Geraint Lewis and Jeremy Dibble revisit the first ever full recording of Elgar’s The Kingdom, made by Sir Adrian Boult in 1968 Many readers will know from EMI’s announcements that Elgar’s oratorio, ...
True, it has a decent acoustic and its owner, Birmingham Conservatoire, has tried over the years to brighten it up a bit. And once they did something about the fumes from the adjacent McDonald’s, it ...
It was through a family connection with that wealthy patron of the arts Frank Schuster (1852-1927) that Adrian Boult – then a 15-year-old boarder at Westminster School – first came into contact with ...
"An unabridged republication of the third edition, published by Faber & Faber Limited, London, 1967, as reprinted with corrections in 1977"--T.p. verso. https://siris ...