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Symphonies Nos. 1 and 2 (Boult)

~ Sir Edward Elgar
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  • Audio CD (5 Feb 2007)
  • SPARS Code: A-D
  • Number of Discs: 2
  • Label: British Composers
  • ASIN: B000MCIB70
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  • Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
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5.0 out of 5 stars Two Worlds - which is most true to Elgar's vision?, 7 Jun 2007
By R. C. Ross (Birmingham) - See all my reviews
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Please note: my remarks are only on this recording of Symphony No 2.

Terms like 'burnished', 'noble', 'glorious', 'majestic', 'dignified' most easily come to mind listening to Boult's magisterial final recording (1975/76) of this magnificent twentieth century symphony.

The playing of the LPO allows Sir Adrian's vision to be expressed to perfection - though 'playing' somehow seems altogether the wrong word in this context! The recorded sound is among the finest of EMI's best - with great clarity and real depth.

There are however subtle aspects of this emotionally multifaceted masterpiece that seem to belong to a world Boult did not inhabit. Elgar said that he had `showed himself' in this symphony. There are passages where Elgar allows us to feel the depths of personal despair, dark self-doubt, desperately unfulfilled longings - indeed 'rarely, rarely' did Elgar seem to have the joy of the of 'spirit of delight'!

Perhaps Sir Adrian's view is of a symphony of national, rather than personal, biography. For this approach no one surpasses Boult in this culmination of his life-long advocacy of the work.

But Elgar's concept and achievement are far greater than a nationalistic epitaph. The symphony inhabits the fraught and enigmatic world of the inner-self fully as much as those of Mahler, Bruckner and Tchaikovsky's 4th, 5th and 6th - not to mention the music of Berg and Schoenberg. To take us into that elusive inner world we need to follow (among others) Sir Colin Davis (LSO, 2001), Sir Malcolm Sargent (BBC Music BBC MM280) and, above all, Sir John Barbirolli (1965).

PS Odd how the symphonies of Sir Edward will forever be bound to a round (turn)table of musical knights - Sir Adrian, Sir John, Sir Malcolm, Sir Colin, Sir Andrew, Sir Georg, Sir Yehudi (later Lord) Menuhin - we are deeply indebted to them all.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars elgar at its best, 9 May 2007
By Gerald M. Allen "gezza" (thirsk) - See all my reviews
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if you like your elgar full of pride and pathos, passion and tenderness, beautifully phrased, played by one the best orchestras in the wordl, and with the peerles boult at the helm, this is the collection for you.

in particular his interpretation of the 2nd symphony is so majestic and so right....listen to the second movement and you have the epitome of elgar, so magnificently played and unfolded by boult...

the smaller pieces are all brlliant, and overall this is a 2 cd set to cherish...the sound is of the best emi vintage, natural and rounded.

you will not regret buying the 2 cd set.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Not the Definitive Boult Interpretations, 12 Jul 2009
By Graham (Worcestershire) - See all my reviews
I can remember the reception that these recordings had when they were first issued in the late 1970's. It was said then, and it has been oft repeated, that these performances were the culmination of a life-time's association with these great works, the summing up of Sir Adrian's view of them. Whilst they are wonderfully broad and expansive, even luxurious accounts, I don't think that they can be viewed as Sir Adrian's best recorded performances, even though they were most certainly his last word. He was by then in his late eighties and physically frail. I think that he simply could not summon the drive and energy that can be heard in his earlier recordings (he recorded the second symphony five times). The Lyrita recordings, made just a few years earlier than these final EMI ones, are, in my view, superior in every way. Those who buy these EMI recordings will surely not be disappointed, but they should not, I feel, be seen as the definitive Boult interpretations.
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