Regular listeners to Radio 3's Record Review know Nigel Simeone. His book ‘Ralph Vaughan Williams and Adrian Boult’ was described by Sir Andrew Davis as ‘a revelation’ and by Sir Mark Elder as telling ‘an enormously valuable story’, which Nigel related to the Society in February of last season. This year Nigel returns to explore another of Boult's important musical relationships, his friendship with Sir Edward Elgar.

Nigel says: "Adrian Boult was a schoolboy when he first met Elgar in 1904; and in 1978, the last music he conducted in public was by Elgar. Spanning three-quarters of a century, this extraordinary association will be explored in my talk: its ups and downs, and Boult’s vital role in preserving Elgar's legacy."