Vaughan Williams - Symphony No. 7 'Sinfonia antartica'
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Special offer. Vaughan Williams: Sinfonia Antartica, Concerto for Two Pianos & Four Last Songs
RecommendedMari Eriksmoen (soprano), Louis Lortie, Hélène Mercier (pianos), Roderick Williams (baritone)
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Andrew Davis
Either [Lortie] or Hélène Mercier could probably polish off the original [Concerto] by themselves, but their partnership develops its intensity without strain, particularly attractive in rich... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 29th September 2017
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2017
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Diapason d’Or, December 2017, Nouveauté
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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.... — More…
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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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Special offer. Vaughan Williams: Symphonies Nos. 7 ‘Sinfonia Antartica’ & 9
RecommendedRowan Pierce (soprano) & Timothy West (narrator)
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Ladies of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Choir, Andrew Manze
One big paragraph after another grows and surges unerringly. There are fine individual contributions too. Timothy West’s vivid reading of the superscriptions to each of the Sinfonia antartica’s... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 24th May 2019
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Record Review, 1st June 2019, Record of the Week
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Vaughan Williams: Sinfonia antartica & Symphony No 9
Elizabeth Watts (soprano)
BBC Symphony Chorus, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Martyn Brabbins
This could be just the recording both these symphonies need. — More…
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Special offer. Ralph Vaughan Williams: Complete Symphonies
Susan Gritton (soprano), Gerald Finley (bass-baritone), Rebecca Evans (soprano), Mari Eriksmoen, Bergen Philharmonic Choir, Edvard Grieg Kor
London Symphony Chorus, London Symphony Orchestra, Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Richard Hickox, Sir Andrew Davis
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Vaughan Williams: Symphonies Nos. 1-9
RecommendedMargaret Ritchie (soprano), John Gielgud (speaker), London Philharmonic Choir, Isobel Baillie (soprano), John Cameron (baritone)
London Philharmonic Orchestra, Adrian Boult
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Building a Library, May 2005, Historic Choice
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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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: 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. — More…
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Record Review, 4th June 2022, Record of the Week
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Special offer. Holst: The Planets
Works By Vaughan Williams, Walton and Butterworth
BBC Symphony Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Adrian Boult
the pick of the present generous collection comprising his thrillingly powerful traversal with the BBC SO from the 1973 Proms of Holst’s The Planets. With Boult at the helm of the orchestra... — More…
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Vaughan Williams: Symphony No. 7 'Sinfonia antartica' & Overture from The Wasps
Lawrance Collingwood (organ), Margaret Ritchie (soprano)
Hallé Choir, Hallé Orchestra, Sir John Barbirolli
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