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Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 1 (Boyd Neel Orchestra, Boyd Neel conducting; English Decca, 6 sides). Not the most inspired of the six Brandenburgs, but here given an inspiring performance. Recording: good...
While the big orchestras thundered at night in Usher Hall, hundreds were braving the morning chill in dingy Freemasons' Hall to hear, at 11 a.m. each day, music played by a natty, pug-nosed Englishman named Boyd Neel, 43. With his "little orchestra" of ten violins, four violas, four cellos and three double basses, Neel was producing delicate performances of 18th Century and contemporary music that bigger orchestras couldn't hope to match. He was clearly the hit of Edinburgh's first week...
Medicine v. Mozart. U.S. music fans have heard Boyd Neel's orchestra only on records, if at all. Last year his 21-piece string group crossed the U.S. en route to Australia, but they flew across the U.S. in silence on a world tour, with their instruments in bond...
...Boyd Neel wanted to be a concert pianist, but gave up after one school concert. He studied medicine, got his first job in 1929 as house surgeon in London's St. George Hospital. Meanwhile he had taught himself music theory, joined an amateur orchestra for summer tours in Europe. At Salzburg, he once persuaded Bruno Walter to let him sit in his orchestra, to study Walter's ways...
Mozart: Quartet in 6 Major, K.387 (Griller String Quartet, English Decca, 8 sides). One of Mozart's greatest; the performance lacks the fire to make it great. Recording: good. Concerto in A Major, K.488 (Clifford Curzon, pianist, with the National Symphony Orchestra, Boyd Neel conducting; English Decca, 6 sides). Another great work, played by one of Britain's best pianists. In this dull, muffled recording, however, it sounds as if his piano were out in the wings...