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The Essential Vaughan Williams

Hugh Bean (violin), Dame Janet Baker (mezzo-soprano) & Gerald Moore (piano), Ian Bostridge (tenor) & Julius Drake (piano), Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenor) & David Willison (piano), Norma Burrowes, Sheila Armstrong, Susan Longfield, Marie Hayward (soprano), Alfreda Hodgson, Gloria Jennings,...

  • Release Date: 5th May 2008
  • Catalogue No: 2079922
  • Label: Warner Classics
  • Length: 2 hours 35 minutes

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Contents

Vaughan Williams: The Lark Ascending

Work length14:42
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  • Hugh Bean (violin)
  • New Philharmonia Orchestra
  • Sir Adrian Boult

Vaughan Williams: Linden Lea

Work length2:54
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  • Gerald Moore (piano), Dame Janet Baker (mezzo-soprano)

Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on Greensleeves

Work length4:39
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  • Sinfonia of London
  • Sir John Barbirolli

Vaughan Williams: Silent Noon

Work length4:18
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  • Ian Bostridge (tenor), Julius Drake (piano)

Vaughan Williams: English Folk Song Suite

Work length8:51
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  • London Symphony Orchestra
  • Sir Adrian Boult

I. March (Seventeen Come Sunday)

Track length2:56
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II. Intermezzo (My Bonny Boy)

Track length2:52
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III. March (Folk Songs from Somerset)

Track length3:03
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Vaughan Williams: Songs of Travel: I. The Vagabond

Work length3:11
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  • Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenor), David Willison (piano)

Vaughan Williams: Serenade to Music

Work length13:17
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  • Alfreda Hodgson (contralto), Bernard Dickerson (tenor), Christopher Keyte (bass), Gloria Jennings (contralto), Ian Partridge (tenor), John Carol Case (baritone), John Noble (baritone), Kenneth Bowen (tenor), Marie Hayward (soprano), Meriel Dickinson (mezzo-soprano), Norma Burrowes (soprano), Richard Angas (bass), Sheila Armstrong (soprano), Shirley Minty (mezzo-soprano), Susan Longfield (soprano), Wynford Evans (tenor)
  • London Philharmonic Orchestra
  • Sir Adrian Boult

Vaughan Williams: On Wenlock Edge (1987 Digital Remaster): I. On Wenlock Edge

Work length3:53
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  • Ian Partridge (tenor)
  • Music Group of London

Vaughan Williams: Rhosymedre

Work length3:59
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  • Academy of St Martin in the Fields
  • Sir Neville Marriner

Vaughan Williams: The Call (No. 4 from Five Mystical Songs)

Work length2:08
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  • John Shirley-Quirk (baritone)
  • English Chamber Orchestra, Choir of King's College Cambridge
  • Sir David Willcocks

Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis

Work length16:19
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  • Sinfonia of London
  • Sir John Barbirolli

Vaughan Williams: The Wasps Overture

Work length10:12
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  • London Philharmonic Orchestra
  • Sir Adrian Boult

Vaughan Williams: Loch Lomond

Work length3:42
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  • Ian Partridge (tenor)
  • London Madrigal Singers
  • Christopher Bishop

Vaughan Williams: Ca' the Yowes

Work length5:12
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  • Ian Partridge (tenor)
  • London Madrigal Singers
  • Christopher Bishop

Vaughan Williams: Five Variants of ‘Dives and Lazarus'

Work length11:25
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  • Jacques Orchestra
  • Sir David Willcocks

Vaughan Williams: O Taste and See

Work length1:44
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  • Ivan Sharpe (soprano), James Lancelot (organ)
  • Winchester Cathedral Choir
  • Martin Neary

Vaughan Williams: Job - A Masque for Dancing, Scene VII:: Pavane of the Sons of the Morning

Work length2:14
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  • London Symphony Orchestra
  • Sir Adrian Boult

Vaughan Williams: Bushes and Briars (men's voices)

Work length3:02
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  • Baccholian Singers of London (vocal ensemble)

Vaughan Williams: Five English Folk Songs: 5. Wassail Song (transcr. for men's voices)

Work length2:45
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  • Baccholian Singers of London (vocal ensemble)

Vaughan Williams: For all the saints (Sine nomine)

Work length5:07
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  • John Scott Whiteley (organ)
  • York Minster Choir
  • Philip Moore

trad.: The Truth from Above

Work length2:10
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  • Choir of King's College Cambridge
  • Sir David Willcocks

trad.: O little town of Bethlehem (v.3 arr. Ledger)

Work length3:28
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  • Francis Grier (organ)
  • Choir of King's College Cambridge
  • Philip Ledger

Vaughan Williams: Ten Blake Songs: 5. The Lamb

Work length2:17
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  • Ian Partridge (tenor), Janet Craxton (oboe)

Vaughan Williams: Sinfonia antartica: II. Scherzo (Moderato)

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  • London Philharmonic Orchestra
  • Sir Adrian Boult

Vaughan Williams: Orpheus With His Lute

Work length3:16
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  • David Daniels (countertenor), Martin Katz (piano)

Vaughan Williams: Mass in G minor – Kyrie

Work length3:55
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  • David Van Asch (bass), John Eaton (boy soprano), Nigel Perrin (countertenor), Robin Doveton (tenor)
  • Choir of King's College Cambridge
  • Sir David Willcocks

Vaughan Williams: Hodie - A Christmas Cantata: V. Choral: The blessed son of God

Work length2:34
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  • Bach Choir, Westminster Abbey Choir
  • Sir David Willcocks

Vaughan Williams: Come down, O Love divine (Down Ampney)

Work length3:43
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  • Benjamin Bayl (organ), Sioned Williams (harp), Tom Williamson (piano)
  • Choir of King's College Cambridge
  • Stephen Cleobury

Genevan Psalter 1551: All people that on earth do dwell (The Old Hundredth)

Work length4:56
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  • Benjamin Bayl (organ)
  • Choir of King's College Cambridge, The Wallace Collection
  • Stephen Cleobury
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