Ballet, Vaughan Williams (composer)
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Vaughan Williams: Job, Old King Cole & The Running Set
RecommendedRoyal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Andrew Manze
Trepidation stalks Manze's Job from the outset, the ostensibly pastoral opening shaded by an undertow of dark foreboding...All told, this is a Job rich in colour and atmosphere, projected with... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, June 2023
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2023, Editor's Choice
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BBC Music Magazine, September 2023, Orchestral Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2023
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Gramophone Awards, 2024 Winners, Orchestral
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Special offer. Vaughan Williams: Job & Symphony No. 9
RecommendedBergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Andrew Davis
a performance of striking composure, lustre and palpable dedication. Not only do the Bergen Philharmonic respond with notable poise and eagerness (solo contributions are of the highest quality... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 10th February 2017
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BBC Music Magazine, April 2017, Recording of the month
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2017, Editor's Choice
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2018, Finalist - Orchestral
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Record Review, 4th February 2017, Recording of the Week
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Vaughan Williams
RecommendedAnniversary Collectors Edition
George Maran, Ivor Newton (piano), Betty Dolemore (soprano), Robert Speaight (narrator), Harry Gabb (organ)
London String Quartet, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Luton Choral Society, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Sir Adrian Boult, Sir Henry Wood
The sole CD premiere is the 1955 On Wenlock Edge by George Maran, a German-based American tenor - pleasant-toned enough but distinctly previous in enunciation, no match for Pears/Britten, or... —
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Building a Library, October 2022, Recommended Recording
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Walton: Belshazzar's Feast
RecommendedBryn Terfel (bass-baritone)
BBC Symphony Orchestra, BBC Symphony Chorus, Sir Andrew Davis
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Building a Library, November 2011, First Choice
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Special offer. Vaughan Williams: Job - A Masque for Dancing
David Greed (violin)
English Northern Philharmonia, David Lloyd-Jones
this splendid new ENP/Lloyd-Jones recording supersedes any in my experience —
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Vaughan Williams Live, Vol. 2
Elsie Suddaby (soprano), Valentine Dyall (narrator), George Thalben-Ball (organ), Isobel Baillie, Astra Desmond, Beveridge White, Harold Williams, Choir of the Children of the Thomas Coram Schools, BBC Symphony Chorus, The BBC Symphony Orchestra, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Sir Adrian Boult
[Job] There is without question an energy and dramatic presence here that is not as evident in the studio recordings. Part of the attraction is the quality of the playing: The BSO strings have... —
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Vaughan Williams:The Lark Ascending, Greensleves & Job
David Jurwitz (violin)
Philharmonia Orchestra, Robert Haydon Clark, Barry Wordsworth
The much underrated Barry Wordsworth delivers a powerful and sensitive Job with the Philharmonia; David Juritz excels with the Consort of London in The Lark Ascending. —
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Special offer. Vaughan Williams: Job & Songs of Travel
Neal Davies (baritone), Darius Battiwalla, David Adams, Hallé Orchestra, Mark Elder
Elder’s Hallé are particularly good at catching the strongly English flavour of the work, and its umbilical connections to folk dance. The playing is sharply etched and bristling with confidence...Even... —
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BBC Music Magazine, December 2020, Orchestral Choice
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Spirit of England II
Martin Jones (piano)
English String Orchestra, English Symphony Orchestra, Philharmonia Orchestra, William Boughton
