Vaughan Williams: The New Collector's Edition
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RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
Vaughan Williams: The New Collector's Edition
Joan Rodgers, William Shimmell, Vernon Handley, Adrian Boult, Richard Hickox, Helen Watts, Janet Baker, Robert Tear, etc
[ Warner Classics / 30 CD Box Set ]
Release Date: Friday 30 September 2022
This item is only available to us via Special Import.
Celebrated as the musical poet of the English landscape, Vaughan Williams was also a visionary composer of enormous range: from the pastoral lyricism of The Lark Ascending and the still melancholy of Silent Noon to the violence of the Fourth Symphony and the grand ceremonial of 'All people that on earth do dwell', he assumed the mantle of Elgar as our national composer.
This edition presents all the major orchestral, chamber, vocal and stage works, as well as many lesser pieces and rarities, in the finest interpretations. All your favourite Vaughan Williams is here, in over 34 hours of music on 30 CDs.
"The chamber music is spearheaded by the venerable but long-lasting virtues of The Music Group of London, who perform the Second Quartet; the First is played by the Britten Quartet. On Wenlock Edge is represented by two versions. Firstly, there is Ian Patridge and The Music Group of London, and second, in the orchestral version, there's Robert Tear with Rattle and the City of Birmingham." MusicWeb
"If you want three versions of the Serenade to Music, here they are - the full choral one, the one for 16 vocal soloists and the orchestral version. There is only one version of the Tallis Fantasia but thankfully it's Silvestri's - gloriously red-bloodied. Dives and Lazarus is in the safe, sympathetic hands of David Willcocks" MusicWeb
"The playing by the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra is of the highest standard throughout, with notable solos taken by the leader and other string and wind section principals...I'd forgotten how effectively Handley paced the symphonies or how successful a symphonic set this was. He had all the attributes of his mentor and guide, Boult, but had the Liverpool orchestra playing at the top of its form - and heard in splendid sound." MusicWeb
Tracks:
Symphony No. 1 'A Sea Symphony'
Joan Rodgers (Soprano), William Shimmell (baritone)
Symphony No. 2 'A London Symphony'
Symphony No. 3 'A Pastoral Symphony'
Symphony No. 4 in F minor
Alison Barlow (soprano)
Symphony No. 6 in E minor
Symphony No. 5 in D major
Symphony No. 7 'Sinfonia antartica'
Symphony No. 8 in D minor
Symphony No. 9 in E minor
Oboe Concerto in A minor
Jonathan Small (oboe)
Serenade to Music
Partita for double string orchestra
The Wasps - Aristophanic Suite
Prelude and Fugue in C minor
David Bell (organ)
Piano Concerto in C major
Piers Lane (piano)
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Vernon Handley
Piano Concerto in C for two pianos
Vitya Vronsky and Victor Babin (pianos)
London Philharmonic Orchestra, Adrian Boult
Job - A Masque for Dancing
London Symphony Orchestra, Adrian Boult
Serenade to Music
Norma Burrowes (soprano), Sheila Armstrong (soprano), Marie Hayward (soprano), Susan Longfield (soprano), Alfreda Hodgson (contralto), Shirley Minty (contralto), Meriel Dickinson (contralto), Gloria Jennings (contralto), Ian Partridge (tenor), Bernard Dickerson (tenor), Wynford Evans (tenor), Kenneth Bowen (tenor), Richard Angas (bass), John Noble (bass), John Carol Case (bass), Christopher Keyte (bass)
English Folk Song Suite
Central Band of the RAF/Wing Commander Eric Banks
Norfolk Rhapsody No. 1
Fantasia on Greensleeves
In the Fen Country
New Philharmonia Orchestra, Adrian Boult
The Lark Ascending
Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra/Constantin Silvestri
Sea Songs: March
English Folk Song Suite
Dawn Patrol (from Coastal Command)
Concerto Grosso for String Orchestra
Romance for strings, piano and harmonica
Tuba Concerto in F minor
Philip Catelinet (tuba)
London Symphony Orchestra/John Barbirolli
Serenade to Music (orchestral version)
The Poisoned Kiss Overture
Old King Cole
Five Mystical Songs
Prelude on an Old Carol Tune
The Running Set
49th Parallel: Prelude
Sea Songs: March
Variations for Orchestra
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
Two Hymn-tune Preludes
Violin Concerto in D minor 'Concerto Accademico'
Preludes (3) on Welsh Hymn Tunes (Bryn Calfaria, Rhosymedre & Hyfrydol), for organ
String Quartet No. 1 in G minor
Violin Sonata in A minor
Phantasy Quintet
String Quartet No. 2 in A minor
Six Studies in English Folksong
Fantasia on Greensleeves
Suite For Viola And Orchestra
Herbert Downes (viola)
Toward the Unknown Region
Dona Nobis Pacem
Sheila Armstrong, soprano, John Carol Case, baritone
Fantasia on the Old 104th
Magnificat
An Oxford Elegy
John Westbrook (speaker); Jacques Orchestra
Whitsunday Hymn
Flos Campi
Sancta Civitas
Five Tudor Portraits
Benedicite
Five Variants of 'Dives and Lazarus'
Linden Lea
Wither's rocking hymn
Hodie (A Christmas Cantata)
Fantasia on Christmas Carols
Fantasia on Christmas Carols
In Windsor Forest
Songs of Travel
On Wenlock Edge
Mass in G minor
The Old Hundredth Psalm Tune 'All people that on earth do dwell'
O Taste and See
Te Deum in G
For all the saints (Sine nomine)
Preludes (3) on Welsh Hymn Tunes (Bryn Calfaria, Rhosymedre & Hyfrydol), for organ
The truth sent from above
O Little Town of Bethlehem
Joseph and Mary
And All In The Morning
Alleluya, sing to Jesus
Come down, O Love divine (Down Ampney)
The Old Hundredth Psalm Tune 'All people that on earth do dwell'
Four Hymns
Merciless Beauty
Ten Blake Songs
The Water Mill
The New Ghost
On Wenlock Edge
The House of Life
Songs of Travel
Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenor)/David Willison (piano)
Epithalamion
Riders to the Sea
Hugh the Drover
Robert Tear, Sheila Armstrong, Michael Rippon, Robert Lloyd
Sir John in Love
Felicity Palmer, Robert Tear, Robert Lloyd, Helen Watts
The Pilgrim's Progress
John Noble (The Pilgrim) Raimund Herincx (John Bunyan), John Carol Case (Evangelist)
