The Essential Vaughan Williams / Willcocks, Boult

This essential collection presents 30 Vaughan Williams favorites on 2 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 King's College, Cambridge, under Sir David Willcocks. The set makes a perfect introduction to the composer and his beautiful music.

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Vaughan Williams, Ralph : The lark ascending

Performer: Hugh Bean (Violin)
Conductor: Adrian Boult
Ensemble: King's College Choir, Cambridge
Running Time: 14 min. 45 sec.
Period Time: Post Romantic
Written: 1914

Vaughan Williams, Ralph : Linden Lea

Performers: Janet Baker (Mezzo-soprano); Gerald Moore (Piano)
Notes: Composition written: 1901.
Running Time: 2 min. 51 sec.
Period Time: Post Romantic
Written: 1901

Vaughan Williams, Ralph : Fantasia on Greensleeves

Conductor: John Barbirolli
Running Time: 4 min. 43 sec.
Period Time: Post Romantic
Written: 1934

Vaughan Williams, Ralph : House of life

Performers: Ian Bostridge (Tenor); Julius Drake (Piano)
Notes: Composition written: 1903.
Running Time: 4 min. 16 sec.
Period Time: Post Romantic
Written: 1903

Vaughan Williams, Ralph : English Folk Song Suite

Conductor: Adrian Boult
Ensemble: London Symphony Orchestra
Running Time: 8 min. 8 sec.
Period Time: Post Romantic
Written: 1923

Vaughan Williams, Ralph : The Vagabond ("Give to me the life I love"), song for voice & piano (or orchestra) (Songs of Travel

Performers: Anthony Rolfe Johnson; David Willison (Piano)
Running Time: 3 min. 9 sec.
Period Time: Post Romantic
Written: 1904

Vaughan Williams, Ralph : Serenade to music

Performers: Sheila Armstrong (Soprano); Bernard Dickerson (Tenor); John Case (Baritone); Norma Burrowes (Soprano); Kenneth Bowen (Tenor); Christopher Keyte (Bass); Susan Longfield (Soprano); Ian Partridge; Wynford Evans (Tenor); John Nobel (Tenor); Richard Angas (Bass); Marie Hayward (Soprano)
Conductor: Adrian Boult
Ensemble: London Symphony Orchestra
Running Time: 13 min. 17 sec.
Period Time: Post Romantic
Written: 1938

Vaughan Williams, Ralph : On Wenlock Edge the wood's in trouble, song for tenor, piano & string quartet (or tenor & orchestra)

Performers: Christopher Wellington (Viola); Eileen Croxford (Cello); Frances Mason (Violin); Hugh Bean (Violin); Ian Partridge; David Parkhouse (Piano)
Ensemble: London Music Group
Running Time: 3 min. 53 sec.
Period Time: Post Romantic
Written: 1908-1909

Vaughan Williams, Ralph : Preludes on Welsh Hymn Tunes (3) for Organ

Conductor: Sir Marriner
Ensemble: Academy of St. Martin in the Fields
Running Time: 4 min. 1 sec.
Period Time: Post Romantic
Written: 1920

Vaughan Williams, Ralph : The Call ("Come, my way"), song for baritone, chorus (ad lib.) orchestra (or organ) (Mystical Songs

Performer: John Shirley-Quirk (Baritone)
Conductor: David Willcocks
Running Time: 2 min. 9 sec.
Period Time: Post Romantic
Form: Vocal
Written: 1911

Vaughan Williams, Ralph : Fantasia on a theme by Thomas Tallis

Conductor: John Barbirolli
Running Time: 16 min. 13 sec.
Period Time: Post Romantic
Written: 1910

Vaughan Williams, Ralph : The wasps :: Overture

Conductor: Adrian Boult
Ensemble: King's College Choir, Cambridge
Running Time: 10 min. 13 sec.
Period Time: Post Romantic
Written: 1909

Vaughan Williams, Ralph : Loch Lomond, folk song for baritone & male chorus

Performer: Ian Partridge
Conductor: Christopher Bishop
Running Time: 3 min. 41 sec.
Period Time: Post Romantic
Written: 1921

Vaughan Williams, Ralph : Ca' the yowes, folk song for tenor & chorus

Performer: Ian Partridge
Conductor: Christopher Bishop
Running Time: 5 min. 12 sec.
Period Time: Post Romantic
Written: 1922

