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BRAHMS, J.: Symphony No. 3 / ELGAR, E.: Symphony No. 1 (BBC Symphony, Boult)

Composer(s):Brahms, JohannesElgar, Edward
Artist(s) Boult, Adrian, Conductor • BBC Symphony Orchestra
Period(s) 20th CenturyRomantic
Genre Classical Music
Category Orchestral
Catalogue ICAC5063
Label ICA Classics
Quality   320kbps
Album Price
 
CD
USD 16.99
 

 
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USD 10.99
 

 
MP3
USD 9.99
 

 

   




Review By Jerry Dubins,Fanfare,September 2012

Boult’s Brahms at the Proms is not at all what I would have expected…the performance…is quite powerful. Boult’s conception of the score is quite dramatic, and in passages of volcanic upheaval it can be decidedly eruptive. The stereo sound is excellent…This is a very appealing performance of Brahms’s most enigmatic symphony, and the one that I’ve always believed is the most difficult to bring off.

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Review By Andrew Achenbach,Gramophone,August 2012

…Boult’s July 1976 account of Elgar’s First Symphony…simply demands to be experienced. With the BBC SO playing their hearts out for their distinguished founder, this is a traversal of towering perception, possessing an edge-of-seat thrust, entrancing wholeness of vision and extraordinary emotional candour not quite equalled by any of Sir Adrian’s three commercial recordings. Indeed, the sense of joyous homecoming in the closing pages is truly overwhelming in its cumulative impact and rightly accorded a thunderous ovation.

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Review By Pedro Sancho de la Jordana Dezcallar,Ritmo,July 2012

Nuevo acierto de ICA y esta vez de la mano de Sir Adrian. Dos obras en primicia grabadas en sendos conciertos públicos (con sonido espléndido) en el Royal Albert Hall, en agosto del 77 (Brahms) y en julio del 76 (Elgar) en sus últimas apariciones en los Proms. La Tercera goza de una lectura de muchos quilates y a la altura de las mejores. El comienzo, un tanto lento, es imponente; Boult carga las tintas en un fraseo sabio y cargado de emoción, en una rítmica flexible y en una tensión y energía pujante, latente en todo momento. Hay expectación, serenidad y también incandescencia. ¡Qué sonoridad tan hermosa y rica extrae de las cuerdas en el Andante! ¡Qué delicadeza en el famoso Poco

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Review By Remy Franck,Pizzicato,May 2012

Sir Adrian Boult war 87, resp. 88 Jahre alt, als diese Konzertmitschnitte entstanden. Die Dritte Brahms- Symphonie dirigiert er mit Elan und Flexibilität, den riesigen Raum der Royal Albert Hall nutzend, um der Musik Grandeur ohne Pomp zu geben. Doch das eigentlich Sensationelle an dieser CD ist die 1. Symphonie von Edward Elgar, die der alte Herr mit der Kraft eines jungen Mannes dirigiert. Die Musik ist voller Leben, strotz von explosiven Klängen, baut auf Spannung und Entspannung und wird, derart souverän und inspiriert dirigiert, vom BBC Symphony absolut hinreißend gespielt. Eine Sternstunde! © 2012 Pizzicato



Review By Brian Wilson Download Roundup,MusicWeb International,March 2012

At first I thought that I was about to be disappointed by the easy-going opening of the first movement of the Brahms—indeed, by the tempo pretty well throughout that movement. This is a gemütlich Brahms, far removed from the craggy Brahms of Klemperer, whose recordings of the Third and Fourth are still my benchmarks for those works; Boult makes him sound more like the affable coffee drinker of the drawing by Batt which was included in the original Oxford Companion to Music.

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