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Ralph Vaughan Williams: Discoveries
Roderick Williams (baritone), Jennifer Johnston (mezzo-soprano)
BBC Symphony Orchestra, Martyn Brabbins
Three Nocturnes is the stand-out for me – performance, music itself, everything —
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Vaughan Williams - Folk Songs of the Four Seasons
Choir of Clare College, Cambridge & Dmitri Ensemble, Cambridge, Sir David Willcocks
Under Sir David Willcocks, there is never an impure or intrusive tone and yet no want of energy, flavour or dynamic range either. The orchestrations have the unfailing touch of a composer fully... —
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Vaughan Williams - Where Hope is Shining
Songs for mixed chorus
Ørjan Hartveit (baritone) & Alistair Young (piano), Ørjan Hartveit (baritone), Alistair Young (piano)
Joyful Company of Singers, Peter Broadbent
Technically secure and tonally rounded, the Joyful Company of Singers live up to their name throughout, but without ever sliding into over-characterisation. Well balanced, atmospheric recordings... —
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The Solent
Fifty years of music by Ralph Vaughan Williams
Roland Wood (baritone), Andrew Kennedy (tenor) & Nicholas Bootiman (viola)
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Paul Daniel
Clearly impressed by the Three Impressions, the RLPO and Paul Daniel perform them excellently, and the other items also. —
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Albion Archive Recordings of Ralph Vaughan Williams
Sebastian String Quartet, Salvation Army International Staff Band & Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, William Steinberg
Although this was a live performance [of the Tudor Portraits] slips are few and there is a real feeling of a live occasion. Nell Rankin sings with real commitment as do the choir...[Young's]... —
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Vaughan Williams: Purer Than Pearl
Songs and Duets for voices, piano and violin
William Vann (piano), Thomas Gould (violin), Mary Bevan (soprano), Jennifer Johnston (mezzo), Nicky Spence (tenor), Johnny Herford (baritone)
Mary Bevan, Nicky Spence and pianist William Vann plead the cause for [Eight Songs from The Poisoned Kiss] very persuasively…performances and recordings are high quality —
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A thoroughly attractive disc in every respect from a superb choir. —
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Vaughan Williams: The Pilgrim’s Progress
John Gielgud (Christian)
BBC Symphony Orchestra, BBC Symphony Chorus, Sir Adrian Boult
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Vaughan Williams: Stars of the Night
Songs and violin works
Matthew Trusler (violin) & Iain Burnside (piano), Roland Wood (baritone) & Iain Burnside (piano)
Wood is a fine musical story-teller, articulating words and melodies with equal sensitivity and care...The melodic architecture emerges clearly in Matthew Trusler's vital performance...Once... —
