Il direttore inglese Sir Adrian Boult fu un artista discografico prolifico. A differenza di molti musicisti, egli si sentiva perfettamente a proprio agio in studio di registrazione ed era felice di lavorare anche senza il pubblico.Boult, Adrian (1973). My Own Trumpet. London: Hamish Hamilton. ISBN 0-241-02445-5, p. 98 La sua carriera discografica si svolse da novembre 1920, quando lavorando con i Ballets Russes di Djagilev incise la musica del balletto The Good-Humoured Ladies, fino a dicembre 1978, quando fece la sua registrazione finale della musica di Hubert Parry.The Gramophone, July 1981, p. 124
Una discografia delle registrazioni di Boult fu compilata da Mike Ashman e pubblicata nel Records and Recordings, nel luglio del 1974. Un'ulteriore discografia di Nigel Simeone fu pubblicata in Sir Adrian di Boult: Companion of Honour, 1980, Midas Books. Una terza, A Boult Discography, compilata da Alan Sanders, fu pubblicata dal The Gramophone nel 1981. Il seguente elenco si basa sulle prime due di queste e sui cataloghi delle case discografiche e sui numeri arretrati del The Gramophone. Essa è costituita essenzialmente di registrazioni in studio di Boult. Dopo la sua morte, alcune registrazioni dei suoi concerti dal vivo sono stati trasmessi dalla BBC e altri e i dettagli di questi sono indicati di seguito, se noti.
Nell'elenco vengono usate le seguenti abbreviazioni:
Sigla Descrizione BBCSO BBC Symphony Orchestra HMV His Master's Voice (Voce del Padrone): in precedenza una etichetta all'interno del gruppo di registrazione EMI LPO London Philharmonic Orchestra LSO London Symphony Orchestra NPO New Philharmonia Orchestra PPO Philharmonic Promenade Orchestra. Questo era uno pseudonimo per la London Philharmonic, adottato per motivi contrattuali. Molte delle registrazioni di Boult negli anni 1950 e '60 per la Pye Nixa e le etichette Top Rank sono stati realizzati con la PPO. RPO Royal Philharmonic Orchestra BBCMM BBC Music Magazine Compact Disk (CD). La rivista include un CD con ogni numero. WRC World Record Club: una etichetta controllata dalla EMI nel 1950-'70
Le registrazioni sono elencate in ordine alfabetico, per compositore.
A Kenneth J. Alford Colonel Bogey, march: LPO, WRC, 1968 Arne Rule, Britannia!: BBCSO, HMV, 1937 Arnold English Dances Sets I + II: LPO, Decca, 1958 Auber Masaniello Overture: BBCSO, HMV, 1935
B C.P.E. Bach Sinfonia n. 3: LPO, HMV, 1957 Bach Concerti brandeburghesi 1-6: LPO, EMI, 1974 Concerti per clavicembalo in C BWV 1061: Artur Schnabel, LSO, HMV, 1937 Messa in Si minore: Qui Sedes and Agnus Dei: Kathleen Ferrier, LPO, Decca, 1953Boult and the LPO re-recorded the accompaniments for the 1953 recordings in stereo for Decca after Ferrier's death Passione secondo Giovanni: All is fulfilled: Ferrier, LPO, Decca, 1953 Passione secondo Matteo: Grief for sin: Ferrier, LPO, Decca, 1953 Suite n. 3 BWV 1068: BBCSO, HMV, 1934 Violin Sonata n. 6 BWV 1019, Prelude (arr. Pick-Mangianalli): BBCSO, HMV, 1934 Fantasia and Fugue in C