Vaughan Williams: The Complete EMI Recordings

It seems superfluous to recommend this box. It contains around 17 hours of Boult’s VW. Many of these recordings are amongst the very best you will hear. Above it, the box offers a concentrated... — MusicWeb International, 17th June 2013 More…

Release Date: 18th Mar 2013
Catalogue No: 9035672
Label: EMI

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Vaughan Williams: Symphony No. 1 'A Sea Symphony'

Sheila Armstrong (soprano), John Carol Case (baritone)
London Philharmonic Orchestra, London Philharmonic Choir
Sir Adrian Boult

Vaughan Williams: Symphony No. 2 'A London Symphony'

London Philharmonic Orchestra
Sir Adrian Boult

Vaughan Williams: Symphony No. 3 'A Pastoral Symphony'

Margaret Price (soprano)
New Philharmonia Orchestra
Sir Adrian Boult

Vaughan Williams: Symphony No. 4 in F minor

New Philharmonia Orchestra
Sir Adrian Boult

Vaughan Williams: Symphony No. 6 in E minor

New Philharmonia Orchestra
Sir Adrian Boult

Vaughan Williams: Symphony No. 5 in D major

London Philharmonic Orchestra
Sir Adrian Boult

Vaughan Williams: Symphony No. 7 'Sinfonia antartica'

Norma Burrowes (soprano)
London Philharmonic Orchestra, London Philharmonic Choir
Sir Adrian Boult

Vaughan Williams: Symphony No. 8 in D minor

London Philharmonic Orchestra
Sir Adrian Boult

Vaughan Williams: Symphony No. 9 in E minor

London Philharmonic Orchestra
Sir Adrian Boult

Vaughan Williams: Norfolk Rhapsody No. 1

New Philharmonia Orchestra
Sir Adrian Boult

Vaughan Williams: In the Fen Country

New Philharmonia Orchestra
Sir Adrian Boult

Vaughan Williams: The Lark Ascending

Hugh Bean (violin)
New Philharmonia Orchestra
Sir Adrian Boult

Vaughan Williams: The Wasps - Aristophanic Suite

London Symphony Orchestra
Sir Adrian Boult

Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on Greensleeves

London Symphony Orchestra
Sir Adrian Boult

Vaughan Williams: English Folk Song Suite

London Symphony Orchestra
Sir Adrian Boult

Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis

London Philharmonic Orchestra
Sir Adrian Boult

Vaughan Williams: Serenade to Music

Norma Burrowes, Sheila Armstrong, Susan Longfield, Marie Hayward (soprano), Alfreda Hodgson, Gloria Jennings, Shirley Minty, Meriel Dickinson (contralto), Ian Partridge, Bernard Dickerson, Wynford Evans, Kenneth Bowen (tenor), Richard Angas, John Carol Case, John Noble & Christopher Keyte (bass)
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Sir Adrian Boult

Vaughan Williams: Toward the Unknown Region

London Philharmonic Orchestra, London Philharmonic Choir
Sir Adrian Boult

Vaughan Williams: Partita for double string orchestra

London Philharmonic Orchestra
Sir Adrian Boult

Vaughan Williams: Concerto Grosso for String Orchestra

London Philharmonic Orchestra
Sir Adrian Boult

Vaughan Williams: Piano Concerto in C for two pianos

Vita Vronsky, Victor Babin (pianos)
Sir Adrian Boult

Vaughan Williams: Job - A Masque for Dancing

London Symphony Orchestra
Sir Adrian Boult

Vaughan Williams: Dona Nobis Pacem

Sheila Armstrong (soprano), John Carol Case (baritone)
London Philharmonic Orchestra, London Philharmonic Choir
Sir Adrian Boult

Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on the Old 104th

Peter Katin (piano)
Sir Adrian Boult

Vaughan Williams: A Song of Thanksgiving

Betty Dolemore (soprano), Robert Speaight (narrator), Harry Gabb (organ)
Sir Adrian Boult

Vaughan Williams: The Lark Ascending

Jean Pougnet (violin)
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Sir Adrian Boult

Vaughan Williams: Symphony No. 6 in E minor

London Symphony Orchestra
Sir Adrian Boult

Vaughan Williams: Flos Campi

William Primrose (viola)
Philharmonia Orchestra, BBC Chorus
Sir Adrian Boult

Vaughan Williams: Violin Concerto in D minor 'Concerto Accademico'

Yehudi Menuhin (violin)
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Sir Adrian Boult

