Sir Adrian Boult conducts Marches for Orchestra
01. Richard Rodgers: Guadalcanal March from 'Victory At Sea' [2'09]
02. Eric Coates: The Dam Busters [3'59]
03. John Philip Sousa: Washington Post March [2'58]
04. Trad. (arr. Kenneth Alford): Lilliburlero [1'41]
05. Joseph Franz Wagner: Under the Double Eagle [3'03]
06. Carl Teike: Old Comrades [3'45]
07. Trad.: British Grenadiers [3'30]
08. John Philip Sousa: The Stars and Stripes Forever! [3'58]
09. Trad. (arr. Kenneth Alford) - Colonel Bogey [4'04]
10. John Philip Sousa: El capitan [2'12]
11. Henry Walford Davies - Royal Air Force March Past [3'04]
12. Charles A Zimmerman: Anchors Aweigh [2'36]
13. John Philip Sousa: Liberty Bell 3'22]
14. William Steffe & Julia Ward Howe: The Battle Hymn of the Republic [3'29]
London Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Adrian Boult
from Sony SBK63052 (recorded by EMI in October 1966; originally issued as World Record Club LP ST750 in 1968, later as Classics for Pleasure CFP173; this Sony CD SBK63052 issue 1997)
(CD-rip; flacs and CfP sleeve scans)
Recording venue: Abbey Road Studios, London
Recording engineer – Neville Boyling; Producer: Betsy Cohen?
Given the lack of interest on this forum in my recent posts and, presumably in lighter music, I am probably flogging a dead horse here. Nevertheless, these are performances that I enjoy very much and they seem worth preserving to me. Their provenance is a bit convoluted and I have no idea how they turned up, briefly, on this Sony CD.
The recordings were made by EMI in 1966 for issue on their susidiary World Record Club label and were later issued on their budget Classics for Pleasure label but EMI have never issued them on CD. It seems that Sony were working from an intermediate rather than original master tape as there is less sparkle in the sound than one would expect from EMI at that period - although it's acceptable enough. (The Dam Busters, the only work duplicated in Sir Adrian's later marches disc for Lyrita, posted here on MIMIC, is no match for the Lyrita recording.)
Anybody familiar with the BBC World Service Radio broadcasts will instantly recognise 'Lilliburlero" as their signature tune. "This is London. Cue Lilli." As an electrical engineer, I would also point out that it is also the regimental march of the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers.
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Appendix
Sony jumbled up these Boult tracks in their "Great Marches" CD SBK63052 - mixed with five tracks with the Philadelphia Orchestra conducted by Eugene Ormandy and one by the Cleveland Pops Orchestra conducted by Louis Lane. The additional tracks are:
Schubert: Marche militaire, op.51 no.1 (Lane)
Beethoven: Turkish March
Herbert: March of the Toys
Halvorsen: March of the Boyars
Gounod: Funeral March of a Marionette
Meyerbeer: Coronation March from 'Le prophete'
Ormandy and Lane fans may also like to hear these tracks (apparently mastered from the original tapes) and the complete CD (with booklet, cover and inlay scans) can be downloaded here from MEGA. Sony's booklet production is also fairly shoddy - they claim a recording date of the Boult tracks as March 1968, copyright for first issue in 1969 to Sony Entertainment and name the composer of the RAF March Past as Sir Walford Davies - a bit like putting 'Sir Boult'.
01. Richard Rodgers: Guadalcanal March from 'Victory At Sea' [2'09]
02. Eric Coates: The Dam Busters [3'59]
03. John Philip Sousa: Washington Post March [2'58]
04. Trad. (arr. Kenneth Alford): Lilliburlero [1'41]
05. Joseph Franz Wagner: Under the Double Eagle [3'03]
06. Carl Teike: Old Comrades [3'45]
07. Trad.: British Grenadiers [3'30]
08. John Philip Sousa: The Stars and Stripes Forever! [3'58]
09. Trad. (arr. Kenneth Alford) - Colonel Bogey [4'04]
10. John Philip Sousa: El capitan [2'12]
11. Henry Walford Davies - Royal Air Force March Past [3'04]
12. Charles A Zimmerman: Anchors Aweigh [2'36]
13. John Philip Sousa: Liberty Bell 3'22]
14. William Steffe & Julia Ward Howe: The Battle Hymn of the Republic [3'29]
London Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Adrian Boult
from Sony SBK63052 (recorded by EMI in October 1966; originally issued as World Record Club LP ST750 in 1968, later as Classics for Pleasure CFP173; this Sony CD SBK63052 issue 1997)
(CD-rip; flacs and CfP sleeve scans)
Recording venue: Abbey Road Studios, London
Recording engineer – Neville Boyling; Producer: Betsy Cohen?
Given the lack of interest on this forum in my recent posts and, presumably in lighter music, I am probably flogging a dead horse here. Nevertheless, these are performances that I enjoy very much and they seem worth preserving to me. Their provenance is a bit convoluted and I have no idea how they turned up, briefly, on this Sony CD.
The recordings were made by EMI in 1966 for issue on their susidiary World Record Club label and were later issued on their budget Classics for Pleasure label but EMI have never issued them on CD. It seems that Sony were working from an intermediate rather than original master tape as there is less sparkle in the sound than one would expect from EMI at that period - although it's acceptable enough. (The Dam Busters, the only work duplicated in Sir Adrian's later marches disc for Lyrita, posted here on MIMIC, is no match for the Lyrita recording.)
Anybody familiar with the BBC World Service Radio broadcasts will instantly recognise 'Lilliburlero" as their signature tune. "This is London. Cue Lilli." As an electrical engineer, I would also point out that it is also the regimental march of the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers.
Download from MEGA.
Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.
Appendix
Sony jumbled up these Boult tracks in their "Great Marches" CD SBK63052 - mixed with five tracks with the Philadelphia Orchestra conducted by Eugene Ormandy and one by the Cleveland Pops Orchestra conducted by Louis Lane. The additional tracks are:
Schubert: Marche militaire, op.51 no.1 (Lane)
Beethoven: Turkish March
Herbert: March of the Toys
Halvorsen: March of the Boyars
Gounod: Funeral March of a Marionette
Meyerbeer: Coronation March from 'Le prophete'
Ormandy and Lane fans may also like to hear these tracks (apparently mastered from the original tapes) and the complete CD (with booklet, cover and inlay scans) can be downloaded here from MEGA. Sony's booklet production is also fairly shoddy - they claim a recording date of the Boult tracks as March 1968, copyright for first issue in 1969 to Sony Entertainment and name the composer of the RAF March Past as Sir Walford Davies - a bit like putting 'Sir Boult'.