Vaughan Williams - Five Mystical Songs and other British Choral Anthems
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Label: Naxos
Cat No: 8574416
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Vocal/Choral
Release Date: 14th October 2022
Contents
Works
O gladsome lightEnigma Variations, op.36
My beloved spake
Psalm 148
Like as the Hart
A Song of Wisdom, op.113
Mystical Songs (5)
O Clap your Hands
O taste and see
Blessed be the God and Father
Wash me throughly from my wickedness
Artists
Roderick Williams (baritone)Martin Ford (organ)
Vasari Singers
Conductor
Jeremy BackhouseWorks
O gladsome lightEnigma Variations, op.36
My beloved spake
Psalm 148
Like as the Hart
A Song of Wisdom, op.113
Mystical Songs (5)
O Clap your Hands
O taste and see
Blessed be the God and Father
Wash me throughly from my wickedness
Artists
Roderick Williams (baritone)Martin Ford (organ)
Vasari Singers
Conductor
Jeremy BackhouseAbout
There never needs to be any excuse for recording the music of Ralph Vaughan Williams, but his 150th birthday anniversary most certainly deserves marking. This wide-ranging mixture of popular and less familiar choral anthems from the British Isles is attractive enough, but it is also crowned by a fabulous recording in a new version with organ of the by no means overexposed Five Mystical Songs that Vaughan Williams wrote for the Three Choirs Festival in 1911. This is indeed a programme that satisfies at every level.
A Vaughan Williams Anthology (8508021) 8-disc boxed set was released earlier in 2022 for the anniversary, which included some of the most successful Vaughan Williams titles on the Naxos catalogue. ‘There isn’t a dud performance in sight!’ exclaimed the Daily Mail (****).
Star of the Five Mystical Songs is Roderick Williams, one of the UK’s most sought-after concert and opera baritones and winner of the 2016 Royal Philharmonic Society’s Singer of the Year award. His Naxos recordings include a contribution to the ‘unusual and moving’ (BBC Music Magazine) Flowers of the Field album (8573426).
Williams’s recordings with pianist Iain Burnside include Songs of Travel (8557643) and Willow-Wood (8557798), and received a Gramophone Award nomination and was considered ‘an essential addition to the Vaughan Williams discography’ (ClassicsToday.com).
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