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Yes, please!

Thank you so much for the link, my friend.
I am looking forward to "More to follow".

Could you send me the link? thanks in advance.

I will take everything you've got! :)

Very interested. Thank you.

I will take everything you've got! :)

Hmm...

Many, Many thanks for this!

RVW Set Two

Ralph Vaughan Williams

A Sea Symphony
Sir Adrian Boult/ London Philharmonic Orchestra
-Shelia Armstrong soprano, John Carol Chase baritone, London Philharmonic Choir-

Job: A Masque for Dancing
Concerto for two pianos
-Vitya Vronsky & Victor Babin, pianos-
(hands down THE finest version of the double concerto with its
heartbreakingly beautiful Romanza)

Symphony No 4. in F minor
(the symphony’s harsh tone surprised the critics to whom
RVW was synonymous with pastoral rumination… it was considered
A new direction… but it was more of a culmination of a phase which had begun with Sancta Civitas and the piano concerto and the Masque Job… “I don’t know if I like it,” RVW said, “but it’s what I meant”)
Symphony No. 6
(it is possible it is a memorial to RVW’s close friend Holst, who died ten years before the work was begun... allusions to ‘Mars’ and Neptune’ from The Planets seem almost deliberate)

Symphony No. 8
Symphony No. 9

I would love the link for RVW Set Two.
Thank you very much, Phideas1.

There you go......

Thank you so much for Set 1! Could I have Set 2 please?

Phideas1, I would love the links for these if they are still live. Many thanks.

I�d like to get the links if possible. Thanks in advance :)

Set three will arrive soon

Hey Phideas, do you happen to have the Neville Marriner album that contains Williams's English Folk Song Suite? I made a request thread yesterday but only just found your thread.

I have nothing of Marriner.

But I do have Six Studies in English Folk Song for violin and piano, as well as cello and piano. Two different discs. They are very lovely, naturally.

"The guiding principle, as RVW always insisted, is that folksongs should be treated 'with love'."

Would love a link as well!

Links for 1 & 2 both received. Much appreciated.

Would really appreciate the links for set 1 and set 2 - many thanks in advance.

There you are.

Many thanks for the links.

Set Three:


(1)Vaughan Williams Choral Music
Christchurch Cathedral Choir; English String Orchestra
Stephen Darlington, cond.

An Oxford Elegy
Flos Campi
Te Deum
O, clap your hands
The Old 100th


(2)Choir of King�s College, Cambridge
Sir David Willcocks/Stephen Cleobury, cond.

Mass in G minor
(the finest masterpiece of its kind in the 20th century)

Gerald Finzi- Lo, the full final Sacrifice
Arnold Bax- Mater ora filum
Finzi- God has gone up
Bax- I sing of a maiden that is makeless
Bax- The wordes joie
Finzi- Magnificat

(3)Ralph Vaughan Williams Symphony No 7 �Antarctica�
London Symphony Orchestra, Andre Previn, cond.
Subscriptions spoken by Sir Ralph Richardson
(unusual recording of the music with this poetic narration)

(4) Sir Adrian Bolt conducts Ralph Vaughan Williams
New Philharmonia Orchestra

Serenade to Music (with soloists)
In the Fen Country
The Lark Ascending
Norfolk Rhapsody No 1
English Folksong Suite
Fantasia on �Greensleeves�

Would love the third set as well! And many thanks again for doing this ! :D

Loved the first two - would really appreciate the link for the 3rd!

One of the best threads ever!
Thank you so much for Set Three, my friend.
My wife is listening to Set One ("Fantasia on a Theme By Thomas Tallis" is her favorite).

Many thanks for the link for Set 3

Often the VERY short original theme is played before RVW's elaborate Tallis piece. It is amazing that this composer is responsible for so many little masterpieces (can't find another word other than that, I fear). He was my introduction to classical music... and it took many years for his work to start appearing on CD. Happily many unknown compositions have also come to the surface. Yet few of the newer recordings can match those done before the digital age.

