ONE SHILLING

APRIL 1949

EdItorial Office:

49 Ebrington Road Kenton, Harrow

Middlesex

Telephone: Wordsworth 2010

Incorporating

V 0 X, THE R A D I 0 C R I TIC an Gt .B R 0 AD CAS T REV lEW

Edited by

COMPTON MACKENZIE and CHRISTOPHER STONE

LONDON EDITOR· CECIL POLLARD

Trade Office: 8 Barter Street High Holborn, W.C.1

Telephone: Holborn 8609

A tr ibute from" Kis Master's Voice n to

"His Master's Voice" joins all Music Lovers in congratulating Sir Thomas Beecham on the attainment of his 70th birthday, which falls on April 29th. No tribute could be more appropriate than a special issue of records of his favourite music, that of the Eighteenth Century of which he has for so long been acknowledged the perfect interpreter

"

Eighteenth Cetltury Music THE ROYAL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA

Conducted by

SIR THOMAS BEECHAM, Bart. Overture and Pastoral Symphony "Messiah"

Handel . DB 6879 Symphony No. 40 in F Major. Hqydn

DB 6823-4

Divertimento No.2 in D Major, K. I 3 J Mozan

DB 6649-P

(On side five is inlerpolated the Menuetto and

Trio from Divertimento NO.1 S [K.287J ) A spec/ally designed Arl Album is available for these Reoorcb,

or they may be purchased seporauly.

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