{"product_id":"boult-bbc-so-pre-war-recordings-volume-1-1932-37-pasc670","title":"BOULT \u0026 BBC SO Pre-War Recordings, Volume 1 (1932-37) - PASC670","description":"overviewfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003eBACH \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003eOrchestral Suite No. 3, Partita No. 3\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003eBEETHOVEN \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003eSymphony No. 8, 2 Overtures\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003eGLUCK \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003eAlceste - Overture\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003eMOZART \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003eSymphony No. 41, 'Jupiter', 2 Overtures\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003eSCHUBERT \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003eSymphony No. 9, 'Great'\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12px;\"\u003eStudio recordings, 1932-1937\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12px;\"\u003eTotal duration: 2hr 34:13\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003eBBC Symphony Orchestra\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003econducted by \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003eSir Adrian Boult\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9review_titlefb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9review_quotefb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9review_bodyfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9main_samplefb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5fsamples\/PASC670.mp3578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_labelfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5fProducer's Note578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_typefb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5fcontent578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_contentfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f\u003cp\u003e\nThis volume is the first in a series which will reissue all of Sir Adrian\nBoult’s orchestral recordings with the BBC Symphony from the 1930s, many\nfor the first time since their appearance on 78 rpm discs. While his\nconcerto recordings with the ensemble during this period have remained\nsporadically available, his purely orchestral discs have seen only a\nhandful of reissues over the years, focusing on a small amount of\nrepertoire. The present release features the only recordings of the Bach\nsuite and transcription, the Gluck and Mozart overtures, and the Beethoven\nEighth Symphony that Boult made over his long career; and to the best of\nour knowledge, only the Beethoven and Schubert symphonies on this release\nhave ever previously been reissued.\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\nAdrian Boult had been the music director of the City of Birmingham\nOrchestra since 1924 when he was approached by the British Broadcasting\nCompany regarding the creation of a permanent orchestra for broadcasts and\nconcerts. Its first appearance in October, 1930 revolutionized the London\nmusic scene with a standard of playing far above what had hitherto been the\nnorm, an achievement that was soon rivaled by Beecham’s creation of the\nLondon Philharmonic two years later. The BBC Symphony, which Boult led\nuntil he reached his mandatory retirement age in 1950, made its first\nrecordings in May, 1932.\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\nBoult’s Bach diverges from the slower, more monumental approach favored by\nFurtwängler and Stokowski in their Brandenburg Concerto recordings of only\na few years earlier, and looks forward to a mid-century aesthetic, still\nusing modern instruments and relatively large forces, but employing swifter\ntempi. (The tempo lurch when the “Vite” section of the Ouverture comes in\nmay surprise, as does a similar transition in the Gluck \u003cem\u003eAlceste\u003c\/em\u003e\nOverture.) Boult’s tempo is fast enough to accommodate the famous “Air” on\na single side, even with its repeat, but without feeling unduly rushed.\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\nIn the Mozart symphony as in the Beethoven, Boult achieves a more leisurely\ntempo in the Minuet by splitting the movement over two sides, with the\nbreak at the end of the Trio in both instances, in contrast with virtually\nevery other version of the 78 era (Weingartner’s acoustic set of the\nBeethoven Eighth being a notable exception). The Mozart was probably\nrecorded to replace the 1927 Albert Coates’ LSO version (on Pristine PASC\n455) in the HMV\/Victor catalog; even the filler \u003cem\u003eImpresario\u003c\/em\u003e\nOverture is the same. Boult rivals Beecham’s extrovert energy in the \u003cem\u003eJupiter\u003c\/em\u003e’s finale, and even surpasses it in the rest of the work.\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\nBoult greatly admired Toscanini (as can be heard in his radio interval talk\nduring one of The Maestro’s postwar Philharmonia Brahms concerts on PASC\n377), and his Beethoven is very much in the Toscanini manner – taut and\nforward-driven. His Eighth Symphony is one of the few of the 78 era to\ninclude the first movement repeat. This recording was one of the earliest\nwith the BBC orchestra, and shows what a fine ensemble it was from the very\nbeginning.\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\nBoult’s interpretation of the Schubert Ninth has long been admired, and he\nwould revisit it twice more on disc. As he did while recording the Bach\nsuite, Boult set down the movements out of order in an attempt to have the\nensemble at its freshest when doing the more demanding movements. Here, he\nrecorded the finale of the Schubert first, before tackling the rest of the\nmovements in order, and it makes for a thrilling conclusion.\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\nThe sources for the transfers were American Victor “Z” pressings except for\nthe Gluck and Beethoven \u003cem\u003eCoriolan\u003c\/em\u003e Overture, which came from Victor\n“Gold” label pressings, and the \u003cem\u003eEgmont\u003c\/em\u003e Overture, which was not\nreleased in the States and came from a British HMV disc. The two Beethoven\novertures have been separated from his Eighth Symphony by the Mozart \u003cem\u003eCosì\u003c\/em\u003e Overture due to CD timing limitations.\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eMark Obert-Thorn\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_cover_thumbnail1_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_cover_thumbnail2_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_cover_download_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_sample1_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_sample2_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_sample3_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_sample4_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_sample5_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_sample6_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab2_labelfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5fFull Track Listing578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab2_typefb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5ftrack_listing578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab2_contentfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 24px;\"\u003eBOULT \u0026amp; BBC SO\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 24px;\"\u003e Pre-War Recordings, Volume 1\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCD 1 (76:48)\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eJ. 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