Vaughan Williams Live Vol.2: Job, Serenade to Music, Thanksgiving for Victory | Somm ARIADNE5018

Vaughan Williams Live Vol.2: Job, Serenade to Music, Thanksgiving for Victory

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Label: Somm

Cat No: ARIADNE5018

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Release Date: 18th November 2022

Contents

Artists

Isobel Baillie (soprano)
Astra Desmond (contralto)
Beveridge White (tenor)
Harold Williams (baritone)
Elsie Suddaby (soprano)
Valentine Dyall (narrator)
George Thalben-Ball (organ)
Choir of the Children of the Thomas Coram Schools
BBC Symphony Orchestra & Chorus
Boston Symphony Orchestra

Conductor

Adrian Boult

Works

Vaughan Williams, Ralph

A Song of Thanksgiving
Job: A Masque for Dancing
Serenade to Music

Artists

Isobel Baillie (soprano)
Astra Desmond (contralto)
Beveridge White (tenor)
Harold Williams (baritone)
Elsie Suddaby (soprano)
Valentine Dyall (narrator)
George Thalben-Ball (organ)
Choir of the Children of the Thomas Coram Schools
BBC Symphony Orchestra & Chorus
Boston Symphony Orchestra

Conductor

Adrian Boult

About

SOMM Recordings’ celebration of the 150th anniversary of Ralph Vaughan Williams’s birth continues with Volume 2 of Vaughan Williams Live, featuring historic performances by the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus and the Boston Symphony Orchestra conducted by Sir Adrian Boult in new, signature remasterings by Lani Spahr with authoritative booklet notes by Vaughan Williams’s biographer Simon Heffer.

Two works featuring the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus include a 1945 BBC radio broadcast of the first performance of the wartime masterpiece Thanksgiving for Victory – with soprano Elsie Suddaby, organist George Thalben-Ball and Valentine Dyall as the speaker – and the rapturous Serenade to Music from the opening night of the BBC’s Third Programme (now Radio 3) in 1946. First performed in 1938 in celebration of Henry Wood’s jubilee as a conductor and originally composed for 16 solo singers, it appears here in its version for orchestra, chorus and four soloists – Isobel Baillie (soprano), Astra Desmond (contralto), Beveridge White (tenor), and Harold Williams (baritone).

Its dedicatee, Boult, conducts a performance of Job: A Masque for Dancing in 1946 by the Boston Symphony Orchestra before he made his four studio recordings of the work.

Volume 1 of Vaughan Williams Live (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.

SOMM’s other Vaughan Williams recordings include the Gramophone Award-winning Symphony no.5 and Dona Nobis Pacem with the LPO/BBCSO (SOMMCD071), and The Piano Music of Ralph Vaughan Williams by Mark Bebbington and Rebecca Omordia (SOMMCD0164), described by International Piano as “compelling”.

Lani Spahr’s universally acclaimed SOMM restorations include Elgar Rediscovered (SOMMCD0167) and the four-disc Elgar Remastered (SOMMCD2614), hailed by Audiophilia as “a fascinating achievement which will have you wishing for more”. Gramophone said his “superb audio restorations bring the performances fully to life” in Elgar from America, Volume 3 (ARIADNE50152), an Editor’s Choice selection.

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