Adrian Boult discography explained

The English conductor Sir Adrian Boult was a prolific recording artist. Unlike many musicians, he felt at home in the recording studio and actually preferred working without an audience.[1] His recording career ran from November 1920, when working with Diaghilev's Ballets Russes he recorded the ballet music, The Good-Humoured Ladies, to December 1978, when he made his final recording of music by Hubert Parry.[2]

A discography of Boult recordings was compiled by Mike Ashman and published in Records and Recording, July 1974. A further discography by Nigel Simeone was published in Sir Adrian Boult: Companion of Honour, 1980, Midas Books. A third, A Boult Discography, compiled by Alan Sanders, was published by The Gramophone in 1981.[2] The following list draws on the first two of these, and on record companies' catalogues and back numbers of The Gramophone. It consists chiefly of Boult's studio recordings. Since his death, some recordings of his live concerts have been released by the BBC and others, and details of these are given below, where known.

The following abbreviations are used in the list:

Recordings, listed alphabetically by composer

LPO, WRC, 1968

BBCSO, HMV, 1937

BBCSO, HMV, 1935

Artur Schnabel, LSO, HMV, 1937

Qui Sedes and Agnus Dei: Kathleen Ferrier, LPO, Decca, 1953[3]

All is fulfilled: Ferrier, LPO, Decca, 1953

Grief for sin: Ferrier, LPO, Decca, 1953

BBCSO, HMV, 1934

PPO, Pye Nixa, 1957

PPO, Pye Nixa, 1957

LPO, Lyrita, 1972

LPO Lyrita, 1968

PPO, Top Rank, 1962

PPO, Top Rank, 1962

Solomon, BBCSO, HMV, 1942

Hyman Bress, LPO, WRC, 1968

PPO, Top Rank, 1962

PPO, Top Rank, 1959

PPO, Top Rank, 1962

BBCSO, HMV, 1932

Sheila Armstrong, Helen Watts, Robert Tear, John Carol Case, Benjamin Luxon, Clifford Grant, London Philharmonic Choir, LPO, HMV, 1974

LPO, HMV, 1956

Margaret Price, Yvonne Minton, Alexander Young, John Shirley-Quirk, London Philharmonic Choir, LPO, HMV, 1969

Janet Baker, London Philharmonic Choir, LPO, 1967

LPO, HMV, 1956

LPO, 1974

"London Orchestral Society Orchestra"[4] Originally recorded for Reader's Digest, 1959

Shura Cherkassky, LPO, WRC, 1966

Peter Pears, Joan Sutherland, Owen Brannigan, Philomusica Orchestra, L'Oiseau Lyre-Decca, 1960

LPO, Lyrita, 1972

Elegy, Minuet, LPO, Lyrita, 1966

Eric Parkin, LPO, Lyrita, 1968

Kirsten Flagstad, Vienna Philharmonic, Decca, 1960

NPO, Lyrita, 1975

Peter Katin, LPO, Decca, 1959

Clifford Curzon, LPO, Decca, 1956

LPO, Decca, 1966

LPO, Decca, 1959

PPO, Westminster, 1959

Shura Cherkassky, LPO, WRC, date

PPO, Pye Nixa, 1958

New Symphony Orchestra of London, Reader's Digest, 1960

LPO, Decca, 1952

LPO, Pye Nixa, 1960

LPO, WRC, 1958

LPO, WRC, 1968

John Noble, Raimund Herincx, John Carol Case, Wynford Evans, Christopher Keyte, Geoffrey Shaw, Bernard Dickerson, Sheila Armstrong, Marie Hayward, Gloria Jennings, Ian Partridge, John Shirley-Quirk, Terence Sharpe, Robert Lloyd, Norma Burrowes, Alfreda Hodgson, Joseph Ward, Richard Angas, John Elwes, Delia Wallis, Wendy Eathorne, Gerald English, London Philharmonic Choir and LPO, HMV, 1972

LPO, WRC, 1968

Notes and References

  1. Boult, Adrian (1973). My Own Trumpet. London: Hamish Hamilton., p. 98
  2. The Gramophone, July 1981, p. 124
  3. Boult and the LPO re-recorded the accompaniments for the 1953 recordings in stereo for Decca after Ferrier's death
  4. Mostly the Philharmonia under a pseudonym for contractual reasons.

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