Sir Adrian Boult - Complete Mono Recordings 1920-1957 on HMV (CD)

For more than six decades, Adrian Boult was at the forefront of British music-making. He was the most skilled British conductor of his era, with the widest musical sympathies. Known for his conducting style characterized by it's clarity, discipline, and objectivity, his recordings are highly regarded for their integrity and musical insight. This edition includes all his mono recordings made between 1920 and 1957 for HMV, Pye Nixa and Parlophone labels. More than half of this box set is available for the very first time on CD, in HD remastering made from the original sources, and it includes several previously unreleased recordings. This first box devoted to the Mono recordings will be followed in January 2026 by another box devoted to the complete Stereo recordings by Adrian Boult on Warner Classics. The albums are presented as original pairing programs with original cover artwork.

Track List:

Disc: 1

1. TOMMASINI Le donne di buon umore
2. RESPIGHI La Boutique fantasque (exc.)
3. HUMPERDINCK Hänsel und Gretel (exc.)
4. BUTTERWORTH A Shropshire Lad
5. BLISS Rout
6. ELGAR Funeral March
7. BRAHMS Tragic Overture
8. BEETHOVEN Symphonie No. 8
9. Coriolan Overture
10. Egmont Overture
11. BRAHMS Hungarian Dances Nos. 19-21
12. WEBER Der Freischütz Overture
13. WAGNER Tristan und Isolde Prelude to Act 1
14. Parsifal Good Friday Music
15. Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg Prelude to Act 1
16. MOZART Symphony No. 41 “Jupiter”
17. Der Schauspieldirektor Overture
18. BRAHMS Piano Concerto No. 1 (Backhaus)
19. BACH Orchestral Suite No. 3
20. Violin Partita No. 3 Prelude
21. MOZART Così fan tutte Overture
22. SCHUMANN Manfred Overture
23. MENDELSSOHN A Midsummer Night’s Dream Nocturne
24. The Hebrides Overture
25. Ruy Blas Overture
26. BERLIOZ Le Carnaval romain
27. SAINT-SAËNS Bacchanale
28. SCHUBERT Symphony No. 9 “Great”
29. HUMPERDINCK Hänsel und Gretel (exc.)
30. ELGAR The Dream of Gerontius Prelude
31. BRAHMS Piano Concerto No. 2 (Schnabel)
32. NICOLAI Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor Overture
33. SUPPÉ Leichte Kavallerie Overture
34. AUBER La Muette de Portici Overture
35. ELGAR Variations “Enigma”
36. Introduction and Allegro
37. Sospiri
38. Imperial March
39. MEYERBEER Coronation March
40. WALTON Crown Imperial
41. Portsmouth Point Overture
42. God save the King
43. ARNE Rule, Britannia
44. The British Grenadiers
45. SMYTH Two Interlinked French Folk melodies
46. Minuet
47. Interlude
48. GLUCK Overtures from Alceste
49. WEBER Euryanthe
50. BERLIOZ Les Francs-juges
51. Le Roi Lear
52. TCHAIKOVSKY Polonaise
53. BORODIN Polovtsian March
54. SIBELIUS The Oceanides
55. Nightride and Sunrise
56. Romance
57. MOZART Concerto for two pianos K. 365
58. BACH Concerto for two pianos BWV 1061 (A. ; KU. Schnabel)
59. TCHAIKOVSKY Serenade
60. BLISS Music for strings
61. ELGAR Symphony No. 2
62. TCHAIKOVSKY Capriccio italien
63. Marche Slave
64. MOZART Horn Concerto No. 3 (A. Brain)
65. Symphony No. 32
66. MENDELSSOHN A Midsummer Night’s Dream (exc.)
67. VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis
68. Job
69. BUTTERWORTH A Shropshire Lad
70. LIADOV Kikimora
71. PARRY Blest Pair of Sirens
72. BLISS Piano Concerto (Solomon)
73. HOLST The Planets
74. BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No. 3 (Solomon)
75. ELGAR Cello Concerto
76. HAYDN Cello Concerto No. 2 (exc.) (Casals)
77. VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Flos campi (Primrose)
78. Symphony No. 6
79. NICOLAI Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor Overture
80. BRAHMS Academic Festival Overture
81. Hungarian Dances Nos. 17 ; 18
82. ELGAR Symphony No. 1
83. Fantasia ; Fugue
84. HANDEL Music for the Royal Fireworks
85. VAUGHAN WILLIAMS A Song Of Thanksgiving (Dolemore)
86. The Lark Ascending (Pougnet)
87. Serenade to Music
88. ELGAR Falstaff
89. PURCELL Soul of the World
90. CHAUSSON Poème
91. SAINT-SAËNS Introduction et Rondo capriccioso FIRST RELEASE
92. Havanaise
93. VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Violin Concerto “Concerto accademico”
94. BARTÓK Violin Rhapsody No. 2
95. BACH Violin Concerto No. 1
96. VIVALDI Violin Concerto “Il piacere” (Menuhin)
97. MENDELSSOHN Violin Concerto
98. SIBELIUS Violin Concerto (Menuhin)
99. ELGAR Variations “Enigma”
100. The Wand of Youth, Suite No. 1
101. Pomp and Circumstance Marche No. 3
102. WALTON Belshazzar’s Feast
103. VAUGHAN WILLIAMS English Folk Song Suite
104. Norfolk Rhapsody No. 1
105. Fantasia on “Greensleeves”
106. Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis
107. BRAHMS Symphony No. 1
108. Tragic Overture
109. Symphony No. 2
110. Academic Festival Overture
111. Symphony No. 3
112. Alto Rhapsody (Sinclair)
113. BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 1
114. BRAHMS Symphony No. 4
115. Variations on a Theme by Haydn
116. MENDELSSOHN Symphonies Nos. 3 ; 4
117. SCHUBERT Symphony No. 9 “Great”
118. MENDELSSOHN Overtures from The Hebrides
119. Fairy Tale of the Beautiful Melusine
120. Calm sea and prosperous voyage
121. Ruy Blas
122. A Midsummer Night’s Dream
123. TCHAIKOVSKY Piano Concerto No. 1 (Badura-Skoda)
124. DELIBES Coppelia, ballet suite
125. Sylvia, ballet suite
126. La Source Valse
127. SUPPÉ Overtures
128. BARTÓK Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta
129. Divertimento
130. HANDEL Water Music Suites
131. STAMITZ Symphony La Melodia Germanica (exc.)
132. CPE BACH Symphony in F major
133. MONN Cello Concerto Allegro (Pleeth)
134. HAYDN 3 German Dances, Hob.IX:Anh
135. JC. BACH Keyboard Concerto in A major Allegro (Collet)
136. ELGAR In the South, Overture
137. Nursery Suite
138. SIMPSON Symphony No. 1
139. ELGAR 5 Pomp and Circumstance Marches
140. Froissart
141. Dream Children
142. BEETHOVEN The Ruins of Athens (exc.)
143. WOLF Italian Serenade
144. SIBELIUS En Saga
145. The Swan of Tuonela
146. Pohjola’s Daughter
147. The Bard
148. Lemminkäinen’s Return
149. Tapiola
150. The Oceanides
151. Night Ride and Sunrise
152. Finlandia
153. The Tempest