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Cecil Aronowitz (viola), Ian Partridge (tenor), John Shirley-Quirk (baritone), John Westbrook (speaker), John Eaton (treble), Nigel Perrin (alto), Robin Doveton (tenor), David van Asch (bass), Wilfred Brown (tenor), Philip Langridge (tenor), Dame Janet Baker (mezzo-soprano), Philip Fowke (piano),...

Vaughan Williams, Finzi & Holst

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A 5CD set containing titles from the acclaimed EMI British Composers series, based around the music of Ralph Vaughan Williams and his contemporaries; Gerald Finzi, Arnold Bax and Gustav Holst.

Artists

Cecil Aronowitz (viola), Ian Partridge (tenor), John Shirley-Quirk (baritone), John Westbrook (speaker), John Eaton (treble), Nigel Perrin (alto), Robin Doveton (tenor), David van Asch (bass), Wilfred Brown (tenor), Philip Langridge (tenor), Dame Janet Baker (mezzo-soprano), Philip Fowke (piano), Graham Green & Bruce Blyth (trebles)

Jacques Orchestra, English Chamber Orchestra, Choir of King’s College, Cambridge, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Liverpool Philharmonic Choir, New Philharmonia Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, Purcell Singers, Sir David Willcocks, Christopher Finzi, Richard Hickox, Sir Adrian Boult, André Previn, Imogen Holst

