Vaughan Williams - Scott of the Antarctic (complete)
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Label: Dutton - Epoch
Cat No: CDLX7340
Format: Hybrid SACD
Number of Discs: 1
Release Date: 5th May 2017
Contents
Artists
Ilona Domnich (soprano)Christopher Nickol (organ)
Women of the RSNO Chorus
Royal Scottish National Orchestra
Conductor
Martin YatesWorks
Scott of the AntarcticArtists
Ilona Domnich (soprano)Christopher Nickol (organ)
Women of the RSNO Chorus
Royal Scottish National Orchestra
Conductor
Martin YatesAbout
Sound/Video
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1Vaughan Williams: Scott of the Antarctic - Main Title [“Heroism”] (Andante Maestoso)
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2Vaughan Williams: Scott of the Antarctic - Antarctic Prologue (Lento)
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3Vaughan Williams: Scott of the Antarctic - Oriana [Wilson’s Wife] (Lento Movimento – Andante)
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4Vaughan Williams: Scott of the Antarctic - Doom [Oriana’s First Meeting With Scott] (Lento)
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5Vaughan Williams: Scott of the Antarctic - Sculpture Scene Part 1 [Kathleen Scott And Her Husband] Kathleen 1 (Andante Sostenuto – Lento – Adagio)
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6Vaughan Williams: Scott of the Antarctic - Sculpture Scene Part 2 [Kathleen 2] (Andante – Lento)
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7Vaughan Williams: Scott of the Antarctic - Nansen (Andante Misterioso – Allegretto)
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8Vaughan Williams: Scott of the Antarctic - Scott And Oates In The Rain (Lento)
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9Vaughan Williams: Scott of the Antarctic - Office (Allegro)
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10Vaughan Williams: Scott of the Antarctic - Queen’s Birthday March (Tempo Di Marcia)
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11Vaughan Williams: Scott of the Antarctic - Ship’s Departure From Cardiff (Lento Ma Non Troppo – Pochiss. Meno Mosso)
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12Vaughan Williams: Scott of the Antarctic - Amundsen (Lento)
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13Vaughan Williams: Scott of the Antarctic - Ice Floes (Allegretto – Moderato)
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14Vaughan Williams: Scott of the Antarctic - Iceberg (Lento)
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15Vaughan Williams: Scott of the Antarctic - Penguin Dance (Molto Moderato)
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16Vaughan Williams: Scott of the Antarctic - Ross Island (Lento)
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17Vaughan Williams: Scott of the Antarctic - The Ship’s Departure From Ross Island (Allegro Con Marcia)
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18Vaughan Williams: Scott of the Antarctic - Base Camp (Moderato)
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19Vaughan Williams: Scott of the Antarctic - Aurora 1 (Molto Lento)
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20Vaughan Williams: Scott of the Antarctic - Pony March [Baltic Fleet] (Allegretto Alla Marcia)
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21Vaughan Williams: Scott of the Antarctic - Pony March 2 (Andante Con Marcia – Allegro)
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22Vaughan Williams: Scott of the Antarctic - Pony March And Aphelion (Moderato Alla Marcia)
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23Vaughan Williams: Scott of the Antarctic - Blizzard (Andante Con Moto – Poco Piu Lento)
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24Vaughan Williams: Scott of the Antarctic - Distant Glacier (Andante Misterioso)
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25Vaughan Williams: Scott of the Antarctic - Climbing The Glacier (Lento)
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26Vaughan Williams: Scott of the Antarctic - Scott On The Glacier 1 [Version 1] (Risoluto – Andante)
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27Vaughan Williams: Scott of the Antarctic - Scott On The Glacier 2 [Version 2] (Andante Maestoso)
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28Vaughan Williams: Scott of the Antarctic - Snow Plain [Scott’s Decision] (Lento)
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29Vaughan Williams: Scott of the Antarctic - Kathleen 3 (Andante Sostenuto)
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30Vaughan Williams: Scott of the Antarctic - Polar Party Departs 1 (Moderato Alla Marcia E Pesante)
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31Vaughan Williams: Scott of the Antarctic - Polar Party Departs 2 (Moderato Alla Marcia E Pesante)
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32Vaughan Williams: Scott of the Antarctic - No. 101 March (Alla Marcia)
