柴可夫斯基第四交响曲 胡桃夹子

‘Here is familiar repertory, maybe, but Beecham’s performances are revelatory. He conducts the ballet suite with supreme elegance and in a wonderfully spirited, joyful fashion and the performance of the symphony is magnificent: astonishingly vivid and beautifully balanced throughout.’ (Gramophone) This recording of Tchaikovsky’s Fourth Symphony was another fruit of Sir Thomas Beecham’s years of tax exile on the 1950s, though this time he was in the Salle Wagram with his own orchestra, the RPO. It stems from a period in the early 1950s when Beecham left EMI for American Columbia, and it appears here by arrangement with Sony-BMG. Though (perhaps oddly) the Nutcracker was a late addition to Beecham’s repertoire, it is of course perfectly suited to a conductor famous for lightness of touch and grace of phrasing.