Sir Adrian Boult
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Special offer. Moeran: Sinfonietta, Symphony in G minor & Overture for a Masque
RecommendedLondon Philharmonic Orchestra & New Philharmonia Orchestra, Sir Adrian Boult
Boult's affection for the G minor Symphony is in every phrase of this rapt and gloriously warm-hearted performance.
The New Philharmonia are on blistering form and, thankfully for us, captured... —Awards:
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Gramophone Awards, 2007, Winner - Historic Reissue
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New. Elgar From the Archives, Vol. 3
Heather Harper (soprano), Helen Watts, William Herbert, Gordon Clinton, Croydon Philharmonic Society, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Concertgebouw Orchestra, Sir Adrian Boult
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Special offer. Boult conducts Coates
RecommendedLondon Philharmonic Orchestra & New Philharmonia Orchestra, Adrian Boult
As ever, Coates's music has great craftsmanship as well as good tunes and, lightweight though it is, it lies firmly within the English tradition. Here Boult finds its affinities with Elgar in... —
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Building a Library, June 2011, Featured
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2007, Editor's Choice
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Moeran: Symphony in G Minor, Violin Concerto & Cello Concerto
Albert Sammons (violin), Peers Coetmore (cello), BBC Symphony Orchestra, Sir Adrian Boult
The G minor Symphony shares a rugged beauty with Sibelius, and Boult conducts it with sweeping passion. Moeran always wanted Albert Sammons to play his Violin Concerto, but the great violinist... —
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BBC Music Magazine, Christmas Issue 2025, Archive Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2025, Reissuve/Archive Choice of the Month
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Vaughan Williams - Orchestral Works
Celia Nicklin (oboe), Iona Brown (violin)
Academy of St Martin in the Fields, The New Queen's Hall Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Neville Marriner, Barry Wordsworth, Adrian Boult
The sound of the LSO strings in 1910 must remain largely a matter of conjecture but this beautifully textured account on gut-string instruments cuts to the heart of the score and Wordsworth's... —
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Sir Adrian Boult conducts Elgar & Holst
RecommendedLondon Symphony Orchestra, The Geoffrey Mitchell Choir & London Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Adrian Boult
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Building A Library, January 2025, Recommended Recording (The Planets)
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Special offer. Boult conducts Parry
London Symphony Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Adrian Boult
Boult's advocacy is irresistible and the CD transfer demonstrates the intrinsic excellent of the analogue recordings, with gloriously full string-sound. —
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In 1968, when Sir Adrian Boult recorded the two Elgar Symphonies for Lyrita, he wrote an open letter to Gramophone, couched diplomatically but reflecting his fury that at the sessions his recording... —
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2011, Collection Winner
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Boult’s Elgar: The Forgotten Recordings
Scottish National Orchestra, BBC Symphony Orchestra, BBC Chorus, Sir Adrian Boult
Boult find[s] at times an almost ethereal lightness. The Choral Songs are still rarities, studio performances from the BBC Chorus in 1967, and Boult's memories of his encounters with Elgar are... —
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2025, Archive Issue of the Month
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Vaughan Williams
RecommendedAnniversary Collectors Edition
George Maran, Ivor Newton (piano), Betty Dolemore (soprano), Robert Speaight (narrator), Harry Gabb (organ)
London String Quartet, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Luton Choral Society, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Sir Adrian Boult, Sir Henry Wood
The sole CD premiere is the 1955 On Wenlock Edge by George Maran, a German-based American tenor - pleasant-toned enough but distinctly previous in enunciation, no match for Pears/Britten, or... —
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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