The Essential Vaughan Williams Collection | EMI 2079922

The Essential Vaughan Williams Collection

Label: EMI

Cat No: 2079922

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 2

Release Date: 5th May 2008

Contents

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Celebrated as the musical poet of the English landscape, Vaughan Williams was also a visionary composer of enormous range: from the pastoral lyricism of The Lark Ascending and the still melancholy of Silent Noon to the chilly grandeur of the Sinfonia Antartica and the noisy ceremonial of ‘All people that on earth do dwell’, he assumed the mantle of Elgar as our national composer.

This essential collection presents 30 Vaughan Williams favourites on two CDs. It includes such classic recordings as The Lark Ascending with Hugh Bean, the Tallis Fantasia with Sir John Barbirolli, the Serenade to Music with Sir Adrian Boult, and the Mass in G minor with the Choir of King’s College, Cambridge, under Sir David Willcocks. Also appearing are David Daniels, Anthony Rolfe Johnson, Ian Partridge and John Shirley-Quirk.

Track Listing:
CD 1
1) The Lark Ascending Romance for violin and orchestra
Hugh Bean (violin) • New Philharmonia Orchestra • Sir Adrian Boult

2) Linden Lea: A Dorset Song (words by William Barnes)
Dame Janet Baker (mezzo-soprano) • Gerald Moore (piano)

3) Fantasia on ‘Greensleeves’
Sinfonia of London • Sir John Barbirolli

4) Silent Noon (The House of Life) (Dante Gabriel Rossetti)
Ian Bostridge (tenor) • Julius Drake (piano)

English Folk Song Suite (orch. Gordon Jacob)
5) March (Seventeen Come Sunday)
6) Intermezzo (My Bonny Boy)
7) March (Folk Songs from Somerset)
London Symphony Orchestra • Sir Adrian Boult

8) The Vagabond (Songs of Travel) (Robert Louis Stevenson)
Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenor) • David Willison (piano)

9) Serenade to Music (William Shakespeare)
Norma Burrowes • Sheila Armstrong • Susan Longfield • Marie Hayward (soprano) • Alfreda Hodgson • Gloria Jennings • Shirley Minty • Meriel Dickinson (contralto) • Ian Partridge • Bernard Dickerson • Wynford Evans • Kenneth Bowen (tenor) • Richard Angas • John Carol Case • John Noble • Christopher Keyte (bass) • London Philharmonic Orchestra • Sir Adrian Boult

10) On Wenlock Edge: the wood’s in trouble
Ian Partridge (tenor) • Music Group of London • Hugh Bean & Frances Mason (violin) • Christopher Wellington (viola) • Eileen Croxford (cello) • David Parkhouse (piano)

11) Rhosymedre (Three Preludes Founded on Welsh Hymn Tunes)
Academy of St Martin-in-the-Fields • Sir Neville Marriner

12) The Call (Five Mystical Songs) (George Herbert)
John Shirley-Quirk (baritone) • English Chamber Orchestra • Sir David Willcocks

13) Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis
Sinfonia of London • Sir John Barbirolli

CD 2
1) The Wasps: Aristophanic Suite – Overture
London Philharmonic Orchestra • Sir Adrian Boult

2) Loch Lomond (Scottish folksong arr. RVW)

3) Ca’ the Yowes (Scottish folksong arr. RVW)
Ian Partridge (tenor) • London Madrigal Singers • Christopher Bishop

4) Five Variants of ‘Dives and Lazarus’
Jacques Orchestra • Sir David Willcocks

5) Taste and see
Ivan Sharpe (treble) • Winchester Cathedral Choir • James Lancelot (organ) • Martin Neary

6) Job: A Masque for Dancing – Pavane of the Sons of the Morning
London Symphony Orchestra • Sir Adrian Boult

7) Bushes and Briars (East Anglian folksong arr. RVW)

8) Wassail Song (Gloucestershire folksong arr. RVW)
Baccholian Singers of London •

9) For all the saints (Sine nomine) (William Walsham How)
York Minster Choir • John Scott Whiteley (organ), Philip Moore

10) The Truth from Above (trad. Eng. harm. RVW)
Choir of King’s College, Cambridge, Sir David Willcocks

11) Little town of Bethlehem (Forest Green) (Phillips Brooks – trad. Eng. harm. RVW; descant Thomas Armstrong; v.3 arr. Ledger)
Choir of King’s College, Cambridge • Francis Grier (organ) • Sir Philip Ledger

12) The Lamb (Ten Blake Songs)
Ian Partridge (tenor) • Janet Craxton (oboe)

13) Sinfonia antartica – II. Scherzo (Moderato)
London Philharmonic Orchestra • Sir Adrian Boult

14) Orpheus with his lute (Shakespeare) (first setting)
David Daniels (countertenor) • Martin Katz (piano)

15) Mass in G minor – Kyrie
John Eaton (treble) • Nigel Perrin (alto) • Robin Doveton (tenor) • David van Asch (bass) • Choir of King’s College, Cambridge • Sir David Willcocks (p) 1969/1989*

16) The blessed son of God (Hodie) (trans. Miles Coverdale)
Bach Choir • Sir David Willcocks

17) Come down, O love divine (Down Ampney)
(trans. R. F. Littledale – v.4 arr. Williamson)
Thomas Williamson (organ)

18) All people that on earth do dwell (The Old Hundredth)
(William Kethe – Louis Bourgeois arr. RVW; version for brass ensemble and organ by Roy Douglas)
Benjamin Bayl (organ) • The Wallace Collection • Choir of King’s College, Cambridge • Stephen Cleobury

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