In article <871163dc-77a7-44c6-b5ba-229e003e5305n@googlegroups.com>,
Kerrison <kerrison126-spartan@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> On Wednesday, May 5, 2021 at 10:37:14 PM UTC+1, Bob Harper wrote:
> > On 5/5/21 8:07 AM, Kerrison wrote:
> > > On Wednesday, May 5, 2021 at 11:54:38 AM UTC+1, Christopher Howell
> > > wrote:
> > >> Without grubbing in the attic to look it up, I recall W.A.
> > >> Chislett, reviewing this disc in Gramophone, described Gualdacanal
> > >> as taken at "light infantry pace, or even faster", and seems to
> > >> have enjoyed the rest. Boult, until the frailties of his very last
> > >> years overtook him, took regular walks, both long and swift, so
> > >> perhaps this was his pace.
> > >>> The quick march of the British light infantry and rifle regiments
> > >>> was 140 beats per minute so perhaps not too fast!
> > >>>
> > >>> Alan
> > >
> > > Still with Boult's tempos, I have a soft spot for his only
> > > Shostakovich recording, the 6th Symphony, coupled on Everest with
> > > the 9th conducted by Sargent. Have a listen to the 6th's finale and
> > > hear Boult galvanising the LPO into pulling all the stops out. I bet
> > > he loved getting away from Elgar and Vaughan Williams for a while.
> > > It certainly sounds like it! ...
> > >
> > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WILLRjqgdpw
> > >
> > That was my first recording of the 6th, on LP. I have the CD now, and
> > it's still one of the finest IMO. His daringly slow tempo in the first
> > movement really works, and the contrast between it and the second and
> > third is that much greater.
> >
> > Bob Harper

> Another Boult 'Everest' CD is of the Mahler 1st Symphony which has a
> total timing of 46:28. This would seem to knock about 10 minutes off the
> usual total timing. I suspect he wasn't keen on the work and was glad to
> get it over with! ... 'Everest' also engaged him to record the Hindemith
> Symphony in Eb, though I haven't check his timings on that one. However,
> his 36-minute whip-through of the Cesar Franck Symphony for 'Readers
> Digest' on Chesky is almost as fast as the Paray / Detroit account on
> Mercury. That's another work that in certain hands can last about 45
> minutes!

I have the Everest CD (EVERCD 013) of the LPO Boult Hindemith Symphony:
1st Mov 5:09
2nd Mov 9:26
3rd Mov 6:16
4th Mov 8:55
Total 29:47
Nothing else on the disc so that must be the shortest CD I have ever
bought. I got it from Gramex near Waterloo London shortly before it sadly
had to close because of redevelopment. I miss the friendly banter in the
shop. Does anyone know how the owner Roger Hewland is?

Alan

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On Wednesday, April 28, 2021 at 12:56:13 AM UTC-10, MELMOTH wrote:
> https://www.amazon.fr/Great-Conductors-20th-Century-Adrian/dp/B00006IGIT/ref=sr_1_4?__mk_fr_FR=%C3%85M%C3%85%C5%BD%C3%95%C3%91&dchild=1&keywords=boult+great&qid=1619606858&s=music&sr=1-4
>
> "In musical and general education the conductor must be unusually welle
> equipped. He must have a great deal of musical knowledge ; and I don't
> just mean of orchestral scores. He must also a working knowledgz of all
> instrumentq with which he is to come in contact, in cluding the human
> voice."
>
> Many current conductors would be well advised to follow the advice of
> this IMMENSE Man/artist of Music...
> I just listened again to the above mentioned album...Absolutely
> beautiful...
> Cf. also the two Warner box sets, indispensable...

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