Overture – LPO

Chabrier

• España, rapsodie pour orchestre – RPO

• Gwendoline Overture – French National Radio Orchestra

• Joyeuse marche – RPO

Cherubini

• Les deux journées – RPO

Debussy

• Cortège & Air de danse – RPO

• Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune – RPO

• L'Enfant prodigue

• Pelléas et Mélisande

Delibes

• Le roi s'amuse – RPO

Delius

• Appalachia – BBC Chorus/LPO

• Brigg Fair – RPO

• Dance Rhapsody No. 2 – RPO

• Fennimore and Gerda Intermezzo – RPO

• Florida Suite: Daybreak & Dance – RPO

• Irmelin Prelude – RPO

• A Mass of Life

• On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring – RPO

• Sleighride – RPO

• A Song Before Sunrise – RPO

• Summer Evening – RPO

• Summer Night on the River – RPO

Dvořák

• Legend in G minor – RPO

• Slavonic Rhapsody No. 3 – LPO

• Symphony No. 8 – RPO

Fauré

• Dolly Suite – French National Radio Orchestra

• Pavane – French National Radio Orchestra

Franck

• Symphony in D minor – French National Radio Orchestra

Goldmark

• Rustic Wedding Symphony – RPO

Gounod

• Faust Ballet music – RPO

• Le sommeil de Juliette – RPO

Grétry

• Zémire et Azore ballet music – RPO

Grieg

• Peer Gynt Suites – RPO

• Symphonic dance in A – RPO

Handel

• Amaryllis – RPO

• Love in Bath – RPO

• Messiah (complete) – Jon Vickers et al./ RPO

• Solomon (complete) – John Cameron/ RPO

• The Faithful Shepherd – RPO

• The Gods Go A'Begging – RPO

• The Great Elopement – LPO

Haydn

• Symphonies 93 – 104 – RPO

• The Seasons – Morison, Young, Langdon /RPO

Lalo

• Symphony – RPO

Massenet

• Last sleep of the Virgin – RPO

• Waltz from Cendrillon – RPO

Mendelssohn

• Fair Melusine Overture – RPO

• Symphony No. 4, Italian – RPO**(Mendelssohn) I Violin concerto (Szigeti)/LPO

Mozart

• Clarinet Concerto – Jack Brymer/RPO

• The Magic Flute Overture – RPO

• The Magic Flute (complete) – Lemnitz, Roswaenge, Berlin Philharmonic

• Flute & Harp Concerto – Le Roy, Laskine/RPO

• Concerto for Violin in D, K 218—Szigeti - LPO

• German Dance K605 – RPO

• Haffner March K249 – RPO

• The Marriage of Figaro Overture – LPO

• Minuet from Divertimento in D K131 – RPO

• Requiem – Morison et al./RPO

• Symphony No. 31 – Suisse Romande Orchestra

• Symphony No. 34 – Suisse Romande Orchestra

• Symphony No. 35 – LPO

• Symphony No. 36 – LPO

• Symphony No. 38 – LPO

• Symphony No. 39 – Suisse Romande Orchestra

• Symphony No. 40 – LPO

• Symphony No. 41 – RPO

• Thamos: Entr'acte – RPO

Mussorgsky

• Khovanshchina Dance of the Persian Slaves – RPO

Offenbach

• Les contes d'Hoffmann suite – RPO

Sergei Prokofiev

• Violin concerto no 1 op. 19—Szigeti/LPO

Puccini

• La Bohème – Jussi Bjorling, Victoria de Los Angeles/ RCA Victor Symphony Orchestra

Rimsky-Korsakov

• Scheherazade – RPO

Rossini

• La Cambiale di matrimonio Overture – RPO

• La Gazza Ladra Overture – RPO

• Semiramide Overture – RPO

Saint-Saëns

• Le Rouet d'Omphale – RPO

• Samson & Dalila Dance of the Priestesses/ Bacchanale – RPO

Schubert

• Symphony No. 1 – RPO

• Symphony No. 2 – RPO

• Symphony No. 3 – RPO

• Symphony No. 5 – RPO

• Symphony No. 6 – RPO

• Symphony No. 8 – RPO

Sibelius

• Symphony No. 2 – BBC Symphony Orchestra

• Symphony No. 4 – LPO

• Symphony No. 6 – RPO

• Symphony No. 7 – RPO

• Tapiola – LPO

• Valse Triste – RPO

• Karelia Suite – RPO

Smetana

• The Bartered Bride Overture and Polka– RPO

Strauss

• Don Quixote – Wallenstein/New York Philharmonic Orchestra

• Ein Heldenleben – RPO (this recording, on a Capitol LP Release, contains a difficult to explain disconnect between the two sides of the orchestra, as 1 side plays a measure behind the other. This oddity takes place just after the second brass fanfare just at the end of side 1. This strange moment does not happen on the CD or EMI LP release. Can someone out there explain this? It is clearly not just a missed mistake by the orchestra, but a major mastering error. Please post your answer here, but you will have to be a musician who can follow the dense scoring in Strauss's Ein Heldenleben.)

Suppé

• Morning Noon and Night – RPO

• Poet & Peasant Overture – RPO

Tchaikovsky

• Eugene Onegin, waltz – RPO

• Francesca da Rimini – LPO

• Symphony No. 5 – LPO

Vidal

• Zino Zina Gavotte – RPO

Wagner

• Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg Prelude and Suite – RPO

• The Flying Dutchman Overture – RPO

• Götterdämmerung Funeral March and Rhine Journey – RPO

• Lohengrin Prelude – RPO

• Parsifal Karfreitagszauber – RPO

Weber

• Der Freischütz Overture – LPO

• Oberon Overture – LPO

References

Procter-Gregg, Humphry (ed) (1976). Beecham Remembered, pp.201–03. London: Duckworth.