minor (arr. Elgar): LPO, HMV, 1974 The Wise Virgins (arr. Walton): LPO, Decca, 1955 Sergei Barsukov Piano Concerto n. 2, Barsukov, LPO, Everest, 1967 Bartók Divertimento for String Orchestra: PPO, Pye Nixa, 1957 Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta: PPO, Pye Nixa, 1957 Bax The Garden of Fand: LPO, Lyrita, 1972 Mediterranean: LPO, Lyrita, 1972 Northern Ballad n. 1: LPO, Lyrita, 1972 November Woods: LPO Lyrita, 1968 Tintagel LPO, Decca, 1955 LPO, Lyrita, 1972 Beethoven Coriolano Ouverture BBCSO, HMV 2101, 1934 NPO, HMV, 1971 PPO, Top Rank, 1962 Egmont Overture BBCSO, HMV, 1933 PPO, Top Rank, 1959 Fidelio Overture: PPO, Top Rank, 1962 Leonora n. 3 Overture: PPO, Top Rank, 1962 Piano Concerto n. 3: Solomon, BBCSO, HMV, 1942 Romance n. 2 in F: Hyman Bress, LPO, WRC, 1968 Sinfonia n. 3: PPO, Top Rank, 1962 Sinfonia n. 5: PPO, Top Rank, 1959 Sinfonia n. 6 PPO, Top Rank, 1959 LPO, HMV, 1978 Sinfonia n. 7: PPO, Top Rank, 1962 Sinfonia n. 8: BBCSO, HMV, 1932 The Ruins of Athens, Overture and Turkish March: Philharmonia, HMV, 1959 Concerto per violinoo Ruggiero Ricci, LPO, Decca, 1953 Josef Suk, NPO, HMV, 1971 Berg Lyric Suite – three movements for string orchestra: BBCSO, BBC, 1966 (live recording) Berlioz Béatrice et Bénédict Overture: PPO, Pye Nixa, 1960 Benvenuto Cellini Overture: PPO, Pye Nixa, 1960 Le Corsaire Overture: PPO, Pye Nixa, 1960 Les francs-juges Overture BBCSO, HMV, 1937 PPO, Pye Nixa, 1960 Rob Roy Overture: PPO, Pye Nixa, 1960 Le Roi Lear Overture BBCSO, HMV, 1937 PPO, Pye Nixa, 1960 Roman Carnival Overture BBCSO, HMV, 1933 PPO, Pye Nixa, 1960 Waverley: Overture: PPO, Pye Nixa, 1960 Bizet Petite Suite: Philharmonia, BBC, 1964 (live recording) Bliss Music for Strings BBCSO, HMV, 1937 LPO, HMV, 1974 Piano Concerto, 2 recordings with Solomon: New York Philharmonic, world premiere performance, 10 June 1939 studio recording, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, January 1943 Rout: Stella Power, British Sinfonia Orchestra, HMV, 1926 Borodin Prince Igor, Polovtsian March: BBCSO, HMV, 1937 Brahms Academic Festival Overture LPO, HMV, 1951 PPO, Pye Nixa, 1956 LPO, WRC, 1968 LPO, HMV, 1973 Alto Rhapsody Monica Sinclair, PPO, Pye Nixa, 1958 Janet Baker, London Philharmonic Choir, LPO, HMV 1971 Hungarian Dances 17 and 18: LPO, HMV, 1951 Hungarian Dances 19, 20 and 21: BBCSO, HMV, 1939 Piano Concerto n. 1: Wilhelm Backhaus, BBCSO, HMV, 1933 Piano Concerto n. 2 Artur Schnabel, BBCSO, 1936 Louis Kentner, Philharmonia, 1959 Serenade n. 1: LPO, HMV, 1979 Serenade n. 2: LPO, HMV, 1979 Sinfonia n. 1 PPO, Pye Nixa, 1956 LPO, HMV, 1973 Sinfonia n. 2 PPO, Pye Nixa, 1956 LPO, HMV, 1971 Sinfonia n. 3 PPO, Pye Nixa, 1957 LSO, HMV, 1971 Sinfonia n. 4 PPO, Pye Nixa, 1956 LPO, HMV, 1973 Tragic Overture BBCSO, HMV, 1933 PPO, Pye Nixa, 1958 LPO, HMV, 1971 Variations on a theme by Haydn: LPO, HMV, 1979 Brian Sinfonia n. 1: Honor Sheppard, Shirley Minty, Ronald Dowd, Roger Stalman, BBC Chorus, BBC Choral Society, BBCSO, Testament, 