Contents and tracklist

Vaughan Williams: An Oxford Elegy
Work length22:03
  • John Westbrook [1]-[18] (announcer), John Westbrook (vocals), Robin Doveton [19] (tenor), Ian Partridge [35] (tenor), Cecil Aronowitz [20]-[25] (viola)
  • Jacques Orchestra [1]-[18], [20]-[25], Knabenstimmen Des Choir Of King's College, Cambridge (Fernchor) [26], [30], [34], London Symphony Orchestra, Choir of King's College Cambridge, Bach Choir [26]-[35], Jacques Orchestra
  • Sir David Willcocks
  • Recorded: 1968-07-30
  • Recording Venue: 30 July 1968, Chapel of Trinity College, Cambridge
(Lento)
Track length2:02
Go, for they call you, Shepherd
Track length1:04
Here will I sit and wait
Track length1:45
Screen'd is this nook
Track length0:48
That sweet city
Track length1:39
Come, let me read
Track length1:05
Or in my boat I lie
Track length0:48
And once, in winter
Track length1:11
But what - I dream!
Track length0:36
No, no, thou hast not felt
Track length1:35
Runs it not here
Track length0:43
Needs must I, with heavy heart
Track length1:02
Soon will the high Midsummer pomps
Track length1:28
He hearkens not!
Track length0:53
Never more
Track length0:57
Yes, thou art gone!
Track length1:48
Despair I will not
Track length1:16
Why faintest thou?
Track length1:23
Vaughan Williams: Whitsunday Hymn
Work length3:56
  • John Westbrook [1]-[18] (announcer), Robin Doveton (vocals), Robin Doveton [19] (tenor), Cecil Aronowitz [20]-[25] (viola), Ian Partridge [35] (tenor)
  • London Symphony Orchestra, Knabenstimmen Des Choir Of King's College, Cambridge (Fernchor) [26], [30], [34], Jacques Orchestra [1]-[18], [20]-[25], Choir of King's College Cambridge, Bach Choir [26]-[35]
  • Sir David Willcocks
  • Recorded: 1968-07-31
  • Recording Venue: 31 July 1968, Chapel of Trinity College, Cambridge
Vaughan Williams: Flos Campi
Work length19:57
1. Sicut Lilium inter spinas (Lento) -
Track length2:47
2. Jam enim hiems transiit (Andante con moto) -
Track length3:26
3. Quaesivi quem diligit anima mea (Lento - Allegro moderato) -
Track length3:07
4. En lectulum Salomonis (Moderato alla marcia) -
Track length1:42
5. Revertere, revertere Sulamitis! (Andante quasi lento) -
Track length3:06
6. Pone me ut signaculum (Moderato tranquillo)
Track length5:49
Vaughan Williams: Sancta Civitas
Work length31:11
I was in the spirit (Lento)
Track length4:49
And I saw Heaven opened (Allegro)
Track length2:21
And I saw an angel standing in the sun (Meno mosso)
Track length1:30
Babylon the great is fallen (Lento)
Track length4:15
Rejoice over her O Heavens (Allegro moderato)
Track length3:13
And I saw a new heaven (Adagio)
Track length4:58
Therefore are they before the throne of God (Poco meno largo)
Track length1:09
And I saw a pure river
Track length2:41
Holy, Holy, Holy (Andante sostenuto)
Track length2:58
Heaven and earth are full of Thy glory (Poco animato)
Track length3:17
Vaughan Williams: Five Mystical Songs (1989 - Remaster)
Work length13:31
1. Easter
Track length5:12
2. I got me flowers
Track length2:53
3. Love bade me welcome
Track length5:26
Vaughan Williams: The Call (No. 4 from Five Mystical Songs)
Work length2:08
Vaughan Williams: Five Mystical Songs: Antiphon
Work length3:19
Vaughan Williams: O Clap Your Hands (Psalm 47)
Work length3:17
Holst: A Choral Fantasia, H177
Work length17:15
This work is only available as an album download.
Holst: Psalm 86
Work length8:04
Finzi: Dies natalis, Op.8 (1990 Digital Remaster)
Work length23:47
  • Wilfred Brown (vocals)
  • English Chamber Orchestra
  • Christopher Finzi
  • Recorded: 1963-09-26
  • Recording Venue: 26 September 1963, No. 1 Studio, Abbey Road, London
1. Intrada -
Track length5:06
2. Rhapsody (Recitativo stromentato)
Track length6:30
3. The Rapture (Danza)
Track length3:33
4. Wonder (Arioso)
Track length4:21
5. The Salutation (Aria)
Track length4:17
Vaughan Williams: Mass in G minor
Work length24:17
Kyrie
Track length3:55
Gloria
Track length4:05
Credo
Track length6:58
Sanctus - Osanna I - Benedictus - Osanna II
Track length5:29
Agnus Dei
Track length3:50
Finzi: Lo, the Full, Final Sacrifice, Op. 26
Work length13:59
This work is only available as an album download.
Bax: Mater Ora Filium
Work length2:26
This work is only available as an album download.
Finzi: God is gone up, Op. 27 No. 2
Work length4:31
Bax: I sing of a maiden that is makeless
Work length3:54
Bax: This Worldes Joie
Work length6:18
Finzi: Magnificat, Op. 36
Work length9:21
Finzi: Intimations of Immortality, Op. 29
Work length45:09
There was a time when meadow, grove, and stream
Track length9:37
The rainbow comes and goes
Track length2:16
Now, while the birds thus sing a joyous song
Track length5:06
Ye blessèd, I have heard the call
Track length5:51
Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting
Track length3:58
Earth fills her lap with pleasures of her own
Track length1:21
O joy! that in our embers
Track length8:16
Then sing, ye birds, sing, sing a joyous song
Track length3:46
And O, ye Fountains, Meadows, Hills, and Groves
Track length4:58
Finzi: Grand Fantasia and Toccata, Op. 38
Work length15:42
Molto grave
Track length9:36
Allegro vigoroso
Track length6:06
Holst: The Perfect Fool, Op. 39 / H 150: Ballet Music
Work length10:40
Andante -
Track length0:56
Dance of Spirits of Earth (Moderato - Andante) -
Track length3:39
Dance of Spirits of Water (Allegretto)
Track length2:46
Dance of Spirits of Fire (Allegro moderato)
Track length3:19
Holst: Egdon Heath, a homage to Thomas Hardy, Op.47
Work length14:38
This work is only available as an album download.
Holst: The Planets, Op. 32
Work length51:07
Mars, the Bringer of War
Track length7:19
Venus, the Bringer of Peace
Track length8:52
Mercury, the Winged Messenger
Track length4:05
Jupiter, the Bringer of Jollity
Track length8:03
Saturn, the Bringer of Old Age
Track length9:12
Uranus, the Magician
Track length6:27
Neptune, the Mystic
Track length7:09

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