Sir Adrian Boult : Archive discoveries
Classical Recordings Quarterly Editions CRQ CD241 (1 CD)
Two ultra-rare recordings featuring Sir Adrian Boult conducting the BBC Symphony Orchestra during the 1940s.
In the Louis MacNeice’s play based on Sergei Eisenstein’s film Alexander Nevsky Boult and the BBC Symphony Orchestra perform music by Prokofiev,
adding considerable lustre and atmosphere to a star-studded drama production featuring Robert Donat and Dame Peggy Ashcroft.
The recording of Bloch’s Suite Symphonique is the only example on record of Boult conducting music by this neglected master.

 

 

 

Sir Adrian Boult: archive discoveries Prokofiev: Alexander Nevsky: Louis MacNeice’s play based on Eisenstein’s film, with music by Prokofiev, (recording of BBC broadcast of 8 December 1941);
Bloch: Suite Symphonique (recording of BBC broadcast of 9 October 1946). BBC Symphony Orchestra / Sir Adrian Boult Two ultra-rare recordings featuring Sir Adrian Boult conducting the BBC Symphony Orchestra during the 1940s.
In the play based on Sergei Eisenstein’s film Alexander Nevsky Boult and the BBC Symphony Orchestra perform music by Prokofiev, adding considerable lustre and atmosphere to a star-studded drama production featuring Robert Donat and Dame Peggy Ashcroft.
The recording of Bloch’s Suite Symphonique is the only example on record of Boult conducting music by this neglected master. Classical Recordings Quarterly Editions CRQ CD241 (1 CD