1966 (live recording) Bridge Cherry Ripe: LPO, Lyrita, 1978 Lament for Strings: LPO, Lyrita, 1978 Sally in Our Alley: LPO, Lyrita, 1978 Sir Roger de Coverley: LPO, Lyrita, 1978 Suite for String Orchestra: LPO, Lyrita, 1978 Britten Peter Grimes – Four Sea Interludes and Passacaglia: LPO, Westminster/Pye, 1966 (recorded August 1956) Matinées musicales: PPO, Westminster/Pye Nixa, 1959 (recorded August 1956) Soirées musicales PPO, Westminster/Pye Nixa, 1959 (recorded August 1956) March: LPO, Lyrita, 1973 The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra: LPO, Westminster/Pye (recorded August 1956) Bruch Kol Nidrei: Bunting, LPO, WRC, 1968 Scottish Fantasy Rabin, Philharmonia, Columbia, 1958 Alfredo Campoli, LPO, Decca, 1959 Concerto per violino n. 1 Mischa Elman, LPO, Decca, 1956 Menuhin, LSO, HMV, 1973 Concerto per violino n. 2: Menuhin, LSO, HMV, 1973 George Butterworth Two English Idylls: LPO, Lyrita, 1967 A Shropshire Lad, Rhapsody British Sinfonia Orchestra, HMV, 1921 Hallé Orchestra, HMV, 1942 LPO, Decca, 1955 The Banks of Green Willow LPO, Decca, 1955 LPO, Lyrita, 1967
C Chopin Piano Concerto n. 1 (arr Balakirev): Friedrich Gulda, LPO, Decca, 1954 Piano Sonata n. 2 – Funeral March (arr Elgar): BBCSO, HMV, 1932 Jeremiah Clarke Trumpet Voluntary: Gordon Webb, LPO, WRC, 1968 Coates The Dambusters March LPO, WRC, 1968 NPO, Lyrita, 1976 From Meadow to Mayfair Suite: NPO, Lyrita, 1976 The Merrymakers Overture: NPO, Lyrita, 1976 Summer Days Suite: NPO, Lyrita, 1976 The Three Bears Phantasy: NPO, Lyrita, 1976 The Three Elizabeths Suite: NPO, Lyrita, 1976
D Davies RAF March Past: LPO, WRC, 1968 Delibes Coppelia, Suite: PPO, Pye Nixa, 1956 Naila – Waltz (arr. Minkus):PPO, Pye Nixa, 1956 Sylvia, Suites: PPO, Pye Nixa, 1956 Delius Marche Caprice: LPO, Lyrita, 1973 Dohnányi Piano Concerto n. 2: Dohnanyi, RPO, HMV, 1957 Variations on a Nursery Theme Julius Katchen, LPO, Decca, 1954 Ernő Dohnányi, RPO, HMV, 1957 Julius Katchen, LPO, Decca, 1960 Dvořák Cello Concerto Mstislav Rostropovich, RPO, HMV, 1958
E Elgar The Apostles: Sheila Armstrong, Helen Watts, Robert Tear, John Carol Case, Benjamin Luxon, Clifford Grant, London Philharmonic Choir, LPO, HMV, 1974 Bavarian Dances LPO, Decca, 1955 LPO, HMV, 1968 Caractacus – Triumphal March, LPO, HMV, 1975 Carillon, LPO, HMV, 1975 Cello Concerto Pablo Casals, BBCSO, HMV, 1946 Paul Tortelier, LPO, HMV, 1973 Chanson de Matin LPO, Decca, 1955 LPO, HMV, 1968 Chanson de Nuit LPO, Decca, 1955 LPO, HMV, 1968 Choral Songs BBC Chorus, HMV, 1982 (recorded February 1967) Cockaigne PPL, Westminster/Pye Nixa (recorded August 1956) LPO, HMV, 1972 Dream Children: LPO, HMV, 1956 Il sogno di Geronte Prelude: BBCSO, HMV, 1934 Helen Watts, Nicolai Gedda, Robert Lloyd, London Philharmonic Choir, NPO, 1976 Enigma Variations BBCSO, HMV, 1936 LPO, HMV, 1954 LSO, HMV, 1970 Falstaff LPO, HMV, 1951 PPO, Westminster/Pye Nixa, 1957 (recorded August 1956) LPO, HMV, 1974 Overture Froissart LPO, HMV, 1956 LPO, HMV, 1972 Imperial March