Vaughan Williams - Serenade to Music
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Vaughan Williams: The Lark Ascending & Fantasia on a Theme By Thomas Tallis
RecommendedJames Ehnes (violin)
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Andrew Manze
The success-level here is excellently high. Collectors will savour a genuine rarity: the composer’s own orchestra-only arrangement of the Serenade to Music…the music sounds as rapturously beautiful... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2019, Orchestral Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2019, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recording of the Week, 20th December 2019
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Ralph Vaughan Williams: Serenade To Music
Isobel Baillie (soprano), Berkeley Mason, Elsie Suddaby (soprano), Madame Adami, Eva Turner, Lillian Stiles-Allen, Lilian Stiles-Allen, Muriel Brunskill, Astra Desmond, Margaret Balfour, Royal Albert Hall Orchestra (band), Mary Jarred, Walter Widdop, Percy Kahn, Parry Jones, William Thomas Best,...
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Vaughan Williams - Choral Works
Recommendedfrom CDA66420, CDA66655, CDA66511 & CDA66569
Elizabeth Connell (soprano), Amanda Roocroft (soprano), John Mark Ainsley (tenor), Martyn Hill (tenor), Maldwyn Davies (tenor), Anne Dawson (soprano), Linda Kitchen (soprano), Alan Opie (baritone), Gwynne Howell (bass), Thomas Allen (baritone), Nobuko Imai (viola), Judith Howarth (soprano), Matthew...
Best has a fine sense of VW as a dramatic composer, bringing tremendous urgency to Dona Nobis Pacem and real passion to the Five Mystical Songs. Best's Serenade to Music is the original, not... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 14th July 2008
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Building a Library, July 2017, First Choice
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Special offer. Vaughan Williams: Partita for double string orchestra, etc.
RecommendedAlison Hargan (soprano), Ian Tracey (organ)
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Choir and Orchestra, Vernon Handley
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Building a Library, October 2001, Choral Recommendation
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2011, Collection Winner
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Vaughan Williams: Orchestral Works
RecommendedLouis Lortie (piano), Carla Huhtanen (soprano), Emily D’Angelo (mezzo-soprano), Lawrence Wiliford (tenor) & Tyler Duncan (baritone), Sarah Jeffrey (oboe), Teng Li (viola)
Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Elmer Iseler Singers, Peter Oundjian
The solo playing by Toronto Symphony principal Teng Li offers deep weight of tone, rapturous phrasing, and a musical personality that mesmerises the ear; the choral singing is superbly focused... — More…
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Grammy Awards, 61st Awards (2019), Nominee - Classical Compendium
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Juno Awards, 2019, Classical Album of the Year - Large Ensemble
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Special offer. Music in the Heart
Vaughan Williams Conducts his Serenade To Music
Sopranos: Stiles Allen*, Isobel Baillie*, Ena Mitchell, Elsie Suddaby*, Contraltos: Muriel Brunskill*, Astra Desmond*, Mary Jarred*, Gladys Ripley, Tenors: William Herbert, Richard Lewis, Stephen Manton, Heddle Nash*, Baritone/Bass: Norman Allin*, Robert Easton*, Roy Henderson*, Harold Williams*...
The exquisite centrepiece here is Vaughan Williams's own performance of the Serenade to Music from 1951, his 79th year. …there's a special warmth and magic. — More…
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It’s a superbly burnished and powerful instrument: firm in the lower registers; steely but beautiful at the top, with a terrific sheen...This box is invaluable for anyone wanting to hear one... — More…
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Diapason d’Or, March 2020, Collectionneur
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2020, Reissue/Archive Issue of the Month
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Special offer. Vaughan Williams: Serenade to Music, The Lark Ascending & other favourites
RecommendedNew Philharmonia Orchestra, London Philharmonic, Sir Adrian Boult
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Building a Library, October 2001, Budget Choice
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Vaughan Williams
RecommendedAnniversary Collectors Edition
George Maran, Ivor Newton (piano), Betty Dolemore (soprano), Robert Speaight (narrator), Harry Gabb (organ)
London String Quartet, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Luton Choral Society, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Sir Adrian Boult, Sir Henry Wood
The sole CD premiere is the 1955 On Wenlock Edge by George Maran, a German-based American tenor - pleasant-toned enough but distinctly previous in enunciation, no match for Pears/Britten, or... — More…
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Special offer. Vaughan Williams - Symphony No. 5 & Serenade to Music
with Elsie Morison, Marjorie Thomas, Duncan Robertson, Trevor Anthony & chorus
London Symphony Orchestra, with chorus, Philharmonia Orchestra, Sir Malcolm Sargent, Sir John Barbirolli
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