Adrian Boult
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Forced to leave the BBC in 1950 on reaching retirement age, Boult took on the chief conductorship of the LPO. The orchestra had declined from its peak of the 1930s, but under his guidance its fortunes were revived. He retired as its chief conductor in 1957, and later accepted the post of president. Although in the latter part of his career he worked with other orchestras, including the London Symphony Orchestra, the Philharmonia Orchestra, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, and his former orchestra, the BBC Symphony, it was the LPO with which he was primarily associated, conducting it in concerts and recordings until 1978, in what was widely called his "Indian Summer".
Boult was known for his championing of British music. He gave the first performance of his friend Gustav Holst's The Planets, and introduced new works by, among others, Elgar, Bliss, Britten, Delius, Rootham, Tippett, Vaughan Williams and Walton. In his BBC years he introduced works by foreign composers, including Bartók, Berg, Stravinsky, Schoenberg and Webern. A modest man who disliked the limelight, Boult felt as comfortable in the recording studio as on the concert platform, making recordings throughout his career. From the mid-1960s until his retirement after his last sessions in 1978 he recorded extensively for EMI. As well as a series of recordings that have remained in the catalogue for three or four decades, Boult's legacy includes his influence on prominent conductors of later generations, including Colin Davis and Vernon Handley.
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Adrian Boult
HOLST The Planets
Recorded in 1945
Duration 46:45
BBC Symphony Orchestra,
Conductor: Sir Adrian Boult
BOULT Impressions of Albert Sammons
Broadcast in 1957 on the BBC Home Service
Total duration: 29:46
Albert Sammons, violin
Presented by Sir Adrian Boult
MAHLER Symphony No. 5
MAHLER Symphony No. 7
MAHLER Symphony No. 8 'Symphony of a Thousand'
Live broadcast recordings, 1947/48
Total duration: 3hr 47:48
BBC Symphony Orchestra, Chorus & Soloists
conducted by Sir Adrian Boult
TCHAIKOVSKY 1812 Overture
TCHAIKOVSKY Hamlet Overture
Recorded in 1952
Duration 35:06
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductor: Sir Adrian Boult
BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 7
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Symphony No. 4
WALTON Viola Concerto
ELGAR Enigma Variations
HOLST A Fugal Concerto
COPLAND El Salón México
BUTTERWORTH A Shropshire Lad, Rhapsody
BUSONI Comedy Overture*
Live broadcast recordings, 1938
Total duration: 2hr 40:41 (CDs: 2hr 34:04)
William Primrose, viola
NBC Symphony Orchestra
conducted by Sir Adrian Boult
*Bonus track supplied with downloads only
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Symphony No. 6
Recorded in 1949
Duration 32:54
London Symphony Orchestra
Conducted by Sir Adrian Boult