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1.1 Beethoven Violin Concerto2.1 Chopin Piano Concerto No. 13.1 Saint-Saëns Cello Concerto No. 13.2 Lalo Cello Concerto4.1 Bruch Violin Concerto No. 14.2 Wieniawski Violin Concerto No. 25.1 Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto5.2 Tchaikovsky Suite No. 36.1 Mendelssohn Violin Concerto6.2 Bruch Scottish Fantasia7.1 Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 38.1 Tchaikovsky Ouverture Solennelle '1812'8.2 Tchaikovsky Hamlet - Fantasy Overture9.1 Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 19.2 Tchaikovsky Concert Fantasia10.1 Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 210.2 Franck Variations Symphoniques10.3 Litolff Scherzo11.1 Rachmaninoff Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini11.2 Dohnßnyi Variations on a Nursery Song12.1 Rachmaninoff Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini12.2 Dohnßnyi Variations on a Nursery Song13.1 Rachmaninoff Symphony No. 214.1 Rachmaninoff Symphony No. 314.2 Rimsky-Korsakov Russian Easter Festival Overture15.1 Prokofiev Lieutenant Kijé15.2 Prokofiev the Love for Three Oranges16.1 Mahler Kindertotenlieder16.2 Mahler Lieder Eines Fahrenden Gesellen |
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| Description: | The third limited edition volume of Boult's complete Decca recordings features Boult the insightful accompanist and inspired Russian interpreter, featuring many long-unavailable and newly remastered Decca recordings. After twenty years as the BBC's director of music, Sir Adrian Boult was unceremoniously 'retired' by the corporation in 1950. Still in the prime of his career, Boult continued to conduct the BBC Symphony Orchestra as it's chief conductor, but meanwhile began to make commercial recordings for English labels such as Decca and Nixa, enabling American audiences in particular to hear a conductor previously confined by and large to his own shores, and in top-of-the-range studio engineering. While Decca capitalized on Boult's reputation as a master of English and choral repertoire, with a pioneering Vaughan Williams symphony cycle, mono and stereo versions of Messiah and much else made available in the two companion boxes on Decca Eloquence, the label also took advantage of his easy relations with many of the great instrumental soloists of the day. At the BBC Proms and elsewhere, he had made music with the likes of Alfredo Campoli, Mischa Elman and Sir Clifford Curzon for decades, and there is a special familiarity and ease of communication about their concerto recordings together. Boult also partnered exciting younger virtuosos such as the pianists Peter Katin and Friedrich Gulda, always attentive and dynamic in partnership. The new box brings together both mono and stereo-era versions of Dohnányi's once-popular Nursery Variations and Rachmaninoff's Paganini Rhapsody in which Boult strikes up an intuitive rapport with Julius Katchen. Boult's very versatility told against him: sometimes viewed then and now as a good all-rounder, he loses nothing to the competition for authentically Russian fire and balletic grace in symphonies by Tchaikovsky (the Third - appearing her in stereo for the first time) and Rachmaninoff (the Second and Third, repatriated from RCA to Decca). Prokofiev suites are infused with wit and pungent orchestral color. And whichever orchestra he was conducting, Boult elicited the best from them with collegial authority - even the very French-sounding winds of the Paris Conservatoire Orchestra. This 'original covers' box restores the recordings to their LP couplings and features a new essay on Boult by Nigel Simeone."Sir Adrian Boult: Das Decca-Erbe, vol.3" is a remarkable CD release from Australian Eloquence that celebrates the enduring legacy of one of Britain?s most influential conductors. This volume brings together an exquisite selection of orchestral and vocal works recorded during Boult's legendary tenure with Decca, featuring world-class soloists such as Ricci, Gulda, Campoli, Curzon, Flagstad, Elman and more. The compilation showcases Boult?s masterful interpretations across a diverse repertoire?from lush Romantic symphonies to evocative 20th-century pieces?demonstrating his unique ability to bring out both grandeur and subtlety in every performance. Australian Eloquence is renowned for its high-quality reissues of classical recordings; their meticulous remastering ensures these historic performances sound better than ever before. Sir Adrian Boult was celebrated for championing British music and composers like Elgar and Vaughan Williams while also excelling in the broader European canon?a testament to his versatility and artistry. |
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ELQ4842284 |
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