Browse: Vaughan Williams - Symphony No. 6 in E minor
This page lists all recordings of Symphony No. 6 in E minor by Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958).
In the 1940s Vaughan Williams began composing film music: he discovered that it had a liberating effect on him, causing him to find more possibilities for his orchestral music.
His Sixth Symphony, first performed in 1948, was a reflection of his renewed musical explorations, and caused a sensation: it was eventually performed more than 100 times in its first year.
As with the Fourth Symphony, critics and commentators saw it as a reflection of the world war that had shortly preceded it; and again, Vaughan Williams denied this.
Vaughan Williams: The Complete Symphonies
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Ian Bostridge (tenor), Sarah Chang (violin)
London Philharmonic Orchestra, Bernard Haitink
This set presents RVW in a slightly heretical way that will appeal to those whose RVW tastes have become jaded or for those who have, for whatever reason, been put off by the mainstream cycles.... — More…
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$27.00
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Offer, Vaughan Williams: Symphonies Nos. 5 & 6
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Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Andrew Manze
Manze earns himself a large plus-point for taking the Fifth Symphony’s Scherzo second movement closer to Vaughan Williams’s ‘Presto’ tempo marking than usually happens…the music’s quicksilver... — More…
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Elder builds his climaxes carefully, and judges their relative effect with a sculptural objectivity that enhances rather than lessens the total impression…What moved me most, though, was the... — More…
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Vaughan Williams: Symphonies Nos. 1-9
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Margaret Ritchie (soprano), John Gielgud (speaker), London Philharmonic Choir, Isobel Baillie (soprano), John Cameron (baritone)
London Philharmonic Orchestra, Adrian Boult
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Vaughan Williams: Symphony No. 6, Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis & The Lark Ascending
Tasmin Little (Violin)
BBC Symphony Orchestra, Andrew Davis
Sir Andrew lives and breathes this music as to the manner born and takes his beloved BBC SO on a moving journey from shadowy darkness to blazing light. With sumptuous sound (and at a bargain... — More…
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Vaughan Williams: Symphony No. 8 in D minor, etc.
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Roderick Williams (baritone)
London Symphony Orchestra, Richard Hickox
The ending is quietly riveting - not just because it's so beautifully played, but because of the feeling it conveys that this extraordinary musical journey is coming to an end. — More…
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The jewels for me are his Vaughan Williams symphony recordings with the LSO: benchmark performances, most of them, from a conductor utterly in tune with the composer’s typical combination of... — More…
55 CDs
$174.50
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Please note: This set weighs around 2.5kg, so we need to charge extra postage for delivery outside of the UK. Please contact us for further details.
Vaughan Williams - The Symphonies
Sea Symphony: Amanda Roocroft (soprano) & Thomas Hampson (baritone); Sinfonia Antartica: Patricia Rozario (soprano), Glen Martin (saxophone), Tasmin Little (violin)
BBC Symphony Orchestra, BBC Symphony Chorus, Andrew Davis
Davis has the key to this symphony’s combination of mystery, menace and qualified optimism. — More…
6 CDs
$27.25
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Vaughan Williams - Symphonies Nos. 4-6
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John Williams (oboe)
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Constantin Silvestri, Paavo Berglund, Sir Alexander Gibson
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Vaughan Williams: Symphony No. 6 in E minor, etc.
Jean Pougnet (violin)
London Symphony Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Luton Choral Society, Sir Adrian Boult
No one else conveys that sense of dignified but profound suffering Adrian Boult sees and focuses so admirably in the Second Movement and finale of his 1949 recording. — More…
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