Sir Adrian Boult Anniversary

[Keraulophone]

Were you a choirboy Keraulophone?

1965 - 2023

[hmvman]

1965 - 2023

That's a long boyhood....

[Barbirollians]

One recording that doesn't get mentioned often, perhaps because of its fragmentary nature, is Boult's recording of Wagner overtures & preludes on EMI, split between the New Philharmonia and the LPO. It serves as an efficient (and enjoyable) introduction to Wagner.

Reminds me of the story of Boult and Bruno Walter running into each other at the Savoy Grill when they had both left after Act 1 of Die Walkure at the ROH and admitted to each other that one Act of the Ring a night was the best way to enjoy it.

[Petrushka]

Reminds me of the story of Boult and Bruno Walter running into each other at the Savoy Grill when they had both left after Act 1 of Die Walkure at the ROH and admitted to each other that one Act of the Ring a night was the best way to enjoy it.

I hope that story is true and not apocryphal as I came to the same conclusion some years ago and it's the only way I listen to it now, which isn't often. I've got a number of Rings to even hear for the first time sitting on my shelves!

[smittims]

Sir Adrian himself told the tale in a 1946 essay 'Concentration and Listening', but he places it in Munich. There may be a different account in his autobiography My Own Trumpet, but I don't have a copy.

[Barbirollians]

It could have been a repetition I have heard but I am sure whoever told it mentioned the Savoy Grill !