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Ralph Vaughan Williams; Lennox Berkeley; Peter Warlock: Colourise
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London Choral Sinfonia, Roderick Williams, Andrew Staples, Elena Urioste, 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... — BBC Music Magazine, October 2022, 4 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 5 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…
- Release Date: 15th Jul 2022
- Catalogue No: ORC100200
- Label: Orchid Classics
- Length: 63 minutes
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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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Vaughan Williams - Choral Works
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from 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... — BBC Music Magazine, July 2008, 5 out of 5 stars More…
- Release Date: 2nd Jun 2008
- Catalogue No: CDS443214
- Label: Hyperion
- Length: 4 hours 41 minutes
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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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Very Best of English Song
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Dame Janet Baker (mezzo), Gerald Moore (piano), Sir Thomas Allen (baritone), Geoffrey Parsons (piano), Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenor), David Willison (piano), Ian Partridge (tenor), Janet Craxton (piano), Ian Bostridge (tenor), Julius Drake (piano), Jonathan Lemalu (bass-baritone), Roger Vignoles...
- Release Date: 5th Mar 2012
- Catalogue No: 6805132
- Label: Warner Classics
- Series: British Composers
- Length: 6 hours 25 minutes
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Building a Library, June 2018, Also recommended
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Building a Library, January 2021, Recommended orchestral version (Songs of Travel)
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Vaughan Williams - Serenade to Music
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)
English Chamber Orchestra,...
In 1938 Sir Henry Wood celebrated his 50 years as a professional conductor with a concert.
Vaughan Williams composed a work for the occasion, the Serenade to Music, in which he set words by... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…- Catalogue No: CDA66420
- Label: Hyperion
- Length: 68 minutes
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Edith Wiens (soprano), Brian Rayner Cook (baritone)
London Philharmonic Choir, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Bryden Thomson
Two of Vaughan Williams’ finest vocal works in excellent performances. — MusicWeb International, March 2020 More…
- Catalogue No: CHAN8590
- Label: Chandos
- Length: 56 minutes
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Sarah Walker (mezzo soprano), Henry Herford (baritione)
Guildford Choral Society, The Philharmonia Orchestra, Hilary Davan Wetton
- Catalogue No: CDH55004
- Label: Helios
- Length: 66 minutes
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Special offer. The English Song Series Volume 3 - Vaughan Williams 1
Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenor), Simon Keenlyside (baritone), Graham Johnson (piano)
Duke Quartet
Anthony Rolfe Johnson and Simon Keenlyside both have ideal voices for this repertoire - the performances are deeply felt. — David Smith, Presto Music, June 2014 More…
- Release Date: 3rd Jan 2003
- Catalogue No: 8557114
- Label: Naxos
- Series: English Song Series
- Length: 78 minutes
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Cecil Aronowitz (viola), Ian Partridge (tenor), John Shirley-Quirk (baritone), John Westbrook (speaker), John Eaton (treble), Nigel Perrin (alto), Robin Doveton (tenor), David van Asch (bass), Wilfred Brown (tenor), Philip Langridge (tenor), Dame Janet Baker (mezzo-soprano), Philip Fowke (piano),...
- Release Date: 4th Apr 2011
- Catalogue No: 0954332
- Label: Warner Classics
- Series: British Composers
- Length: 5 hours 50 minutes
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Building a Library, June 2018, Also Recommended
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Hickox conducts Vaughan Williams
Stephen Roberts, Roger Winfield, Bradley Creswick
Northern Sinfonia, Richard Hickox
- Catalogue No: 5739862
- Label: Warner Classics
- Series: British Composers
- Length: 2 hours 35 minutes
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Choir of the World
Tower New Zealand Youth Choir, Karen Grylls
- Release Date: 11th Apr 2005
- Catalogue No: MMT2029
- Label: Morrison Music Trust
- Length: 53 minutes
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