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...She has forgotten Sir Thomas Beecham’s famous 1937-38 recording with this orchestra. Anthony Ogden, Weybridge, Surrey, UK...
...His EMI recording, with baritone soloist John-Shirley-Quirk, captures the work’s bittersweet nostalgia exquisitely....
...He mellowed in later years under the influence of the pianist Betty Humby, second of his three wives (he married his third, 27-year-old Shirley Hudson, when he was 80, six months before his death in 1961...
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