The Essential Vaughan Williams Collection
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Label: EMI
Cat No: 2079922
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 2
Release Date: 5th May 2008
Contents
Works
Bushes and Briars (traditional)Ca' the Yowes (traditional)
Come down, O Love Divine 'Down Ampney'
English Folk Song Suite
Fantasia on 'Greensleeves'
Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis
For all the Saints 'Sine Nomine'
Linden Lea
Loch Lomond (traditional)
Mass in G minor
Orpheus with his lute
O taste and see
Prelude on 'Rhosymedre'
Serenade to Music
Silent Noon
Songs of Travel (9)
The Lamb
The Lark Ascending
The Old Hundredth Psalm Tune 'All People that on Earth do dwell'
The Truth from Above (traditional)
The Wasps: Overture
Variants of 'Dives and Lazarus' (5)
Wassail Song (traditional)
Works
Bushes and Briars (traditional)Ca' the Yowes (traditional)
Come down, O Love Divine 'Down Ampney'
English Folk Song Suite
Fantasia on 'Greensleeves'
Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis
For all the Saints 'Sine Nomine'
Linden Lea
Loch Lomond (traditional)
Mass in G minor
Orpheus with his lute
O taste and see
Prelude on 'Rhosymedre'
Serenade to Music
Silent Noon
Songs of Travel (9)
The Lamb
The Lark Ascending
The Old Hundredth Psalm Tune 'All People that on Earth do dwell'
The Truth from Above (traditional)
The Wasps: Overture
Variants of 'Dives and Lazarus' (5)
Wassail Song (traditional)
About
This essential collection presents 30 Vaughan Williams favourites on two CDs. It includes such classic recordings as The Lark Ascending with Hugh Bean, the Tallis Fantasia with Sir John Barbirolli, the Serenade to Music with Sir Adrian Boult, and the Mass in G minor with the Choir of Kings College, Cambridge, under Sir David Willcocks. Also appearing are David Daniels, Anthony Rolfe Johnson, Ian Partridge and John Shirley-Quirk.
Track Listing:
CD 1
1) The Lark Ascending Romance for violin and orchestra
Hugh Bean (violin) New Philharmonia Orchestra Sir Adrian Boult
2) Linden Lea: A Dorset Song (words by William Barnes)
Dame Janet Baker (mezzo-soprano) Gerald Moore (piano)
3) Fantasia on Greensleeves
Sinfonia of London Sir John Barbirolli
4) Silent Noon (The House of Life) (Dante Gabriel Rossetti)
Ian Bostridge (tenor) Julius Drake (piano)
English Folk Song Suite (orch. Gordon Jacob)
5) March (Seventeen Come Sunday)
6) Intermezzo (My Bonny Boy)
7) March (Folk Songs from Somerset)
London Symphony Orchestra Sir Adrian Boult
8) The Vagabond (Songs of Travel) (Robert Louis Stevenson)
Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenor) David Willison (piano)
9) Serenade to Music (William Shakespeare)
Norma Burrowes Sheila Armstrong Susan Longfield Marie Hayward (soprano) Alfreda Hodgson Gloria Jennings Shirley Minty Meriel Dickinson (contralto) Ian Partridge Bernard Dickerson Wynford Evans Kenneth Bowen (tenor) Richard Angas John Carol Case John Noble Christopher Keyte (bass) London Philharmonic Orchestra Sir Adrian Boult
10) On Wenlock Edge: the woods in trouble
Ian Partridge (tenor) Music Group of London Hugh Bean & Frances Mason (violin) Christopher Wellington (viola) Eileen Croxford (cello) David Parkhouse (piano)
11) Rhosymedre (Three Preludes Founded on Welsh Hymn Tunes)
Academy of St Martin-in-the-Fields Sir Neville Marriner
12) The Call (Five Mystical Songs) (George Herbert)
John Shirley-Quirk (baritone) English Chamber Orchestra Sir David Willcocks
13) Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis
Sinfonia of London Sir John Barbirolli
CD 2
1) The Wasps: Aristophanic Suite Overture
London Philharmonic Orchestra Sir Adrian Boult
2) Loch Lomond (Scottish folksong arr. RVW)
3) Ca the Yowes (Scottish folksong arr. RVW)
Ian Partridge (tenor) London Madrigal Singers Christopher Bishop
4) Five Variants of Dives and Lazarus
Jacques Orchestra Sir David Willcocks
5) Taste and see
Ivan Sharpe (treble) Winchester Cathedral Choir James Lancelot (organ) Martin Neary
6) Job: A Masque for Dancing Pavane of the Sons of the Morning
London Symphony Orchestra Sir Adrian Boult
7) Bushes and Briars (East Anglian folksong arr. RVW)
8) Wassail Song (Gloucestershire folksong arr. RVW)
Baccholian Singers of London
9) For all the saints (Sine nomine) (William Walsham How)
York Minster Choir John Scott Whiteley (organ), Philip Moore
10) The Truth from Above (trad. Eng. harm. RVW)
Choir of Kings College, Cambridge, Sir David Willcocks
11) Little town of Bethlehem (Forest Green) (Phillips Brooks trad. Eng. harm. RVW; descant Thomas Armstrong; v.3 arr. Ledger)
Choir of Kings College, Cambridge Francis Grier (organ) Sir Philip Ledger
12) The Lamb (Ten Blake Songs)
Ian Partridge (tenor) Janet Craxton (oboe)
13) Sinfonia antartica II. Scherzo (Moderato)
London Philharmonic Orchestra Sir Adrian Boult
14) Orpheus with his lute (Shakespeare) (first setting)
David Daniels (countertenor) Martin Katz (piano)
15) Mass in G minor Kyrie
John Eaton (treble) Nigel Perrin (alto) Robin Doveton (tenor) David van Asch (bass) Choir of Kings College, Cambridge Sir David Willcocks (p) 1969/1989*
16) The blessed son of God (Hodie) (trans. Miles Coverdale)
Bach Choir Sir David Willcocks
17) Come down, O love divine (Down Ampney)
(trans. R. F. Littledale v.4 arr. Williamson)
Thomas Williamson (organ)
18) All people that on earth do dwell (The Old Hundredth)
(William Kethe Louis Bourgeois arr. RVW; version for brass ensemble and organ by Roy Douglas)
Benjamin Bayl (organ) The Wallace Collection Choir of Kings College, Cambridge Stephen Cleobury
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