Excerpts from Sir Adrian Boult conducting the London Philharmonic Orchestra – with Rodney Friend as leader – and the London Philharmonic Choir, recorded in Canterbury Cathedral on the 27th and 28th March 1968 by the BBC.
One of the first classical music performances to be filmed in colour, it will be screened ahead of the last ever concert in the Adrian Boult Hall, Birmingham Conservatoire on Sunday 26 June.
Birmingham Conservatoire, part of Birmingham City University, is now preparing to move to its new £56 million home in the Eastside region of the City, currently under construction and due to open in 2017.
The full 1968 recording of ‘The Dream of Gerontius’ will receive a long-awaited double-DVD release in October this year by ICA Classics who are currently cleaning, restoring and digitally remastering the original recording, shown here.
More information: www.bcu.ac.uk/news-events/news/sir-adrian-boult
