Beulah Compact Discs and Downloads

Sir Adrian Boult (1889-1983)

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.

Sir Adrian's English Music Sessions

At the height of his powers as one of Britain's leading interpreters of his contempories Sir Adrian spent nine days between October 19 and November 2 1954 in the Kingsway Hall, London, with the London Philharmonic Orchestra recording English music for Decca with Kenneth Wilkinson balace engineer and James Walker producer. All the music recorded during these sessions can be downloaded here.

• Arnold - Eight English Dances
• Bax - Tintagel


• Butterworth - A Shropshire Lad


• Butterworth - The Banks of Green Willow


• Elgar - Chansons Op. 15


• Elgar - Threee Bavarian Dances


• Elgar - Violin Concerto with Alfredo Campoli


• Holst - Pefect Fool Ballet Music


• Vaughan Williams - Old King Cole Ballet for orchestra


• Walton - Portsmouth Point Overture


• Walton - Scapino


• Walton - Siesta

7PD10 Ultimate Campoli

Alfredo Campoli plays

• Mendelssohn Violin Concerto in E minor[Listen]
  
  
• 
  Bruch Scottish Fantasy [Listen]
  

London Philhramonic Orchestra conductor Sir Adrian Boult

• Saint Saens Havanaise [Listen]
  
• 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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• 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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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:

• Tchaikovsky - Capriccio Italien [Listen]
• Tchaikovsky - Serenade in C [Listen]
• Beethoven- Symphony No. 8 in G Op. 88 [Listen]
• Humperdink - Hasel and Gretel Overture [Listen]

3PD12 Boult's Schubert

Sir Adrain Boult conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra in:

• Schubert Symphony No 9The Great
• Wagner Die Meistersinger Overture
• Medelssohn Hebrides Overture

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Buy the whole concerto for only GBP1.95

!st movemnet Alegro maestoso

2nd movement Romanza

3rd movement Rondo