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Late in 1937, Boulanger returned to Britain to broadcast for the BBC and hold her popular lecture-recitals.

In November, she became the first woman to conduct a complete concert of the Royal Philharmonic Society in London, which included Fauré's Requiem and Monteverdi's Amor ( Lamento della ninfa ).

Describing her concerts, Mangeot wrote " She never uses a dynamic level louder than mezzo-forte and the takes pleasure in veiled, murmuring sonorities, from which she nevertheless obtains great power of expression.

She arranges her dynamic levels so as never to have need of fortissimo ..."