Victor de Sabata / London Philharmonic - Beethoven. Symphony 3 / Berlioz / Sibelius / Wagner - Decca 1946

Ludwig van Beethoven:  Symphony no.3 in E flat major, op.55  "Eroica"
I: Allegro con brio ~ II: Marcia Funebre, adagio assai ~ III: Scherzo -Allegro vivace ~ IV: Allegro molto  
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Hector Berlioz:  "Le Carnaval Romain" - overture   
Jean Sibelius:  "En Saga", op.9    /    "Kuolema", op.44 - Valse Triste 
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Richard Wagner:  "Die Walkure" - Ride of the Valkyries 
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London Philharmonic Orchestra  conducted by  Victor de Sabata    
Decca  6BB 236/7   Issued 1976   Recorded: 2+3/30/23+24/30 May 1946 - Walthamstow Town Hall  
A plethora of retained surface clicks necessitated very light de-click (@1.3) except for the better transferred/livelier Wagner.  These are not really to 'EMI standard', nor Decca's 1950's dubbings of Beethoven 5/6 (Schuricht/Kleiber) due to rather heavy filtering; so a slight treble increase didn't improve matters too much...   (According to a John Culshaw article in "High Fidelity" metal matrices were unusable so a 'mint set of 78's' from the BBC Gramophone Library was utilised)  EMG reviews, 1947/8 >>>

Sibelius. String Quartet (Budapest Quartet) -&- Telmanyi / Ignatius / Jensen / Joyce - EMI 1933-1939

Jean Sibelius:
String Quartet in D minor, op.56  (Voces Intimae)  
I: Andante - Allegro molto moderato + II: Vivace  ~  III: Adagio di molto  ~  IV: Allegretto (ma pesante)  ~  V: Allegro
The Budapest String Quartet  
Romance in F Major, op.78/2   /   Dance Champetre, op.106/2 & 1   -  Emil Telmanyi, violin  &  Gerald Moore  /  G. v. Vasarhelyi, pianos   
Auf der Heide, op.115/1    /   Mazurka, op.81/1    -  Anja Ignatius, violin  &  Timo Makkila, piano  
Malinconia, op.20    -  Louis Jensen, cello  &  Galina Werschenskaya, piano 

Romance in D flat major op.24/9   -   Eileen Joyce, piano

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EMI World Records   SH 285    Issued 1979.   Matrices: 2XEA 5812 -1 / 2XEA 5813 -1  78 Transfers by Anthony Griffith.  
Copied in its entirety by someone on Symphonyshare without any attribution - then claimed not to exist on the blog. The two individuals operating that site spivvily allowed that deception. Newly re-edited from the unamended edited 2013 WAV. The somewhat slapdash Eileen Joyce track now added to complete the LP.

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Jean Sibelius. The Seven Symphonies, etc - Kajanus / Beecham / Schneevoigt / Koussevitzky / Boult / Heifetz, etc. - HMV Sibelius Society / Columbia 1930-1939

Symphony no.1 in E minor, op.39      /      Symphony no.2 in D major, op.43      /      Karelia, op.11 - Intermezzo & Alla Marcia 
Belshazzar's Feast, op.51*   Oriental Procession  ~  Solitude  ~  Night Music  ~  Kadra's Dance        4 files zip FLAC  Mega Download  
Royal Philharmonic Society Orchestra  / *London Symphony Orchestra  conducted by  Robert Kajanus   

Vol.I:  Symphony no.5 in E flat major, op.82    /    Pohjola's Daughter, op.49    /    Tapiola, op.112        

Vol.II:  Symphony no.3 in C major, op.52
London Symphony Orchestra  conducted by  Robert Kajanus                           4 files zip FLAC  Mega Download  

Symphony no.7 in C major, op.105     - BBC Symphony Orchestra  conducted by  Serge Koussevitzky    
Vol.III:  Symphony no.6 in D minor, op.104     - Finnish National Orchestra  conducted by  Georg Schneevoigt      
Quartet in D minor, op.56     see Sibelius Chamber Music post                         2 files zip FLAC  Mega Download 

Vol.IV:  Violin Concerto in D minor, op.47  (Jascha Heifetz, violin)     /    The Oceanides, op.73*        

Night Ride & Sunrise, op.55*   [78's]   see below
Vol.V:  Symphony no.4 in A minor, op.63      /     Lemminkainen's Return, op.22/4      

The Tempest, op.109 -  Prospero - Miranda - Caliban's song - Intrada & Berceuse - The Oak Tree - Humoresque    [78's]  see below
Vol.VI:  In Memoriam, op.59       /      The Bard, op.64       /      En Saga, op.9                     7 files zip FLAC  Mega Download
From original 78's  Vol.IV:  Night Ride & Sunrise*   /   Vol.VI:  Pelleas & Melisande, op.46, nos 7,3,8   /   Valse Triste, op.44

The Tempest, op.109a - Prelude + Vol.V:  6 excerpts   +   Finlandia, op.26 (Columbia)           5 files zip FLAC  Mega Download  
London Philharmonic Orchestra  conducted by  Sir Thomas Beecham    /   *BBC Symphony Orchestra  conducted by  Adrian Boult     

Symphony no.4 in A minor, op.63    /    Luonnotar, op.70*
*Helmi Liukkonen, Soprano  - Finnish National Orchestra  conducted by  Georg Schneevoigt   
Andante Festivo, op.117a    - Finnish Radio Orchestra  conducted by  Toivo Haapanen  (or Tauno Hannikainen)  
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EMI World Records  SH 133 / 173-4 / 191-2 / 207 / 237    78 Transfers by Anthony Griffith.  (original 78's by me....)

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Leslie Heward conducts... Moeran. Symphony -&- Ireland / Shostakovich (Eileen Joyce), etc. - EMI 1938-1942

Moeran:  Symphony in G minor    /    German: "Nell Gwyn Dances"  /  Elgar: "Salut d'amour"     /  
Dvorak:  Notturno in B major, op.40    /    Lalo:  Aubade no.1.  (London Philharmonic Orchestra)   /  
Sibelius:  "Rakastava" - suite, op.14. &  King Christian II - 'Elegie'  ( String Orchestra )    /    Borodin:  Overture: "Prince Igor"
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John Ireland:  Piano Concerto in E flat     /    Shostakovich:  Concerto for Piano, Trumpet & Strings, op.35* 
Eileen Joyce, piano  -&-  *Arthur Lockwood, trumpet
The Hallé Orchestra  (except Lalo/Sibelius)   conducted by  Leslie Heward     
Maggie Teyte  sings...  Berlioz:  Spectre de la Rose -&- Absence             
Duparc:  Invitation au voyage -&- Phidyle    (31 July 1940 - from: HMV RLS 716)        4 files zip FLAC  Mega Download
HMV  EM 29 0462 (2LP's)   Reissued 1985.  Matrices: 1 / 1 , 1 / 1    Recording details / 3 pages of sleeve-notes / Gramophone review >>>