FYI The Serenade to music, for 16 soloists is set to a passage from Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice and considered the finest of such songs. Each line of music was composed ESPECIALLY for the specific voice of the first 16 whom sang the work at its premiere. It is GORGEOUS! Though the original singers are not on this recording, this recording remains my favorite version with Adrian Boult at the helm.

Text and details have been included.

Thanks for PM and album!

Set 3 link received ok. Thank you.

At your convenience, I would greatly appreciate the link to Set 3's:

(4) Sir Adrian Bolt conducts Ralph Vaughan Williams
New Philharmonia Orchestra

Serenade to Music (with soloists)
In the Fen Country
The Lark Ascending
Norfolk Rhapsody No 1
English Folksong Suite
Fantasia on �Greensleeves�

Thank you very much.

Would love to hear the Norma Burroughs Sinfonia Antartica as well as the rest- VW always makes me think of England !!!


My Ralph Vaughan Williams Collection

SET ONE:

Sir Adrian Boult & London Philharmonic:

Fantasia on a Theme By Thomas Tallis
A London Symphony


Sinfonia Antarctica
-Norma Burrows soprano & London Philharmonic Choir-
The Wasps-- Aristophanic Suite


A Pastoral Symphony
-Margaret Price soprano-
Symphony No. 5 in D


A Pastoral Symphony
London Symphony Orchestra
Andre Previn, conductor
Heather Harper soprano
(oddly enough, I like this version more than Bolt's)


More to follow.

Leave your interest here for the link.

Set Four


The
Music of Vaughan Williams
Maurice Abravanel
Utah Symphony Orchestra

Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis
Five Variants of "Dives and Lazarus"
Flos Campi
Fantasia on "Greensleeves"

Flos Campi is another small masterpiece, based on the Song of Solomon: The free rhapsodic flow of solo viola throughout and accompanied by the small wordless choir.
This remains possibly my favorite recording of these works, being my first LP of RVW's work.

There is a 50 second 'bonus'.

***

HODIE
A Christmas Cantata
London Symphony Orchestra
The Bach Choir
Choristers of Westminster Abbey
Janet Baker, Richard Lewis, John Shirley-Quirk

Fantasia on Christmas Carols (best version I have ever heard)
John Barrow
Choir of Guildford Cathedral- String Orchestra- Organ

***

Two Disc set:

Vaughan Williams
Bryden Thomson
London Symphony Orchestra


Oboe Concerto
Violin Concerto
Tuba Concerto
Piano Concerto (the two piano concerto cut short and not as successful)
The Lark Ascending
Two Hymn-Tune Preludes
Toward the Unknown Region
Concerto Grosso for Strings
Partita for Double String Orchestra


PM to me....

Oh... updated.

Could you send me the link for all the sets?? thanks in advance

Thank you so much for the 4th set, Lovely Person.
Your 55,5 second 'bonus' is gorgeous!
Is this "The Byrd Ensemble"?

The Tallis Scholars.

Tunes for Archbishop Parker's Psalter.

III

"Why fum'th in fight the gentiles spite, in fury raging stout? Why tak'th in hand the people found, vain things to bring about? The kings arise, the lords devise, in counsels met thereto, against the lord with false accord, against his Christ they go."

From this short tune Ralph Vaughan Williams created one of his legendary masterpieces.

As I have said, it's my wife's favorite piece.

She has good taste. It is also the work that moved Herbert Howells so deeply to become a composer.

She has good taste.

Of course. I am her husband.

The island is small. ;-)

May I kindly request the links to your 4 fantastic albums?

PM Sent :-D

Cheers and Many Thanks in Advance!!!

Could I please have the link for all of them thanks!

Hi Phideas1, could I please have sets 3 and 4, and the Tallis Scholars album you mentioned, if that is available as well(?) Thanks!

Great - GREAT SHARE :-D

and the Tallis Scholars album you mentioned, if that is available as well(?) Thanks!



I did not mention an album.

Yes, Please. Thanks

Thank you for the 3 sets! Any chance of getting the fourth as well?

Thanks a lot for sharing your collections !!!