the BBC Symphony Orchestra in Queen's Hall. One of the more remarkable live performances released on LP and CD was by Sir Thomas Beecham and the BBC Symphony Orchestra in the Royal Festival Hall in 1954, during which Beecham shouted encouragement to the musicians several times. On the Saturday 5 January 2013 broadcast of BBC Radio 3's CD Review – Building a Library, music critic Erica Jeal in her survey recommended the 1995 recording by the London Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Colin Davis, as the best available choice. The violinist and composer Anthony Collins recorded the symphony with many revisions, saying that "Conductors must have liberty to get performance living." In his 1935 recording with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Serge Koussevitzky conducted the same version that Collins used. Sibelius praised the recording, saying that Koussevitsky "performed my work with supreme mastery. I shall ever be deeply grateful to him for all that he has done for my art." References Further reading Goddard, Scott (April 1931). "Sibelius's Second Symphony." Music & Letters, vol. 12, no. 2, pp. 156–163. Kallio, Tapio (2001). "Meter in the opening of the Second Symphony." In Timothy L. Jackson and , eds., Sibelius Studies (Cambridge University Press), pp. 275–295. External links Symphony 2 1902 compositions Compositions in D major 20th-century classical music Compositions for symphony orchestra