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Vaughan Williams

Sarah Chang (violin), Christopher Balmer, Ian Partridge, Anthony Rolfe Johnson, David Willison, Norma Burrowes, Sheila Armstrong, Susan Longfield, Marie Hayward (soprano), Alfreda Hodgson, Gloria Jennings, Shirley Minty, Meriel Dickinson (contralto), Bernard Dickerson, Wynford Evans, Kenneth Bowen...

Release Date: 5th Jul 2010
Catalogue No: 6279102
Label: Warner Classics
Series: 20th Century Classics
Length: 2 hours 35 minutes

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Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis

Work length16:19

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Sinfonia of London
Sir John Barbirolli
Recorded: 1962-05-17
Recording Venue: 17 May 1962, Temple Church, London

Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on Greensleeves

Work length4:39

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Sinfonia of London
Sir John Barbirolli
Recorded: 1962-05-11
Recording Venue: 10 & 11 May 1962, Kingsway Hall, London

Vaughan Williams: The Wasps Overture

Work length10:13

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London Philharmonic Orchestra
Vernon Handley
Recorded: 1985-01-01
Recording Venue: 24 & 25 June 1985, St Augustine's, Kilburn

Vaughan Williams: The Lark Ascending

Work length13:33

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Sarah Chang (violin)
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Bernard Haitink
Recorded: 1994-12-18
Recording Venue: 17 & 18 December 1994, No. 1 Studio, Abbey Road, London

Excerpt, Vaughan Williams: Flos Campi

Work length22:24

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Christopher Balmer/Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra/Vernon Handley/Ian Tracey/Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Choir/Malcolm Stewart, Christopher Balmer (viola)
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Choir, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
Vernon Handley
Recorded: 1986-09-30
Recording Venue: September 1986, Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool

Vaughan Williams: Five Variants of ‘Dives and Lazarus'

Work length11:25

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Jacques Orchestra
Sir David Willcocks
Recorded: 1987-01-01
Recording Venue: 31 July 1968, Chapel of Trinity College, Cambridge

Vaughan Williams: Norfolk Rhapsody No. 1

Work length10:19

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New Philharmonia Orchestra
Sir Adrian Boult
Recorded: 1968-01-23
Recording Venue: 23 January 1968, No. 1 Studio, Abbey Road, London

Vaughan Williams: On Wenlock Edge

Work length21:30

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Ian Partridge (tenor)
Music Group of London
Recorded: 1987-01-01
Recording Venue: 24 & 25 January 1970, No. 1 Studio, Abbey Road, London

I. On Wenlock Edge

Track length3:53

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II. From far, from eve and morning

Track length2:05

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III. Is my team ploughing?

Track length3:47

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IV. Oh, when I was in love with you

Track length0:43

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V. Bredon Hill

Track length7:29

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VI. Clun

Track length3:33

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Vaughan Williams: Silent Noon

Work length5:09

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Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenor), David Willison (piano)
Recorded: 2001-01-10
Recording Venue: 1974, Hornsey Town Hall

Vaughan Williams: Songs of Travel

Work length26:26

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Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenor), David Willison (piano)
Recorded: 2001-01-10
Recording Venue: 1974, Hornsey Town Hall

I. The Vagabond

Track length3:11

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II. Let beauty awake

Track length2:08

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III. The Roadside Fire

Track length2:36

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IV. Youth and Love

Track length3:50

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V. In Dreams

Track length3:00

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VI. The infinite shining heavens

Track length2:29

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VII. Whither must I wander

Track length4:22

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VIII. Bright is the ring of words

Track length2:17

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IX. I have trod the upward and the downward slope

Track length2:33

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Vaughan Williams: Serenade to Music

Work length13:17

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Alfreda Hodgson (contralto), Marie Hayward (soprano), Susan Longfield (soprano), Shirley Minty (mezzo-soprano), Sheila Armstrong (soprano), Richard Angas (bass), Norma Burrowes (soprano), Meriel Dickinson (mezzo-soprano), Wynford Evans (tenor), Bernard Dickerson (tenor), Kenneth Bowen (tenor), John Noble (baritone), John Carol Case (baritone), Ian Partridge (tenor), Gloria Jennings (contralto), Christopher Keyte (bass)
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Sir Adrian Boult
Recorded: 1969-11-05
Recording Venue: 5 November 1969, Kingsway Hall, London

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Now rightfully acknowledged as a towering figure, Vaughan Williams was the first composer to write in the English language, using folksong in the Norfolk Rhapsody, a Tudor hymn in the Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis, and absorbing and transforming his influences in the stunningly beautiful Serenade to Music.

During the 16th and 17th centuries England had been a leading participant in the delevopment of European music, but after the early death of Purcell in 1695, music in England came to be dominated by musicians of foreign origin: notably Handel and Mendelssohn. Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958) is the best-known of a new generation of composers that came after Elgar and made up what became known as the English Musical Renaissance. Along with Gustav Holst, Vaughan Williams travelled the country collecting and preserving English folksong traditions, and was largely responsible for the revival of interest in folksong. So strong was his interest in the subject that, like Holst, folksong was absorbed into his compositional style and was to influence his concert music, giving it a uniquely English quality. Starting with the evocative Thomas Tallis Fantasia, (RVW's look back at his great 16th-century predecessor) this set contains some of the composer's best-known and most-loved music, including the popular Fantasia on Greensleeves and the beautiful Lark Ascending.

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Sinfonia of London, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Choir, Jacques Orchestra, New Philharmonia Orchestra, Music Group of London, Sir John Barbirolli, Vernon Handley, Bernard Haitink, Sir David Willcocks, Sir Adrian Boult

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