High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The English conductor Sir Adrian Boult was a prolific recording artist. Unlike many musicians, he felt at home in the recording studio and was happy working without an audience. His recording career ran from November 1920, when working with Diaghilev`s Ballets Russes he recorded the ballet music, The Good-Humoured Ladies, to December 1978, when he made his final recording of music by Hubert Parry.