Hymns of Vaughan Williams

It's striking how many of the New English Hymnal's favourites are actually VW's own creations, mostly as 'Anon'. Hughes and his Cardiff voices do robust justice to this richly melodic selection. — BBC Music Magazine, August 2008, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 4th Aug 2008
Catalogue No: GCCD4063
Label: Griffin

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Vaughan Williams: For all the saints (Sine nomine)

Cardiff Festival Choir
Owain Arwel Hughes

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

Cardiff Festival Choir
Owain Arwel Hughes

Vaughan Williams: At the name of Jesus every knee shall bow

Cardiff Festival Choir
Owain Arwel Hughes

Vaughan Williams: The king of love my shepherd is

Cardiff Festival Choir
Owain Arwel Hughes

Vaughan Williams: He who would valiant be

Cardiff Festival Choir
Owain Arwel Hughes

Vaughan Williams: I vow to thee my country

Cardiff Festival Choir
Owain Arwel Hughes

Vaughan Williams: Jesus Christ is risen today

Cardiff Festival Choir
Owain Arwel Hughes

Vaughan Williams: All creatures of our God and king

Cardiff Festival Choir
Owain Arwel Hughes

Vaughan Williams: Welcome day of the lord

Cardiff Festival Choir
Owain Arwel Hughes

Vaughan Williams: Rest of the weary

Cardiff Festival Choir
Owain Arwel Hughes

Vaughan Williams: Saviour again, to thy dear name we raise

Cardiff Festival Choir
Owain Arwel Hughes

Vaughan Williams: Teach me, my God and king

Cardiff Festival Choir
Owain Arwel Hughes

Vaughan Williams: Fierce raged the tempest over the deep

Cardiff Festival Choir
Owain Arwel Hughes

Vaughan Williams: Into the wood the master went

Cardiff Festival Choir
Owain Arwel Hughes

Vaughan Williams: God be wit hyou till we meet again

Cardiff Festival Choir
Owain Arwel Hughes

Vaughan Williams: England arise the long night is over

Cardiff Festival Choir
Owain Arwel Hughes

Vaughan Williams: It is a thing most wonderful

Cardiff Festival Choir
Owain Arwel Hughes

Vaughan Williams: The night is come like to the day

Cardiff Festival Choir
Owain Arwel Hughes

Vaughan Williams: Servants of the great adventure

Cardiff Festival Choir
Owain Arwel Hughes

Vaughan Williams: Servants of God, or sons

Cardiff Festival Choir
Owain Arwel Hughes

Vaughan Williams: Let us now praise famous men

Cardiff Festival Choir
Owain Arwel Hughes

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With Vaughan Williams and the Cardiff Festival Choir comes a strength of a different kind. This derives partly from the performers, but largely from RVW who,...having to find harmonies for tunes, did so in a way that suited their character...The Choir perform with spirit,...the women...with unfailing beauty of tone" (Gramophone) Since his student days Ralph Vaughan Williams had been delving into the roots of English music through a study of folksong and Elizabethan and Jacobean music.. He believed passionately in preserving such material saying in lectures given in 1902-3 that 'the collector of folk songs gives them back again to the world...will they not, perhaps, once more make their way back to the mouths of the people?' He was aware that for many people music sung in church was their one experience of practical music making each week 'and it was all too unworthy both of their faith and of music itself' (RVW Ursula Vaughan Williams OUP 1964).

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August 2008

It's striking how many of the New English Hymnal's favourites are actually VW's own creations, mostly as 'Anon'. Hughes and his Cardiff voices do robust justice to this richly melodic selection.

Hymns of Vaughan Williams

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