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Ralph Vaughan Williams: Early and Late Works

Guy Johnston (cello)

Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Martin Yates

The stand-out music...comes in Dark Pastoral. This is David Matthews's wonderfully skilled and imaginative, yet always-in-style completion of the slow movement of an unfinished cello concerto...Johnston's...

Ralph Vaughan Williams: Early and Late Works

Guy Johnston (cello)

Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Martin Yates

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The stand-out music...comes in Dark Pastoral. This is David Matthews's wonderfully skilled and imaginative, yet always-in-style completion of the slow movement of an unfinished cello concerto...Johnston's...

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The unplayed early works of Ralph Vaughan Williams have been a tantalising might-have-been for lovers of RVW’s music. Now, building on the success of their recording of the impressive Heroic Elegy & Triumphal Epilogue (CDLX 7237), Dutton Epoch couple world premiere recordings of RVW’s delightful Serenade in A minor (1898) and the Bucolic Suite of 1900. These tuneful discoveries are presented together with cherishable unknown scores from his maturity. David Matthews completed and orchestrated the slow movement of the unfinished Cello Concerto that Vaughan Williams was writing for Casals in the 1940s as the haunting Dark Pastoral, championed here by cellist Guy Johnston, whilst the orchestral suite from Vaughan Williams’ 1949 choral setting Folk Songs of the Four Seasons gives us a succession of delightful tunes.

Contents and tracklist

I. To the Ploughboy and May Song - Allegro moderato - Andante moderato
Track length3:22
II. To the Green Meadow and an Acre of Land - Allegro
Track length1:58
III. The Sprig of Thyme and the Lark in the Morning - Andante sostenuto - Moderato tranquillo - Tempo primo
Track length4:07
IV. The Cuckoo - Andante sostenuto
Track length1:44
V. Wassail Song and Children's Christmas Song - Allegro - Allegro moderato - Tempo primo
Track length2:58
I. Allegro
Track length3:47
II. Andante
Track length6:04
III. Intermezzo - Allegretto
Track length3:53
IV. Finale - Allegro
Track length5:49
I. Prelude - Andante sostenuto
Track length4:21
II. Scherzo - Allegro
Track length3:48
III. Intermezzo & Trio - Allegretto - Trio. Poco più mosso
Track length5:21
IV. Romance - Andantino - Appassionato
Track length8:57
V. Finale - Allegro
Track length3:59

Awards and reviews

Christmas 2012

The stand-out music...comes in Dark Pastoral. This is David Matthews's wonderfully skilled and imaginative, yet always-in-style completion of the slow movement of an unfinished cello concerto...Johnston's playing is searchingly beautiful and accurate; and as in the other works, Yates and the RSNO provide a quality contribution.

January 2013

Guy Johnston makes an impeccable soloist...Yates presides over enthusiastic, spick-and-span performances. The sound is vivid, if a touch raw
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