Adrian Boult conducts Brahms & Elgar
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Label: ICA Classics
Cat No: ICAC5063
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Orchestral
Release Date: 27th February 2012
Contents
Artists
BBC Symphony OrchestraConductor
Adrian BoultWorks
Symphony no.3 in F major, op.90Symphony no.1 in A flat major, op.55
Artists
BBC Symphony OrchestraConductor
Adrian BoultAbout
Similarly, his friendship with Sir Edward Elgar ensured that all his interpretations of the composer’s works were, without question, authoritative, achieving an iconic status.
The Proms recording of Brahms’s Symphony No.3 from 1977 is in superb stereo and represents Boult’s ‘golden years’. He recorded two cycles of Brahms symphonies in 1954 and in the 1970s but all in the studio, whereas this ICA recording catches him ‘live’, producing a sense of drama and passion. Martin Cotton comments in his booklet notes, ‘Perhaps most surprising is the final Allegro where there is an organic shape to the movement which doesn’t compare with the rather more staid LSO (studio) recording of seven years earlier.’
In his notes, Martin Cotton emphatically states that the 1976 ‘live’ recording in wonderful stereo of Elgar’s Symphony No.1 from the Proms ‘is completely astonishing’. Boult, one of the last living conductors to have known Elgar, had effectively been blessed by him: ‘I feel that my reputation in the future is safe in your hands’ – and here he gives what is arguably his greatest performance of the work. Cotton attended the 1976 concert and describes it as ‘one of the greatest musical experiences of my life’.
Boult’s recent recording of Brahms’s Symphony No.1 coupled with Elgar’s Enigma Variations (ICAC 5019) was acclaimed in International Record Review: ‘This is a very powerful reading, from the quite fast introduction of the first movement to the triumphal close.
This CD represents stunning value at over 81 minutes long.
Contents:
Brahms
- Symphony No.3
BBC Symphony Orchestra / Sir Adrian Boult
Royal Albert Hall, London, 6 August 1977
Elgar
- Symphony No.1
BBC Symphony Orchestra / Sir Adrian Boult
Royal Albert Hall, London, 28 July 1976
Stereo
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