Ralph Vaughan Williams: Pan's Anniversary and Other Works

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The vernal setting of that 1905 production with its costumed actors, dancers and musicians undoubtedly cast a spell. Stripped of these visual elements, and with Vaughan Williams not quite his... — BBC Music Magazine, August 2022, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 17th Jun 2022
Catalogue No: ALBCD054
Label: Albion Records
Series: Vaughan Williams 150
Length: 71 minutes

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Holst: Dances and Folk Song Setting from Pan's Anniversary

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Samuel West (Narrator), Thomas Gould (violin), Thomas Hancox (piccolo), Mary Bevan, Joy Farrall (clarinet), Timothy West (Narrator), Sophie Bevan, William Lockhart (percussion), Jess Dandy
Choir of Clare College Cambridge, Britten Sinfonia
William Vann

Introduction

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Presentation of the Nymphs

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Well Done My Pretty Ones

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Loud Music

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Room for an Old Trophy of Time

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Entry of the Boeotians

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Three Dances

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How Like You This, Shepherd

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Of Pan We Sing

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Entry of the Masquers

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Pan Is Our All

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Pavan

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If Yet, If Yet

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The Revels

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Room, Room, There

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Entry of the Thebans

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Shepherd’s Hey

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Now Let Them Return

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Great Pan

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Now Each Return Unto His Charge

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Final Music

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Vaughan Williams: Margery Wentworth

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Arr. C. Gordon for Baritone, Choir & Orchestra
Johnny Herford
Choir of Clare College Cambridge, Britten Sinfonia
William Vann

Vaughan Williams: Peace, Come Away

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Arr. C. Gordon for Voices & Wind Instruments
Choir of Clare College Cambridge, Britten Sinfonia
William Vann

Vaughan Williams: To Sleep! To Sleep!

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Ed. C. Gordon
Choir of Clare College Cambridge, Britten Sinfonia
William Vann

Tallis: Tunes for Archbishop Parker's Psalter

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Choir of Clare College Cambridge
William Vann

No. 3, Why Fum'th in Sight

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Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis

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Arr. T. Burke for Voices & String Octet
Choir of Clare College Cambridge, Britten Sinfonia
William Vann

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In 2022, we celebrate Vaughan Williams's 150th birthday, and the pinnacle of Albion Record's contribution to this important milestone is this Pan's Anniversary album, which contains five world premiere recordings.

First, Ben Jonson's masque Pan's Anniversary, as adapted for the Shakespeare Birthday Celebration at Stratford-upon-Avon, with incidental music by Ralph Vaughan Williams. At the heart of the music are four great Hymns to Pan for three female soloists, chorus and orchestra. Time was short, so Vaughan Williams delegated some of the dance arrangements to his friend Gustav Holst. The work was performed just once, on Easter Monday 1905 and was reconstructed for this recording.

There are two spoken parts, played here by Timothy West and Samuel West. The soloists Mary Bevan, Sophie Bevan and Jess Dandy are joined by the Choir of Clare College, Cambridge, and Britten Sinfonia under the baton of William Vann. Thomas Gould, the leader of Britten Sinfonia, plays some dances arranged for solo violin, and violin with side-drum.

In addition to this major work, we have three shorter (but lovely) premieres. Peace, Come Away and To Sleep! To Sleep! are two settings of poems by Tennyson that Vaughan Williams wrote when he was a student. They have been orchestrated and edited by the composer Christopher Gordon, who also orchestrated Margery Wentworth, a much later setting of poetry by John Skelton.

Finally, Timothy Burke made an arrangement of the Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis for voices and string octet as an innovative lockdown project. This is the first full recording with the choir (of 39) and octet under one roof. The words set in the Fantasia were taken from the English translation of Psalm 65 from Archbishop Parker's Psalter, the source for Tallis's original setting, which is also heard on the disc.

This ambitious project has been generously supported by The Vaughan Williams Charitable Trust and by many members of The Ralph Vaughan Williams Society.

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August 2022

The vernal setting of that 1905 production with its costumed actors, dancers and musicians undoubtedly cast a spell. Stripped of these visual elements, and with Vaughan Williams not quite his fully-formed self, the masque seems more a worthy curiosity despite William Vann’s direction of his excellent musicians, with Timothy and Samuel West taking the spoken parts.

Sep/Oct 2022

[Tallis Fantasia] a skilled, thoughtful, beautiful adaptation that is, I dare say, inspired. The Choir of Clare College, Cambridge, and the string players from the Britten Sinfonia really outdo themselves here in a marvelous fusion of elegance and passion

September 2022

Exemplary production and presentation, as is customary from this source. RVW mavens will surely want to investigate.

19th June 2022

I’ll return most often to a student choral creation, To Sleep! To Sleep!, circa 1896 (blessed with an immediately striking opening phrase), and the album’s finale: a recent arrangement by Timothy Burke of VW’s Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis, featuring 39 voices from Clare College, Cambridge, weaving wondrously radiant textures above the Britten Sinfonia strings. Most inspiring.

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