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George Szell and Robert Heger composed as well. There was a Leon Botstein-conducted CD of music by Szell, Heger, Hans von Bülow and Felix Weingartner.

I was just listening to the BBC documentary on Beecham, and John Amis pronounced Smyth as in lithe, introducing Sit Thomas telling anecdotes about the composer, whom he knew well.

It's a great piece. Szell himself recorded it for Columbia in 1949 with the Cleveland Orchestra. I think it is on Internet Archive, but don't know how well transferred it is. It has been on CD. Also, a live performance with the Cleveland Orchestra (I think from his first concert with them in 1944) is available from West Hill Radio Archives.

http://whra.audiophile.ca/en/browse/?page=4&productNumber=WHRA6018

Uribe Holguín's Three Criollo Dances, in a circa 1958 Colombian recording, can be found here -

http://big10inchrecord.blogspot.com/2010/01/mid-century-music-from-colombia.html

Also on the record is a flute concerto by the younger Colombian composer Luis Antonio Escobar.