Mendelssohn: Symphonies Nos. 3 ʺScottishʺ, 4 ʺItalianʺ & A Midsummer’s Night Dream

To pair with the eagerly awaited box set containing all of Adrian Boult's monophonic recordings, including many new remasterings, our retrospective begins with this Mendelssohn album featuring the London Philharmonic, an orchestra he took over in 1950, at a time when his finances were extremely precarious, and turned into one of the jewels of British music.