The Warner Classics Edition: The Stereo Recordings 1956-1978 (CD79)

CD1

1. ELGAR - Symphony No. 2

CD2

1. ELGAR - Falstaff · Cockaigne

CD3

1. WALTON - Symphony No. 1

CD4

1. SCHUMANN - Symphonies Nos. 1 ‘Spring’ & 2

CD5

1. SCHUMANN - Symphonies Nos. 3 ‘Rhenish’ & 4

CD6

1. BERLIOZ - Overtures, Le Corsaire · Les Francs-juges · Benvenuto Cellini · Waverley

CD7

1. BERLIOZ - Overtures, Le Carnaval romain · Rob Roy · Béatrice et Bénédict · Le Roi Lear

CD8

1. BRITTEN - Four Sea Interludes · Passacaglia · The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra · Matinées musicales · Soirées musicales

CD9

1. DOHNÁNYI - Variations on a Nursery Song · Piano Concerto No. 2 (Dohnányi)

CD10

1. DVOŘÁK - Cello Concerto (Rostropovich); BRAHMS - Piano Concerto No. 2 (Kentner)

CD11

1. KHACHATURIAN - Piano Concerto; PROKOFIEV - Piano Concerto No. 1 (Katz)

CD12

1. MOZART - Piano Concertos Nos. 20 & 23 (A. Fischer)

CD13

1. TCHAIKOVSKY - Violin Concerto · Sérénade mélancolique; BEETHOVEN - Romances Nos. 1 & 2 (Menuhin)

CD14

1. HANDEL - Arias from Judas Maccabaeus & Acis and Galatea; MOZART - Exsultate, jubilate · Ch’io mi scordi di te? (los Angeles); MAHLER - Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen; WAGNER - Im Treibhaus (Ludwig)

CD15

1. ELGAR - Enigma Variations (1961) · Introduction and Allegro (1961)

CD16

1. ELGAR - Symphony No. 2

CD17

1. GRIEG & SCHUMANN - Piano Concertos (Cherkassky)

CD18

1. ELGAR - Violin Concerto (Menuhin); BARSUKOV - Piano Concerto No. 2 (Barsukov)

CD19

1. HOLST - The Planets (1966)

CD20

1. MENDELSSOHN - Violin Concerto (M. Smith) · Symphony No. 4 “Italian”

CD21

1. GLINKA - Ruslan and Lyudmila, Overture; SMETANA - Die Moldau · The Bartered Bride (excerpts); RIMSKY-KORSAKOV - Dance of the Tumblers; TCHAIKOVSKY - 1812 Overture · Slavonic March · Romeo and Juliet

CD22

1. ELGAR - The Music Makers (Baker); PARRY - Blest Pair of Sirens

CD23

1. TCHAIKOVSKY - Piano Concerto No. 1; LITOLFF - Concerto Symphonique, Scherzo (Cherkassky); TCHAIKOVSKY - Violin Concerto; SARASATE - Zigeunerweisen (Bress)

CD24

1. VAUGHAN WILLIAMS - Symphony No. 6 · The Lark Ascending (Bean)

CD25

1. Popular Orchestral Favourites: MOZART - Die Zauberflöte, Overture; BEETHOVEN - Romance for violin No. 2 (Bress); BRAHMS - Academic Festival Overture; SUPPÉ - Dichter und Bauer, Overture; PONCHIELLI - Dance of the Hours; J. STRAUSS I - Radetzky-Marsch

CD26

1. ELGAR - The Wand of Youth, Suites 1 & 2 · Chanson de nuit · Chanson de matin · Three Bavarian Dances

CD27

1. Sir Adrian Boult introduces the instruments of the orchestra

CD28

1. Bravo! WALTON - Portsmouth Point Overture; BRUCH - Kol Nidrei; CLARKE - Trumpet Voluntary; SAINT-SAËNS - Danse macabre · Wedding Cake; GERSHWIN - Cuban Overture; STRAVINSKY - Circus Polka for a Young Elephant; WOLF-FERRARI - Intermezzo; FALLA - Ritual Fire Dance

CD29

1. Marches for Orchestra

CD30

1. TCHAIKOVSKY - Nutcracker Suite · The Sleeping Beauty Suite

CD31

1. VAUGHAN WILLIAMS - Symphony No. 4 · Norfolk Rhapsody No. 1; R. STRAUSS - Don Quixote (du Pré, Downes, Bradley)

CD32

1. VAUGHAN WILLIAMS - Symphony No. 3 “A Pastoral Symphony” · In the Fen Country

CD32-33

1. VAUGHAN WILLIAMS - “The Wasps” · Symphony No. 1 “A Sea Symphony” (Armstrong, Case)

CD34-35

1. ELGAR - The Kingdom (Price, Minton, Young, Shirley-Quirk)

CD35

1. VAUGHAN WILLIAMS - Symphony No. 8 · Concerto for two pianos (Vronsky, Babin)

CD36

1. VAUGHAN WILLIAMS - Symphony No. 5 · Serenade to Music

CD37

1. VAUGHAN WILLIAMS - Symphony No. 7 “Sinfonia antartica” (Burrowes)

CD38

1. VAUGHAN WILLIAMS - Symphony No. 9 · Fantasia on the “Old 104th” Psalm Tune (Katin)

CD39

1. ELGAR - Enigma Variations (1970) · VAUGHAN WILLIAMS - Fantasia on “Greensleeves” · English Folk Song Suite · Job – A Masque for Dancing

