' We conductors all talk too much. We needn't be afraid of trusting the orchestra.'
Never one to waste words himself, Sir Adrian Boult throughout his long career has epitomised just such economy of words and gesture, while at the same time generating an atmosphere of warmth and sympathy. The programme includes rehearsal extracts from the commercial recording of Vaughan Williams's The Pilgrim's Progress, of Beethoven's Coriolan Overture for the BBC, and reflections on the art of conducting by Boult himself.
Compiled by ARTHUR JOHNSON