Vaughan Williams: Serenade to Music

(choral version)
Royal Festival Orchestra and Choir
Sir Adrian Boult

Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis

BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sir Adrian Boult

Vaughan Williams: Job - A Masque for Dancing

BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sir Adrian Boult

Vaughan Williams: The Pilgrim's Progress

John Noble (The Pilgrim), Raimund Herincx (John Bunyan), John Carol Case (Evangelist), Sheila Armstrong, Marie Hayward, Gloria Jennings (Three Shining Ones), Wynford Evans, Christopher Keyte, Geoffrey Shaw, Bernard Dickerson (Four Neighbours), Ian Partridge (Interpreter), John Shirley-Quirk (Watchful, The Porter), Terence Sharpe (A Herald), Robert Lloyd (Apollyon)
Sir Adrian Boult

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Sir Adrian Boult was born on 8th April 1889 in Chester and died on 22nd February 1983 in London and hence 2013 marks the 30th anniversary of his death. He was attending concerts first in Liverpool, primarily with Hans Richter, and then in London, whilst a pupil at Westminster School, with Sir Henry Wood, Claude Debussy, Arthur Nikisch and Richard Strauss. He met Elgar for whose music he was to do so much during his life as was another composer he befriended whilst at Christ Church, Oxford, before graduating in 1912, Ralph Vaughan Williams.

He spent a year studying in Leipzig where Arthur Nikisch had the greatest influence on him. He gained experience conducting for both the Royal Opera House, where he assisted in the first production there of Wagner’s Parsifal , and Serge Diaghilev’s ballet company. He was appointed conductor of the City of Birmingham Orchestra in 1924 and six years later the BBC made him director of music where he established the BBC Symphony Orchestra and became its chief conductor. During these years he introduced works by Bartók, Stravinsky and the Second Viennese School composers – Schönberg, Webern and Berg including his opera Wozzeck.

Forced to leave the BBC when he reached their retirement age, he became chief conductor of the LPO retiring in 1957. He became a champion of British music, giving numerous performances of Bliss, Britten, Delius, Tippett, Walton and Holst, whose Planets he had premiered, and the aforementioned Elgar and Vaughan Williams. This set brings together all the recordings he made of the latter starting in 1940 to the early 1950’s.

There was a pause until 1967 when he started to commit this set’s stereo recordings to disc ending in 1975. He continued to give concerts and record for a further three years until retiring just before reaching the age of 90.

CD 13 includes audio footage of Sir Adrian in rehearsal.

Artists

Sheila Armstrong (soprano), John Carol Case (baritone), Margaret Price (soprano), Norma Burrowes (soprano), Hugh Bean (violin), Susan Longfield, Marie Hayward (soprano), Alfreda Hodgson, Shirley Minty, Meriel Dickinson (contralto), Wynford Evans, Kenneth Bowen (tenor), Richard Angas, John Noble & Christopher Keyte (bass), Vita Vronsky, Victor Babin (pianos), Peter Katin (piano), Betty Dolemore (soprano), Robert Speaight (narrator), Harry Gabb (organ), Jean Pougnet (violin), William Primrose (viola), Yehudi Menuhin (violin), John Noble (The Pilgrim), Raimund Herincx (John Bunyan), John Carol Case (Evangelist), Gloria Jennings (Three Shining Ones), Christopher Keyte, Geoffrey Shaw, Bernard Dickerson (Four Neighbours), Ian Partridge (Interpreter), John Shirley-Quirk (Watchful, The Porter), Terence Sharpe (A Herald), Robert Lloyd (Apollyon)

London Philharmonic Orchestra, London Philharmonic Choir, New Philharmonia Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, Philharmonia Orchestra, BBC Chorus, Royal Festival Orchestra and Choir, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Sir Adrian Boult

Reviews

17th June 2013

It seems superfluous to recommend this box. It contains around 17 hours of Boult’s VW. Many of these recordings are amongst the very best you will hear. Above it, the box offers a concentrated focus on one of the composer’s most devoted exponents, a man who premiered three of the symphonies, and who remained an artistic partner par excellence.

28th March 2013

The symphonies are the bedrock of the set; this was Boult's second complete cycle on disc, and the benefits of his career-long immersion in these scores is audible...Boult gives [The Pilgrim's Progress] remarkable breadth and transcendence. His account of Job is also extraordinary, as are the performances of the Tallis Fantasia, the 16-voice version of the Serenade to Music and In the Fen Country; the list could go on and on.

Vaughan Williams: The Complete EMI Recordings

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