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Special offer. 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... —
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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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Vaughan Williams: The Complete Symphonies
RecommendedIan 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.... —
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Gramophone Awards, 1986, Winner - Orchestral
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Gramophone Awards, 1990, Winner - Orchestral
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Building A Library, May 2022, Recommended Recording
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Little's stellar playing [is] brimming with gorgeous and glitz-free tone, plus a lovely range of light and shade...Little's spacious and serene way with The Lark Ascending is both beautiful,... —
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BBC Music Magazine, February 2014, Orchestral Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2014, Editor's Choice
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Pekka Kuusisto's lark does not take the usual, vertical ascent. It flutters, peruses, reflects; this flight, slower-paced and more solemn than most contemporary accounts, is highly personalised...the... —
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2026, Recording of the Month
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Special offer. Ralph Vaughan Williams; Lennox Berkeley; Peter Warlock: Colourise
RecommendedRoderick Williams (baritone), Andrew Staples (tenor), Elena Urioste (violin), London Choral Sinfonia, Michael Waldron
The Songs come in a version for string orchestra and piano, stripped down (by VW himself) from the full orchestral version used at the work’s premiere. The gain in intimacy is palpable in Michael... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, July 2022
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2022
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Special offer. Vaughan Williams: In the Fen Country, etc.
RecommendedMichael Davis (violin)
London Philharmonic Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, Bryden Thomson
A most attractive compilation. —
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Building a Library, May 2002, Runner-Up
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RecommendedNigel Kennedy (violin, viola)
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, André Previn, Simon Rattle
Kennedy is in his element, while Previn captures the lushness of the colourful score. —
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Building a Library, November 2007, Mid-Price Choice
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Building a Library, March 2023, Also Recommended
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Special offer. Vaughan Williams - Orchestral Works
Celia Nicklin (oboe), Iona Brown (violin)
Academy of St Martin in the Fields, The New Queen's Hall Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Neville Marriner, Barry Wordsworth, Adrian Boult
The sound of the LSO strings in 1910 must remain largely a matter of conjecture but this beautifully textured account on gut-string instruments cuts to the heart of the score and Wordsworth's... —
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Special offer. Vaughan Williams: Symphony No. 7 'Sinfonia Antartica' & Symphony No. 9
Hallé Orchestra, Sopranos and Altos of the Hallé Choir, Mark Elder, Matthew Hamilton
It concludes Elder and the Hallé’s cycle of Vaughan Williams’s symphonies, one which has been consistently gripping in its trenchant honesty and patient empathy for the composer’s idiom. —
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Record Review, 4th June 2022, Record of the Week
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Special offer. English Landscapes
RecommendedLyn Fletcher (violin)
Hallé Orchestra & Choir, Mark Elder
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Building a Library, December 2006, First Choice
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