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Vaughan Williams: On Wenlock Edge & other songs
Nicky Spence (tenor), Julius Drake (piano), Timothy Ridout (viola), Piatti Quartet
The famous cycle On Wenlock Edge (1909) has of ten been recorded, but this is a fine rendering with ‘Bredon Hill’ providing some particularly sublime moments. As always Julius Drake’s accompanying... —
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BBC Music Magazine, May 2022, Choral & Song Choice
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Presto Editor's Choice, April 2022
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Gramophone Awards, 2022, Shortlisted - Song
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Chamber Music
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Vaughan Williams: Songs of Travel
James Gilchrist (tenor), Philip Dukes (viola), Anna Tilbrook (piano)
His sound is certainly mellifluous, his phrasing poised yet fluent, but the overall interpretation is uneven…Gilchrist deliver ‘Let Beauty Awake’ very beautifully, and the other more lyrical... —
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New. Vaughan Williams: Landscapes
Cyrille Dubois (tenor), Anne Le Bozec, Louise Desjardins, Emeline Concé, Baptiste Gibier, Louis Rodde, Julien Dieudegard
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Portraits of A Mind
Venables & Vaughan Williams
Alessandro Fisher (tenor), Navarra Quartet, William Vann (piano)
The cycle's five songs are exceptionally well sung by Alessandro Fisher, who convincingly encompasses emotions stretching from the balmy pastoralism of the opening ‘The Lark Ascending’ (with... —
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Gramophone Awards, 2024 Shortlist, Shortlisted - Voice & Ensemble
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Vaughan Williams: Dona nobis pacem & Toward the Unknown Region
RecommendedJudith Howarth (soprano & Sir Thomas Allen (baritone), John Mark Ainsley (tenor) & Matthew Souter (viola), Sir Thomas Allen (baritone)
Corydon Singers, Corydon Orchestra, Matthew Best
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Building a Library, July 2017, First Choice
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Vaughan Williams: Viola Fantasia - Works For Viola And Piano
Martin Outram (viola), Julian Rolton (piano), Mark Padmore (tenor)
Outram catches poetically the vein of pastoral contemplation which runs through the first five of the Six Studies in English Folksong, and turns in a puckish ‘As I Walked Over London Bridge’... —
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Special offer. Vaughan Williams & Warlock
Dame Janet Baker & Ian Partridge
Music Group of London, Choir of King's College, Cambridge, Baccholian Singers & Guildford Cathedral Choir
Classic 1970s recordings by the Partridge siblings, and such luminaries as Janet Craxton. On Wenlock Edge - chamber version - still sounds excellent, while the Warlock disc is distinctly special. —
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O Gladsome Light
Sacred Songs, Hymns and Meditations
Lawrence Wiliford (tenor), Steven Philcox (piano), Marie Bérard (violin), Keith Hamm (viola)
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The Solent
Fifty years of music by Ralph Vaughan Williams
Roland Wood (baritone), Andrew Kennedy (tenor) & Nicholas Bootiman (viola)
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Paul Daniel
Clearly impressed by the Three Impressions, the RLPO and Paul Daniel perform them excellently, and the other items also. —
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Special offer. Vaughan Williams: The New Collector's Edition
Vaughan Williams Edition 2022, Malcolm Stewart, Piers Lane (piano), Vitya Vronsky, Victor Babin, Norma Burrowes (soprano), Sheila Armstrong (soprano), Marie Hayward, Susan Longfield, Alfreda Hodgson (contralto), Shirley Minty (contralto), Meriel Dickinson, Gloria Jennings, Ian Partridge (tenor),...
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Original price ($114.50) Reduced price $91.60