Sir Adrian Boult's
music has featured prominently in the Beulah
catalogue since we started releasing compact
discs in 1993. A few tracks are currently not
available but most are and some can be
downloaded from this site.
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Sir Adrian's conducting
technique (so alien to modern day conductors)
is clearly evident in this performance of the
opening of Beethoven Violin Concerto from a
1968 broadcast (published on on an EMI/BBC
DVD). The long stick enables Boult to flick his
wrist and the tip of the stick draws a great
arc. He also used piercing eyes to communicate
with the orchestra and choirs. For soloists he
was a great accompanist. Boult kept a card
index of soloists noting details such as tempo
and dynamics so that he would be prepared at
the next engagement with an artist.
Saint Saens Introduction and rondo
capriccioso[Listen]
London Symphony Orchestra conductor Anatole
Fistoulari
In March 1953 Decca's chief
engineer Arthur Haddy engaged Roy Wallace who had
worked for ten years on binaural sound for
Lawrence Savage ( a pioneer of binaural
recording). Wallace developed a technique using
three microphone, left, centre and right, mounted
in a triangle on a Dexion frame. Roy Wallace
recalled that it was a crude attempt to recreate
the artificial head that he spent about a year
making. When Arthur Haddy first saw the array, he
remarked: "It looks like a bloody Christmas
Tree!" Ever since the array has been known as a
"tree". Since Wallace used three microphones but
only two recording channels he adapted Decca's
six channel mono mixer to two sets of three. In
an effort to keep the work on binaural recording
secret early recordings were made in continental
Europe. Decca's tape library filed binaural tapes
in a new BN (for binaural) series. We have
therefore described these recordings as binaural
rather than stereo.
"The Mendelssohn Concerto gets a fine reading, Campoli's tuning spot-on as always, the Bruch masterly and imposing." Peter Joelson at Audiophile Audition
1PD32 Historic Schubert
Historic performances from the 78rpm era:
Symphony No 9 "The Great"
BBC Symphony Orchestra conductor Sir Adrian
Boult
Symphony No 8 Unfinished
National Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor Anatole
Fistoulari
Rosamunde - Entr'acte Act II,
Basle Symphony Orchestra, conductor Felix
Weingartner
1PD28 Kirsten Flagstad sings
Brahms Vier ernste Gesange [Listen]
(Edwin McArthur piano)
Mahler Kindertotenlieder
Mahler Lieder eines fahrenden
Gesellen Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor Sir
Adrian Boult, recorded 1956/7
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5PD15 Boult's Elgar
Sir Adrian Bout conducts:
In The South (Alassio) Overture
Symphony No 2
Sospiri
BBC Symphony Orchestra
"The greatest
recording ever made" of Elgar's Second Symphony.
"One of my Desert Island Discs choices" Rob
Cowan BBC Radio 3 16 October
2005
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4PD12 Boult's Tchaikovsky
Sir Adrian Bout conducts:
Symphony No 3 in D major Op.29 The
Polish
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Suite No 3 in G major Op. 55
Paris Conservatoire Orchestra
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14PD15 Visions of Elgar
by Sir Adrian Boult, Anthony Collins, Eduard van
Beinum, Sir Malcolm Sargent , Richard Lewis, Majorie
Thomas, Isobel Bailie, Alfredo Campoli and Anthony
Pini
The four disc set contains:
Sir Adrian Boult conducting
In the South Overture
Symphony No 2 Violin Concerto with
Alfredo Campoli
Anthony Collins conducting
Falstaff
Introduction and Allegro
for Strings
Eduard van Beinum conducting
Cockaigne Overture
Cello Concerto with
Anthony Pini
Sir Malcolm Sargent conducting
Dream of Gerontius (extracts) with Richard
Lewis and Marjorie Thomas
The Kingdom (extract) with Isobel
Baillie
I Sing The Birth with the Royal Choral
Society
Imperial March
Pomp and Circumstance
Marches Nos 1 and 4
Variations on an Original
Theme (Enigma)
Plus Elgar's vision of:
Handel - Overture in D minor
Bach - Fantasia and Fugue in C minor BWV
537 Conducted by Albert Coates
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4PD10 The Art of Campoli
Alfredo Campoli performed the Mendelssohn Violin
Concerto over 900 times during his career as a
soloist. On this disc we release his 1949 recording
with the London Philharmonic conducted by Eduard van
Beinum. It is coupled with his 1954 recording of
the Elgar Violin Concerto under the baton of Sir
Adrian Boult .
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1PD12 Boult's BBC Years
Sir Adrian boult created the BBC Symphony Orchestra
and withoin a very short time after its creation in
1930 it had established itself as a world class
orchestra. This disc contains recordings made during
the first ten years of the orchestra. It contains:
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Violin Concerto with
Alfredo Campoli
