Britten: Sea Interludes; Young Person's Guide; Elgar: Symphony No 2; Falstaff; Walton: Symphony No 1, etc | Classical review

LPO/Boult(First Hand, three CDs)To those who only saw Adrian Boult conduct at the end of his career in the 1970s, when his repertoire was confined to a handful of 19th-century symphonies and the major works of Elgar, Vaughan Williams and Holst, he could have seemed like a survivor from a more genteel age. Watching this upright figure with immaculate white moustache, it was hard to remember that early in his life, when he was the BBC Symphony Orchestra's first chief conductor, Boult had conducte...

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