Elgar: Symphony No. 2 - 'Rondo' from Boult's last performance

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Sir Adrian Boult made five commercial recordings of Elgar's 2nd Symphony over the years and conducted the work for the very last time at the 1977 London Proms with the BBCSO. From that Royal Albert Hall performance we hear the third movement 'Rondo' in which the composer recalled the words of Tennyson: 
"The hoofs of the horses beat, 
Beat into my scalp and my brain
With never an end to the stream of passing feet."
This comes from a CD issued recently by ICA Classics, to whom all due acknowledgements are made.

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