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Sir Adrian Boult conducts Vaughan Williams

  • paulrterry1921
  • Feb 25
  • 1 min read

Another item that seems to have slipped through the cracks. Boult made two visits to Vienna in 1959 to record for Westminster: Holst's "The Planets" & the two Vaughan Williams fantasies (Tallis & Greensleeves) have appeared on a DG disc, but there wasn't room for the English Folk-Song Suite. Here it is from an MCA disc (MCAD2 9813B):-



VAUGHAN WILLIAMS English Folk Song Suite

Vienna State Opera Orchestra

March 1959, Konzerthaus, Vienna

 
 
 

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