CD40

1. BRAHMS - Tragic Overture · Symphony No. 3

CD41

1. BEETHOVEN - Violin Concerto (Suk) · Coriolan

CD42

1. ELGAR - Overtures: Cockaigne · Froissart · ‘Handel in D minor’ · In the South

CD43

1. BRAHMS - Symphony No. 2 · Alto Rhapsody (Baker)

CD44

1. WILLIAMSON & BERKELEY - Violin Concertos (Menuhin)

CD45-46

1. VAUGHAN WILLIAMS - The Pilgrim’s Progress (Noble, Herincx, Case) · In rehearsal

CD47

1. VAUGHAN WILLIAMS - Symphony No. 2 “A London Symphony”

CD48

1. BRUCH - Violin Concertos Nos. 1 & 2 (Menuhin)

CD49

1. Sir Adrian conducts WAGNER: Excerpts from Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Tristan und Isolde, Tannhäuser, Lohengrin

CD50

1. BRAHMS - Symphony No. 1

CD51

1. BRAHMS - Academic Festival Overture · Symphony No. 4

CD52

1. SCHUBERT - Symphony No. 9 ‘Great’

CD53-54

1. BACH - The Brandenburg Concertos

CD55

1. ELGAR - Cello Concerto (Tortelier) · Introduction and Allegro (1972) · Serenade

CD56

1. Sir Adrian conducts WAGNER, vol. 2: Excerpts from Die Walküre, Siegfried, Götterdämmerung, Tannhäuser, Tristan und Isolde

CD57

1. Sir Adrian conducts WAGNER, vol. 3: Siegfried Idyll · Excerpts from Parsifal

CD58

1. VAUGHAN WILLIAMS - Dona nobis pacem · Toward the Unknown Region (Armstrong, Case)

CD59

1. ELGAR - Falstaff · Fantasia and Fugue in C minor (transc. from Bach) · The Sanguine Fan

CD60

1. MOZART - Piano Concertos Nos. 17 & 24 (Previn)

CD61

1. BLISS - Music for strings; HOWELLS - Concerto for string orchestra

CD62-63

1. ELGAR - The Apostles (Armstrong, Watts, Tear, Luxon)

CD64

1. Sir Adrian conducts WAGNER, vol. 4: Excerpts from Der fliegende Holländer, Das Rheingold, Tannhäuser, Rienze · A Faust Overture; TCHAIKOVSKY - Suite No. 3 in G major

CD65

1. ELGAR - Triumphal March · Carillon · Funeral March · Dream Children · Elegy · Grania and Diarmid · Polonia · Meditation

CD66

1. HOLST - First Choral Symphony

CD67

1. TCHAIKOVSKY - Capriccio italien · Gopak · Slavonic March; RIMSKY-KORSAKOV Capriccio espagnol · Mlada, Procession of the Nobles

CD68

1. MOZART - Symphonies Nos. 41 “Jupiter” & 35 “HaƯner”

CD69

1. VAUGHAN WILLIAMS - Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis · Concerto Grosso · Partita for double string orchestra

CD70

1. WAGNER - Wesendonck-Lieder; R. STRAUSS - 4 Lieder (Baker)

CD70-71

1. ELGAR - The Dream of Gerontius (Watts, Gedda, Lloyd)

CD72

1. ELGAR - Symphony No. 2

CD73

1. ELGAR - Symphony No. 1

CD74

1. ELGAR - Pomp and Circumstance · 2 Marches; WALTON - Crown Imperial · Orb and Sceptre

CD75

1. BEETHOVEN - Symphony No. 6 “Pastoral”

CD76

1. ELGAR - Violin Concerto (Haendel)

CD77

1. BRAHMS - Serenades Nos. 1 & 2 · Variations on a Theme by Haydn

CD78

1. HOLST - The Planets (1978)

CD79

1. PARRY - Symphony No. 5 “Symphonic Fantasia” · Symphonic Variations · Elegy for Brahms

 

Dedicated to the stereo recordings of Sir Adrian Boult, this edition forms an essential counterpart to the previously issued Mono Recordings 1920-1957. Few conductors embraced the transition from mono to stereo with such sensitivity and imagination: Boult drew on a new generation of producers and engineers to achieve a remarkable balance of clarity, depth, and power. Covering the years 1956 to 1978, this collection captures his “Indian summer” in the studio and includes his landmark Schumann and Brahms cycles, alongside authoritative interpretations of fellow composers Vaughan Williams, Elgar, Britten, and Holst. Celebrated for their vitality and architectural grandeur, these recordings confirm Boult’s central place in the history of orchestral performance on record.