Sir Adrian Boult: From Bach to Wagner – review

London Philharmonic, London Symphony, New Philharmonia Orchestras/ Boult(EMI) (11 CDs)"Boult came in, reeking of Horlicks," was Beecham's dismissal of his notoriously abstemious colleague. Though caricatured as a stiff-upper-lip conductor of English music, Adrian Boult (1889-1983) had an amazingly wide repertory, as the excellent booklet note by Martin Cotton describes. This is a fine collection of his late, ripe performances of mainstream classics, mostly with the LPO in the 1970s. A fascinatin...

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