There was no doughtier champion of late 19th- and 20th-century British music than Sir Adrian Boult (1889-1983). To his interpretations of the works of Elgar and Vaughan Williams he brought great wisdom, selfless dedication and enormous authority.  He excelled, too, in the music of Gustav Holst, whose suite "The Planets", perhaps more than any other piece in Boult's repertory, is most closely associated with his distinguished career.  One of the greatest recordings available for each work.  Words cannot do it justice - one must listen.


Track Listing

ELGAR: ENIGMA VARIATIONS
1. Theme (Andante)
2. I. C.A.E. 
3. II. H.D.S.-P. 
4. III. R.B.T. 
5. IV. W.M.B. 
6. V. R.P.A. 
7. VI. Ysobel 
8. VII. Troyte 
9. VIII. W.N. 
10. IX. Nimrod 
11. X. Intermezzo. Dorabella 
12. XI. G.R.S. 
13. XII. B.G.N. 
14. XIII. Romanza. * * * 
15. XIV. Finale. E.D.U. 
HOLST: THE PLANETS
16. Mars, the Bringer of War 
17. Venus, the Bringer of Peace 
18. Mercury, the Winged Messenger 
19. Jupiter, the Bringer of Jollity 
20. Saturn, the Bringer of Old Age 
21. Uranus, the Magician 
22. Neptune, the Mystic 


--eixman