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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! — John Armstrong, bbc.co.uk, 20th November 2002
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Presto Recording of the Week
1st December 2008
Gramophone Magazine
July 2001
Editor's Choice
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Contents
Richard Hickox, London Symphony Orchestra Richard Hickox, London Symphony Orchestra
Further Reading
David picks out some top recordings of the works of English composer Ralph Vaughan Williams.
20th November 2002
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!
2010
It was during the summer of 1911 that George Butterworth, whose enchanting 1913 idyll, The Banks of Green Willow, comprises the achingly poignant curtainraiser here, first suggested to Vaughan Williams that he should write a purely orchestral symphony.
June 2014
Hickox and the LSO strike again in this award-winning recording, which turns back the clock on the various revisions to the symphony and presents the original 1913 version.
