Elgar 2 - BBCSO Boult ICA Classics

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  • BBMmk2
    Late Member
    • Nov 2010
    • 20908

    #16
    Well I will buy this, soon.....very soon.............
    Don’t cry for me
    I go where music was born

    J S Bach 1685-1750

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    • Pabmusic
      Full Member
      • May 2011
      • 5537

      #17
      Originally posted by Brassbandmaestro View Post
      Well I will buy this, soon.....very soon.............
      Mine is on its way, but it takes a while...

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      • soileduk
        Full Member
        • Nov 2010
        • 337

        #18
        Originally posted by Pabmusic View Post
        Mine is on its way, but it takes a while...
        Ordered mine last Thursday at about 6PM and it arrived the next morning at 8:30 AM.

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        • BBMmk2
          Late Member
          • Nov 2010
          • 20908

          #19
          Originally posted by soileduk View Post
          Ordered mine last Thursday at about 6PM and it arrived the next morning at 8:30 AM.
          That's very good!
          Don’t cry for me
          I go where music was born

          J S Bach 1685-1750

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          • soileduk
            Full Member
            • Nov 2010
            • 337

            #20
            Originally posted by Brassbandmaestro View Post
            That's very good!
            I thought so too. Hyperion are usually quick but I can't see how anyone could actually be faster than ICA have been here. I had excellent email communications with them too.

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            • akiralx
              Full Member
              • Oct 2011
              • 427

              #21
              Originally posted by Barbirollians View Post
              Get it in your CD player now BBM !!! The Brahms 3 is gorgeous and the Elgar 1 is the BEST recording of it ever - even just shading the Barbirolli King's Lynn live recording !
              One thing that puts me off the various live Boult E1s is the fast tempo he takes for the Adagio - here barely 9 minutes. Not sure about Elgar's timing, but even Solti takes well over 12, and a few recordings I like take 14. I wonder why he did it like that...

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              • Pabmusic
                Full Member
                • May 2011
                • 5537

                #22
                Originally posted by akiralx View Post
                One thing that puts me off the various live Boult E1s is the fast tempo he takes for the Adagio - here barely 9 minutes. Not sure about Elgar's timing, but even Solti takes well over 12, and a few recordings I like take 14. I wonder why he did it like that...
                Boult takes about 9'20". Elgar (in a recording studio) took about 1 minute longer. Almost everyone else takes longer than both. Boult's EMI recording of about the same time takes almost 11 minutes. Yet it doesn't seem fast to me (I was there on that night and was not struck by the speed). Boult's speeds are just so well sprung that it all flows naturally (note the way that he doesn't allow the tension to drop between the last two movements.

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                • Barbirollians
                  Full Member
                  • Nov 2010
                  • 11687

                  #23
                  That Adagio doesn't seem in the slightest bit rushed in the context of that performance . I was thinking when listening to the Larghetto of this recording , how different it is from Barbirolli's 1960s account yet how they are both so convincing on their own terms.

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                  • Ferretfancy
                    Full Member
                    • Nov 2010
                    • 3487

                    #24
                    Amazon are selling the 10disc "Adrian Boult, The Complete Conductor ' box for £28.99, the trouble is that as usual the contents are not listed.
                    Has anybody bought this ? I already have a big selection of Boult recordings, so it would be nice to know what this set contains.

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                    • Petrushka
                      Full Member
                      • Nov 2010
                      • 12251

                      #25
                      Originally posted by Ferretfancy View Post
                      Amazon are selling the 10disc "Adrian Boult, The Complete Conductor ' box for £28.99, the trouble is that as usual the contents are not listed.
                      Has anybody bought this ? I already have a big selection of Boult recordings, so it would be nice to know what this set contains.
                      Presto have the listing as well as a cheaper price. Looks like a winner to me.

                      "The sound is the handwriting of the conductor" - Bernard Haitink

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