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33Vaughan Williams: Scott of the Antarctic - Black Flag (Andante Moderato)
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34Vaughan Williams: Scott of the Antarctic - The Return (Andante Alla Marcia – Allegro)
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35Vaughan Williams: Scott of the Antarctic - Descending The Glacier (Lento)
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36Vaughan Williams: Scott of the Antarctic - The Death Of Evans [Extended Version] (Lento – Lamentoso)
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37Vaughan Williams: Scott of the Antarctic - The Death Of Oates (Lento – Maestoso)
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38Vaughan Williams: Scott of the Antarctic - Aurora 2 (Maestoso)
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39Vaughan Williams: Scott of the Antarctic - Only Eleven Miles (Lento)
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40Vaughan Williams: Scott of the Antarctic - The Discovery Of The Tent And The Bodies (Lento Moderato)
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41Vaughan Williams: Scott of the Antarctic - End Music (Andante Sostenuto – Maestoso)
Europadisc Review
Happily, there are other options for those wanting the music on disc. Until now, the most complete recording of the score has been the 41-minute suite recorded by Rumon Gamba and the BBC Philharmonic for Chandos’s film music series. When, in 1947, Irving had approached Vaughan Williams to write music for the forthcoming film, the composer had gone away with just a draft script and a copy of Apsley Cherry Garrard’s first-hand account of Scott’s expedition, The Worst Journey in the World. Inspired by the setting but also appalled by what he saw as the amateurishness of the expedition, Vaughan Williams went to work quickly, and by early 1948 he had finished the score for a film that had yet to be shot! The music was duly recorded by Irving, and only later was it edited to the needs of the film. Gamba’s recording included many numbers either abridged or altogether unused altogether in the film, and was eagerly snapped up by aficionados of Vaughan Williams’s music.
Now Dutton Epoch, with support from the Vaughan Williams Charitable Trust, have gone even further, restoring not only some items from the autograph score left out by Chandos but also passages from Vaughan Williams’s original drafts. The result is a staggering 79 minutes of music, including a delightful portrait of Oriana (wife of the expedition’s scientist, Dr E.A. Wilson), vignettes of Scott’s wife, Kathleen, and a substantial expansion in the number of cues (or movements) for the outward and fateful return treks.
This has clearly been a labour of love on the part of conductor Martin Yates, who has transcribed and edited the music with the help of Emma Syrus, and the result is a score that not only dwarfs the Sinfonia antarctica in dimensions, but is almost as long as the original film itself. While many of the extra numbers are based on existing musical ideas, Yates’s careful ordering of the cues means that the entire narrative of the film now unfolds purely musically. Indeed, for some listeners the transparently episodic nature of the score may speak more powerfully than the Sinfonia antarctica, which is arguably less a symphony than a symphonic suite or synthesis. In any event, the music gathered here provides fascinating insights into the development of both the film and the later symphony. Taken as a whole, the complete score not only mirrors the structure of the film itself, but captures the same combination of optimism, good humour, trepidation, gritty determination and elemental struggle. In Yates’s words, ‘ its vastness somehow directly parallel[s] the wastes of the territory Scott was attempting to conquer…’
Although Gamba and the BBCPO on Chandos reveal more of the shorter score’s textural detail, the less analytical microphone placement of the Dutton disc creates a more natural sound-picture that lends greater cogency to the complete score, its massiveness and slow-moving harmonies. Moments like the sighting of the first ice floes (track 13) or the shimmering vision of the Beardmore Glacier (track 24) still send a tingle down the spine, and there’s even an entertaining pastiche of a military march as the Terra Nova prepares to leave New Zealand (or Cardiff, as the cues have it).
The Royal Scottish National Orchestra are on top form throughout, animating even the briefest of numbers, and bringing immense power to the big scenescapes, while soprano Ilona Domnich and the women of the RSNO Chorus lend an appropriate sense of primordial mystery to the wordless vocal passages. There’s no question that listeners wanting Vaughan Williams’s most famous film score should now go for this disc, not least for its completeness and generous playing time. With illuminating notes by Lewis Foreman and Yates himself, and fine engineering, it’s a tremendously handsome package.
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