Vaughan Williams Live Vol.4
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Label: Somm
Cat No: ARIADNE5020
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Orchestral
Release Date: 17th February 2023
Contents
Works
Concerto in C major for 2 pianosFantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis
Symphony no.8 in D minor
Artists
Arthur Whittemore (piano)Jack Lowe piano (piano)
New York Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra
Halle Orchestra
Conductors
Dimitri MitropoulosJohn Barbirolli
Works
Concerto in C major for 2 pianosFantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis
Symphony no.8 in D minor
Artists
Arthur Whittemore (piano)Jack Lowe piano (piano)
New York Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra
Halle Orchestra
Conductors
Dimitri MitropoulosJohn Barbirolli
About
The Tallis Fantasia is a live recording from Carnegie Hall in 1943 with Mitropoulos, a committed advocate for Vaughan Williams’s music, conducting the New York Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra. They are also heard in the Concerto for Two Pianos, again from Carnegie Hall in 1952, when the soloists were Arthur Whittemore and Jack Lowe, who forged a widely popular and critically acclaimed piano duo partnership in America in the middle of the last century.
Recorded in Manchester’s Free Trade Hall in 1964, the Symphony no.8 is blazingly conducted by its dedicatee, Sir John Barbirolli, leading the Hallé Orchestra.
Volume 1 of Vaughan Williams Live (SOMM Ariadne5016) was hailed by All About the Arts as “beautifully remastered [and] sounding like pure gold” and was The Symphonist’s Record of the Week.
MusicWeb International declared Volume 2 (SOMM Ariadne5018) “a very valuable archive release and important addition to the Boult/Vaughan Williams discography” and Volume 3 (SOMM Ariadne5019), a Recording of the Year nominee, “A headliner of a response to RVW150”.
SOMM’s Vaughan Williams recordings include the “compelling” (International Piano) The Piano Music of Ralph Vaughan Williams by Mark Bebbington and Rebeca Omordia (SOMMCD0164).
All performances have again been expertly restored and newly mastered by Lani Spahr whose acclaimed SOMM restorations include Elgar Rediscovered (SOMMCD0167) and four-disc Elgar Remastered (SOMMCD2614), and a Gramophone Editor’s Choice for “superb audio restorations [that] bring the performances fully to life” for Elgar from America, Volume 3 (SOMM Ariadne50152).
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