BBCSO, HMV, 1937 LPO, HMV, 1977 Overture In the South Alassio LPO, HMV, 1956 LPO, HMV, 1972 Introduction and Allegro BBCSO, HMV, 1937 LPO, HMV, 1954 LPO, HMV, 1973 The Kingdom: Margaret Price, Yvonne Minton, Alexander Young, John Shirley-Quirk, London Philharmonic Choir, LPO, HMV, 1969 The Music Makers: Janet Baker, London Philharmonic Choir, LPO, 1967 Nursery Suite: LPO, HMV, 1956 Polonia: LPO, 1975 Pomp and Circumstance Marches 1-5 LPO, HMV, 1956 LPO, HMV, 1977 The Sanguine Fan: LPO, 1974 Serenade for Strings: LPO, HMV, 1973 Sospiri: BBCSO, HMV, 1937 Sinfonia n. 1 LPO, HMV, 1950 LPO, Lyrita, 1968 LPO, HMV, 1977 Sinfonia n. 2 Sinfonia n. 2 BBCSO, HMV, 1945 PPO, Westminster/Pye Nixa, 1957 (recorded August 1956) Scottish National Orchestra, 1964 LPO, Lyrita, 1968 LPO, HMV, 1976 Concerto per violino Alfredo Campoli, LPO Decca, 1955 Yehudi Menuhin, NPO, HMV, 1966 Ida Haendel, LPO, HMV, 1978 The Wand of Youth Suites 1 and 2 Suite n. 1 only: LPO, HMV, 1954 Suites 1 and 2: LPO, HMV, 1968
F Falla El Amor Brujo – Fire Dance: WRC, 1968 Finzi The Fall of the Leaf, LPO, Lyrita, 1978 Introit, Rodney Friend, LPO, Lyrita, Nocturne, LPO, Lyrita, 1978 Prelude for String Orchestra, LPO, Lyrita, 1978 Romance for String Orchestra, LPO, Lyrita, 1978 A Severn Rhapsody, LPO, Lyrita, 1978 Franck Symphonic Variations Anderson Tyrer, British Sinfonia Orchestra, Velvet Face 599-600, 1923 Clifford Curzon, LPO, Decca, 1960 Sinfonia in D minor: "London Orchestral Society Orchestra"Mostly the Philharmonia under a pseudonym for contractual reasons. Originally recorded for Reader's Digest, 1959
G Gershwin Cuban Overture: London Philharmonic Orchestra, WRC, 1968 Glinka Russlan and Ludmilla Overture LPO, WRC, 1967 Gluck Alceste, Overture: BBCSO, HMV, 1937 Gounod O Divine Redeemer:Kirsten Flagstad, LPO, Decca, 1958 Grainger Over the Hills and far away, Children's March: LPO, Lyrita, 1973 Grieg Piano Concerto: Shura Cherkassky, LPO, WRC, 1966 Franz Gruber Silent Night: Kirsten Flagstad, LPO, Decca, 1958
H Patrick Hadley One Morning in Spring – sketch for orchestra: BBCSO, BBC, (1966 live recording) Händel Acis and Galatea: Peter Pears, Joan Sutherland, Owen Brannigan, Philomusica Orchestra, L'Oiseau Lyre-Decca, 1960 Judas Maccabeus – Father of Heaven: Ferrier, LPO, Decca, 1953 Messiah He was despised; O thou that tallest: Ferrier, LPO, Decca, 1953 Jennifer Vyvyan, Norma Procter, George Maran, Owen Brannigan, London Philharmonic Choir, LPO, Decca, 1954 Joan Sutherland, Grace Bumbry, Kenneth McKellar, David Ward, London Sinfonia Chorus, LSO, Decca, 1961 Music for the Royal Fireworks: LPO, HMV, 1949 Organ Concertos, Op 4 Nos 1-6 and Op 7 Nos 1-6: E. Power Biggs, LPO, 1960 Overture in D minor (arr. Elgar): LPO, HMV, 1972 Samson – Return O God of Hosts: Ferrier, LPO, Decca, 1953 Water Music: PPO, Pye Nixa, 1956 Holst Beni Mora: LPO, Lyrita, 1972 Choral Sinfonia: Felicity Palmer, London Philharmonic Choir, LPO, HMV, 1974 Egdon Heath LPO Decca 1962 Fugal Overture LPO, Lyrita, 1968