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Geraint Lewis looks back at the life of Adrian Boult and his influence on the British music of his time Thanks for exploring the Gramophone website. Sign up for a free account today to enjoy the ...

Image: the BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Sir Adrian Boult at the Queen's Hall for a Promenade concert. The first broadcast performance by the new BBC Symphony Orchestra, under the baton of ...

Sir Adrian Boult once said, “The ideal hall is obviously that into which you make a not very pleasant sound and the audience receives something that is quite beautiful.” Professor Trevor Cox, who ...

Over the next nearly four decades he toured extensively with the orchestra, played under conductors including Sir Adrian Boult, Rudolf Schwarz, Günter Wand, Pierre Boulez, Gennady Rozhdestvensky ...

Sir Adrian Boult, born in 1889, became director of music for the BBC in 1930, and upon leaving in 1950 he became chief conductor of the London Philharmonic Orchestra. He stepped down from the post ...

And it was so fitting that this account should be conducted by Wordsworth, a student of Sir Adrian ... We’ll all reunite when the Adrian Boult Hall is reborn in the Conservatoire’s new ...

Image: the BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Sir Adrian Boult at the Queen's Hall for a Promenade concert. The first broadcast performance by the new BBC Symphony Orchestra, under the baton of ...