Orchestral, Butterworth, G (composer)
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Special offer. Vaughan Williams: A London Symphony
Recommendedoriginal 1913 version
London Symphony Orchestra, Richard Hickox
Hickox and the London Symphony Orchestra have come up with a recording that you can cheerfully measure against most others in the catalogue, before you consider its unique extra charms! —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 1st December 2008
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Gramophone Awards, 2001, Recording of the Year
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2001, Editor's Choice
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Building a Library, November 2016, Also Recommended
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Special offer. Butterworth: A Shropshire Lad; Holst: Egdon Heath, St. Paul's Suite
RecommendedAndrew Manze (violin), Cormac Henry, Helena Mackie, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
The playing and recording are superlative and this moving collection can be recommended without reservation. —
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2025, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recording of the Week, 31st October 2025
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2025
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Special offer. George Butterworth: Orchestral Works
RecommendedJames Rutherford (baritone)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Kriss Russman
[Russman] brings out the poignant lyricism with exceptional freshness and strength…to the AE Housman settings James Rutherford brings characteristic mellow-toned vigour and expressive delivery…congratulations... —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2016
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Special offer. Vaughan Williams: Symphony No. 2 'A London Symphony', etc.
original 1913 version
London Symphony Orchestra, Richard Hickox
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Special offer. Holst: The Planets
Works By Vaughan Williams, Walton and Butterworth
Alan Harverson (soloist), Margaret Marshall (soloist), BBC Symphony Orchestra, BBC Symphony Chorus, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Adrian Boult
the pick of the present generous collection comprising his thrillingly powerful traversal with the BBC SO from the 1973 Proms of Holst’s The Planets. With Boult at the helm of the orchestra... —
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Boult conducts ...
Herbert Downes (viola), Desmond Bradley & Gillian Eastwood (violins), Albert Cayzer (viola) & Norman Jones (cello)
London Philharmonic Orchestra, New Philharmonia Orchestra, Sir Adrian Boult
…sympathetic accounts… Butterworth's Two English Idylls, The Banks of Freen Willow and the sublime Shropshire Lad rhapsody. Tension levels rise markedly for exceptionally insightful readings... —
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Very Best of English Song
RecommendedDame Janet Baker (mezzo), Gerald Moore (piano), Sir Thomas Allen (baritone), Geoffrey Parsons (piano), Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenor), David Willison (piano), Ian Partridge (tenor), Janet Craxton (piano), Ian Bostridge (tenor), Julius Drake (piano), Jonathan Lemalu (bass-baritone), Roger Vignoles...
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Building a Library, June 2018, Also recommended
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Building a Library, January 2021, Recommended orchestral version (Songs of Travel)
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There's a touch of genius about Bryn Terfel.
To those who've known most of these songs since childhood and heard them well performed innumerable times, it will come not quite as a revelation... —Awards:
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Building a Library, January 2021, Recommended Recording
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British Composers: A Celebration
RecommendedRichard Rodney Bennett (piano), Ian Hare (piano), Robert Tear (vocals), Sir Andrew Davis (piano), Bruce Russell (vocals), Richard Lewis (vocals), Monica Sinclair (vocals), Lewis Thomas (vocals), Geoffrey Walls (baritone), John Hauxwell (bass-baritone), Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (soprano), Wilfred Brown...
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Building a Library, June 2018, Also Recommended
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Coming soon. Vaughan Williams, Butterworth & Moeran
BBC Symphony Orchestra, Philharmonia Orchestra, Sir Adrian Boult
