Latest News: Classical, Vaughan Williams (composer)
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Recording of the Week,
Vaughan Williams from the Hallé and Mark Elder 25th February 2013
Following a splendid London Symphony last year, Elder and his Manchester orchestra continue a cycle which is shaping up to be one of the finest modern sets on disc with magnificent accounts of the Fifth and Eighth symphonies, with the Hallé’s horns emerging as first among equals.
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Recording of the Week,
Vaughan Williams’s The Garden of Proserpine 6th June 2011
Paul Daniel and the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra make a splendid case for Vaughan Williams’s early setting of poetry by Algernon Charles Swinburne for solo soprano, chorus and orchestra, coupled with In the Fen Country.
