Vaughan Williams Live Vol.1: Symphonies 6 & 9
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Label: Somm
Cat No: ARIADNE5016
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Orchestral
Release Date: 15th July 2022
Contents
Artists
BBC Symphony OrchestraRoyal Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductor
Malcolm SargentWorks
Symphony no.6 in E minorSymphony no.9 in E minor
The Wasps: Overture
Artists
BBC Symphony OrchestraRoyal Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductor
Malcolm SargentAbout
As Simon Heffer comments in his authoritative booklet notes, this major new release is notable for containing historical performances (from 1957, 1958 and 1964), for Spahr’s meticulous restorations, and for offering “a clear indication of the genius of” Sargent.
From the 1957 BBC Proms, The Wasps Overture blends Ravelian influences with English folk songs to produce a vivaciously genial impression of RVW at his most distinctively infectious. Recorded in 1964 and again for the BBC Proms, the Sixth Symphony – a “war symphony” in all but name – is, as Heffer notes, “rich in orchestral experiment, more innovative than perhaps any other work in the composer’s canon, and whose enigmas and mysteries still remain to be deciphered”.
RVW’s final, Ninth Symphony, “a work of beauty and grandeur, and a magisterial signing off”, says Heffer, is heard here in splendidly remastered audio in its very first performance in April 1958, four months before the composer’s death, by Sargent and the RPO.
SOMM’s previous Vaughan Williams recordings include Symphony no.5 and Dona Nobis Pacem with the BBCSO (SOMMCD071), “a mandatory purchase for all lovers of Vaughan Williams’s music and, frankly, a priceless document” (MusicWeb International). And the “compelling” (International Piano) The Piano Music of Ralph Vaughan Williams by Mark Bebbington and Rebecca Omordia (SOMMCD0164).
Lani Spahr’s previous, universally acclaimed SOMM restorations include Elgar Rediscovered (SOMMCD0167) and the four-disc set Elgar Remastered (SOMMCD261-4) hailed by Audiophilia as “a fascinating achievement which will have you wishing for more”.
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