A Musical Picture - up to 25% off selected titles
Until 9th September, we are offering up to 25% off selected titles from participating labels, on CD, SACD, Vinyl, Blu-Ray & DVD, & Downloads. Please note, some downloads are excluded from this offer
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Special offer. Sir Adrian Boult conducts Elgar & Wagner
BBC Symphony Orchestra, with BBC Chorus, Sir Adrian Boult
what treasure-trove it comprises...Not only do the BBC SO play with heartfelt commitment...but the 88-year-old Boult directs with unerring grip and thrusting vigour...So where's the rub? Well,... —
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Special offer. Sir Adrian Boult conducts Elgar & Brahms
George Thalben-Ball (organ)
BBC Symphony Orchestra, Sir Adrian Boult
These performances would surpass all superlatives under any circumstance, but what makes them especially incredible is that, despite Boult being in his nineties, they sound like the interpretations... —
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the sense of joyous homecoming in the closing pages is truly overwhelming in its cumulative impact and rightly accorded a thunderous ovation. There's much that is cherishable, too, in the performance... —
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2012, Re-issue of the Month
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Special offer. Sir Adrian Boult conducts Brahms & Mendelssohn
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Sir Adrian Boult
Vintage Boult performances recorded at the Proms. The Brahms has tremendous forward momentum, while the Mendelssohn exudes virtuosity. —
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Special offer. Britten, Brahms, Elgar & Sibelius: Violin Concertos
Ida Haendel (violin), BBC Symphony Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, Gennady Rozhdestvensky, Paavo Berglund, Sir Adrian Boult, Sir Andrew Davis
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Special offer. Holst: The Planets
Works By Vaughan Williams, Walton and Butterworth
Alan Harverson (soloist), Margaret Marshall (soloist), BBC Symphony Orchestra, BBC Symphony Chorus, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Adrian Boult
the pick of the present generous collection comprising his thrillingly powerful traversal with the BBC SO from the 1973 Proms of Holst’s The Planets. With Boult at the helm of the orchestra... —
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Special offer. Sir Adrian Boult conducts Vaughan Williams
Royal Festival Hall, London, 12th October 1972
London Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Adrian Boult
Classic performances - a treasurable recording of a moving occasion —
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Special offer. Beethoven: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 3
Emil Gilels (piano)
New Philharmonia Orchestra, Sir Adrian Boult
unshowy, massively intelligent accounts...whose structures are architecturally drawn and finely delineated, with wonderful tone-quality in the slow movements. More physical, less spiritual than... —
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Coming soon. Vaughan Williams, Butterworth & Moeran
BBC Symphony Orchestra, Philharmonia Orchestra, Sir Adrian Boult
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Special offer. Beethoven: Symphony No. 3, Op. 55 'Eroica' - Schubert: Symphony No. 9, D. 944 'The Great' - Brahms: St Anthony Variations, Op. 56a
London Philharmonic Orchestra, BBC Welsh Orchestra, BBC Symphony Orchestra, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Adrian Boult