Vaughan Williams, Ralph : Variants (5) of 'Dives and Lazarus'

Conductor: David Willcocks
Running Time: 11 min. 27 sec.
Period Time: Post Romantic
Written: 1939

Vaughan Williams, Ralph : O taste and see

Performers: Ivan Sharpe (Treble); James Lancelot (Organ)
Conductor: Martin Neary
Ensemble: Winchester Cathedral Choir
Running Time: 1 min. 44 sec.
Period Time: Post Romantic
Written: 1952

Vaughan Williams, Ralph : Job :: Pavane of the Sons of the Morning

Conductor: Adrian Boult
Ensemble: King's College Choir, Cambridge
Running Time: 2 min. 15 sec.
Period Time: Post Romantic
Form: Ballet
Written: 1927-1930

Vaughan Williams, Ralph : Folksongs from the Eastern Counties (15)

Running Time: 3 min. sec.
Period Time: Post Romantic
Written: 1908

Vaughan Williams, Ralph : Wassail Song ("Wassail, wassail, all over the town"), carol for chorus ("Gloucestershire Wassail")

Running Time: 2 min. 45 sec.
Period Time: Post Romantic

Vaughan Williams, Ralph : For All the Saints Who from Their Labours Rest, hymn ("Sine nomine")

Performer: John Whiteley (Organ)
Conductor: Philip Moore
Ensemble: York Minster Choir
Running Time: 5 min. 10 sec.
Period Time: Post Romantic
Written: circa 1905

Vaughan Williams, Ralph : Traditional English Carols (8)

Conductor: David Willcocks
Running Time: 2 min. 9 sec.
Period Time: Post Romantic
Form: Christmas
Written: 1919

Vaughan Williams, Ralph : O Little Town of Bethlehem, carol (arr. from English traditional, "Forest Green")

Performers: Francis Grier (Organ); Thomas Armstrong [Composer/Conductor] (Descant)
Conductor: Philip Ledger
Ensemble: King's College Choir, Cambridge
Running Time: 3 min. 31 sec.
Period Time: Post Romantic
Form: Choral
Written: 1928

Vaughan Williams, Ralph : The Lamb ("Little Lamb who made thee"), song for voice & oboe (Blake Songs no 5)

Performers: Janet Craxton (Oboe); Ian Partridge
Running Time: 2 min. 17 sec.
Period Time: Post Romantic
Written: 1957

Vaughan Williams, Ralph : Symphony no 7 for soprano, small female chorus & orchestra with narrator ad lib ("Sinfonia Antarti

Conductor: Adrian Boult
Ensemble: King's College Choir, Cambridge
Notes: Composition written: 1949-52.
Running Time: 5 min. 31 sec.
Period Time: Post Romantic
Form: Orchestral
Written: 1949-1952

Vaughan Williams, Ralph : Orpheus with his lute

Performers: David Daniels (Countertenor); Martin Katz (Piano)
Running Time: 3 min. 16 sec.
Period Time: Post Romantic
Written: ?1901

Vaughan Williams, Ralph : Mass in G minor :: Kyrie

Performers: David Asch (Tenor); John Eaton (Treble); Robin Doveton (Tenor)
Conductor: David Willcocks
Running Time: 3 min. 59 sec.
Period Time: Post Romantic
Written: 1920-1921

Vaughan Williams, Ralph : The Blessed Son of God, for chorus (arranged from "Hodie," Christmas cantata)

Conductor: David Willcocks
Running Time: 2 min. 37 sec.
Period Time: Post Romantic
Form: Christmas
Written: circa 1954

Vaughan Williams, Ralph : English Hymnal

Performer: Tom Williamson (Organ)
Conductor: Stephen Cleobury
Ensemble: The Wallace Collection
Running Time: 3 min. 40 sec.
Period Time: Post Romantic
Form: Choral
Written: circa 1905

Vaughan Williams, Ralph : The Old Hundredth (All people that on earth do dwell) (Genevan Psalter)

Performer: Benjamin Bayl (Organ)
Conductor: Stephen Cleobury
Ensemble: The Wallace Collection
Running Time: 4 min. 54 sec.
Period Time: Post Romantic
Written: 1953

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