Dark
Mood
Music in a sombre register, often in minor keys and low registers, with weight and shadow rather than brightness. Not necessarily bleak, but rarely comfortable.
704 products
SHAFT (MUSIC FROM THE SOUNDTRACK)
SHAFT
LED ZEPPELIN IV
HOUSES OF THE HOLY
BURNIN (60TH ANNIVERSARY)
BURNING HELL (BLUESVILLE ACOUSTIC SOUNDS SERIES)
Primal Colors
Revelation
Complete Works for Multiple Pianos
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau: A Centenary Tribute
Adrian Boult conducts Berg, Stravinsky, & Vaughan Williams
SOMM RECORDINGS announces the first appearance on disc of three historic live recordings by Sir Adrian Boult to mark the 40th anniversary of the pre-eminent British conductor’s death, including his complete 1949 account of Alban Berg’s Wozzeck, Stravinsky’s Capriccio (1948), and Vaughan Williams’ Fourth Symphony (1965).
Boult had led the UK premiere of Berg’s excoriating opera in 1934, although only Act II of that performance survives. This complete 1949 recording with the BBC Symphony, Heinrich Nillius as Wozzeck, and Suzanne Danco as Marie – only the second UK performance – adds to Boult’s and the opera’s stature on disc. Recorded live in London’s Royal Albert Hall, it is a remarkable document of an exhilarating performance.
Boult’s pioneering championing of ‘new’ music is also heard in his recording of Stravinsky’s Capriccio, with the BBC Symphony and the prodigiously gifted Australian Noel Mewton-Wood at the piano.
Boult’s rare outing in 1965 with the Royal Opera House Orchestra saw him returning to a work he premiered 30 years earlier, Vaughan Williams’ Fourth Symphony. Under Boult’s baton it is a stirring and startling statement of loss and grief.
A bonus track features a revealing discussion of his 19-year tenure at the head of the BBC Symphony by Boult with Bernard Keeffe for BBC Radio in 1965.
Goin' Home
Witchdoctor's Son
Reflections Of Monk
PARIS 1969
DOIN ALLRIGHT
CORYELL