Friday, June 10, 2022

Hugh Bean (1929 – 2003)

 


No. 388 of the ongoing ITYWLTMT series of audio montages is this week's Friday Blog and Podcast. It can be found in our archives at https://archive.org/details/pcast388



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Original posts: TalkClassicalBlogger

This week’s new podcast is part of our A la Carte series, and extends an October 2015 Tuesday post dedicated to Leopold Stokowski’s 1966 recording  of Vivaldi’s Four Seasons by adding some more works featuring the soloist from that session, Hugh Bean.

Hugh Bean attended the Royal College of Music where at age 17 he was awarded the principal prize for violin. A further year's study with André Gertler at the Brussels Conservatory on a Boise Foundation travelling award brought him a double first prize for solo and chamber music playing, and in 1951, he was awarded second place in the Carl Flesch International Violin Competition.[

He was appointed professor of violin at the RCM at the age of 24 and became a freelance London orchestral player, until he was made sub-leader and then leader (1956–67) of the Philharmonia Orchestra. He was co-leader of the BBC Symphony Orchestra from 1967 to 1969. In 1989, he returned to the Philharmonia Orchestra as co-leader, and became Leader Emeritus.

Hugh Bean performed concertos with many leading orchestras, both in the UK and abroad. With the Philharmonia Orchestra he recorded Vivaldi's The Four Seasons with Leopold Stokowski, and Vaughan Williams' The Lark Ascending with Sir Adrian Boult (featured on today’s playlist. He made many recordings of chamber music with the Music Group of London, and together they toured extensively.

I think you will (still) love this music too.


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