Interesting about Ceccato's Bolero encore...Silvestri - more than once - did the same thing in Bournemouth to much cheering !!!
No, Marc is not wrong about Boult's London première of Shostakovich 12, which took place in the RFH on 28.11.1962. Sargent's proms première was on 31.7.1963, with the programme as Michael remembers it, and the day after Stokowski's Resurrection (which I also attended).
I was too young to appreciate Stokowski's Mahler, but I do remember that, at the end, he turned to the audience and said, in his inimitable pseudo-Polish accent - "Do you want to go home now? Or do you want some more?" And played the last section again as an encore.
Vulgar, maybe, but not so vulgar as Aldo Ceccato who, in Milan in the 1980s, encored the last part of Ravel's Bolero (from where the violins take up the tune), as if we hadn't had enough.
The Boult Shostakovich 12 used to be on an Intaglio CD. I haven't done a movement-by-movement comparison with Rhozhdestvensky's Edinburgh performance, but taken on his own Boult is pretty exciting
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