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Vaughan Williams - Five Variants of ‘Dives and Lazarus'
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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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[the Tallis Fantasia] is tight-reined, yet also singing and surging with no trace of anti-Romantic tendentiousness...But what makes this release so special is Elder and the Hallé's interpretation... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, January 2015, Disc of the month
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2015, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2015, Finalist - Orchestral
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Vaughan Williams - Willow-Wood
Roderick Williams (baritone)
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, David Lloyd-Jones
Roderick Williams's beautifully phrased and enunciated singing in Willow-Wood proclaims him an heir to the great tradition of British baritones. Under the reliable David Lloyd-Jones, the orchestra... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2005, Editor's Choice
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Vaughan Williams: In the Fen Country, etc.
RecommendedMichael Davis (violin)
London Philharmonic Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, Bryden Thomson
A most attractive compilation. — More…
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Building a Library, May 2002, Runner-Up
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Vaughan Williams: Five Tudor Portraits & 5 Variants of 'Dives & Lazarus'
Jean Rigby (mezzo-soprano), John Shirley-Quirk (baritone)
London Symphony Chorus, London Symphony Orchestra, Richard Hickox
First heard at the 1936 Norwich Festival, Vaughan Williams's Five Tudor Portraits find the composer at his most dazzlingly inventive, the resourceful and witty writing fitting Skelton's words... — More…
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Special offer. Vaughan Williams
Sarah Chang (violin), Christopher Balmer, Ian Partridge, Anthony Rolfe Johnson, David Willison, Norma Burrowes, Sheila Armstrong, Susan Longfield, Marie Hayward (soprano), Alfreda Hodgson, Gloria Jennings, Shirley Minty, Meriel Dickinson (contralto), Bernard Dickerson, Wynford Evans, Kenneth Bowen...
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A Portrait of Vaughan Williams
Michael Bochmann (violin), Margaret Campbell (flute), Colin Lilley (flute), Audrey Douglas (harp), Maurice Bourgue (oboe), Susan Lynn (violin), Pierre Joubert (violin), Helen Roberts (viola), Thomas Waddington (cello), Timothy Mirfin, Peter Gritton, Ian Barratt, David Le Monnier, Paul Martin, Jonathan...
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Elegy - Works By William Lloyd Webber, Herbert Howells, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Gerald Finzi, Edward Elgar
Rimma Sushanskaya, Philip Dukes
National Symphony Orchestra
Herbert Howells’s Elegy for Viola, String and String Orchestra gives this album its title, and there’s no doubting the eloquence of soloist Philip Dukes’s interpretation, nor the intensity drawn... — More…
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Special offer. The Essential Vaughan Williams
Hugh Bean (violin), Dame Janet Baker (mezzo-soprano) & Gerald Moore (piano), Ian Bostridge (tenor) & Julius Drake (piano), Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenor) & David Willison (piano), Norma Burrowes, Sheila Armstrong, Susan Longfield, Marie Hayward (soprano), Alfreda Hodgson, Gloria Jennings,...
