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BRAHMS, J.: Symphony No. 1 / ELGAR, E.: Enigma Variations (BBC Symphony, Boult) (1971, 1976)

BRAHMS, J.: Symphony No. 1 / ELGAR, E.: Enigma Variations (BBC Symphony, Boult) (1971, 1976)

Released Date:
01 Mar 2012


Artists:

BBC Symphony Orchestra


Boult, Adrian


Adrian Boult

Conductor

Adrian Boult

Soloist

George Thalben Ball

Soloist

Record Label
ICA Classics

Genre:

Orchestral & Concertos


Classical

Total Time - 77:53
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BRAHMS, J.: Symphony No. 1 / ELGAR, E.: Enigma Variations (BBC Symphony, Boult) (1971, 1976)

     
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JOHANNES BRAHMS

 

Symphony No. 1 in C minor, Op. 68

  
1 I. Un poco sostenuto - Allegro 15:07
 Adrian Boult Conductor
 Boult, Adrian
     
2 II. Andante sostenuto 8:01
 Adrian Boult Conductor
 Boult, Adrian
     
3 III. Un poco allegretto e grazioso 4:48
 Adrian Boult Conductor
 Boult, Adrian
     
4 IV. Adagio - Piu andante - Allegro non troppo ma con brio 16:09
 Adrian Boult Conductor
 Boult, Adrian
     
 

EDWARD ELGAR

 

Variations on an Original Theme, Op. 36, "Enigma"

  
5 Introduction - 1:28
 George Thalben Ball Soloist
 Boult, Adrian
     
6 Variation 1: C. A. E. (The Composer's Wife) - 1:45
 George Thalben Ball Soloist
 Boult, Adrian
     
7 Variation 2: H. D. S-P. (Hew David Steuart-Powell) - 0:48
 George Thalben Ball Soloist
 Boult, Adrian
     
8 Variation 3: R. B. T. (Richard Baxter Townshend) - 1:26
 George Thalben Ball Soloist
 Boult, Adrian
     
9 Variation 4: W. M. B. (William Meath Baker) - 0:30
 George Thalben Ball Soloist
 Boult, Adrian
     
10 Variation 5: R. P. A. (Richard Penrose Arnold) - 1:54
 George Thalben Ball Soloist
 Boult, Adrian
     
11 Variation 6: Ysobel (Isabel Fitton) - 1:08
 George Thalben Ball Soloist
 Boult, Adrian
     
12 Variation 7: Troyte (Troyte Griffith) - 0:58
 George Thalben Ball Soloist
 Boult, Adrian
     
13 Variation 8: W. N. (Winifred Norbury) - 1:50
 George Thalben Ball Soloist
 Boult, Adrian
     
14 Variation 9: Nimrod (A. J. Jaeger) - 3:53
 George Thalben Ball Soloist
 Boult, Adrian
     
15 Variation 10: Intermezzo: Dorabella (Dora Penny) - 2:51
 Adrian Boult Soloist
 Boult, Adrian
     
16 Variation 11: G. R. S. (George Robertson Sinclair) - 0:57
 Adrian Boult Soloist
 Boult, Adrian
     
17 Variation 12: B. G. N. (Basil G. Nevinson) - 2:07
 Adrian Boult Soloist
 Boult, Adrian
     
18 Variation 13: Romanza: *** (Lady Mary Lygon) - 2:33
 George Thalben Ball Soloist
 Boult, Adrian
     
19 Variation 14: Finale: E. D. U. (The Composer) 6:08
 Adrian Boult Soloist
 Boult, Adrian
     
 

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John Douglas Todd interviews Sir Adrian Boult (extract from 85th birthday broadcast)

 3:32
 Adrian Boult Soloist


One of the great British conductors of the 20th century, Sir Adrian Boult studied under the legendary Arthur Nikisch in Berlin, which makes his Brahms’s interpretations so special. This fiery 1976 stereo broadcast of Brahms Symphony No.1 is the only authorised live account available.  The broadcast of Elgar’s Enigma Variations from the Royal Albert Hall in 1971 features the alternative organ part played by George Thalben-Ball, one of the most celebrated organists of his time. The album also includes interview material with Boult on the occasion of his 85th birthday.
“...his touch is sure and masterly... deep enjoyment.”
 
The Sunday Times - May 2011
 

“...the 87 year old Boult commanding a fiery, incisive, lyrically-affecting and passionate response from the BC Symphony Orchestra.”
 
ClassicalSource.com - May 2011

 "Many recordings have been releases since these first appeared, and yet one would be hard-pushed to name any that can truly top them. They’re proof, if any were needed, that sometimes the oldies are the best.”

 
Classic FM Magazine - July 2011
 

“The performance combines the impetuoisity and drive of youth with the wisdom and experience of age. The orchestra is at the top of its very considerable form, its members play as if possessed, and one get’s the feeling that the music is being composed before one’s very ears.”
 
Elgar Society Journal - August 2011

“Sir Adrian’s account of Elgar’s Enigma Variations is the benchmark by which all others are measured. The speeds are organic, the mood arcadian.”
 
La Scena Musicale - May 2011

“Brahms’s First is … straight-backed, admirably clear, rhythmically supple and with its big first-movement exposition repeat intact. A good recording, too, just as it is for a 1971 BBC SO Elgar Enigma Variations, where cleanly separated violin desks help balance the sound-picture.”
 
Gramophone magazine  - September 2011

“This is a very powerful reading, from the quite fast introduction of the first movement to the triumphal close. It’s very well played by the BBC Symphony Orchestra – there’s real vibrancy in the orchestral textures here. Much the same can be said of the Elgar ‘Enigma’ Variations from the Royal Albert Hall Centenary Concert in 1971, again with the BBC SO. Boult keeps ‘Nimrod’ flowing, but in the finale his speeds are more flexible – starting steadily, then pushing on. It all works extremely well.”
 
International Record Review - August 2011



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