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Adrian Boult conducts Vaughan Williams, Hadley, Bax & Berg | BBC Legends BBCL42562

Adrian Boult conducts Vaughan Williams, Hadley, Bax & Berg

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Label: BBC Legends

Cat No: BBCL42562

Barcode: 0684911425628

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Orchestral

Release Date: 27th April 2009

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Contents

Artists

London Philharmonic Orchestra
New Philharmonic Orchestra
BBC Symphony Orchestra

Conductor

Sir Adrian Boult

Works

Bax, Arnold

Mediterranean

Berg, Alban

Lyric Suite

Hadley, Patrick

One Morning in Spring

Vaughan Williams, Ralph

Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis
Symphony no.6 in E minor

Artists

London Philharmonic Orchestra
New Philharmonic Orchestra
BBC Symphony Orchestra

Conductor

Sir Adrian Boult

About

Sir Adrian Boult was Vaughan Williams's close friend and one of his greatest advocates. The broadcast, in excellent stereo, from the 1972 Cheltenham Festival marks the composers 100th anniversary with wonderful performances of Symphony No.6 (Boult gave the first performance of this work in 1947) and the ever popular Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis. Boult recorded these works in the studio many times but these are live performances and the occasion is palpably felt.

There are two short fillers in stereo from Patrick Hadley (celebrating Vaughan Williams's 70th birthday) and Arnold Bax, both recorded in the studio in 1969.

A substantial bonus and also a 'must' for Boult collectors is a very rare broadcast made in 1966 in stereo of Berg's 'Lyric Suite'. Boult gave a pioneering performance of Berg's 'Wozzeck' in 1933 and therefore it is of particular interest to hear his interpretation of the three movement 'Lyric Suite', one of the composer's most approachable works.

Recorded: Cheltenham Festival, 7 July 1972 (Vaughan Williams), Barking Town Hall, 26 November 1969 (Hadley, Bax), Maida Vale Studios, 12 December 1966 (Berg).

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