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Romance and Reverie: Holst and His Contemporaries
Hannah Roper (violin), Martin Jacoby (piano), Emma Tring (soprano), Valeria Clarke (harp)
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Ralph Vaughan Williams: the Pilgrim's Progress (complete Incidental Music To the 1943 Radio Play)
National Choir, BBC Wireless Symphony Orchestra, Stanford Robinson, Chris Pemberton, Sir John Gielgud (narrator), V.C. Clinton-Baddeley, Julian Somers, Cyril Gardiner, Carleton Hobbs, Alan Jeayes, Stanley Riley, Laidman Browne, Margaret Godley, Ivor Barnard, Carl Bernard, Julian D'Albie, Margaret...
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Iain Burnside presents impressive solo credentials: the serious technical demands of the Job arrangement cause him no problems, while his flair for conjuring orchestra-like colours from the... —
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Paul Daniel conducts Vaughan Williams & Patrick Hadley
Jane Irwin (mezzo-soprano), Mary Bevan (soprano) & Leigh Melrose (baritone)
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra & The Joyful Company of Singers, Paul Daniel
Performances are authoritative, atmospheric, and not at all self-conscious when dealing with rollicking monks or comedy Dutchmen. —
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Alan Rowlands & Adrian Sims play Vaughan Williams & Ireland
A Unique recording of Ralph Vaughan Williams's Sixth Symphony on two pianos.
Alan Rowlands and Adrian Sims (pianos)
splendidly lucid and spontaneous...For anyone familiar with this masterpiece it certainly makes for absorbing listening, the work's clashing harmonies and knotty counterpoint elucidated to frequently... —
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Albion’s Vision
An introduction to the Music of Ralph Vaughan Williams on Albion Records
Iain Burnside (piano), Matthew Trusler (violin), Mary Bevan (soprano), Leigh Melrose (baritone), Roderick Williams (baritone), Alan Rowlands (piano), Adrian Sims (piano), David Briggs (organ), Derek Welton (baritone), Robert B. Anderson (bass-baritone), Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Choir...
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Music in the Heart
Vaughan Williams Conducts his Serenade To Music
Sopranos: Stiles Allen*, Isobel Baillie*, Ena Mitchell, Elsie Suddaby*, Contraltos: Muriel Brunskill*, Astra Desmond*, Mary Jarred*, Gladys Ripley, Tenors: William Herbert, Richard Lewis, Stephen Manton, Heddle Nash*, Baritone/Bass: Norman Allin*, Robert Easton*, Roy Henderson*, Harold Williams*...
The exquisite centrepiece here is Vaughan Williams's own performance of the Serenade to Music from 1951, his 79th year. …there's a special warmth and magic. —
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RVW from America: Forgotten Recordings of the 50s
Arthur Whittemore, Jack Lowe, Francis Tursi, John Beavan, John Hunt, A. Stratton McAllister, Robin Hood Dell Orchestra, Cornell University Chorus, Concert Hall Chamber Orchestra, Rochester Chamber Orchestra, Vladimir Golschmann, Robert Hull
The Concerto for Two Pianos benefits from an expert performance by Whittemore andLowe – one of the top duos at the time – placed rather too prominently against the Philadelphia Orchestra. —
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Listening to the slower sections, you may pine for the original instrumentation, teasingly indicated in the arrangement’s score as particular bars pass by. On the other hand, it’s hard to resist... —
