Sir Adrian Boult Conductor

摘要

You might think of Sir Adrian Boult as an elderly, conservative and very English gentleman with a repertoire mostly comprising English music. But download the 170-page discography by Philip Stuart [crqeditlons.co.uk/ZqnlPmJU 182] and a very different picture emerges. He did, of course, record two complete sets of the Vaughan Williams Symphonies (giving the first performance of No 4 back in 1935) and numerous versions of the Elgar Symphonies [HFN Oct '19] and other : music, working closely with both composers. And as Gustav Hoist wrote in his score, it was Boult 'who first caused The Planets to shine in public' - he made no fewer than five recordings between 1945 and 1978. But he also introduced British audiences to masterpieces such as Alban Berg's opera Wozzeck and the Lyric Suite, Bela Bartok's Concerto for Orchestra, and Gustav Mahler's Symphony No 3 [the BBC SO Nov 1947 live recording of this is on Testament SBT21422].